Monthly Archives: March 2010

What We Really Do – and Don’t – Know About Health in This Nation

What do we know about the levels of population health and the state of medical care and the many other determinants of health across the United States? Despite years of data collection, it has been difficult to gain a comprehensive view of...

Can the First Lady Solve the Childhood Obesity Epidemic?

Earlier this year, First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled her signature policy initiative: the Let’s Move campaign. The First Lady’s campaign brings together a diverse group of stakeholders, including government agencies, food and beverage...

Seeking Solutions From IT Instead of From People

When I first came to “Health 2.0” and joined ranks with folks who were leading this charge, it was because I was so thoroughly discouraged by the realm of health information technology for physicians and hospitals and disappointed with...

Complexity in Health Care Can’t Be a Vice

Health care reform is testing the United State’s capacity to address big issues and has highlighted glaring flaws in the legislative process. What’s clear by now is that it’s tough to boil health care policy down into concise talking...