September 2010 - The Health Care Blog

Independent Advisors Prove Independent

By MERRILL GOOZNER Journalist-turned-stock-analyst Ramsey Baghdadi of Concept Capital, who formerly wrote for the RPM Report, tells TheStreet.com that Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee recommendations are down to 52 percent "yes"...

Published Fri, Sep 03 2010 11:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: FDA, Merrill Goozner

Health 2.0 Europe: Physicians and Online Communities

By Bianca Grogan A panel discussion at the Health 2.0 Europe Conference, April 6-7, 2010, in Paris, France, that compare and contrast market approaches and results of physician social network. Each panelist gave a demonstration about their company and...

Published Sun, Sep 05 2010 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Is REC a Future Train Wreck?

By JOHN MOORE Yesterday, HHS’s ONC announced the final two Regional Extension Centers (RECs), one in California and the other for the state of New Hampshire. Much like the Land Grant College Program and the much smaller Sea Grant Program,... Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 30 2010 8:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: ONC, John Moore, REC

Health 2.0 Reveals the Winners of the 2010 Developer Challenge

The time has come to announce the six winners of the 2010 Health 2.0 Developer Challenge. They will be showcased at the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge session at the Health 2.0 San Francisco Conference, October 7-8, 2010. Drum Roll Please!... Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 30 2010 3:47 PM by The Health Care Blog

The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Live Code-a-thon

We are calling all coders, designers and healthcare innovators to come to the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Code-a-thon at Google on October 2, 2010. The Code-a-thon is an all day event where attendees can connect, collaborate, and build solutions in...

Published Thu, Sep 30 2010 12:02 PM by The Health Care Blog

Too Many Promises

By JOHN GOODMAN I don't know what it is about public officials and Ponzi schemes, but the former finds the latter irresistibly attractive almost everywhere. Maybe it’s the fact that the law lets them get away with it. They get... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 29 2010 3:59 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: John Goodman, States

Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Winners/ Code-a-thon /Conference

By Matthew Holt Some of the first six winners will be announced later today….hang tight! Here are the Challenges Meanwhile any developers or people who want to meet developers, or who want to play with some really cool government data... Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 30 2010 12:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

Petitioners Ask OSHA to Regulate Resident Physician Work Hours

By KATHERINE MATOS On September 2, Assistant Secretary David Michaels for Occupational Safety and Health received a petition requesting that OSHA regulate resident physician and subspecialty resident physicians. “Depending on the type of residency, physicians...

Published Tue, Sep 21 2010 6:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Academic Medicine, Katherine Matos

Caring

By ROB LAMBERTS The “empowered patient” movement (which I think is a good thing) strives to take the doctor out of the center of care and put the patient at its focus. The role of doctor is not to be... Read More...

Published Sat, Sep 25 2010 10:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Red, White and Blue Buttons

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE On August 3rd President Obama announced the advent of a new button: The Blue Button. The Blue Button is a health data download button. Consumers can presumably click on the Blue Button and their medical records will... Read More....

Published Tue, Sep 07 2010 4:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, Margalit Gur-Arie

The Health Insurance Purchase Mandate: Peeking Into Pandora’s Box?

By DAVID DRANOVE Governors from most twenty mostly red states are suing to block the implementation of health reform. I have no idea whether they will win on the legal merits. But when it comes to the economics of the... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 15 2010 3:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Insurance, David Dranove, Mandates

How the Future of healthcare Will Actually Work: Nuts and bolts

By JOE FLOWER They are coming in fast under the radar, out of peripheral vision, in the magician's other hand—and they will change everything. New ideas, surprising networks, stealth business models that may change health care profoundly, are bubbling...

Published Sun, Sep 26 2010 6:43 AM by The Health Care Blog

Accountability, Accountable Care Organizations, and Human Mindsets

By KENT BOTTLES, MD "Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that." - Steve Ballmer "I am responsible. Although I......

Published Wed, Sep 22 2010 10:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Hyperventilating about the Harvard/Health Affairs Malpractice Study

By DAVID DRANOVE A new study from an interdisciplinary team at Harvard University reports that the medical malpractice system costs close to $60 billion annually. The study is published in the policy journal Health Affairs and is receiving lots of......

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 3:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Consumer Groups Shut Out of Comparative Effectiveness Board

By MERRILL GOOZNER The Government Accountability Office last week appointed two “faster cures” patient advocates and a former insurance company executive now on the AARP board to the three slots reserved for patient and consumer representatives on the...

Published Mon, Sep 27 2010 3:54 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Comparative Effectiveness Research, Merrill Goozner