Keith Michael

Trained at Brown, Harvard, and Vanderbilt, Keith Michael has been a health policy analyst, business analyst, and independent strategy consultant for the Cato Institute, Tennessee Center for Policy Research, WebMD Corporation, Revolution Health Group, and Sprint Enterprise Mobility. His opinions on health reform have been published in Health Affairs, the Los Angeles Times, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Licensing 2.0

Filed As: Health Care

This site talked recently about the impact social networking (a.k.a. Web 2.0) is having on health. And it’s not alone. Consider the buzz around the upcoming Health 2.0 Conference in California (a project of The Health ... more ťť

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Monday, August 20, 2007

Primary Care Crisis?

Filed As: Health Care

Via Health Care Renewal, Dr. Pam thinks there is a crisis in primary care. Perhaps she's right. But why, if doctors are truly concerned about the state of ... more ťť

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Medical Turf War on Aisle 5

Retail Health & The Docs Who Hate It

Filed As: Health Care

The Wall-Street Journal Online has an interesting post on how the AMA is fighting the rise of retail healthcare (hat tip: Kevin, M.D.).

The main ... more ťť

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Monday, August 6, 2007

Money-Driven SCHIP

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Maggie Mahar of Money-Driven Medicine fame is up on more ťť

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Sunday, August 5, 2007

Financial Execs: Individuals to continue taking health care ownership

Filed As: Health Care

A survey of nearly 460 financial executives confirms that the trend towards individual ownership of healthcare financing - in the form of consumer-driven health plans, high deductible health plans and health savings accounts - will continue.... more ťť