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

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

Jamie Heywood and Health 2.0 Goes to Washington

By Indu Subaiya Health 2.0 Goes to Washington is right around the corner on June 7th!. Earlier this week I was able steal time away from demo rehearsals and event prep to catch up with Jamie Heywood, Chairman and Co-Founder... Read More...

Published Sat, Jun 05 2010 1:53 PM by The Health Care Blog

Dartmouth Analysis Again In the Cross Hairs

By MERRILL GOOZNER Reed Abelson and Gardiner Harris in the New York Times are questioning some of the key assumptions behind the Dartmouth Atlas of Health, which for twenty years has documented wide variations in Medicare utilization rates across the...

Published Fri, Jun 04 2010 5:44 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

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

The NY Times, dogs, sores & Dartmouth critics

By Matthew Holt Today’s NY Times has a confused, woffly attack on Dartmouth from Reed Abelson & Gardiner Harris. This is a dreadful article. Period. That the NY Times printed it is remarkable given the turnaround in thinking by David... Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 03 2010 12:32 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Congress, Health 2.0, Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy, Health Plans, Consumers

A Salute to the VA on Memorial Day—Part 1

By MAGGIE MAHAR In 2007, a book by Phillip Longman sent lasting ripples through the U.S. health care establishment. The title was audacious: Best Care Anywhere. But it was the subtitle that shocked: Why VA Healthcare is Better than Yours.... Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 03 2010 9:47 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Maggie Mahar

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

Announcing the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge

By Indu Subaiya & Matthew Holt Today, it was a great thrill for us to have Aneesh Chopra (CTO of the Federal Government) this morning in DC at the Community Health Data Initiative Data Forum announce the The 2010 Health... Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 02 2010 10:11 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

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

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

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

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

Innovation: Curious Word

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE If you follow the health IT media, you cannot escape the new and obligatory word, Innovation. Every self-respecting article, blog post, press release or casual comment on line is not complete unless some reference is made to... Read...

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 10:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

Tomorrow's Webcast--The CHDI Forum

By Matthew Holt The Health 2.0 crew is heading to DC immediately after today's webinar. It’s still not too late to sign up for the 10am webinar. Then tomorrow, it’s the Community Health Data Initiative Forum Aman Bhandari who works... Read More.....

Published Tue, Jun 01 2010 9:21 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0

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