March 2010 - The Health Care Blog

Policy for Equal Access Care: You Make It Possible

At New York-Presbyterian Hospital, we’re building technology and influencing policy that will shape the future of health care delivery. Visionary executive leaders are driving momentum in the movement toward a connected health information technology environment...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 7:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Bush & Palestrant--Live from HIMSS

By Matthew Holt After days of technical gremlins holding me back, I'm getting my HIMSS interviews up online. I’ll start with one from two of my favorites. This is Daniel Palestrant of Sermo and Jonathan Bush of athenahealth, who are... Read More....

Published Thu, Mar 04 2010 6:17 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Matthew Holt

Last Helicopter Out of Saigon

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In popular psychiatry, a classic passive aggressive gambit is “malicious compliance”- intentionally inflicting harm on someone by strictly following a directive, even though the person knows that they are damaging someone by doing so...

Published Sun, Mar 07 2010 5:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Europe--Webinar on Wednesday

This Wednesday, March 10th at 4:30 CET / 7:30AM PST our FREE hour long webinar series will be highlighting the upcoming Health 2.0 Europe conference with our Parisian partner, Denise Silber of Basil Strategies. Joining in the discussion and presenting...

Published Mon, Mar 08 2010 5:47 PM by The Health Care Blog

What Good are Health Insurers?

By BILL KRAMER As the health reform effort moves into the final stages, everyone seems to be taking a whack at health insurers. Some of the insurers’ wounds are self-inflicted, such as WellPoint’s announcement of 39% premium increase for individual.....

Published Tue, Mar 09 2010 2:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

After the Failure of Reform

By BRIAN KLEPPER AND DAVID C. KIBBE The stalemate in the bi-partisan health care summit was cast the moment it was announced. Republicans demanded that the reform process start anew, and Mr. Obama insisted on the Senate bill as the... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 01 2010 7:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Brian Klepper, David Kibbe, Reform, Policy/Politics

Stressed Out System

By ROB LAMBERTS I saw a patient today and looked back at a previous note, which said the following: “stressed out due to insurance.” It didn’t surprise me, and I didn’t find it funny; I see a lot of this.... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 4:27 AM by The Health Care Blog

Glen Tullman, Allscripts

By Matthew Holt Allscirpts' CEO Glen Tullman has had a good year. Allscripts' stock is up four-fold, sales are going well and some people think that ARRA/HITECH's fillup to the healthcare IT industry is mostly his doing--he was an early.....

Published Thu, Mar 11 2010 1:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Matthew Holt

It's Not About Meaningful Use ...

By JOHN MOORE With the impending comment deadline for Meaningful Use (MU) fast approaching, many organizations, from CHIME to AHA to AAFP and others are asking for some form of relaxation of MU criteria in the final version. Now it... Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 5:33 AM by The Health Care Blog

Aneesh Chopra on txting in Haiti

By Matthew Holt Here's a quick video I took at the end of Aneesh Chopra's (the Federal CTO) talk at HIMSS. It’s a remarkable story of the role of SMS, tools and crowdsourcing in aiding in a disaster zone. A... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 9:38 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

Microsoft at HIMSS

By Matthew Holt I'm still catching up with my HIMSS interviews. This is Chris Sullivan and Mike Raymer from Microsoft who are talking about the evolution of the Amalga product—the business intelligence engine—and the current state of HealthVault....

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Electronic Medical Records, Matthew Holt, Consumers

Database of Bad Doctors Blocks Public From Seeing Names

By Jim Morris, Staff Writer, The Center For Public Integrity In the mid-1980s, incompetent and negligent doctors were moving freely between states, with state licensing boards and hospitals largely oblivious to lawsuits or disciplinary actions in other...

Published Wed, Mar 24 2010 6:49 AM by The Health Care Blog

Some Thoughts On the Word “Filibuster”

By MAGGIE MAHAR As I noted in another post, the media seems to be turning “reconciliation” into an ugly word. But “filibuster” is the word with a more unsavory history. (Thanks to HeathBeat reader Barry Carroll who sent me a... Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 5:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Congress, History

Are The Attorneys General’s Constitutional Claims Bogus?

By Mark Hall, Wake Forest University School of Law Immediately after passage of health care reform, over a dozen state A.G.s sued to declare it unconstitutional, as violating states’ rights. The Florida complaint is here, and Virginia’s here. Reminiscent...

Published Fri, Mar 26 2010 4:14 PM by The Health Care Blog

Interview with Alex Savic, CEO of Alensa Next Widgets

By Indu Subaiya Alex Savic is CEO of Alensa NextWidgets, based in Zurich, Switzerland. Alex is a repeat presenter at Health 2.0 and will be presenting an update on the NextWidgets platform at Health 2.0 Europe in Paris April 6-7,... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 29 2010 6:26 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, pharmaceuticals