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

What if All Americans Had at Least Catastrophic Health Care Coverage?

By ED PULLEN, MD I really dislike the term healthcare reform. I think our system needs to be changed not reformed. I assume that I am not the only person who suspects that the recent health care reform act is... Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 23 2010 3:10 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: health care reform, Ed Pullen

Interview with Jon White

By Matthew Holt At the Health 2.0 Goes to Washington Conference, June 07, 2010, Jon White, Health IT Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), gave brief interview. He spoke about patient's healthcare and how Health IT......

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 1:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Reactor Panel: Health 2.0 Goes to Washington

By Matthew Holt In final panel at Health 2.0 Goes to Washington the reactor panel, Will Yu (ONC), Esther Dyson (EDventure) and Chris Schroeder(Healthcentral) discussed health issues, and innovation in the healthcare system with Matthew Holt. Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 1:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Technology Showcase: Health 2.0 Tools for Consumers

By Matthew Holt This is the technology showcase of communities and consumer tools from Health 2.0 Goes to Washington on June 7, 2010, It includes Greg Fitzgerald from HealthCentral, Howard Steinberg from dLife, representing communities, with Ellen Badinelli...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 3:53 PM by The Health Care Blog

Interview with Aneesh Chopra

By Matthew Holt At the Health 2.0 Washington DC Conference on June 7, 2010 we captured this interview with Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States. Read More...

Published Sat, Jul 31 2010 12:09 PM by The Health Care Blog

Sermo: The latest from Dan Palestrant

By Matthew Holt Over the weekend I caught up with Dan Palestrant, the CEO of Sermo--still the largest US based physician online community. Sermo opted not to raise new VC recently (unlike say Phreesia and ZocDoc) and actually reduced headcount... Read...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 1:39 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Physicians

WEGOHealth provides solution for that Ning premium charge

By Matthew Holt Ever since the "build your own network" company Ning moved to a pay model for its networks, there’s been some browbeating on the blogosphere about what to do with those communities which had created traction on Ning,... Read...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 2:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Consumers

Microsoft talks health plans

By Ida Strom Seljeseth At the AHIP conference in Las Vegas in June 2010, Matthew Holt sat down with two leaders in Microsoft's health plan practice: Dennis Schmuland, Director οf U.S. Health Plans Industry Solutions and Hector Rodriguez, Industry...

Published Wed, Jul 21 2010 2:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health Plans, Microsoft

Beating up on ONC, mostly unjustified

By Matthew Holt Earlier this week there was a curious little hearing at Pete Stark’s committee. Much of the Q & A—mind you post the announcement of the final meaningful use rules—was (apparently, as I can’t find the transcript) a... Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 22 2010 7:12 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Matthew Holt, Web/Tech, HHS

How About "Meaningful Exchange"?

By JONATHAN BUSH At last, we have received from Mt. Olympus those much awaited writings….the definition of “meaningful use”! Oy. I understand how we got here. I could put myself in the shoes of government decision-makers at every step of... Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 23 2010 10:27 PM by The Health Care Blog

Panel Discussion: Can Health 2.0 Improve EHR Adoption?

By Matthew Holt On stage at Health 2.0 Goes to Washington, June 07, 2010, this panel discussed the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and ways to improve its adoption and the relationship between physicians and patients. The moderator was Joshua Seidman,...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, Electronic Medical Records, EHR/EMR

Interview with Esther Dyson

By Matthew Holt After being a panelist at the Health 2.0 Goes to Washington Conference, Esther Dyson, Chairman of EDventure Holdings, gave a backstage interview. She talked about the three markets that influence Health 2.0; the market for healthcare,...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Use Emotion to Drive Adoption—Not Rejection—of Health IT

By LYGEIA RICCIARDI Last week I heard uber marketer Seth Godin speak about the power of fear. Fear is one of the strongest human emotions, based in the core of our brain--the “lizard brain” that evolved prior to our higher... Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 29 2010 9:47 AM by The Health Care Blog

The .Gov

Obama administration CTO Aneesh Chopra was a keynote speaker at the Health 2.0 conference in Washington last month. Here he talks about why the White House thinks open data policies will revolutionize healthcare, the administration's plans to encourage...

Published Thu, Jul 01 2010 4:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Obama administration

How Would Modern Medicine have Helped our Early Patriots?

By ED PULLEN, MD On Independence Day I thought it would be interesting to look at the causes of death of some of our famous Revolutionary era patriots. When I started researching this I anticipated early deaths from infections and... Read More...

Published Mon, Jul 05 2010 8:46 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: History, Ed Pullen

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