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

COMMENTOLOGY: Only Two of Millions <br>Who Need Health care

By MARK CALDWELL The purpose of this letter is to produce another example of the health care crisis facing millions of hardworking Americans. Both my wife and I are facing medical and financial hardship due to the pending lack of... Read More...

Published Tue, May 18 2010 2:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

Will the NFIB please go away.....

By Matthew Holt Let's be honest--I absolutely abhor the so-called National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). It’s not a representative business group. In 2004 95% of their members said they voted for Bush, compared to 53% of all small business...

Published Tue, May 18 2010 1:02 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy, Election 08

Is Your Organization Too Flat?

By PAUL LEVY My friends and colleagues Jeff Stamps and Jessica Lipnack have made an art and science of studying complex organizations. Their particular focus is on how communication within and across networks of relationships either enhances or degrades...

Published Mon, May 17 2010 9:57 AM by The Health Care Blog

Americans and Their Medical Machines

By RICHARD L. REECE, MD "- The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do." -- B. F. Skinner "If you are designing a machine, you had better think of everything, because a machine cannot think for... Read More...

Published Mon, May 17 2010 5:46 AM by The Health Care Blog

Reflections from “Health 2.0 in the Doctor’s Office”

By William Sellman, M.D., MBA Will Sellmann has commented on a couple of panels at Health 2.0 and been very prescient. Now he's spent a bit of time to pen his reflections on what happened in Health 2.0 in the... Read More...

Published Mon, May 17 2010 1:28 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Web/Tech

Nancy Turett on Health Engagement

By Matthew Holt One of the more interesting surveys about health care in recent years has been the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer (HEB) first done in 2008 (when I was tangentially involved—I wasn’t involved this year). Recently Edelman the global...

Published Mon, May 17 2010 1:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Consumers

Are older patients ready for the personal healthcare revolution?

By Matthew Holt Our friend Michael Yuan at Ringful is working with some students in the business honors program at the University of Texas at Austin. They write: As part of our class project, we are conducting a survey to... Read More...

Published Sun, May 16 2010 1:01 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Consumers

Truly CA

By Matthew Holt KQED, local PBS in San Francisco writes to tell me that a new series of Truly CA is beginning Sunday, May 16 at 6pm on KQED Public Television 9. The independent documentary series about life in the... Read More...

Published Sun, May 16 2010 12:31 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt

A Health Affairs collection

By Matthew Holt Anyone interested in taking possession of a complete set of Health Affairs dating back to 2003 and before? A friend of mine is getting rid of them. This is in the SF Bay Area. Email me if... Read More...

Published Sat, May 15 2010 8:07 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt

Badness in Baltimore: Can Peer Review Catch Rogue Doctors?

By BOB WACHTER A couple of months ago, a Baltimore reporter called to get my take on a scandal at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Towson, an upscale suburb. A rainmaker cardiologist there, Dr. Mark Midei, had been accused of placing... Read More...

Published Fri, May 14 2010 12:26 PM by The Health Care Blog

Worth It

By ROB LAMBERTS MD I saw the note on the patient’s chart before I opened the door: “patient is upset that he had to come in.” I opened the door and was greeted by a gentleman with his arms crossed... Read More...

Published Fri, May 14 2010 10:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Rob Lamberts

If I Were as Sexy as Atul Gawande

By JONATHAN BUSH While I don’t much feel sorry for myself these days (I used to, but that was years ago now), I had a recent pang of it reading Atul Gawande’s new book The Checklist Manifesto. In this bestseller,... Read More...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 2:27 PM by The Health Care Blog

New York Regional Extension Centers Put the EHR Cart Before the Horse

By GLENN LAFFEL, MD, PhD In an apparent violation of the spirit of recent federal legislation, two taxpayer-supported New York organizations will sponsor product demonstrations from “preferred” electronic health record vendors, even though their products...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 1:56 PM by The Health Care Blog

Statistics – Using the Truth to Mislead

By DR. PULLEN My daughter is an accountant. She took a statistics class in high school, and another as a requirement for her major. My son has taken a statistics course, and he is an English Literature major. I was... Read More...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 8:25 AM by The Health Care Blog

Half full. Half empty.

By PAUL LEVY At a recent presentation, a respected doctor expressed some frustration with the criticism that is sometimes directed towards the medical profession. He pointed out that the medical community has actually done a very good job taking care...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 8:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

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