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Health Wonk Review

Health Wonk Review: money talks, but IT helps

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Neil Versel

The latest edition of Health Wonk Review is hot off the digital presses, with Joe Paduda taking hosting duties on his Managed Care Matters blog. And managed care does matter in this trip around the health blogosphere, with most of … Continue reading →

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When you talk health reform, don’t forget quality and IT, in that order

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Neil Versel

In my previous post, I was perhaps a bit too critical of Maggie Mahar in her hosting of last week’s Health Wonk Review. I noted that there was not a word about health IT in that rundown, but that’s not … Continue reading →

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Health Wonk Review gets hung up on insurance

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Neil Versel

The last edition of Health Wonk Review prior to the Nov. 6 presidential election falls into the familiar big-media trap of portraying the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, as being only about health insurance and of effectively … Continue reading →

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Health Wonk Review: October Surprise edition

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Neil Versel

The newest installment of Health Wonk Review is up, courtesy of David Williams at the Health Business Blog, and my recent post about politicians perpetuating the myth that the U.S. has the “best healthcare in the world” is featured prominently. … Continue reading →

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Health Wonk Review: Special SCOTUS edition

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Neil Versel

To the surprise of nobody, the healthcare blogosphere was busy last week in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Because of this, Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters put together a … Continue reading →

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A dubious honor from Health Wonk Review

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Neil Versel

For the very first time, I captured the top spot on the biweekly Health Wonk Review blog carnival, this time hosted by Dr. Jaan Sidorov of the Disease Management Care Blog. Unfortunately, I had to endure my dad’s untimely death … Continue reading →

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Mastering Health Wonk Review

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Neil Versel

The newest edition of Health Wonk Review is up at Brad Wright’s Wright on Health policy blog, and Wright uses last week’s Masters golf tournament as his theme. He conveniently picks 18 posts to highlight from around the blogosphere (what, … Continue reading →

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Video: ‘Meet the Bloggers’ panel from HIMSS12

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Neil Versel

As promised,  there is some video from the “Meet the Bloggers” panel I appeared on, and it comes to us from Dr. Chuck Webster of EHR Workflow Inc. and the EHR.BZ Report. (You may know him from his previous job as … Continue reading →

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Health Wonk Review: Campaign 2012

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Neil Versel

This week’s Health Wonk Review, hosted by Louise Norris of Colorado Health Insurance Insider, takes a theme of Campaign 2012, rather scary, given that primary season has just started, IMHO. My recent post about the two sides of GOP candidate … Continue reading →

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Health Wonk Review, unadorned but chock full of health IT

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Neil Versel

In the latest edition of Health Wonk Review, hosted by Chris Fleming on the estimable Health Affairs blog, there’s not much in the way of a fun theme, but that’s OK. It’s still full of some good perspectives, including more … Continue reading →

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