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Editor’s Pick: 

Daily Round-Up of Headlines for August 2015

BREAKING-EVENTS AND AGGREGATED STORIES 

[Editor’s Pick: A Daily Round-Up of Headlines for August 2015]

• Enter the CMPs
• “Healthcare Finance News” interviews Dr. DE Marcinko [ME-P Editor-in-Chief]
• Bernie Sanders Gets Endorsement From Nurses’ Union
• Medicare at 50: Reflections From Former CMS Administrator Donald M. Berwick
• The Rise of the Machine: How Hospital/Practice Administrators Have Assumed Control Over Healthcare
• Senate HELP Committee to Hear DeSalvo’s HHS Nomination
• Will Software Eat Healthcare?
• Why Doctors Are Leaving Medicine For Tech

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Editor’s Pick: 

Daily Round-Up of Headlines for July 2015

BREAKING-EVENTS AND AGGREGATED STORIES 

• AcademyHealth: Nondisclosure in malpractice cases
• Important Information for ME-P Sponsors
• FREE WHITE PAPER [Is Medical Practice a New Asset Class?] from iMBA, Inc.
• Watson will replace me? Not a chance!
• A Primer on Population Health
• Supreme Court Upholds Subsidies for Obamacare
• Insurer Aetna to buy Humana in $35B deal
• A physician enters rehab. What happens next should disturb you
• Seeking Authors by “Crowd-Sourcing” our Proposed Medical Marketing TextBook
• Are You on Your Way to $5.5 Million? – HCPLive
• “Doctor, First Tell Me What It Costs”
• Perez: Labor is listening to fiduciary-proposal concerns
• A doctor shares his story about overcoming mental illness
• Health Care Fraud and Accrual Based Accounting
• The Digital Doctor: Is Natural Language Processing the Breakthrough We’ve Been Waiting For?
• How Many Die From Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals?
• Morningstar’s Christine Benz on the latest investing trends
• Medicine in the Era of the Public Physician
• The month in breaches: Providers failing to protect PHIEvolent Health Goes Public
• Kitces: Are Your Fees Deductible?
• Study: Americans Hungry for Healthcare Pricing Data
• Health Affairs Web First: US Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exemption Almost Doubles Between 2002 And 2011
• The search for yield: New complications, new risks

Editor’s Pick: 

Daily Round-Up of Headlines for May 2015

BREAKING-EVENTS AND AGGREGATED STORIES 

• Seeking Authors by “Crowd-Sourcing” our Proposed Medical Marketing TextBook
• Are You on Your Way to $5.5 Million? – HCPLive
• Bill Gates: Taking on Ayn Rand – claims tax doesn’t kill innovation
• GOP Has the Fear: King vs. Burwell
• Critics of excessive standardization
• Doctors’ prescription for LGBT healthcare
• AcademyHealth: Remembering Dr. David Sackett
• The Digital Doctor: A reasoned look at the state of health IT
• Is starting a private practice a dying art?
• IBM Watson Continues Cognitive Computing Push for Genomic Medicine, EMRs
• Solving the VA patient crisis the right way
• Don’t Freak Out, but U.S. Economy Probably Shrank in First Quarter
• President Obama Nominates Karen DeSalvo, M.D. to Full-Time HHS Position
• Order your own lab tests. What could go wrong?

Editor’s Pick: 

Daily Round-Up of Headlines for April 2015

• Seeking Authors by “Crowd-Sourcing” our Proposed Medical Marketing TextBook
• How is Obamacare Affecting You in 2015? Help Us Report on Problems, Progress with the ACA
• Where does the doctor stop and computer begin? 
• Humana Forms a Pair of Population Health Companies
• Survey: Healthcare CFOs Unhappy With Their EHR Investments
• Say goodbye to employer-provided health insurance
• Premera Blue Cross says data breach could affect 11M people
• Provider-led health plans
• Are physicians gradually losing the right to practice medicine?
• EHR vendors are holding patient data ‘hostage,’ tech expert says
• mHealth Advocates Fear Net Neutrality – iHealthBeat
• United States: IRS Private Letter Ruling Provides Tax Planning Opportunities For Healthcare… From Google to New Reimbursement Models, Digital Health Trends for 2015

