A smartphone app that lets doctors crowdsource their diagnoses is becoming increasingly popular, but it’s Apple’s next product that could be really revolutionary.

The Center for American Progress has released a new plan for controlling health care costs by devolving power over health care reform policy to the states. We might actually see the health care discussion start moving in a productive direction.

A new CBO report shows Medicare’s current estimate for 2019 is $95 billion dollars less than the 2010 estimate for that year. The driving cause is the same thing that could save U.S. health care in general: more responsible consumption of care and changes in service delivery.

A new company is partnering with Walgreen’s to develop a cheap and convenient way of testing Americans’ blood. The technology involved might not be all new, but this partnership is exactly the kind of building block that health care reform will rest on.

Walmart clinics and frequent home visits both save the health care system lots of money without compromising on quality. The growth of this two means of providing care can’t come fast enough.

Medibid is a new online service that allows patients seeking common medical procedures to directly compare bids from doctors all across the country. Critics worry that quality isn’t guaranteed, but this is exactly the kind of transparent, consumer-driven technology that could help save health care.

Republicans and Democrats are backing a new “community school” model, in which public and private services are delivered to lower-income students at their schools. If advocates are right that it can raise both student performance and quality of life, this could a good post-blue idea for reforming government service delivery.

To save on health costs for municipal labor, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio is pushing sensible reforms of health care service delivery.

The cuts to Medicare’s reimbursement rates imposed by the ACA may have bought the program a little more time. But without a revolution in service delivery, those cuts won’t be sustainable.

OECD data shows that health care spending is slowing down worldwide. While we still don’t know all the reasons why its happening, new medical technologies are playing a key role.