November 2010 - The Health Care Blog

Cousin Jimmy Syndrome

By JOHN HALAMKA I have great respect for my colleagues in the IT industry. It's a challenging profession that requires a mixture of technical knowledge, people skills, and the emotional stability to deal with customer dissatisfaction when technology...

Published Wed, Nov 17 2010 11:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, John Halamka

Companies Clearly Won’t Stop Hiking Health Care Coverage Premiums

By STEPHEN KRUPA As employees participate in open enrollment for their company’s health insurance enrollment next year, it’s clear they should make a point of participating in their employer’s enrollment information meetings, not merely pick last year...

Published Mon, Nov 01 2010 5:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health insurance, Stephen Krupa

The Electronic Medical Home

By JOHN HALAMKA In previous blog posts, I've mentioned an idea deserves its own dedicated post. Over the weekend, I keynoted the eClinicalWorks National User's Conference in Florida. One of the attendees emailed me the following question: "I...

Published Thu, Nov 04 2010 5:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: John Halamka, Electronic Medical Home

S.M.A.R.T. Objectives: An Essential Step in Strategy Formulation

By MATT MODLESKI We are often asked to weigh in on organizational strategy when the proverbial “house is on fire” and a client’s business is experiencing challenges. Our first question to the CEO and his/her staff once we begin our... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 17 2010 4:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: ACOs, Matt Modleski

Unhealthy Skepticism

By JOHN MOORE There remains an unhealthy level of skepticism in the market as to whether or not consumers will use a personal health record (PHR). While a certain level of skepticism is healthy in any market, the level to... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 4:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

The $6-an-Hour Health Minimum Wage

By JOHN GOODMAN The stunning election results will put even more pressure on Congress to deal with the economy and jobs when it reconvenes in mid-November. But as it turns out, one way to boost the economy is to reconsider... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 08 2010 3:45 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Costs, John Goodman, Health care costs, Employers

The Swing to the Right: The Election and It's Effects On Health Reform

By DAVID HARLOW Like Tom Friedman, who lampooned some of this year's unreasonable campaign rhetoric in a recent column, I too would be in favor of reality-based political campaigns ... but that seemed to be too much to ask for... Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 06 2010 8:08 AM by The Health Care Blog

Hospital Price Dispersion

By DAVID DRANOVE A study by the Center for Studying Health System Change that will be released tolday shows that hospitals receive different prices for treating the same diseases. Center President Paul Ginsburg says this about the findings: “The variation...

Published Thu, Nov 18 2010 4:16 AM by The Health Care Blog

Physicians, Nurses and the Coming Transformation of our Health System

By GLENN LAFFEL Last week, we highlighted an unintended consequence of the Affordable Care Act: it will dramatically worsen an already gaping mismatch between the demand for and the supply of physician services in the US. Put simply, there aren’t... Read...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 5:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Alzheimer's Disease: The $20 Trillion Enemy We Must Not Forget

By LISA SUENNEN In the last several weeks I lost my phone (recovered), my iPod (gone) and even a piece of jewelry (I am pretty sure the cat is guilty). I was at the airport when I couldn’t remember where... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2010 3:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Laying on of the Hands

By Herbert Mathewson It appears that except for physical therapists, masseuses, and priests no one lays on the hands anymore. Certainly contemporarily trained physicians do not. Recently I went to my local ER because a 2-day old pain in my... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 03 2010 7:05 AM by The Health Care Blog

PPACA Premium Subsidies: The Government Is Here to Help You!

By ROGER COLLIER If anyone ever doubted the extent to which Congressional committees could turn good intentions into a bureaucratic nightmare, they need only to look at PPACA’s premium subsidy provisions and their potential impact on insurance exchanges...

Published Mon, Nov 01 2010 2:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

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