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Screen baby, screen -- News coverage of new mammography guidelines

by Tinker Ready wrote 2 weeks ago:  BHN is a big fan of the health news blog produced by fellow health writer/journalism prof Gary Schw … more →

Tags: health care news, health journalism, Mammography, Medical Research, Quality of Care, USPSTF

Single-payer supporters, Harvard Med on the Senate reform bill

by Tinker Ready wrote 2 weeks ago: The president of Harvard Med School doesn’t like the reform will, he says in the Wall Street J … more →

Tags: About health reform, health care news, access to health insurance, cost of health insurance, Massachusetts Health Plan, Single Payer

Coakley, Capuano and keeping up with health reform

by Tinker Ready wrote 4 weeks ago: As health reform churns its way through Congress, BHN recommends Kaiser Health News and the Washingt … more →

Tags: About health reform, Obama and health, Kennedy and health reform, Tea Party Movement

Town Hall Clamor Arrives in Washington

by Tinker Ready wrote 1 month ago: A round up on Kaiser Health News: Tea Party Steeps on Capitol Hill. From the NYTimes web site: WASHI … more →

Tags: health care news, About health reform, teabaggers and health reform, Tea Party Movement

Health Wonk Review: Killer viruses and the undead public option11 comments

by Tinker Ready wrote 1 month ago: Killer viruses, computers that see all, and the undead public option. (Or, as Jon Stewart said last … more →

Tags: health care news, About health reform, access to health insurance, breast cancer, Cancer, cost of health insurance, health, Health Care Costs, Health Wonk Review

Health reform, wired and unwired

by Tinker Ready wrote 1 month ago: There was a State House hearing scheduled today on bill to establish  a single payer health care sys … more →

Tags: HIT, Evidence based Medicine

Snowe is a go1 comment

by Tinker Ready wrote 1 month ago: The big action was at today’s Senate Finance Commitee, where Maine’s Senator Olympia Sno … more →

Tags: About health reform, Obama and health, Health Care Costs, health, Olympia Snowe, Senate HELP Committee

Maine's Snowe, Senate health reform player 2 comments

by Tinker Ready wrote 2 months ago: From the NYTimes story on an amendment to the Senate bill.    Photo by var resa Members of the commi … more →

Tags: About health reform, health care news, Obama and health, health, SEnate Finance Committee, Snowe

Wonks, Rolling Stone and Dr. Blumenthal

by Tinker Ready wrote 2 months ago: 1) It wasn’t the cover with cosmetically and electronically enhanced Megan Fox that caught my … more →

Tags: health care news, About health reform, Obama and health, HIT, David Blumenthal, Health Wonk Review, health, teabaggers and health reform

Kennedy aide to serve in Senate until Jan. election.

by Tinker Ready wrote 2 months ago: Eugena Ossi / Governor's Office Long-time Kennedy aide Paul Kirk will replaces his late boss unt … more →

Tags: About health reform, health care news, Obama and health, access to health insurance, health, Kennedy and health reform, Senate and health reform

Minnesota looks at the Massachusetts mandate

by Tinker Ready wrote 2 months ago: Greetings fellow lab rats. Read on from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Democrats highlight the expans … more →

Tags: About health reform, Obama and health, access to health insurance, Massachusetts Health Plan, Mass Connector, health

Masschusetts to set up statewide electronic health information exchange2 comments

by Tinker Ready wrote 2 months ago: The idea that computers can cut health care costs seems pretty abstract at times. But, if you think … more →

Tags: health care news, About health reform, Computers and health care, HIT, Massachusetts Health Plan, Medical Devices, Quality of Care

Obama's health reform speech: How it played in Boston2 comments

by Tinker Ready wrote 3 months ago:  Some of those “Amens” you heard from the House chamber last night could have been comin … more →

Tags: About health reform, Obama and health, Massachusetts Health Plan, Single Payer, Boston area hospitals, Mass Connector, Masscare, obama health reform speech

BHN Exclusive: Video from Boston Health Reform Rally, Sept 5

by Tinker Ready wrote 3 months ago: See the Globe story for quotes from the speeches. This video features one comment and scenes from th … more →

Tags: health care news, About health reform, Obama and health, cost of health insurance, Massachusetts Health Plan, Single Payer, Boston health reform rally, Boston Rally

BHN Exclusive: Photos from Boston Health Reform Rally Sept 51 comment

by Tinker Ready wrote 3 months ago: Boston Globe story … more →

Tags: About health reform, health care news, Obama and health, Single Payer, boston health care rally

NY Times Book Review:The Heart of Power1 comment

by Tinker Ready wrote 3 months ago: You read about it here first. Maybe. From BHN 7/15. The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the O … more →

Tags: About health reform, Obama and health, Evidence based Medicine, David Blumenthal, health, Kennedy and health reform, Heart of Power, James Morone

Health Reform: Lessons from Massachusetts1 comment

by Tinker Ready wrote 3 months ago:  From a Tuesday conference entitled: “Health Reform In Massachusetts: Lessons for the Nation … more →

Tags: About health reform, access to health insurance, health, Mass Connector, Massachusetts Health Plan, partners health care

ObamaCare… Will It Become a Reality?

kentcrawford wrote 3 months ago: With our economy still in shambles, no actual money to be found anywhere, and a deficit that would c … more →

Tags: Economy, Health Care, obama

Massachusetts June 24 State House health bill testimony2 comments

by Tinker Ready wrote 5 months ago:  The Joint Committee on Health Care Financing held a hearing Wednesday afternoon on several bills in … more →

Tags: About health reform, Health Care Costs, Massachusetts Health Plan, Mass Connector, health, Underinsured