September 2010 - The Health Care Blog

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

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

Consumers to Pay More Under Reform

By MERRILL GOOZNER The latest analysis of health care reform – out this week from bean counters at Medicare – shows reform will raise health care spending slightly over the next 10 years, not reduce it as promised by President... Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 5:28 AM by The Health Care Blog

Interview: Highmark introduces private labeled ADAM iphone app

By Matthew Holt A few weeks back Highmark, the big Pennsylvania Blues plan, became one of the first major US insurers to introduce a local navigational iPhone app—a white labeled version of the ADAM tool formerly known as Medzio. I... Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 13 2010 2:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Health Plans

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

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

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

Healthcare unwired: nearly half of US consumers are willing to pay

By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN 40% of U.S. consumers are willing to pay for remote health monitoring devices and services that would send their medical data to doctors, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Healthcare Unwired (PwC). 51% of consumers would not buy...

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 11:38 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Patients

What's wrong with this picture?

By Matthew Holt And the answer is not the quality of the model! In the comments please! Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 1:17 AM by The Health Care Blog