May 2011 - The Health Care Blog - The Network of Care

The NYTimes gets sensible on privacy

Today I got pretty depressed. I saw a link that 13 tech companies were funding a seminar put on by Deb Peel’s Patients Privacy Rights.org (and no I’m not helping with a link) It’s a big pity that sensible companies have been pressured...

Published Tue, May 31 2011 6:37 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, micro, Patient privacy

Coordinating Care: It’s A Moral Question, But Not A Hard One

By JOE FLOWER Under the headline, “Medicare Plan for Payments Irks Hospitals,” today’s New York Times details the opposition stirred up by the government’s “value-based purchasing” initiative. If you’re buying anything (and the US federal government is...

Published Tue, May 31 2011 2:04 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Medicare, Joe Flower, Care coordination

Are Doctors Shifting to the Left?

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS Yesterday’s New York Times (As Physicians’ Jobs Change, So Do Their Politics) highlights the political shift underway within the physician community. While doctors used to be mainly male small businessmen, who were a natural fit with...

Published Tue, May 31 2011 12:18 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Physicians, Political left

Remember: Social Media is Social

By MARYA ZILBERBERG, MD A few days ago, several news outlets reported on Newt Gingrich’s unfortunate turn of phrase about our President. In a speech in Georgia he referred to Obama as “the most successful food stamp president in modern American...

Published Tue, May 31 2011 10:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Twitter

How to Lower Cancer Care’s Costs

By MERRILL GOOZNER A year-and-a-half ago, Howard Brody of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston wrote an opinion article in the New England Journal of Medicine calling on every medical specialty to develop ways of cutting the cost of care...

Published Sat, May 28 2011 2:02 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Merrill Goozner, Oncology, Diagnostic cost reduction

The Cost Cutting EHR

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) and Electronic Health Records (EHR) are at the heart of health care transformation. Everything we want to change and improve upon, hinges on the availability of EHRs in every hospital and every...

Published Fri, May 27 2011 8:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Margalit Gur-Arie, EHR features

The Doctor is…Overbooked

By EVAN FALCHUK At the New York Times’ City Room Blog, Joel Cohen writes: my wife and I are convinced that all medical students should have to pass Overbooking 101 before they can become doctors.Again and again, we arrive at a doctor’s aptly named waiting...

Published Thu, May 26 2011 3:24 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Physicians, Patients, Evan Falchuk

Paul Ryan Still Doesn’t Get It

By ROBERT REICH Republican House Budget chief Paul Ryan still doesn’t get it. He blames Tuesday’s upset victory of Democrat Kathy Hochul over Republican Jane Corwin to represent New York’s 26th congressional district on Democratic scare tactics. Hochul...

Published Thu, May 26 2011 9:05 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Robert Reich, GOP, Paul Ryan, Medicare Reform

Earth to Republicans: You Are In Big Political Trouble Over the Ryan Medicare Plan

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI It should now be clear to Republicans they are in trouble over the Ryan Medicare plan. Yesterday, they lost a seat in a solid Republican New York House district. Their candidate had benefited from lots of money and House leadership...

Published Thu, May 26 2011 7:04 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Robert Laszewski, THCB, Medicare, Republicans

Medicare should pay less & differently

Easy to say. Rita Redberg from UCSF points out in the NY Times that Medicare pays for loads of procedures that we know are a waste of money. After all the COURAGE trial a while back showed that stents were a waste of money, and we put in more stents now...

Published Wed, May 25 2011 11:57 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, micro

Stifling Primary Care: Why Does CMS Continue To Support The RUC?

By BRIAN KLEPPER, PAUL FISCHER, MD, & KATHLEEN ANNE BEHAN Last October, the Wall Street Journal ran a damning expose about the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), a secretive, specialist-dominated panel within the American Medical Association...

Published Wed, May 25 2011 6:22 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Brian Klepper, THCB, primary care, RUC, Paul Fischer, Kathleen Anne Behan, RUC reform

We Need a Liberal Immigration Policy to Support Health Care Reform

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS Over the last decade, the United States has intentionally made itself less attractive to immigrants, forgetting that immigration has been a huge driver of the country’s economic success. In a recent article (America needs a 21st century...

Published Wed, May 25 2011 11:33 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, health care reform, David Williams, Immigration

An Alternative to Malpractice

By JOHN GOODMAN About three decades ago, University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein proposed a radical alternative [gated, but with abstract] to our system of malpractice liability. He called it “liability by contract.” The idea: let patients...

Published Wed, May 25 2011 8:25 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Do We Have Any Clue How to Cut the Cost of Healthcare?

By ROBERT WACHTER, MD At the Society of Hospital Medicine’s annual meeting last week in Dallas, Lenny Feldman of Johns Hopkins presented the results of a neat little study. His hypothesis: physicians given information about the costs of their laboratory...

Published Tue, May 24 2011 5:58 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Numbers Instead of Letters

By KARI GORDER 780.4: Dizziness and Giddiness. Deep breath: I still felt out of place. I turned the engine off. Quietly, I promised myself: once you get commissioned, maybe after you go through ODS, they’ll give you a Geneva Conventions ID card and you...

Published Tue, May 24 2011 5:44 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Kari Gorder

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