October 2010 - The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Conference 2010: Day 2

By HENRY LI Day 2 of the fourth annual Health 2.0 Conference started bright and early with three conversations with CEOs: John de Souza of MedHelp, Giovanni Collella of Castlight, and Jeff Arnold of Sharecare (which we saw demoed yesterday).... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 08 2010 7:33 PM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Conference 2010: Day 1

By HENRY LI The 2010 Health 2.0 Conference kicked off this morning in San Francisco with a slew of exciting announcements, panels, and demos. This year, the conference anchors Health Innovation Week, which included the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Code...

Published Fri, Oct 08 2010 10:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll & Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt I’m so excited that I can’t sleep, so I’m up at 5am giving a Hunter S. Thompson-esque review of Day1 of Heath 2.0 For a start, even before it started you could tell that Health Innovation Week... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 08 2010 6:34 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

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

The Madison Avenue Approach to Health Policy

By JOHN GOODMAN Can you sell health reform the way you sell toothpaste? Can you stop health reform the way you sell soap? A lot of people apparently believe so. I would guess that in the 10 months leading up... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 07 2010 9:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, health care reform, John Goodman

Customer Service

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD Gosh, a whole lot of huffing over a little word! Customer. OK, now grab a paper bag and breathe slowly and steadily into it. I know it’s hard to hear that word. I am sorry to... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 07 2010 8:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Patients, Rob Lamberts

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

Patients 2.0, HealthCamp and Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt Health Innovation Week is charging ahead. Eight events have already happened, but today begins the really heavy part for the Health 2.0 team* We start at Healthcamp. Todd Park from HHS and Jack Cochran from Permanente kick... Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 06 2010 8:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

What is a Patient?

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD What is a patient? What do they do? What’s their role in the doctor’s office? Are they chassis on a conveyor belt? Are they puzzles for doctors to solve? Are they diseases? Are they demographics? Are... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 05 2010 4:19 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Patients, Rob Lamberts

Reckless REC Wrecking

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE The Health Information Technology Extension Program, created and funded by ONC, has completed funding for all 62 Regional Extension Centers (REC), with a grand total of well over half a billion dollars and, predictably, criticism...

Published Tue, Oct 05 2010 8:47 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, Margalit Gur-Arie, REC

Seeds of Destruction

By JONATHAN BUSH I never used to talk much with hospital CEOs. After all, if you’re running a hospital, improving the revenues of the physician practice by 6%, when the physician revenues only make up 10% of your overall revenues,... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 7:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Hospitals, Jonathan Bush

A more palatable path to rationing

By DAVID WILLIAMS Rationing is a very dirty word in America, evoking grim images of wartime Great Britain and –in the health care context– withholding of needed care from patients based on cost. But cut back on costs we must,... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 5:02 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: David E. Williams, Rationing

False promises

By PAUL LEVY At a speech last night, Lynn Nicholas, head of the MA Hospital Association, summarized the up's and down's associated with the Massachusetts 2006 universal health care access legislation. She was kind enough to send me her slides...

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 1:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Paul Levy, Medicaid

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

Health Innovation Week kicks off at City Hall

By Matthew Holt Want to see the kick off of Health Innovation Week? Hear from Dr Jordan Shlain (Commissioner of the San Francisco Health Systems), Mike Ferrer from the Mayor's Office, and see our proclamation? And get a quick whistle... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 01 2010 5:16 PM by The Health Care Blog