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

Pitfalls of PPACA - The Grandfathering Problem

By ROGER COLLIER Throughout his election campaign and his subsequent efforts to achieve passage of health care reform, President Obama assured Americans that anyone with existing coverage could keep that coverage. Consistent with the president’s promise...

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 12:17 PM by The Health Care Blog

From Twitter to Megaphones: Nine Lessons Learned about Crisis Communication

By LISA GUALTIERI, PhD In Boston we took the availability and quality of our tap water for granted until May 1, 2010, when a major water pipe break interrupted water service to all Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) customer communities.....

Published Thu, Jun 03 2010 5:58 AM by The Health Care Blog

What Most Patients Don’t Know About the Residents Who Care For Them

By MAGGIE MAHAR Summary: Most hospital patients have no idea that the resident treating them could be coming to the end of a 30-hour shift. If he is exhausted, the resident’s judgment may be impaired. Yesterday, the union that represents... Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 04 2010 12:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Arrives in DC, Monday!

By Matthew Holt So after a lot of waiting and a ton of preparation, today is the day. About 400 people will converge on the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center for Health 2.0 Goes to Washington. If you’re already signed... Read More...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2010 9:28 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

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

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

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

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

Pitfalls of PPACA – Accountable Care Organizations

By ROGER COLLIER In addition to Medicare Advantage payment cuts and potential reductions in fee-for-service payment updates, PPACA includes various provisions intended to facilitate ongoing Medicare cost containment, notably creation of the Independent...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 3:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 DC Exhibit Hall Companies and Descriptions!

By Hillary McCowen The Health 2.0 Goes to Washington conference in DC last Monday, June 7th was an exciting and successful event. Thank you to everyone who attended along with HHS and ONC, who helped us put on a great... Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 12:19 PM by The Health Care Blog

Monsters Inside of Me

By MICHAEL TURPIN Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?” Anonymous Growing up in the era of “Walk It Off” parenting, I was never allowed to get too in touch with my hypochondria.... Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 6:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

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

Patient Communities… at Walgreens?

By Susannah Fox In May, I spoke at the Chronic Care and Prevention Congress about my most recent report, “Chronic Disease and the Internet.” I talked about the social life of health information and the internet’s power to connect people... Read More....

Published Fri, Jun 18 2010 8:25 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Patients, Susannah Fox

Nope. Won't Happen.

By MAGGIE MAHAR Summary: Opponents of reform will continue to pretend that at some point in the future, “Obama-care” will mean drastic across-the-board cuts in reimbursements to doctors who take Medicare patients, forcing many to abandon their patients...

Published Sun, Jun 20 2010 3:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Congress, Medicare, Physicians

Click4Care Talks Tools

By Matthew Holt At the AHIP Conference, Click4Care gave a presentation titled "Confronting the Quality of Care Crisis: Next Generation Care Management Technology." I was able to have a conversation with CEO Rob Gillette and Executive VP of Sales...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 1:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

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