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Editor’s Pick: 

Daily Round-Up of Headlines for March 2015

• How close are we to meeting the promise of electronic health records?
• How Medicaid’s bait and switch fooled doctors
• Wachter: AMCs Must Prepare “Digital Doctors”
• Confessions of a Cruise Ship Doctor
• The challenge of “Being Mortal”
• Physicians rounding in the halls of Congress
• Blog: Obamacare website still not finished
• More Links Found Between China and Anthem Hack
• When hospitals buy physician practices, patients hit with fees
• Four insurers reveal what they pay for 70 health care services
• Healthcare Triage: Cost Effectiveness in Medicine is not a Dirty Word
• Patients overestimate benefits

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Editor’s Pick: 

Daily Round-Up of Headlines for February 2015

• Republican introduces bill to halt Obama’s DOL fiduciary push
• Seeking Authors by “Crowd-Sourcing” our Proposed Medical Marketing TextBook
• Innovations in health insurance design
• The frustrated and marginalized American doctor
• How Financial Advisors Screw Up Americans’ Retirement
• The Tao of Wearables
• Obama’s Fiduciary Plan Targets Advisors ‘Who Receive Back-Door Payments or Hidden Fees’
• Medical ID Theft on the Rise, Survey Finds
• What Do Women Know About Obamacare That Men Don’t?
• Feds sent 800K Obamacare customers the wrong tax forms
• The Myth of the Demanding Patient
• Investor Advocates Prepare for Fiduciary Fight
• How the discussion on dying has changed over 40 years: A conversation with Nancy Berlinger
• Is Your Doctor Googling You?
• Black Book Research: Meaningful Interoperability Remains Years Away
• King v. Burwell
• How Wall Street Is Fighting to Rip Off Your Retirement
• A Detailed Analysis of the Republican Alternative to Obamacare
• Researchers: Web-Based Report Cards Influence the Cost of Care
• Physicians Increasingly Targeted in Fraud & Abuse Lawsuits
• Health-Insurer Anthem Hit by Hackers
• Open wide – your health information can even leak out from your dentist
• Hardly anyone is opening their own practice anymore. Why?
• The value of (truly) active investment

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Editor’s Pick: 

Daily Round-Up of Headlines for January 2015

• Open wide – your health information can even leak out from your dentist
• Bill and Melinda Gates want to make a difference, and they’re going about it right
• Senator to Hospitals: Stop Suing Poor Patients
• The legacy of Dr. Michael Davidson
• Health IT VC Funding More Than Doubles in 2014
• JPMorgan Healthcare Conference pumps up investors, providers
• Industry Stakeholders React–Or Not–to Tavenner’s Departure
• Q&A: AMA president-elect Steven Stack
• I’m not understanding something about PubMed
• The slowing of US investment in medical research
• Stocks are Partying Like It’s 1929, 2000 and 2007
• Painkillers handed out like candy at Wisconsin VA hospital
• The Future of Medicine Is in Your Smartphone
• Social impact bonds to address social determinants of health
• Podcast: ‘NY Med’ Aired Patient’s Death Without Family’s Consent
• Another view of changes to Harvard’s health insurance plan
• Healthcare Triage News: Docs
• Former HHS cyber security chief Timothy DeFoggi convicted …
• USPS Breach Involves Medical Data of 485K Employees
• Veres: The Next Great Market Meltdown
• Podcast: When Medical Debts Become an Impossible Burden
• Future doctors seeking employment security
• Healthcare and the FY15 Budget: There’s More to it than the Numbers
• Video | The healthcare payment revolution is now
• Third-Party Vendor Causes Breach for VA Health
• JPMorgan Chase’s Weak Link—and What It Means for Healthcare
• Hardly anyone is opening their own practice anymore. Why?
• Fate of Obamacare uncertain
• The value of (truly) active investment

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Editor’s Pick: 

