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Health Wonk Review health data edition

Health Wonk Review for September 12, 2013

The Health Data Edition

The latest edition of Health Wonk Review is up over at Boston Health News. Tinker Ready put together a great review of the latest health policy blog posts … and dedicated this edition to health data.

An excellent collection of posts follow that theme … a Health Business Blog piece about whether health data might be used in efforts to encourage lower risk behaviors, a Health Affairs post looking at the challenge of balancing the benefits of genomic data with privacy concerns …

And there’s much more from HWR’s trusted crew of policy wonks. In addition to this great post about ‘bros’ by healthinsurance.org contributor Maggie Mahar, and another from Louise Norris – the newest contributor to this blog – this week’s edition included posts from:

Enjoy! Next up: Health Wonk Review is scheduled for September 26 at Healthcare Talent Transformation.

Tags: Colorado Health Insurance Insider, Disease Management Care Blog, Health Access Blog, Health Affairs, Health AGEnda, Health Business Blog, health policy, Health Wonk Review, Healthcare Economist, Healthcare Renewal, InsureBlog, John Goodman, Maggie Mahar, Managed Care Matters

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