August 2010 - The Health Care Blog

If Insurers Thought the Public Plan Was A Threat

By MERRILL GOOZNER Check out this study from the Healthcare Performance Management Institute, a business-backed think tank that promotes self-insurance among employers. The survey claims that insurance companies are refusing to provide employers with...

Published Mon, Aug 02 2010 6:14 AM by The Health Care Blog

Ingenix buys Axolotl

By Matthew Holt Ingenix, the arms dealer that's been supplying all sides in the health care information war for the past decade or so, built itself up by buying lots of little companies in the data analytics space. Now it’s... Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 2:18 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Matthew Holt

Should We Fear Genetic Testing?

By THOMAS GOETZ Though the prospect of learning about our DNA might seem wrapped in mystery and intrigue, genetic information is not so different from any other metrics we know about ourselves: Our age, our weight, our blood pressure. With... Read More...

Published Thu, Aug 05 2010 7:01 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Thomas Goetz, Genetic testing

First Day at Health 2.0 Europe Conference

By Bianca Grogan Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya of Health 2.0 and Denise Silber of Basil Strategies give the introduction to the Health 2.0 Europe Conference, April 6-7, 2010, in Paris, France. In their presentation they give a complete overview... Read...

Published Fri, Aug 27 2010 2:21 PM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Europe: Etienne Caniard

By Bianca Grogan Cliquez sur elle pour la vidéo en français Etienne Caniard of the French National Authority for Health spoke on the French governement's approach to Health 2.0 technologies. Read More...

Published Sat, Aug 28 2010 2:10 AM by The Health Care Blog

Diversinet: a backbone for unplatforms?

By Matthew Holt Unplatforms is the term I've been using to describe the multitude of devices that people are using to collect and receive information. And also to cover the different channels they are using often on the same device... Read More.....

Published Tue, Aug 17 2010 2:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

Can Health 2.0 fix clinical trials?

By Matthew Holt Saturday's New York Times portends more trouble for big Pharma. The headline is wrapped up in an examination of foreign corrupt practices, but the bigger issue is that clinical trials have hidden serious adverse events. The recent...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 3:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Clinical Trials

A Meaningful Use and Standards Rule FAQ Part II

By JOHN HALAMKA As a followup to the HIMSS Webinar I gave last week, here's an FAQ in the spirit of last month's Meaningful Use and Standards Rule FAQ. 1. The Emergency Department is mentioned in 9 Core Measures and... Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 30 2010 1:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Meaningful Use, John Halamka

Health Reform Without Apologies

By JOHN GOODMAN Have you ever seen a fair, unbiased, evenhanded explanation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? Have you ever seen anything that even appeared to be objective? I haven’t. So to fill the gap, my colleagues... Read More.....

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 10:21 PM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Challenge: 4 more big challenges announced!

By INDU SUBAIYA The Health 2.0 Developer Challenges welcomes its four newest challenges. Yesterday, West Wireless Health Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the California Healthcare Foundation, the Markle Foundation and the University of...

Published Thu, Aug 12 2010 2:51 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

The Accidental Socialists

By DAVID DRANOVE Over the next few years, the U.S. healthcare system will be in the hands of academics from Cambridge, Massachusetts. New CMS Czar Donald Berwick was a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. Joe Newhouse, who has... Read More.....

Published Mon, Aug 30 2010 1:18 PM by The Health Care Blog

Public Is More Savvy than Harris Polltakers

By JOHN C. GOODMAN National Center for Policy Analysis President & Kellye Wright Fellow Are the nation’s polltakers part of a surreptitious plot to convince us that what’s good for us is bad and what’s bad is good? A new... Read More...

Published Wed, Aug 04 2010 12:58 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: health care reform, John Goodman

The New Rules for Insurance Appeals Under PPACA

BY KATHERINE MATOS On July 22, the Obama Administration released interim final rules that allow patient appeals of health insurance coverage decisions as required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (”PPACA”) and Health Care and Education...

Published Tue, Aug 03 2010 5:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

One Day in the Life of a Meaningful User

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE All the laws have been passed and all the final rulings have been published. In the spirit of the times, you went out and got yourself an EHR. You did your due diligence and sat through many... Read More...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2010 11:47 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, Meaningful Use, Margalit Gur-Arie

Health 2.0 Fall Agenda Announced, Oct 7-8

By Matthew Holt This week we've announced the line up (or the first chunk of it) for the 4th annual Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco Oct 7-8. The conference is the climax of Health Innovation Week -- a week... Read More...

Published Thu, Aug 19 2010 1:30 AM by The Health Care Blog