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

Why Obama Made the Right Call on Berwick

By BOB WACHTER, MD The recess appointment of Don Berwick to lead CMS can be seen as a cynical act of political opportunism, sidestepping the Congressional approval process using a tactic worthy of Machiavelli, or Karl Rove. Or it can... Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 11:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

Meaningful use, and cats & dogs

By Matthew Holt More than a year or so of squabbling is (sort of) over and today HHS announced its criteria for the first phase of meaningful use. Essentially the 25 criteria for qualifying for “meaningful use” (in other words... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 13 2010 9:16 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Matthew Holt, e-patients, HHS

The Non-Scalability of Charisma

By BOB WACHTER, MD Early on, many social movements depend on a charismatic leader to focus attention, build a burning platform, and inspire people to action. You know when the movement has made it when it no longer needs such... Read More...

Published Sat, Jul 24 2010 5:06 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Bob Wachter, Donald Berwick

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

A Reply to the Cato Institute

By MAGGIE MAHAR This week, the Cato Institute released a 52-page report on health care reform titled: Bad Medicine: A Guide to the Real Costs and Consequences of the New Health Care Law. The tract was written by Michael Tanner,... Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 2:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Maggie Mahar, health care reform

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

Can CMS Be a Venture Capitalist?

By PAUL LEVY Lisa Suennen, a venture capitalist, writes this post about the provision in the national health care reform act that created the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMI). This agency has $10 billion to “research, develop, test.....

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 2:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Paul Levy, CMS, Venture capitalist

Not All Ratings Are Equal

By JOHN MORROW Earlier this month USNews and World Report released their annual list of America’s Best Hospitals. This list is terribly misleading and is a disservice to the readers of that magazine, in my opinion. The fine print is... Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 30 2010 9:49 AM by The Health Care Blog

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

Op Ed: Make It Simple, Please!

By ALAN WEIL, JD The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act creates a continuous set of coverage options for every American with income below 400 percent of the federal poverty level, or about half of the nation’s population. Sounds simple,... Read...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 6:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: PPACA, Op-Ed, Alan Weil

Big Day in HIT

By DAVID HARTZBAND, D.Sc. Lecturer, Engineering Systems Division, MIT Director, Technology Research, RCHN Community Health Foundation Today was a big day in health care information technology (HIT). There are so many acronyms in HIT that I probably should...

Published Wed, Jul 14 2010 9:44 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Meaningful Use, David Hartzbrand

Bizarre PR pitch of the year so far

By Matthew Holt I get emails from PR companies all the time pimping this or that client, but they don't get a lot stranger than this one. (I‘ve hidden the names to protect the guilty): Subject: Top 3 Reasons Why... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 06 2010 8:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Health Plans

Wellcare, yes there's more even without(?) Regi

By Matthew Holt A few weeks back we welcomed John Goodman as a contributor at THCB. His first column was more than a tad critical of me for impugning the ethics of Harvard Business School Prof Regina Herzlinger. Herzlinger, you... Read More...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 9:43 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Health Plans

The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge--It's On!

By Indu Subaiya & Matthew Holt Today is the formal kick-off of the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge. The challenge was first announced by Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra on June 2 at the Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI) meeting, and it's... Read...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 10:10 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, HHS

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