April 2011 - The Health Care Blog

Interview: ICA

It’s video week on THCB! We’ve overcome some technical difficulties with videos, so for the next couple of days we are getting caught up on our queue with some great interviews from companies who attended HIMSS in February or World Health...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 1:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Tech, HIMSS 2011, ICA

Interview: Resilient

Matthew Holt interviews Jonathan Hare of Resilient Network Systems at HIMSS. And for a bonus, here’s Resilient’s product introduction at Health 2.0 last Fall Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 1:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Tech, HIMSS 2011, Resilient

Interview: Covisint

Matthew Holt interviews Brett Furst of Covisint at HIMSS. Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 1:10 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, HIMSS 2011, Covisint

Interview: MEDecision

Matthew Holt interviews Eric Demers, Senior Vice President of Health and Life Sciences of MEDecision, at HIMSS. Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Tech, HIMSS 2011, MEDecision

Patient-Driven Care Instead of Patient-Centered Care

By PAUL LEVY After being part of a discussion at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement today, I have decided to change my profile, above, from this: Advocate for patient-centered care, eliminating preventable harm, transparency of clinical outcomes...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2011 1:10 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Paul Levy, Hospitals, Patient-centered care, Patient-driven care

Controlling the Medicare Budget – Two Feasible Proposals

By ROGER COLLIER How to slow Medicare’s escalating costs has been the big health care policy issue this month, with Republicans and Democrats offering competing proposals, each part of broader plans for reducing the federal deficit—projected to be $1...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2011 8:37 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Medicare, Obama, Roger Collier, Paul Ryan, IPAB

Stubborn

By LISA SUENNEN This week I had the occasion to be at UCLA for a very interesting meeting (more on that in a future post). As I arrived at LAX to return my rental car, I drove past a huge billboard at the corner of 96th Avenue and Airport Blvd (just across...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2011 5:33 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, prevention, Lisa Suennen, AHRQ, Screening tests

Interview: RelayHealth

It’s video week on THCB! We’ve had some technical difficulties, so for the next couple of days we will be showing some great interviews from companies who attended HIMSS or World Health Care Congress. Matthew Holt interviews Jim Broadbender...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2011 1:10 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Interview: Medicity and ActiveHealthManagement

Matthew Holt interviews Brent Dover of Medicity and Jeff Jacques of ActiveHealthManagement at HIMSS. Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2011 1:05 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Booth Tour: Philips Health Care

Matthew Holt’s tour of the Philips Health Care booth at HIMSS. Your guide is Dale Wiggins, CTO of Philips Health care. Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2011 1:01 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Tech, HIMSS 2011, Philips

Interview: Cisco

Matthew Holt interviews Frances Dare and Kaveh Safavi from Cisco. Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2011 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Kosmix bought by Wal-mart

In a move I don’t quite understand, Wal-Mart has bought search & content site Kosmix for a reported $300m. Kosmix has been doing various things around presentation of search information from different sites and places on the web (including...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2011 11:12 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, micro

ACO Fairy Tale Faces a Rumpelstiltskin Moment

By MICHAEL MILLENSON The ACO fairy tale is drawing perilously close to an unhappy ending. The government’s long-awaited draft regulations on Accountable Care Organizations have brought a dose of ugly reality to a concept that’s always seemed...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2011 11:04 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Michael Millenson, ACOs

American Well goes mass market

American Well has been the leader in creating an online marketplace where consumers and physicians can actually process care. They’ve done it via health plans using the basic health plan billing and coverage infrastructure, and that’s been...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2011 10:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Tech, micro

Bureaucrats vs. Entrepreneurs

By JOHN GOODMAN I used to think the biggest obstacle to getting agreement about health care reform was ideology (socialism vs. capitalism). Then I decided it was sociology (engineers vs. economists). I now am inclined to believe it is psychology (bureaucrats...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2011 10:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, John Goodman, Healthcare reform, Entreprenuers

April 2011 - The Health Care Blog

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Interview: ICA

Interview: Resilient

Interview: Covisint

Interview: MEDecision

Patient-Driven Care Instead of Patient-Centered Care

Controlling the Medicare Budget – Two Feasible Proposals

Stubborn

Interview: RelayHealth

Interview: Medicity and ActiveHealthManagement

Booth Tour: Philips Health Care

Interview: Cisco

Kosmix bought by Wal-mart

ACO Fairy Tale Faces a Rumpelstiltskin Moment

American Well goes mass market

Bureaucrats vs. Entrepreneurs