October 2009 - The Health Care Blog

Will We Get a Health Care Bill in 2009?

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI It’s decision time. The Congress will or won’t pass a major health care bill during the next few weeks. Will we get health care reform in 2009? Almost certainly not. As I have been saying for months,... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 08 2009 7:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Robert Laszewski, Congress, Reform

Regina Holliday: Fred's life & death at 73 cents a page

By Matthew Holt If you ever wonder why the efforts to make it easier for patients and families to get information and be treated as equals in their care by the medical care system matter.... If you need convincing that... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 24 2009 9:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, e-patients

JSK (national treasure) on data liquidity, and how it fits into Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt Given that she taught me most of what I know about health IT I don’t know why I ever need reminding about how great Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is at keeping her finger on the pulse of health care,... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 03 2009 1:45 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Policy, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

I was largely in favor of Swiss-style health care...

By Matthew Holt until I found out that the people who the NY Times says are really in favor of it are Bill O'Reilly and Regina Herzlinger… Actually I’m kidding. I knew Regi says she likes it, and Maggie Mahar... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 01 2009 1:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Policy, Health Plans

Glen Tullman on EMRs, life, the universe and everything

By Matthew Holt A couple of weeks back Allscripts' CEO Glen Tullman was on the Cats & Dogs panel at Health 2.0 and he said some pretty controversial things about the state of EMR adoption (yes it was happening), certification... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 27 2009 9:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Doctor Is In and Logged On.

By RAHUL PARIKH Wow. I've just taken care of three patients in 12 minutes, and I didn't do it by "churning" them through my office as if it's some sort of factory assembly line. Rather, those patients (their parents, more... Read...

Published Thu, Oct 08 2009 6:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Physicians, Rahul Parikh

Protest Music at AHIP meeting

By Matthew Holt This is much more fun and better sung than traditional protests! And given that AHIP would benefit from a public option, I suspect Karen Ignagni hired them. It looks like it happened in the closing session of... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 24 2009 4:53 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Policy, Health Plans

Nursing a Health 2.0 Hangover

By J.D. KLEINKE So it’s the morning after the big Health 2.0 bash and the hangover is awful. My head is awash with flashing screens of medical alerts, rainbow-colored demos of virtual patients flitting from one personal health app to... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 08 2009 2:07 PM by The Health Care Blog

Podcast: Nathanial Findlay Tells Us What's Next for Myca.

Download the audio interview here. Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 06 2009 12:17 AM by The Health Care Blog

Pop the Cost Bubble: Unallot Medicare

By Victor M. Sandler, MD Here’s a dirty little secret: Cutting health care costs is not that difficult, nor will it harm patients. That’s because it only involves giving up unnecessary medical care—tests and treatments patients may want but really......

Published Mon, Oct 05 2009 5:59 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Costs

Why AHIP needs the public option

By Matthew Holt It’s been a fun week. After years of THCB explaining that neither could AHIP do genuine research nor could its venerable President open her mouth without lying, the rest of the world has caught on. I won’t... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2009 8:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy, Health Plans, Charlie Baker

The Health 2.0 Accelerator is really gunning it...

By Matthew Holt The Health 2.0 Accelerator was a glimmer in the eye of Commerce.net’s Marty Tenenbaum late in 2007. But under the dedicated leadership of Julie Murchinson and Aaron Apodaca, something quite remarkable is happening. The Accelerator is an...

Published Thu, Oct 01 2009 1:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0

The Cat's and Dogs of Health IT

Ur Doin It Wrong

By CINDY THROOP Susannah Fox aptly illustrated what is happening in health care during the 'The Patient Is In' panel of the Health 2.0 conference with some amusing LOLCat pictures captioned "ur doin it wrong." Put simply, when it comes...

Published Tue, Oct 13 2009 8:49 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

Sometimes It’s Better Not to be Ranked #1

By KATHLEEN M. BOOZANG The Chronicle of Philanthropy lead off its annual executive compensation story with the headline that “Nearly three in 10 of the leaders of the nation’s biggest charities and foundations have taken pay cuts in the past... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 02 2009 1:27 PM by The Health Care Blog