Blogs
I. What’s What in Health Policy >> L. Mass Media >> Blogs (last update 10.20.15)
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Organization Blogs
This is a listing of health policy-related blogs organized by sponsor or focus (e.g., an individual or health industry blog on the topic of FDA would appear under Federal Executive Branch).
Federal Executive Branch
- White House.gov Blog | Feed
- Office of Management and Budget Blog | Feed
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- EyeOnFDA | Mark Senak | Feed
- FDA Law Blog | Hyman, Phelps & McNamara | Feed
- FDA Matters: The Grossman FDA Report | HPS Group | Feed. No longer active (last post 8.8.13).
- FDA Transparency Blog | Feed. No longer active (last post 9.17.13).
- Orange Book Blog | Aaron Barkoff
- Federal Executive Branch Blogs news feed (Health Policy Skeptic: Health Policy News). Includes feeds from all blogs listed.
Federal Legislative Branch
- CBO Blog (formerly CBO Director’s Blog)
- GovTrack.us Blog feed
- WashingtonWatch.com – Budget Category: Health feed
- Federal Legislative Branch news feed (Health Policy Skeptic: Health Policy News). Includes feeds from all blogs listed.
Federal Judicial Branch
State Government
Health Industry
- General
- Hospitals
- Becker’s Hospital Review
- Anna Roth, CEO of Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
- Barry Ronan, Western MD Health System
- Dave Dobosenski, CEO of St. Croix Regional Medical Center
- Dr. John Popovich Jr. , CEO of Henry Ford Hospital
- Geraint Martin, Counties Manukau District Health Board
- The Hospital Leader. Official blog of the Society of Hospital Medicine (Troy W. Ahlstrom, Bradley Flansbaum, Rachel Lovins)
- Ora Pescovitz, CEO of U-M Health System
- Rob Colones, CEO of McLeod Health in South Carolina
- Todd Linden, CEO of Grinnell Regional Medical Center
- Perspectives on Patient Safety (Joint Commission)
- Wachter’s World (Bob Wachter)
- Health Professionals
- Pharmaceuticals
- Health Insurers
- Health Industry news feed (Health Policy Skeptic: Health Policy News)
Policy Research Organizations
- AMAXX Blog (Workers Comp Resource Center)
- Drugwonks (Center for Medicine and the Public Interest)
- Health Care Renewal (FIRM – the Foundation for Integrity and Responsibility in Medicine)
- Medical Progress Today (Manhattan Institute)
- WHCC Innovations (World Health Care Congress)
- The Wonk Room (Center for American Progress)
- Policy Research Organizations news feed (Health Policy Skeptic: Health Policy News)
Universities
Foundations
- Blue Shield of California Foundation‘s Blog
- The Commonwealth Fund Blog
- CommunityConnections Blog (Colorado Trust)
- Connected World Blog (Markle Foundation)
- FCAA (Funders Concerned About AIDS) Blog
- Game Changer (Consumer Health Foundation)
- Giving Insight (Health and Environmental Funders Network)
- health AGEndA (John A. Hartford Foundation)
- Health Foundation (London, UK) Blog
- Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati
- Health Relay (Colorado Health Foundation)
- Hogg Blog (Hogg Foundation for Mental Health)
- iHealthBeat (California Healthcare Foundation)
- Impatient Optimists (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
- Insight (Endowment for Health)
- Maine Health Access Foundation Blog
- NWHF Blog (Northwest Health Foundation)
- On Practical Progress (California HealthCare Foundation)
- Open Society Foundations Blog
- PhilanTopic (Philanthropy News Digest)
- Philanthropy Today (Chronicle of Philanthropy)
- Pioneering Ideas (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- Pulling it Together (Kaiser Family Foundation)
- RE: Philanthropy (The Council on Foundations)
- RF blog: Reflect. Share (Rasmuson Foundation)
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Human Capital Blog
- Segal Family Foundation blog
- Shaking the Foundation (Connecticut Health Foundation)
- The California Endowment’s Blog
- The California Endowment’s Bob’s Blog
- Foundations news feed (Health Policy Skeptic: Health Policy News)
Health Policy Journals
- Health Affairs Blog
- Trade Secrets (Bioentrepreneur)
- Health Policy Journals news feed (Health Policy Skeptic: Health Policy News)
Mass Media
- CommonHealth (WBUR)
- Covering Health (Association of Health Care Journalists)
- Critical Condition (National Review Online’s health-care blog)
- EGMN: Notes from the Road (Elsevier Global Medical News)
- Forbes Contributors
- Forbes ScienceBiz
- The Hill’s Healthwatch
- The Huffington Post
- Prescriptions – New York Times‘ blog
- The Pulse (RI NPR, Kristin Gourlay)
- Reason – Peter Suderman
- Shots – NPR on Health
- Well Blog (New York Times)
- WonkBlog: Health Care (Washington Post; Ezra Klein, Sarah Kliff)
- WSJ Health Blog (Wall Street Journal)
- Mass Media news feed (Health Policy Skeptic: Health Policy News)
Group Blogs
- Disruptive Women in Health Care
- EconLogs
- E-Patients
- The Health Care Blog
- Healthcare Policy and Market Review
- Health Care Renewal
- Health News Watchdog Blog (HealthNewsReview.Org)
- Health 2.0 Blog
- HIS Talk
- The Incidental Economist (Austin Frakt, Aaron Carroll, Kevin Outterson), Harold Pollack and others)
- The InVivo Blog
- The Pump Handle
- A Public Health Blog
- Group Blogs news feed (Health Policy Skeptic: Health Policy News)
Individual Blogs
This is a listing of blogs by individuals who write about health policy issues in general, not focused on a particular institution or industry.
- ACO Watch (Greg Masters)
- Adam Bosworth
- Alan Katz Blog (formerly Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog)
- Bad Science (Ben Goldacre)
- Cardiobrief (Larry Husten)
- Care and Cost (Brian Klepper)
- Free Range [Communication] (Fran Melmed)
- Gooznews (Merrill Goozner)
- Health Beat (Maggie Mahar)
- Health Blawg (David Harlow)
- Health Care Economist (Jason Shifrin)
- HealthNewsReview (Gary Schwitzer)
- Health Policy and Communication (Michael Miller)
- Health Populi (Jane Sarasohn-Kahn)
- Health, Technology & Life (James Mathews)
- Health Watched (Joana Ramos)
- Hooked: Medicine, Ethics and Pharma (Howard Brody)
- Ian Morrison
- In the Pipeline (Derek Lowe)
- Jared Bernstein
- Jeanne Scott
- Joe DeLuca
- John McDonough’s Health Stew
- Joshua Seidman
- KevinMD (Kevin Pho)
- LifeSci VC (Bruce Booth)
- Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen)
- Marilyn Mann’s Blog
- Megan McArdle
- Nash on Health Policy (David Nash)
- Not Running A Hospital (Paul Levy)
- Orgcomplexity (Michele Battle-Fisher)
- Pathophilia (Barbara Martin)
- Pulse + Signal (Andre Blackman)
- Roger Collier
- World of DTC Marketing (Richard M)
- Individual Blogs news feed (Health Policy Skeptic: Health Policy News)