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

How Can We Encourage Medical Students to Choose Primary Care?

By ED PULLEN, MD A Radical Suggestion – Pay Specialists Less Since 1997 the number of US medical students choosing to go into primary care has decreased by more than 50%. It seems that sources as diverse as the Obama... Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 4:01 PM by The Health Care Blog

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

Tufts Summer Institute on Web Strategies for Health Communication, July 18-23, 2010

Many healthcare organizations who are trying to reach healthcare consumers share these problems: “our website hasn’t been updated in three years”; “we set up a Facebook page but don’t know what to do with it”; and “what exactly is Twitter... Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 5:13 PM by The Health Care Blog

The Online Future of Patient Communication

By PAULA MORO An array of online communication tools, including email and beyond, can enhance the physician-patient relationship and save you both time. But for a variety of reasons, many physicians haven't adopted online tools. Matthew Holt, healthcare...

Published Tue, Jun 08 2010 3:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Who Wants to Give Money to Their Toughest Competitor?

By EDWARD PULLEN, MD In Philanthropy It’s All About Relationships. Last night I spent an interesting evening as the local physician asked to come along with our local hospital on a philanthropy pitch to a local specialty group to contribute... Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 11 2010 6:39 AM by The Health Care Blog

Allscripts buys Eclipsys: Does it make sense?

By Matthew Holt Queen of shoes Inga at HISTalk got ahead of the news (she tweeted about 2 hours before the announcement—not sure if that led to the news being moved up—but the Eclipsys stock showed no sign of word... Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 5:25 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Matthew Holt

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

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

Health 2.0 Came to Washington—And Now it Needs to Stay

By Lygeia Ricciardi This week’s Health 2.0 conference was held for the first time in Washington, DC, plunging Health 2.0’s community of IT geeks into the heart of the land of policy wonks. The feds’ Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra,... Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 7:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

EHR Usability

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE A few days ago, I wrote about Innovation, a term being overused in the EHR industry to the point where it lost all meaning. Here is another such term: Usability Just like Innovation, Usability is the weapon... Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 04 2010 3:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

AHRQ’s Outstanding Achievement in Healthcare Research Award

Calling all published and graduate student researchers who have used Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) data! Nominations and applications accepted through July 16. To celebrate its 20th year of HCUP data, AHRQ will be honoring researchers...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 4:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Announcements

Op-Ed: Defending Regi

By JOHN GOODMAN Matt you can’t have it both ways. First you attack a well-known Harvard professor, Regina Herzlinger, for accepting an invitation to become a director at a company that only later was publicly accused of accounting problems. Then... Read...

Published Thu, Jun 17 2010 5:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Dartmouth Team Responds (Again)

By JONATHAN SKINNER, PhD Reed Abelson and Gardiner Harris, the authors of the June 4th New York Times article critical of the Dartmouth Atlas and research, have acknowledged Elliott Fisher and my concerns and clarified the record in their posting... Read...

Published Wed, Jun 23 2010 12:48 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Quality, Dartmouth

Healthcare Reform, Payment Models & Acquisitions

By JOHN MOORE, CHILIMARK RESEARCH Earlier this week, GE announced the release of Centricity Advance, their solution for the ambulatory market. Centricity Advance is basically a build-out/rebranding of MedPlexus an SaaS EHR solution vendor that GE acquired...

Published Thu, Jun 17 2010 7:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 DC: Passion and Execution at Scale

By SUSANNAH FOX I think conferences are deeply affected by the spirit of their host city. San Francisco has its hackers and dreamers, Boston has its entrepreneurs and ivy, Paris has its pomp and worldliness. At Health 2.0 DC yesterday,... Read More.....

Published Wed, Jun 09 2010 12:05 PM by The Health Care Blog

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