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By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health is a new interview series about the future of health and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough Check out more interviews at www.wtf.health. They just raised another $10M and you should find out why…. I met ...
By TIM WILLIAMS & DAVID INTROCASO This past October CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced the agency’s “Meaningful Measures” initiative.[1] Ms. Verma launched the initiative because, she admitted, the agency’s current quality measurement programming, widely criticized for years by MedPAC and others, ran the risk of outweighing the benefits. Under “Meaningful Measures,” CMS will, Ms. Verma ...
By JOHN EL-MARAGHY When it comes to navigating healthcare and making decisions about your health, and the health of loved ones, there is no yellow brick road. Even the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a leading national healthcare nonprofit, could only analyze 1,000 of over 1,400 private healthcare policy options with myriads more in ...
By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health is a new interview series about the future of health and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough Check out more interviews at www.wtf.health. One of the new faces – and mega tech companies – to be ...
By BENJAMIN MAZER, MD Doctors can be two-faced. This isn’t necessarily a negative attribute. Doctors have distinct personas for our patients and our colleagues. With patients, doctors strive for a compassionate but authoritative role. However, with each other, doctors often reveal a different demeanor: thoughtful and collaborative, but also opinionated and even sometimes petty. These ...
By JESSICA DAMASSA Health Datapalooza is coming up quick at the end of April, so I sat down with Bruce Greenstein, CTO of HHS about why all of THCB’s health tech friends should attend. Plus, we get into what’s happening with the open data movement and how Bruce’s past-life at Microsoft is going to shape ...