April 2011 - The Health Care Blog

PatientsLikeMe refutes clinical trial (eventually)

PatientsLikeMe’s mass trial of Lithium as a cure for ALS was carried out in 2008 very quickly and was reported at many conferences (including of course first at Health 2.0 in 2008). The PLM study was a response to a 2008 clinical study that suggested...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 8:24 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, micro

Patient-Centered EHR

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE The term patient-centered has become a serious contender for the most flippantly used term in health care publications and conversations. Of course meaningful use is still #1 on the popularity charts, with ACO quickly moving up, but...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2011 8:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, Margalit Gur-Arie, PCMH, Patient-centered, Patient-Centered Medical Home, ACO

Turf Wars

By MICHAEL KIRSCH, MD So many folks express views that are obviously self-serving, but they try to masquerade them as altruistic positions that benefit some other constituency. These attempts usually fool no one, but yet these performances are common...

Published Tue, Apr 12 2011 3:30 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Politics, Michael Kirsch, Turf battles

IOM Health Data Initiative Forum is June 9

Health 2.0 is supporting and I’m attending The Health Data Initiative Forum on June 9, 2011 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, and you should too. The Forum aims to accelerate momentum for the public use of data and innovation to improve...

Published Wed, Apr 13 2011 7:13 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: micro

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

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

The Health Insurance EHR

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Kaiser Health News recently published excerpts of an interview with the CEO of Aetna, Mark Bertolini. Interesting article and interesting subject, but one thing Mr. Bertolini said in connection with Aetna’s acquisition of Medicity...

Published Sun, Apr 17 2011 10:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

The 100% Estate Tax

By MERRILL GOOZNER There is a dangerous but beguiling econometric logic behind the idea that turning Medicare over to the insurance industry will lower health care costs. It’s an idea that could catch on if the general public became convinced that there...

Published Mon, Apr 18 2011 8:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Medicare, Merrill Goozner, Health care costs, Paul Ryan, Vouchers

Interview with Louis Burns, CEO, Care Innovations

By Matthew Holt Louis Burns is CEO of Care Innovations, the joint venture between Intel and GE that’s aiming to change the world of home care and patient to clinician connectivity. Clearly there’s been lots of money and effort invested —...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2011 1:24 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Patients, Tech, Intel, GE, Care Innovations

Full employment for health futurists?

I’m not quite as convinced as some that there’s too much difference in the amount of consulting being requested and required by health systems now compared to in years past. After all it wasn’t so many years ago that APM made every hospital...

Published Sat, Apr 02 2011 10:36 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Hospitals, ACOs, micro

Accountable Care Organizations and Antitrust

By TIM GREANEY There’s a new PSA test in health care. Hopefully it will prove more reliable than that other one. In conjunction with the unveiling of the long-awaited ACO regulation by HHS, the FTC and Department of Justice issued a Joint Policy Statement...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2011 6:04 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, HHS, ACOs, FTC, DOJ, PSA, Tim Greaney, Antitrust

Unintended Consequences

By STEVE SANDERS Joe is a guy that never really cared about his health. He is overweight, according to any objective standard, and always attributes this to “bigger muscles” (it isn’t). He dutifully comes in once a year, but admittedly only because of...

Published Tue, Apr 05 2011 7:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Quality, primary care, Medical Home

To get the MU money, just a test

When ONC lunched the meaningful use program paying doctors up to $44,000 or more to adopt electronic medical records, I wondered–”how would they know?” Then I was told there would be a test. But I misheard, it’s not a test. Instead...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2011 8:57 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, micro

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

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

April 2011 - The Health Care Blog

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PatientsLikeMe refutes clinical trial (eventually)

Patient-Centered EHR

Turf Wars

IOM Health Data Initiative Forum is June 9

Does America Want Apple or Android for Health Care?

The messy TEDMED divorce

The Health Insurance EHR

The 100% Estate Tax

Interview with Louis Burns, CEO, Care Innovations

Full employment for health futurists?

Accountable Care Organizations and Antitrust

Unintended Consequences

To get the MU money, just a test

Interview: RelayHealth

Controlling the Medicare Budget – Two Feasible Proposals