Last week, ONCHIT COO Charles Friedman said NHIN integration with Google’s PHR and Microsoft’s HealthVault is in the cards. He didn’t say much else about the integration, adding yet another layer to the vaporware sensibility attaching to the two big PHR plays. You may be thinking: What’s with the dwarves? Well, when the best thing […]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
The Lipitor marketing machine rolls on — powered by SEIU?
First Jarvik, now the SEIU. See Maggie Mahar’s posts on the SEIU hawking Lipitor. They say a rogue operative got out ahead of official SEIU policy, but the facts Maggie pulled together thus far on her HealthBeat blog suggest the story may not add up . . . . Truth is, the SEIU has been […]
Medicare trigger pulled again . . . yawn
So, for the third year in a row, those wild and crazy Medicare Trustees issued their report and have let us know we’re living beyond our means. The Medicare funding warning was first triggered by the 2007 report and is triggered again with the 2008 report. The funding warning requires the President to propose legislation […]
Health Wonk Review is up at Managed Care Matters
Joe Paduda kvetches about the weather in New England and does his usual bang-up job hosting the latest edition of Health Wonk Review, which covers health care reform, pharma, EHRs and the usual grab bag of issues. — David Harlow
Grand Rounds is up
This week’s Western-themed edition of Grand Rounds is up at Polite Dissent. — David Harlow
David Harlow quoted in Mass. Medical Law Report's story on retail clinics
I spoke with Eric Berkman as he reported the lead story on retail clinics in the current issue of Massachusetts Medical Law Report, as did a number of other authorities on the subject. Massachusetts recently promulgated "limited service" clinic regulations in order to regulate retail clinics appropriately, after CVS applied for a host of waivers […]