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	<description>Here's What I Think</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>George Halvorson tells me about the perfect system</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health care quality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I interviewed George C. Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, last week. Kaiser Permanente is the nation’s largest integrated health plan, serving more than 8.4 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia, so I am interested in what he considers the perfect health care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lancet reads me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old news that is new to me&#8230;.
Serena Stockwell, my editor at Oncology Times, reports that Lancet Oncology cited one of my OT articles in its May 2008, issue:

“We&#8217;re going to have to start having a discussion”, Lee Newcomer (United-Healthcare, Minnetonka, MN, USA) recently told Oncology Times. “In the UK, the cost-effectiveness threshold has been set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I hear from Massachusetts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[World Health Care Congress]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the people with the most hands-on health reform experience in America is losing confidence that  much hoped-for federal-level reform will occur after the presidential election.
Jon Kingsdale, executive director of the Commonwealth Connector in Massachusetts, told me that America&#8217;s economic implosion may endanger the chances of health care reform proposals.
Clearly there&#8217;s a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My conversation with a medical theft identity expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Siciliano]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed speaking with Robert Siciliano, chief executive officer of IDtheftsecurity.com, about the issue of medical identify theft.
Mr. Siciliano will speak at the upcoming World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress later this year.
Butcher: Information technology is in the process of transforming healthcare delivery. Patients are telling physicians about their symptoms over e-mail and checking their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I hear from Paul Ginsburg</title>
		<link>http://lolabutcher.com/wordpress/archives/22</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health care quality]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Center for Studying Health System Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[health care consumerism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paul Ginsburg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had the chance to interview Dr. Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, as a preview to his presentation at the World Congress on Consumer Healthcare and Wellness in mid-September.
Dr. Ginsburg is an economist, nationally recognized for his work in health economics and health policy, especially healthcare market changes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researcher: How should quality be measured?</title>
		<link>http://lolabutcher.com/wordpress/archives/21</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health care quality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Physicians]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jack Needleman]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Outcomes measures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Quality measurement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transforming Care at the Bedside]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed interviewing Jack Needleman, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Health Services at UCLA&#8217;s School of Public Health. His research focuses on the impact of changing markets and public policy on quality and access to care.
Dr. Needleman is currently leading the team evaluating the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative, Transforming Care at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMGA: Pay-for-performance does not go far enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky to interview Donald W. Fisher,  president and CEO of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), a trade association that represents medical groups, including some of the nation’s largest, most influential integrated health care delivery systems.   

AMGA&#8217;s membership includes medical groups that deliver health care to more than 50 million Americans in 42 states.
 
Butcher: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuart Guterman, Commonwealth Fund, reporting in</title>
		<link>http://lolabutcher.com/wordpress/archives/19</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health care quality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Health care value]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky to interview Stuart Guterman, senior program director of the Medicare&#8217;s Future program at the Commonwealth Fund. A couple of things that caught my attention:
Lola: How should value in health care be measured, and do we need more measures or fewer?
Guterman:  That&#8217;s really the crucial issue. There has been a lot of discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misery loves company</title>
		<link>http://lolabutcher.com/wordpress/archives/17</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. health care system comes up smelling like a putrid rose in a survey that compares how citizens in 10 countries feel about their nation&#8217;s health care situation.
The report on the survey&#8211;actually, several surveys combined&#8211;published by Harris Interactive can be found here.
While the  finding that Americans don&#8217;t like their health care system surprises no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At last</title>
		<link>http://lolabutcher.com/wordpress/archives/16</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Medical Association has issued an apology for its long tradition of racial inequality toward black physicians and for accepting segregation within the medical profession.
Institutional racism such as that fostered by the powerful AMA is one of the insidious forces that has contributed to America&#8217;s shameful history of white privilege.
I suspect that the rise [...]]]></description>
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