May 2010 - The Health Care Blog - The Network of Care

Introducing San Francisco Health Innovation Week

Health 2.0, LLC and Health Care Conference Administrators, LLC (HCCA) are excited to bring you Health Innovation Week, October 3 - 10, 2010 in San Francisco. Together with the REC/HIE, EHR and HIPAA Summits, the popular HealthCampSFBay and the 4th......

Published Tue, May 25 2010 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

ReachMD: 2.0 Tools and Healthcare

Web 2.0 tools have made the Web more interactive for everybody. But what is Health 2.0? Find out, with Matthew Holt, healthcare futurist, co-founder of the Health 2.0 conference and founder of The Health Care Blog, tells you why you... Read More...

Published Mon, May 24 2010 9:30 PM by The Health Care Blog

10 Rules for Good Medicine

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD The recent discussion of the appropriateness of bringing patients back to the office has really gotten me thinking about my overall philosophy of practice. What are the rules that govern my time in the office with... Read More...

Published Mon, May 24 2010 9:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Rob Lamberts

In Defense of Paul Levy

By ROBERT WACHTER Paul Levy, the blogging CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, found himself in hot water last month over an inappropriate relationship with a female subordinate. While some of the details of the transgression remain sketchy...

Published Mon, May 24 2010 5:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

It Slices, It Dices, It Fleeces

By MICHAEL TURPIN Infomercials annoy me. They are social polyps that have grown to outlandish proportions on the intestines of a bloated and sick American media. The portmanteau term “ infomercial” is clearly an oxymoron describing the contradiction of...

Published Mon, May 24 2010 5:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Goes to Washington--Three questions for Ryan Howard, Practice Fusion

By Matthew Holt Health 2.0 Goes to Washington, the one day conference is coming up on June 7th. We’re going to be featuring a quick series of podcasts with just a few of the presenters and demoers who are going... Read More...

Published Sun, May 23 2010 1:16 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

Health 2.0 Goes to Washington conference - DC, June 7th!

With less than 3 weeks to go until this groundbreaking event, we are happy to announce 2 NEW special sessions! Patients 2.0: Join Gilles Frydman, ACOR, as he hosts a panel of 7 vocal ePatients who will share their personal... Read More...

Published Fri, May 21 2010 4:13 PM by The Health Care Blog

National Healthcare Insurance Isn’t Enough: Six Crucial Steps To Improve Healthcare

By ALBERT S. WAXMAN, PhD Healthcare reform has finally made its way through the U.S. political machinery, emerging with a $1 trillion reform plan extending health insurance to 32 million additional Americans and eliminating other barriers to healthcare...

Published Fri, May 21 2010 2:53 PM by The Health Care Blog

Dislodging the anchor

By PAUL LEVY A well-established technique in negotiation is to "set an anchor." The idea is to be the first person to put out an offer in a negotiation in which price is the main issue. Many people think, incorrectly,... Read More...

Published Fri, May 21 2010 5:46 AM by The Health Care Blog

Symantec tiptoes into health care

By Matthew Holt It's always interesting to see examples of how mainstream tech companies move into health care. Symantec is following the path of taking its capabilities for storage management and cloud-based hosting and tweaking them so that they...

Published Thu, May 20 2010 10:49 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

Are New Yorkers Sicker Than Patients in Atlanta--or Are They Just More Likely To Be Diagnosed?

By MAGGIE MAHAR Summary: A startling study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that just as doctors in some towns are more aggressive in treating their patients, physicians in some places are more likely to send patients... Read More...

Published Thu, May 20 2010 6:21 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Maggie Mahar

Design for America--I declare the winner

By Matthew Holt I met with Clay Johnson from Sunlight Labs yesterday and we talked about hackathons for health (much more to come on that) and the current Sunlight Foundation prize contest called Design for America. There are six individual... Read More...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 1:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

DrChrono shows their iPad chops

By Matthew Holt The guys from DrChrono have come a long way since we saw them first just last summer. They have a SaaS based practice management system, but at Health 2.0 at the Doctor's Office they introduced an iPad-based... Read More...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 1:01 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, EHR/EMR

How to Build a Culture of Innovation From the Inside Out

By Jennifer Ruzek Liebermann “How do you inspire and enable innovation in a large organization? That’s the question I grapple with daily as director of Kaiser Permanente’s health care innovation center. I’ve observed that it isn’t sufficient to have a...

Published Tue, May 18 2010 3:54 PM by The Health Care Blog

Y’all Come Back Now, Ya Hear?

By ROB LAMBERTS My recent post on the patient who thought I wasn’t worth paying caused a lot of discussion. Most of it focused on the financial stresses of a patient in our system – something I am all too... Read More...

Published Tue, May 18 2010 3:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

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