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

The Top 10 Generics

By ED PULLEN, MD Many of the breakthrough drugs of the 1980-1990′s are now available as generics, and pharmacy competition has led to great bargains for patients needing these drugs. The 1980’s and 1990’s were a golden age in the... Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 29 2010 7:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Costs, pharmaceuticals, Ed Pullen, Generics

Why a Patient 2.0 Panel at the Health 2.0 DC conference?

By GILLES FRYDMAN This is the first of two posts about the inspiring Patients 2.0 panel I helped organized at Health 2.0 DC. This one will explain the rationale for organizing such a panel. The second will provide a link... Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 12:03 PM by The Health Care Blog

Apples to Grapefruits

By MAGGIE MAHAR Last week, I commented on a New York Times story that appeared Wednesday, June 2, attacking the Dartmouth Research. The work that Dartmouth has done over the past two decades suggests that hospitals in some parts of... Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 07 2010 9:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Show Me the Data

By LYGEIA RICCIARDI While much (important) discussion in healthcare is about the collection of and access to data, it’s also essential to communicate about it clearly. Good communication of health data, particularly to patients--is too often an under...

Published Wed, Jun 02 2010 4:39 AM by The Health Care Blog

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

Dr. Berwick's Last Stand?

By MAGGIE MAHAR Kaiser Health News (KHN) reports that “the nomination of Dr. Donald Berwick to run the agency overseeing Medicare appears to be languishing.” Friday, KHN’s “Health Policy Week in Review” quoted a story that appeared in the New... Read...

Published Tue, Jun 29 2010 10:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Maggie Mahar, CMS, Donald Berwick

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

Do Physicians Have a Right to Privacy?

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE As we move to Electronic Health Records (EHR), the debates over security and privacy are becoming more frequent and more poignant. We of course have HIPAA laws on the books and ONC has a Tiger team assembled... Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 25 2010 8:38 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Privacy, Margalit Gur-Arie

Chaim Indig, Phreesia, on how to spend $16m

By Matthew Holt Chaim Indig has been steadily turning Phreesia from an ad-supported patient check-in service to a front end for physician’s offices to manage their relationships with patients, and collect co-pays. As such Phreesia is turning from a content...

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 12:14 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Physicians

A Tale of Two Diseases: Repairing Comparative Effectiveness Research

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine (Identifying and Eliminating the Roadblocks to Comparative-Effectiveness Research) three authors share their experience in running a head-to-head trial of Avastin (bevacizumab) versus...

Published Mon, Jun 28 2010 4:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: pharmaceuticals, Comparative Effectiveness Research, David Williams

Are Doctors Really Boycotting Medicare?

By NAOMI FREUNDLICH As Congress once again wrestles with “the doctor fix”—yet another postponement of the 21% cut in Medicare reimbursement that went into effect this month—the media has been swirling with stories warning of a mass exodus of doctors....

Published Mon, Jun 28 2010 5:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Physicians, Reimbursement cuts, Naomi Freundlich

What's New With McKesson HS

By Matthew Holt At the AHIP Conference I got a chance to sit down with McKesson Health Solution's Senior VP of Care Management Jim Hardy and VP of Product Development Kevin Mayer. The two men were more than happy to... Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 28 2010 9:54 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Abortion

Op-Ed: Health and Debt

By JOHN GOODMAN The International Monetary Fund is warning that the U.S. national debt will exceed 100% of GDP within the next five years, and economists both here and abroad are expressing alarm. The debt problem is mainly an entitlements... Read More...

Published Sun, Jun 27 2010 6:04 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Social Security

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

The Primary Care Workforce: Help is on the Way

By GLENN LAFFEL, MD, PhD The best electronic health record on the planet isn’t going to help anybody unless a physician uses it. The HITECH incentive scheme should enhance the woefully poor EHR uptake rates among US providers, as should... Read More....

Published Fri, Jun 18 2010 9:03 AM by The Health Care Blog

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