FierceHealthcare (Why hospitals shouldn’t make patients the hand-washing police) reports on a Health Business Blog post by David Williams protesting the idea that patients should be responsible for hospital safety.

IBM shifts some of its retirees onto a health insurance exchange. Triangle Business Journal asks David Williams to explain what it all means.

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care launches a narrow network product in New Hampshire. David Williams explains the strengths and weaknesses of that approach on NHPR (Health Insurance Shakeup Continues in NH )

NPR’s Marketplace features David Williams in a story about daily deal sites for health care. (Searching online for health care deals)

Health Business Group’s Karen Donovan served on an expert panel about clinical trials for Hepatitis C. (Three-quarters Of Patients Not Told About Clinical Trials)

NPR station KERA in Dallas interviews David Williams about DealWell: A Site For Health Care Bargain Hunters, which is similar to Priceline.

California Healthline (Low Costs and Narrow Networks: Inside Covered California) quotes David Williams on insurance exchanges and the role for narrow network products.

US News (To cover medical bills, the uninsured get creative) covers hospitals’ sliding fee scales, medical bill negotiation and medical tourism.

Gorkana, a UK based media intelligence company, published an interview with David Williams (Gorkana meets…David Williams). Topics include: how the Health Business Blog has evolved over the past eight years, issues covered, sources of inspiration, and favorite podcasts.

InformationWeek asked 12 experts, including David Williams, for health IT predictions for 2013.

US News and World Report’sDebate Club featured Health Business Group’s arguments against raising the Medicare age and in favor of further increasing the elgibility age for Social Security.

David Williams moderated a panel on telemedicine at the CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia.

MedCity News spoke with Health Business Group about health care social media and “prosumers.”

David Williams discussed the Affordable Care Act and the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling at a Let’s Talk HIT event sponsored by the RGL Group of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

CBS TV 5 in San Francisco aired a segment on the use of Groupon and LivingSocial by health care providers. David Williams is featured in a video interview.

Narrow provider networks are coming to Buffalo, NY and Health Business Group is quoted about the implications in the Buffalo News.

A Health Care Finance News article on managing the cost of health IT features research from Health Business Group.

CBS News and the Daily Kos covered David Williams’s opinions about the use of Groupon in health care.

Two leading Silicon Valley venture capital funds were incubating a seed stage telemedicine company that proposed to leverage nurse practitioners as an alternative for certain primary care conditions. The investors sought out Health Business Group to assist in understanding the market landscape and segmenting prospective customers.