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Three Health Technology Companies To Watch

5/22/2012 8:03 AM

Last week, Towers Watson bought Extend , which allows retirees to choose from thousands of private Medicare plans according to their needs, instead of having their employer make the decision. Towers paid $435 million. One of the winners in that transaction was venture capital firm Psilos, which made in five years 10 times its investment .....Read More

Finally, A Car That Listens (And Truly Understands)

5/22/2012 7:47 AM

New voice controls let motorists speak naturally to send and receive email and texts, buy songs and listen to the day's headlines. You still can't buy shoes while driving, though...Read More

Putting the 'Insurance' Back in Health Insurance

5/20/2012 11:55 PM

We understand that it would make no sense to buy auto insurance after we've already crashed our car. We appreciate that it would be strange to buy homeowner's insurance after our house has already burned down. And yet, when it comes to health coverage, many of us think that it makes perfect sense to wait until we're sick to buy health insurance. If...Read More

The 15 Minute Physical: Dr. Oz Showcases Power Of Electronic Health Records

5/19/2012 6:08 PM

At a taping of the Dr. Oz Show on Saturday, Dr. Mehmet Oz and 75 laptop-wielding medical students entered clinical information on 1,000 patients into an electronic health record, courtesy of Practice Fusion, a provider of free web-based EHRs. The location was 's School of Medicine. Combing for indicators of heart disease and diabetes, they .....Read More

What Should Congress Do after the Supreme Court Decision on Obamacare?

5/19/2012 11:24 AM

There's been a bit of a flap in the media this week about what House Republicans are planning to do regarding health care reform once the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare. But the back-and-forth leaves unanswered an important question: given all of the possible SCOTUS scenarios, what should Congress do to optimize the outcome for people with a stak...Read More

Car of the Week: 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL 550

5/18/2012 4:19 PM

?? The Car: 2013??Mercedes-Benz SL 550 Where I drove it: Downtown , Pasadena, and the Hollywood Hills. First Impressions: ??It was a dramatic moment when the valet pulled up in the creamy-white 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 ??? and I soaked it up.??Let me set the scene:??The Standard Los Angeles??valet lot is just steps away from the .....Read More

Obamacare Activists Prep to be 'Either Celebratory or Agitational' about Supreme Court Decision

5/18/2012 7:13 AM

BuzzFeed has obtained a three-page memo from Health Care for America Now, an umbrella group run by labor unions and MoveOn.org. The memo details how the organization and other White House allies plan to adopt alternate messages, depending on whether or not the Affordable Care Act is upheld by the Supreme Court. "Note that many of these [resources] ...Read More

Medicare Advantage Reform: Detaching Pay from Performance

5/17/2012 3:09 PM

Medicare Advantage (MA) is the "private option" within Medicare. Private health insurers are paid a fixed monthly fee to provide at least the same minimum health benefits to their enrollees as "traditional" fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare, but they also have the ability to offer coordinated care, disease management, phone consultations, and other se...Read More

Are House Republicans Caving in on Repealing Obamacare? Doubtful.

5/17/2012 9:10 AM

Politico is reporting that House Republicans are preparing for the possibility that the Supreme Court upholds the law by drafting new legislation. "When the court rules, we'll be ready," House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) told the House Republican Conference on Wednesday. But what's surprising about alleged GOP plans is that they involve preserv...Read More

Chrysler's Kumbaya King

5/16/2012 5:34 PM

What do the Dalai Lama, Sean Penn, Eminem and Clint Eastwood have in common? Not much, except for controversial car marketer Olivier Francois...Read More

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