An op-ed piece, No Country for Old Men , filed today on The Health Care Blog by health industry consultant and futurist, Jeff  Goldsmith, provides a brilliant review and excellent analysis of our past sins and possible future under health reform...

Politicians like to couple the adjectives “accessible” and “affordable” with the word “healthcare” when describing the goals of healthcare reform.  They say that with reform, all Americans will have health “insurance” and that it will be “affordable...

Healthblog readers know that I am a huge proponent for technologies that improve communication and collaboration between physicians and their patients.  Patients want to be able to reach doctors by e-mail.  They want access to their lab results...

On Monday and Tuesday of this week I attended the 6th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference in Seattle.  I was invited to speak on a couple of different panels during the 2-day event.  The effect of our soft economy on conferences was evident...

About this time each year, I reach out to my colleagues at Microsoft Research to see what cool projects they are working on that might have some direct or indirect application to health and healthcare.  A few years back we looked at technology they...

A Declaration of Health Data Rights In an era when technology allows personal health information to be more easily stored, updated, accessed and exchanged, the following rights should be self-evident and inalienable. We the people:     Have...