October 2010 - The Health Care Blog

Crossing the ROAD to Real Reform - or how American Medical Education can (or can't) meet the ACA's Call to Action

By ALI KHAN, MD, MPP “So, why didn’t I take the ROAD again?” It’s a question that I regularly hear from many of my co-residents in internal medicine – and no, we’re not questioning our travel routes to the hospital.... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 25 2010 3:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: ACA, Ali Khan, Medical residents, Physician shortage

Fred Goes to Washington

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD Everyone must have sore butts from sitting on the edge of their seats while reading my previous episodes of “The Doctor is (Not Totally) In.” I am sorry if you are one of the sore butted... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 25 2010 11:36 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Meaningful Use, Rob Lamberts

Health Innovation Week Press Conference, TODAY 11.15

By Matthew Holt Tomorrow we’re doing an early kick-off for Health Innovation Week, San Francisco. We’re having a public kick-off and press conference at the same place as this picture was taken. My guess is that we won’t get quite... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 01 2010 12:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Code-a-thon is happening NOW at Google.

Great things are happening at the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Code-a-thon at Google: Collaboration..... Dedication..... Inspiration..... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 02 2010 2:25 PM by The Health Care Blog

First Life Research at Health 2.0

By Bianca Grogan In the coming days and weeks we're going to start rolling out a lot of video from last week's Health 2.0 Conference held in San Francisco, CA on October 7-8, 2010. There is a ton of material... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 14 2010 3:28 AM by The Health Care Blog

Update on Modular EHR Technology: Harvard’s SMArt Research

By DAVID C. KIBBE and BRIAN KLEPPER ONC awarded four Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Project (SHARP) grants earlier this year to ”...address well-documented problems that have impeded adoption of health IT and to accelerate progress towards achieving...

Published Wed, Oct 06 2010 12:02 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, Brian Klepper, David Kibbe, Technology

The Massachusetts Connector: Success or Just a PR Coup?

By ROGER COLLIER With the passage of insurance exchange legislation in California, and the release of a template for state exchange statutes by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, many state eyes are turning towards the only existing...

Published Mon, Oct 11 2010 6:38 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Roger Collier, Massachusetts, health care reform

West Wireless Health Institute Awards $10K Developer Challenge at Health 2.0

By DON CASEY The winner of the West Wireless Health Institute’s $10,000 Health 2.0 developer challenge integrates consumer devices with wireless capabilities – like Nintendo’s popular Wii balance board – and open source platforms to help people share...

Published Thu, Oct 07 2010 12:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Don Casey

Patients 2.0 - The Growing Demographic of Networked Patients

By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN >In a ballroom at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco last week, several hundred people shared ideas, debated, and painted a multi-faceted picture of the NewPatient: the networked patient. The meeting was convened, in “unconference...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2010 4:55 PM by The Health Care Blog

The Shame of Malpractice Lawsuits

By PAUL LEVY This posting is not about tort reform. It is not about defensive medicine (e.g., MDs taking too many tests to avoid the chance of lawsuit.) It is not about controlling costs or improving the quality of care.... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 27 2010 4:10 PM by The Health Care Blog

The Politics of Health Reform

By JOHN GOODMAN There will be two national elections before the new health overhaul is substantially implemented (in 2014) and a third election the year it is supposed to be implemented. Question: Will the voters reward office holders who supported.....

Published Tue, Oct 19 2010 3:47 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Medicare, health care reform, John Goodman, Politics, ACA

How Health Services Researchers Can Harness Data : Discussion at Health Innovation Week, SF

By TED EYTAN, MD Last week’s Health Innovation Week in San Francisco started for me with a day entitled “From Data to Information, to Knowledge to Application: How Health Services Research Can Harness Data to Help Support a More Rapid... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 20 2010 11:49 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Patients, Social Media, Research, Herbert Mathewson, Ed Eytan

So That's How The Rates Are Set

By PAUL LEVY The Wall Street Journal published a very important article this week. Written by Anna Wilde Mathews and Tom McGinty, it is entitled, "Secrets of the System: Physician Panel Prescribes the Fees Paid by Medicare. Here's the lede:....

Published Fri, Oct 29 2010 8:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Physicians, Paul Levy

Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Code-a-thon Finalist: Team Transpera Health

By Bianca Grogan Team Transpera Health, led by Cathy Huang, introduced software that will enable consumers to make healthcare provider and procedure decisions based on costs and quality. The team utilized databases from the CMS Medicare Physician Fee...

Published Thu, Oct 28 2010 11:42 AM by The Health Care Blog