March 2010 - 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

A Culture of Fear and Intimidation: Reforming Medical Education

By MAGGIE MAHAR Even as we set out to reform U.S. health care, we continue to train medical students as if they were going to work in the old, broken system. Today, everything about medical education needs to be re-thought,... Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 20 2010 3:21 PM by The Health Care Blog

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

The Numbers Tell The Story

By DANIEL PALESTRANT Yesterday, athenahealth and Sermo released our Physician Sentiment Index℠ (PSI). With over 1,000 physicians polled, the national survey is thought to be the largest of its kind. While many of the findings will come as no surprise...

Published Fri, Mar 26 2010 7:27 AM by The Health Care Blog

Healthcare's Privacy Problem (Hint: It's Not What You Think It Is )

By LYGEIA RICCARDI I recently applied for life insurance. The broker, whom I’ve never met, asked about my health history. “So you’ve just had a baby,” he began. I asked him how he knew. “You’re on Twitter.” In the last... Read More...

Published Thu, Mar 25 2010 8:51 AM by 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

The Surprise

By BRIAN KLEPPER Check out this March 3rd article - click here - from the recent HIMSS conference, in which Dave Garets, President and CEO of HIMSS Analytics,"gazes into the future and predicts major trends for the next 12 months."... Read More...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 12:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

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

Antitrust Warfare

By Daniel Palestrant, MD Not since the days of monopoly busting and Standard Oil has anti-trust been such a contentious topic in American politics. Today, Teddy Roosevelt has been replaced by Nancy Pelosi and the oil barons have been replaced... Read...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 1:44 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians

Verb-alizing

By BOB WACHTER One of my interns was “running the list” with me last week (giving me a thumbnail update on the plans for each of our inpatients). It was standard stuff until he got to Ms. X, a 80ish-year-old... Read More...

Published Thu, Mar 11 2010 10:27 AM by The Health Care Blog

Really Managing Care and Costs

By BRIAN KLEPPER One of my favorite health care stories is about Jerry Reeves MD, who in 2004 took the helm of a 300,000 life health plan in Las Vegas, including about 110,000 union members, and drove so much waste... Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 30 2010 5:13 PM by The Health Care Blog

Program Director Healthcare IT

Since its inception, the New England Healthcare Institute has been committed to the identification, assessment and promotion of valuable health care technologies with the potential to improve the quality of care while reducing cost. The Fast Assessment...

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 10:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Pioneer Speaks about MA Health Reform

By PAUL LEVY The Pioneer Institute is a public policy research center in Massachusetts. On the political spectrum, most people would call it conservative, or a least free-market oriented. In my opinion, regardless of your particular position along that...

Published Fri, Mar 05 2010 5:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Reform, Paul Levy, Massachusetts

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

THCB status update

Uh oh. If you're having trouble posting to THCB you're not alone. Over the last 24 hours, we've received numerous emails from users letting us know that they're having problems leaving comments in response to posts on the site. (Several...

Published Sat, Mar 27 2010 11:57 AM by The Health Care Blog