February 2011 - The Health Care Blog

Glen Tullman @ HIMSS11

Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts, talked with Matthew about mergers, consolidation and payment changes taking place in the healthcare system. Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 2:04 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Tech, HIMSS 2011, Allscripts, Glen Tullman

By EVAN FALCHUK Media reports on misdiagnosis continue to mount. A recent study on patients with Alzheimer’s found that half had been misdiagnosed. Half. Another headline blared “4 out of 10 patients being misdiagnosed.” The article encouraged patients...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 12:18 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Patients, Front Page, Evan Falchuk, Starbucks

The HMO in Your Future

By JOHN GOODMAN I have not been able to determine how you pronounce the acronym for Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Is it ā´ ko? Or ā´ so? Or ăh so´, as in Charlie Chan movies? What about ĕ´ ko, as in a canyon? Or simply ick, with a silent o? Anyway...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 10:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: John Goodman, ACOs, Front Page, HMO, Accountable Care Organizations

Free Drug Samples and Hospital Hotels: Which is the Greater Evil?

By MICHAEL KIRSCH, MD Many folks criticize pharmaceutical companies for providing physicians’ offices with free drug samples. They claim that this giveaway harms consumers because drug companies must raise their prices to cover the costs of these freebies...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 10:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Pharma, Hospitals, The Insider's Guide to Health Care, Michael Kirsch, Drug samples

Are Academic Medical Centers Toast in a Post-Healthcare Reform World?

By BOB WACHTER, MD My hospital, UCSF Medical Center, is thriving. Our profits this year will be nearly $200 million. We’re building a sparkling clinical complex – a combined women’s, children’s, and cancer hospital – adjacent to our new downtown biomedical...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2011 8:39 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Bob Wachter, Front Page, academic medical centers, Teaching centers

Guess Who Has Been Over-Treated For More Than Twenty Five Years?

By MAGGIE MAHAR When I was in my twenties, I was diagnosed with glaucoma. At the time, I didn’t worry about it. I was twenty-something, busy teaching, having babies, writing a book—and, with glasses, my eyesight was 20/20. It was only when I moved to...

Published Sun, Feb 27 2011 7:48 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Maggie Mahar, The Insider's Guide to Health Care, Over-treatment

Health Insurance Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Better Health

By JIM MARKS, MD, MPH A new study in the influential policy journal Health Affairs gives added credence to the idea that much of what drives health falls outside of the realm of medical care. In fact, this must-read study points out what so many of us...

Published Sat, Feb 26 2011 2:09 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: public health, Health insurance, Front Page, James Marks, Outcomes

The Other Scarlet Letter

By J.D. KLEINKE Do you hate abortion? Me too. Every form of the procedure sickens me, and has since the first one I ever heard about, when I was 10 years old. My mother had come home early, distraught and bathed in tears, from her job as a teacher in...

Published Sat, Feb 26 2011 11:54 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Abortion, Front Page, Pro-life, J.D. Kleinke

The Triumph of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

By JOE FLOWER According to a new poll, half of all Americans say they are “confused” about healthcare reform. And boy howdy, are they right! Take a look at this new Kaiser Family Fund poll: http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/8156-C.pdf Scan down to...

Published Fri, Feb 25 2011 12:58 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Front Page

The Obamacare Shift

By PAUL LEVY A colleague pointed this out to me recently, and I think he has it right: While more people will have health insurance as a result of the federal health care reform act, a side effect will be to reduce the number of people insured through...

Published Fri, Feb 25 2011 6:17 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Front Page

Regression to the Mean

By JOHN HALAMKA You may have heard about the Sports Illustrated Effect, the notion that people who appear on the cover of the magazine are likely to experience bad luck, failure, or a career spiral. Over the 30 years of my own professional life, I’ve...

Published Fri, Feb 25 2011 5:25 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Front Page

HIMSS11 Recap

By NEIL VERSEL “We just need to do it.” That’s the comment I heard from a hospital CMIO on a HIMSS shuttle bus Thursday morning. He, of course, was talking about “meaningful use,” the standard by which providers will qualify for federal Electronic...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2011 5:48 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Front Page

Earl Jones @ HIMSS11

Matthew spoke wih GE Healthcare IT’s SVP and General Manager of eHealth Earl Jones about the health IT giant’s hopes and dreams in 2011. Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2011 10:31 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Tech, HIMSS, Video, Earl Jones, GE Healthcare

And the Worst Health Care System in the World Is…

By EVAN FALCHUK The United States, of course. Oh, no, wait, it’s Canada. Actually, I think it could be Germany. Geez, now I think it might be the UK. You could go on and on like this. But you know what? No matter how good or bad your system is, there...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2011 9:58 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Consumers, International, Op-Ed, Healthcare costs, Evan Falchuk, Healthcare systems

The Power of a Network: Health Information Exchanges

By JACK BUXBAUM The idea behind a network is that it grows stronger as more participants join it. A basic example is a cell phone provider that allows its members to make free calls to other members – the policy becomes more valuable as more people join...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2011 9:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, Jack Buxbaum, HIMSS 2011, HIE

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Glen Tullman @ HIMSS11

Third Place Health Care

The HMO in Your Future

Free Drug Samples and Hospital Hotels: Which is the Greater Evil?

Are Academic Medical Centers Toast in a Post-Healthcare Reform World?

Guess Who Has Been Over-Treated For More Than Twenty Five Years?

Health Insurance Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Better Health

The Other Scarlet Letter

The Triumph of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

The Obamacare Shift

Regression to the Mean

HIMSS11 Recap

Earl Jones @ HIMSS11

And the Worst Health Care System in the World Is…

The Power of a Network: Health Information Exchanges