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Engage, with grace.

Last year, The Health Care Blog started Engage With Grace, asking you to take a moment over the Thanksgiving weekend to discuss your desires for how to live the end of your life as meaningfully as possible. If you would like to reproduce this post on your blog (or anywhere), you can base your post off of this version (which is what I've done here, thanks to Alexandra Drane, the Engage With Grace team, and Matthew Holt — via Bob Coffield). Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers ...

Losing everything.

My mother passed away on April 18. I still have no words, but I have to express my deepest appreciation to everyone who has shared kind words and warm thoughts. It has meant so much more to me over the past few days than you can imagine. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much. From the Gazette: Patricia Mae Deal (née Bias), born March 22, 1948, passed away Saturday, April 18, 2009 at her home in Robinson. She was 61. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clinton Alb...

WellPoint’s challenge.

Angela Braly has a tough job. She became chief executive of WellPoint in early 2007. Right out of the gate she had to fire her chief financial officer due to "misconduct unrelated" to the company. Not long thereafter, the economy began crumbling, taking an especially heavy toll on health insurers, like WellPoint. Proving that there's no rest for the weary, though, this year is starting off with the troubling news that the government is forcing WellPoint to temporarily suspend Medicare en...

Glen Tullman gets it.

When I look around healthcare information technology, I see silos. I find software that gets in the way of productivity. I see technology that is not as reliable or as efficient as it should and could be. When I try to think of companies that are actively working to change that... The list is much shorter than I think it ought to be. But there are a few that are dragging all of us forward. I wrote before about athenahealth and the success they're seeing. I think Allscripts is another ...