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

You Want To Have It Both Ways

By DANIEL PALESTRANT, MD Dear Mr. and Mrs. America, You live in one of the greatest countries on earth, one of the richest ones, yet arguably not one of the best for medicine. You may question why that is. I... Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 2:25 PM by The Health Care Blog

The Axis of Evil

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD My recent post about Medicare allowing patients to use drug vouchers was met by a rousing reception. By crickets. It seems that some saw me as one who (gasp) trusted the pharmaceutical companies to do something... Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 6:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Do EHRs Kill People?

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Back in the times when EHRs were just EMRs, they had a very simple and humble mission. The software was supposed to help providers of health care services better manage their business. EMRs were supposed to help... Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 7:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

EMR Ratings: How Relevant Is CCHIT Certification In the HITECH Era?

By CHRIS THORMAN For nearly four years, the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) has been the lone entity recognized by the federal government to certify electronic health record systems. Since being named a recognized certifying...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 4:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

What exactly is Healthymagination?

By Matthew Holt About a year ago GE started a campaign called Healthymagination. In the health care technology business GE had long been known for market leadership in big iron imaging like MRIs and CTs, as well as some diagnostics,... Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 1:44 AM by The Health Care Blog

Learn from Your Competitors' Mistakes

By MERRILL GOOZNER The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reported last week on a Food and Drug Administration-supported effort to encourage companies to share data about their failed Alzheimer's Disease drugs. Comment: We need more of this...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 3:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: FDA, Pharma

American Well & Friends

By Matthew Holt Last week at AHIP American Well put on a session with several of their clients talking about online care. I grabbed American Well CEO Roy Schoenberg and also his clients Mary-Ann Stump of BCBS Minnesota and Rob... Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 17 2010 2:52 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

Op-Ed: Health Care For Profit

By JOHN GOODMAN I’ve noticed at The Health Care Blog quite a few people are obsessed with the role of profit in the health care system. Many apparently believe that for-profit entities have no legitimate role in an ideal world... Read More...

Published Sun, Jun 20 2010 5:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Hospitals, Non-profits

Alere interviewed at AHIP

By Matthew Holt At the AHIP conference in Vegas earlier this month I sat down with the CEO of Alere, Tom Underwood, and long-time friend of The Health Care Blog, Gordon Norman (Alere's SVP of Innovation). I asked Tom about... Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 21 2010 12:32 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Conferences, Disease Management

AMA and Congress: Playing “Chicken” Again

By JANE M. ORIENT, MD Nine times in the past eight years, Congress has, at the last second, delayed the automatic cuts in doctors’ Medicare fees that it decreed some 13 years ago to prevent Medicare spending from outpacing other... Read More...

Published Sun, Jun 20 2010 5:10 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Commentology

The Promise of Medicine

By EDWARD D. MILLER, MD Dr. Miller is the Dean and CEO of The Johns Hopkins University Medical School. These remarks were made at the National Press Club, June 21, 2010. I. The Promise of Medicine Let me start with... Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 25 2010 7:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Medicaid, health care reform, Edward Miller

Why England is out of the World Cup

By Matthew Holt I don’t often write about Footy any more on THCB, but England is out of the World Cup today, stuffed 4–1 by Germany. So I thought I’d give my opinion, and for the moment I’m dropping my... Read More...

Published Sun, Jun 27 2010 3:13 PM by The Health Care Blog

Heavy Words

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD The post that forever doomed the world to have my writing forced onto them was one called Shame, in which I describe my frustration with how society stigmatizes people who are obese. It was picked up... Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 28 2010 4:44 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Rob Lamberts, Obesity

The Evidentiary Basis for a Clinically Meaningful Benefit

By NORTIN M. HADLER, MD and ROBERT McNUTT, MD We entered the 21st century awash in “evidence” and determined to anchor the practice of medicine on the evidentiary basis for benefit. There is the sense of triumph; in one generation... Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 8:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Webinar with David Hale, Ted Eytan, Regina Holliday, Marco Smit

By Matthew Holt Tuesday's Health 2.0 Show with Indu & Matthew was (IMHO) the best we’ve done so far. For those of you who missed it, we had David Hale demoing talking about Pillbox—fascinating. Then Ted Eytan and Patient activist... Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 9:45 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Consumers, e-patients

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