September 2010 - The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0--The Fall Conference is going to be great!

By Matthew Holt Health 2.0 is announcing our (almost) final line-up for the 4th annual Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, October 7-8. Since we started the conference in 2007, Health 2.0 has become the leading showcase of cutting-edge technologies...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 3:59 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

Healthy Eats For Data-Hungry Doctors

By DAVID C. KIBBE AND BRIAN KLEPPER Imagine that an innovative health plan - aware that half or more of health care cost is waste and that physician costs to obtain the identical outcome can vary by as much as... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 29 2010 10:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

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

Primary Care is Not a Panacea: It Takes a Team

By MAGGIE MAHAR The emphasis on primary care as the “key” to lifting the quality of U.S. healthcare may be exaggerated according to a report, released today, by Dartmouth’s Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. “Primary care forms the....

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 11:21 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians, primary care, Maggie Mahar

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Human Resources and Surviving Health Reform

By MIKE TURPIN As the first snowflakes of change fall on the eve of health reform, HR professionals may soon wake up to an entirely transformed healthcare delivery landscape. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) clearly will impact....

Published Thu, Sep 16 2010 7:44 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: health care reform, Michael Turpin

Google Hits Reset Button on Google Health

By JOHN MOORE Google Health has seemingly been stuck in neutral almost from the start. Despite the fanfare of Google’s Eric Schmidt speaking at the big industry confab, HIMSS a couple of years back, an initial beta release with healthcare... Read More...

Published Sat, Sep 18 2010 12:57 AM by The Health Care Blog

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

Getting Our Money’s Worth

By JOHN GOODMAN The conventional wisdom is that extra spending on U.S. health care is producing very little marginal improvement in health outcomes. Another conventional idea is that we are wasting a lot of money on the elderly. Both notions... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 22 2010 5:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Patients 2.0--A Free Meeting by & for Patients, Oct 6 in San Francisco

By Matthew Holt As part of Health Innovation Week and immediately before Health 2.0, We are having free meeting by and for patients to hear great stories about the revolution going on in patient activism online. Join us to plan... Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 24 2010 10:43 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Consumers

Beyond Meaningful Use: Three Five-Year Trends in the Uses of Patient Health Data and Clinical IT

By DAVID C. KIBBE & BRIAN KLEPPER Finally, we have a Final Rule on the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs. The rules and criteria are simpler and more flexible, and the measures easier to compute. But they are still... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 01 2010 11:55 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, Brian Klepper, David Kibbe, Meaningful Use

Health 2.0 Europe: Keynote Address by Pieter Vos and Jolyn van Vuuren

By Bianca Grogan Pieter Vos, from the Council for Public Health and Health Care, gave a keynote address on stage at the Health 2.0 Europe Conference, April 6-7, 2010, in Paris, France. The Council for Public Health and Health Care... Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 02 2010 2:15 PM by 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

HIT Trends Summary for August 2010

This is a summary of the HIT Trends Report for August 2010. You can get the current issue or subscribe here Large insurers make HIT commitments. This month’s trends are dominated by national health plans revealing more about their HIT... Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 06 2010 7:31 AM by The Health Care Blog