April 2011 - The Health Care Blog

Time for Toto to Pull the Curtain Away from Patient-Centered Medical Homes

By AL LEWIS Patient-Centered Medical Homes in statewide populations have unstoppable momentum and major constituencies in support of them, so valid analysis of their outcomes is probably as futile as it will be unwelcome. However, the math speaks for...

Published Sun, Apr 03 2011 7:33 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Patient Centered Medical Homes, North Carolina Community Access, Al Lewis

A Case for Self Insuring Small Business

By MICHAEL TURPIN During the course of 2009, an alarming trend line was broken. For the first time ever, more employers under 50 employees were not offering medical insurance to employees than those who continued to provide employer sponsored healthcare...

Published Fri, Apr 08 2011 4:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Michael Turpin, Healthcare costs, Self-insuring, Private sector, Medical cost shifting, Small Business

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

Could Facebook be Your Platform?

By VINCE KURAITIS My guess is you’ve probably never asked yourself this question. A quick preview: Technical barriers aren’t the limiting factors to Facebook becoming a care coordination platform. Facebook’s company DNA won’t play well in health care...

Published Mon, Apr 11 2011 8:44 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Vince Kuraitis, Facebook, Care coordination platform

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

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

Time to End The Health Care Tax Exclusion?

By MERRILL GOOZNER President Obama on Wednesday will unveil his counter offer for bringing the nation’s budget deficit under control. Last week, the Republican plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., chairman of the House Budget Committee, focused public...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2011 10:37 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Merrill Goozner, Health insurance, Employer-sponsored plans, Healthcare tax exclusion

Interview:CareLogistics and Mercy St. Vincent

Matthew Holt interviews Ben Sawyer, Executive Vice President of CareLogistics, and Imran Andrabi, President and CEO of Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center, at the World Health Care Congress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6pMOjwYagI Tweet this Share on...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2011 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Hospitals, Tech, CareLogistics, Mercy St. Vincent

The New Cost-Conscious Doctor

By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN Doctors practicing in the U.S. are becoming increasingly conscious of the increasing costs of health care. Most consider themselves cost-conscious, and are considering the impact of their practice patterns — in terms of prescribing...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2011 9:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Physicians, Health care costs, Cost-conscious

Does America Want Apple or Android for Health Care?

BY DAVIS LIU, MD The future direction of American health care is unclear. Certainly the cost trend as it exists is unsustainable with health care costs being a major concern of the private sector, the government, and individuals. How does the nation manage...

Published Thu, Apr 14 2011 7:22 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Uncategorized

Health Wonk Review

Health Wonk Review is up at David Williams Health Business Blog. THCB even makes a rare appearance! (Hopefully we’ll be appearing a little more frequently in the future…) Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 14 2011 9:50 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: micro

The messy TEDMED divorce

By Matthew Holt Yesterday I got a fun mass email–reprinted here at Medgadget–from Richard Saul Wurman. He founded TED, and later lost control of it to Chris Anderson who has stewarded it to being a giant among conferences. Then he founded...

Published Fri, Apr 15 2011 8:46 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Interview: Health Dialog

It’s the end of video week on THCB! Following fixing some technical difficulties doing videos we’re putting a whole lot more up and showing some great interviews from companies who attended HIMSS or World Health Care Congress. Matthew Holt...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2011 1:10 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, WHCC, Health Dialog

More EMRs for all

Today’s been a big day in Health IT. First Kaiser Permanente has opened a very flashy Center for Total Health in DC. I took a tour today and lots of it is focused on the use of and extension of their Epic-based medical record (including adding lots...

Published Tue, Apr 05 2011 2:37 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: micro

HIT Trends Summary for March 2011

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends Report for March 2011. You can get the current issue or subscribe here. Government drivers. Federal communications dominated this month’s news. ONC defended its core EHR strategy through a report published...

Published Mon, Apr 11 2011 1:37 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, ONC, HIEs, ACOs, Michael Lake, Tech, HIT trends