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RSS Blog Feed5/14/2008
Touring the Innovation xChange for Healthcare Simplification Ideas
Some recently submitted ideas from the ChangeNow4Health Community under the category of Simplifying the Business of Health Care
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5/13/2008
What Role Does Faith Play In Consumer-Driven Healthcare?
Faith is a major component of many Americans' lives. Given this, what role should it play in consumer-driven healthcare?
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5/13/2008
Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index: Linking Health and Happiness
A newly released research report puts some hard numbers on how health is related to happiness in America.
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5/3/2008
Simplifying Consumer Driven Plans
Plans and Employers not taking the right steps are supplying consumer plan critics ammunition
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5/2/2008
New Law Could Open Genetic Testing Floodgates, But At What Cost?
Congress passed a law making it illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage to people seeking individual policies based on their genetic test results. This ruling make genetic testing more widespread, but what will be the consequences?
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4/29/2008
Prevention & Wellness @WHCC: Connecting Health and Happiness
The 5th World Health Care Congress featured several interesting presentations about improving health, not just delivering care.
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4/29/2008
Can Preventive Medicine Alleviate the Coming "Boomer Crisis"?
A recent report warns about the effects of boomer generation aging on the healthcare system. Could "senior wellness" help mitigate the crisis?
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4/24/2008
Your Health Reform Ideas: Keep Them Coming!
We have been receiving lots of great ideas since the Innovation xChange was announced earlier this week. We express our appreciation and invite community feedback on an intriguing idea.
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4/22/2008
What Thought Leaders are Saying
Blogging Live from the World Health Care Congress 2008 in Washington, DC
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4/21/2008
Change via The Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Agenda
Blogging Live from the World Health Care Congress 2008 in Washington DC
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4/16/2008
The Medical Home: A solution to simplifying and improving health care?
The formula for the new Medical Home: Personal Primary Care Coordination + Clinician Health Coaches + Centralized Electronic Health Records + Evidence Based Medicine & Standards + Changes in Primary Care Reimbursement
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4/11/2008
Can Predictably Irrational People Make Rational Health Decisions?
Traditional economic theory suggests that people are hard-wired to make "rational decisions." We know this isn't the case -- especially when it comes to health. Given this, how do we encourage predictably irrational people to make rational health decisions?
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4/8/2008
Kids Wellness and Taxes: Cause and Effect or Politics?
A study by Every Child Matters prompts debate on the role of the government in child health and wellness
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4/7/2008
A Dozen Things I’ve Learned 20 months and 477 Innovation Blogs Ago
A guest blog from noted health care author and thought leader Doctor Richard L. Reece
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4/3/2008
An All-Out Assault On Hospital Errors
The celebrity spotlight is on hospital errors. However, will this be enough to break the culture of silence associated with them?
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