October 2009 - The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 a-Go-Go: A Revolution By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet

By J.D. KLEINKE During the standard what’re-you-doing-this-week segment of a Sunday barbecue, I told a neighbor who works in the real world that I was “going to the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco,” a sort of random zeitgeist check... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 06 2009 8:36 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

Health 2.0 Tools: The power of Twitter

By Matthew Holt The power of Twitter is real kids, and not for what you think. Used properly Twitter is an information filter. Exhibit A is what happened to the Von Schwebers who run PHARMASurveyor. They were a huge part... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 23 2009 5:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, pharmaceuticals, evidenced-based medicine, Conferences, e-patients

Two east coast conferences worth a look

By Matthew Holt Two conferences I won’t be at (because I’ve been on enough aeroplanes this year already and have to do a bunch more traveling in November) are later this month. One is GelHealth in NYC which is the... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 15 2009 6:36 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Matthew Holt

JSK & Joe DeLuca on KQED

By Matthew Holt One of the best local talk shows anywhere is Michael Krasny's Forum on 88.5 KQED, San Francisco's establishment NPR station (SF of course has a rebel NPR station KALW which has had me on a couple of... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 21 2009 9:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

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Published Mon, Oct 19 2009 7:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Why is this the one thing?

By JOE FLOWER When the terrorist attacks of 9/11 hit the United States, and then suddenly we were plunged into war, first in Afghanistan and then in Iraq, I don’t remember anyone demanding that the wars be “deficit neutral.” No... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 14 2009 7:31 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 and the Big Bang

By GLENN LAFFEL It’s hard to believe that last week’s Health 2.0 conference was just the third annual installment of the event. The phrase, “Health 2.0” entered our lexicon at light speed and seems to have been there longer than... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 15 2009 9:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

State of Health Care Quality: Some States Better Than Others

By Margaret E. O'Keane, President National Committee For Quality Assurance Peggy O'Kane has been running the NCQA for longer than she might care to remember. NCQA is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the quality...

Published Fri, Oct 23 2009 7:46 AM by The Health Care Blog

Around the Web in 60 Seconds: Health 2.0 San Francisco

All Things Digital - "Keas' Adam Bosworth speaks about new health care startup" by Kara Swisher Fast Company "The Future of Healthcare is Social" NY Times.com "A White House Message to Healthcare Start Ups" NY Times.com...

Published Mon, Oct 12 2009 2:30 PM by The Health Care Blog

A Crucial Requirement To Cure U.S. Healthcare Long-Term: Curb Raging Inflation

By Albert Waxman, Ph.D, CEO and Senior Managing Member of Psilos Group The Senate Finance Committee pushed the likelihood of mandatory U.S. healthcare insurance a giant step forward this week by passing a healthcare reform bill that is likely to... Read...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2009 10:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Senate Finance Health Bill Has No Clothes

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI Readers of this blog know that I have lots of concerns for the Senate Finance health bill primarily because it does not so much represent health care reform as just an expensive entitlement expansion. Readers also know... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 12 2009 8:38 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Robert Laszewski, Reform

What’s Next? Follow the Money

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI With the passage of the Senate Finance bill the health care effort now moves to a critical stage with the Senate Majority Leader and the House Speaker now clearly in charge. The more important effort will be... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 14 2009 7:54 AM by The Health Care Blog