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Healthcare

Your Insurance Saved You $84.99

That’s the line that stared back at me from the printout on the prescription the bag came in.
Your insurance saved you $84.99.
Did my insurance truly “save me $84.99″ I wondered.
Like most of us with private insurance, I don’t get EOBs for my prescriptions. I simply pay a prescription co-pay of $10 for generics and $35 [...]

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German Healthcare

I spent a lot of time in Germany – 2 years to be exact – and found Unity’s post about Health 2.0 taking off in Germany very interesting http://wisdom.blogs.com/health/2007/11/health-20-takin.html (see the original post at http://gigaom.com/2007/11/17/health-20-gaining-traction-in-germany/). Both systems have something to learn from one another, and here are some tidbits.
I got to experience the German healthcare system [...]

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Getting Marty excited…

As the team here in Nashville continues to refine the upcoming release (February 2008) requirements of our enhanced platform, which henceforth shall be referred to as “Project Thunderbolt aka PT” in this post — I took some time to get caught up on the plethora of health2.0 and web2.0 and other feeds clogging my Google [...]

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Health Blog : Payers Propose to Boost Primary Care

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I certainly think it’s a good idea. The vast majority of medical inflation starts with medical equipment manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies, passed on through docs to patients to diagnose and care for chronic conditions caught too late by overworked, underpaid (and often the least skilled since they are the lowest paid) docs. This is counter-intuitive… [...]

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What are we really fighting for… access or choice?

For some reason no one seems to be distinguishing between these two very different ideas in health care: ACCESS and CHOICE. All of this talk about socialized medicine creating less choice within our system and long waiting periods for care makes my head hurt. I can’t help but wonder why so many [...]

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Health 2.0 and Finding Common Interests

Had the pleasure of being at the recent Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco hosted by Matthew Holt with a big assist from Indu Subaiya, John Pluenneke and Sara Sara Walker. GREAT JOB! They really pulled off an incredible conference. My only complaint is that we needed at least one more day – oh, and [...]

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Health 2.0 and…and…and…

As Christopher mentioned, we’ve closed our Series A round this past week.
Never ones to slow down, we’re in San Francisco this week for the upcoming Health 2.0 conference hosted by Matthew Holt. But before we could leave, we had to squeeze in a meeting Monday AM before our flight with some new friends – a [...]

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They Bill Us, and We Pay Them

OK call me naive. I thought my healthcare provider was working for me. In all fairness, it usually does, but this past incident reminds me that they do not always.
I recently had a provider’s office call me back for a follow up – some photos. Pretty simple really – they had already done it once. [...]

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Healthcare: the never ending saga

How unclear can things possibly get?? Every direction I turn there is a different discussion, different concern, a new point of interest, new topics, new programs, new ideas, new technology, different ways to use your personal health record, different insurance plans, different reimbursement rates… you get the picture. Trying to understand healthcare is exhausting.
So here [...]

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What would healthcare drive you to do?

I was having a peaceful Tuesday afternoon, happy that it was finally under 100 degrees for the first time in weeks, when my boss sent me and email titled “Fwd: Google Alert – “medical bills”. Well of course I opened it (it’s from my boss), but I had no clue what I was about to [...]

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