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A very special report is being released right now at the Boston Public Library from the Expert Panel on End-of-Life Care, a multidisciplinary group of 41 stakeholders, including health care professionals, service providers, policy makers, health care advocates and legislators. They were appointed by the state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services, as directed [...]

The Governor of Massachusetts has made an excellent choice for the new Commissioner of the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy.&nbsp He is attorney Áron Boros, who comes to DHCFP after serving as director of federal finance for the state’s Medicaid office since 2008.&nbsp Prior to working for MassHealth, Boros was an associate at [...]

The increasing size and scope of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, and continuing instability in the finance system, most recently due to the threatened default of Greece, and resulting problems with the Euro, and now the bankruptcy of yet another prominent financial firm, MF Global, has lead to renewed discussion of what has gone wrong with [...]

Here are a few I have come across this week. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a paragraph or two. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or payment. General Comment: The most fun [...]

Thanks @kaythaney, my inner nerd loves this, a modern-day Antikythera Mechanism made out of Legos. Here’s the story. If you cannot see the video, click here.