Daily Round-Up of Headlines for December 2014

• JPMorgan Chase’s Weak Link—and What It Means for Healthcare
• Hardly anyone is opening their own practice anymore. Why?
• Why Is Torture Unethical for Physicians and Psychologists?
• Fate of Obamacare uncertain
• The value of (truly) active investment
• The Fed put, 2015 interest rate rise edition: James Saft
• Senate confirms Vivek Murthy as surgeon general
• Jonathan Gruber: What if he’s right?
• Should doctors consider costs when making medical decisions?
• Mayo Clinic, McKesson Launch Programs Aiding, Funding Entrepreneurs
• An Open Letter to Ezekiel Emanuel on Life and Death
• Mark Cuban vs. the SEC
• Saft on Wealth: Expensive, One-Size-Fits-All Advice
• Implementing Health Reform: Beneath The Hood Of The ‘Cromnibus’
• A $10,000 health care digital media award
• The 80-20 rule: Apply Pareto’s principle to hospital medicine
• Cyberthieves phish healthcare and pharma for insider trading tips
• ONC Signals a Shift From Documents to Interfaces
• Rising Healthcare Costs: Delayed or Defeated?
• The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster
• “Being Mortal”: Atul Gawande’s Most Ambitious – and Important – Book
• Could The FPA’s Waning Power Given Its Declining Market Share Of CFP Certificants Lead To Its Untimely Demise?
• JSPH – Future of Population-based Reimbursement Nov 2014v3.pdf
• Regulations are changing the very heart of medicine
• Will Financial Planners Be Forced To Reduce Or Unbundle AUM Fees As The Price Of Beta Goes To Zero?
• Dr. Mike Evans Video: An Illustrated Look at Quality Improvement in Health Care
• ME-P Publisher Marcinko Nominated for WEGO Health Awards – VOTE

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Editor’s Pick: 

Daily Round-Up of Headlines for November 2014

• After the 2014 elections: Is Obamacare safe?
• Rising Healthcare Costs: Delayed or Defeated?
• Will investing in Emerging Markets provide a comfortable retirement and more financial security?
• Why Gruber-gate Is So Devastating to Democrats
• Why the Bull Market Is on Borrowed Time
• Is Becoming a Doctor Worth $2.6 Million?
• Money for nothing: The dire straits of EHRs
• Maybe exchange competition works, but not in the way some think
• Health plan choices and prices increase on HealthCare.gov
• Medicaid At 50: From Exclusion To Expansion To Universality
• Digital marketing to physicians is amazing. And concerning
• What primary care can learn from the financial service industry
• Interview: Dr. Justin Smith of Cook Children’s Hospital
• Meaningful Use. Born, 2009, Died, 2014?
• Transparency and Grubergate 2.0
• The 2016 Race Officially Has Its First Contender: Ben Carson MD
• A Layered Approach to Fighting Cybercrime
• Lindberg, NLM’s health informatics pioneer, to retire
• Medicaid patients have better access to primary care than you might think
• Bob Doll: What Do Election Results Mean for Investors?
• 5 ways health data breaches are far worse than financial ones
• SEC’s Fiduciary Rule Coming…But When?
• Pay for Engagement: A New Framework for Physician Reimbursement
• VA chief announces restructuring, firings
• When Is It Okay to Ask Your Doctor Friends for Medical Advice?
• Implementing Health Reform: Defining Group Health Plans And More
• Say no to bureaucrats and yes to direct care
• Kaiser Nurses in California Plan to Strike Over Ebola
• Maybe pay for performance can be smarter
• Primary Care Physicians Need To Be More Like Financial Advisors
• New report raises concerns about Indiana dental chains
• Diabetes Public Health Resource > Diabetes Interactive Atlas
• The existing pay-for-success (social impact bond) projects
• Microsoft Health + Microsoft Band, new insights on health and productivity
• Medicine and Public Utility Regulation: Part I
• Would a Republican Senate really try to repeal Obamacare?
• Yes, we do ration health care in America
• A free compilation of 23 essays on current population health practice and scholarship relating broadly to population health metrics, incentives, and partnerships.
• ME-P Publisher Marcinko Nominated for WEGO Health Awards – VOTE

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