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Podcast interview with Dr. Jason Bhan, co-founder of Ozmosis

I spoke recently with Dr. Jason Bhan, co-founder of Ozmosis, a physician-only social networking site whose motto is “Diffusing knowledge across the Internet.” We spoke about how...

Started in Health Business Blog • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: e-health, physicians, entrepreneurs, podcast
Companion Global signs BasicPlus Health Insurance, a limited benefits plan

In last year’s whitepaper (Medical Tourism: Implications for Participants in the US Health Care System) we predicted that health insurance companies would begin to cover medical tourism in 2008...

Started in Health Business Blog • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: health plans, medical travel/medical tourism
Entrepreneurs to the rescue of the US health care system

If you’re expecting the upcoming Presidential and Congressional elections to make a big difference in the US health care system, you are going to be disappointed. I don’t think the...

Started in Health Business Blog • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: policy and politics, entrepreneurs
Gettin’ nasty: What happens when a hospital sells your account?

In Hospitals Put Patients’ Debt Up for Auction, The Wall Street Journal addresses the practice of hospitals selling the right to collect payments from patients who haven’t paid their...

Started in Health Business Blog • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: hospitals, economics
Cavalcade of Risk is up at InsureBlog

The second anniversary edition of the Cavalcade of Risk is up at InsureBlog.

Started in Health Business Blog • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: blogs, announcements
Podcast interview with Dr. Jason Yap, Singapore Tourism Board (transcript)

This is a transcript of my recent podcast interview with Dr. Jason Yap. David Williams: This is David Williams, co founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business Blog. I’m...

Started in Health Business Blog • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: policy and politics, international, podcast
The socialistic implications of McCain’s “free-market” health plan

Presidential candidate John McCain has admitted he doesn’t know much about economics. He doesn’t seem to know much about health care policy either, and that’s a dangerous...

Started in Health Business Blog • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: policy and politics
A fate worse than death

Reuters (via Yahoo! News) has a story about the double whammy of a lung cancer diagnosis. (See Lung cancer patients fight stigma.) “I’m sorry. You don’t have breast cancer,”...

Started in Health Business Blog • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: policy and politics
Dr. Mintz isn’t happy with YourMisdiagnosis.com

Earlier this month I wrote about YourMisdiagnosis.com. (See Don’t believe everything you read (about Health 2.0)). My take on it was that the site was gaining much more prominence than its measly...

Started in Health Business Blog • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: e-health, blogs
Is Grassley barking up the wrong tree at FDA?

Dr. Mark Thornton, former medical officer at the FDA’s Office of Oncology Products, takes Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) to task on the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed page. (See...

Started in Health Business Blog • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: pharma, policy and politics