Happy 12th birthday to the Health Business Blog

The Health Business Blog has turned 12 years old! Continuing a tradition I established with birthdays one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven I have picked out a favorite post from each month. Thanks for continuing to read the blog! March 2016: Health Wonk Review -Tales of the Trump My roundup of policy posts from the blogosphere took Trump seriously and literally. April 2016: Listen app – ResApp diagnoses respiratory ailments An Australian company developed a smartphone app to diagnose respiratory diseases by analyzing the sound signatures of coughs. I interviewed the CEO, Dr. Tony Keating via email. May 2016: Biosimilars are “me-too” drugs, not generics Returning to a favorite theme, I explain why the biosimilar market will not develop the way the generic drug market did. If we instead think about biosimilars as me-too drugs it will help in devising policy solutions. June 2016: Amazon Echo for healthcare I bought an Amazon Echo and could immediately see the potential in healthcare for a hands-free, voice activated device that could be used at home and in the hospital. I wasn’t surprised to see that my friends at Boston Children’s were already working with the Echo. July 2016: Sutter’s Dr. David K. Butler on EMR-enabled transformation Dr. Butler came to healthcare as a digital native, unwilling to accept the paper-based status quo. In about a decade he went from using Microsoft Word to make me...
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