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

A New Cost Control Idea – Paying For Outcomes

By JOHN E. MCDONOUGH When it comes to reducing or controlling rising health care costs, we face a problem called “the fierce urgency of NOW.” We have learned from the Medicare and Medicaid budget proposals by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., that Republicans...

Published Tue, May 17 2011 9:32 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Medicaid, Superhealthanomics, John McDonough, P4O, Paying for Outcomes

It’s All Going According to Plan

By JONATHAN HALVORSON Most people regard health care reform in America as thoroughly bungled. The proverbial train left the station weak and wheezing, was pushed off the rails by hooligans and is about to crumple in an inglorious heap in the ditch. Only...

Published Tue, May 17 2011 8:24 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, PPACA, Universal coverage, Healthcare spending, Jonathan Halvorson

The Dual Online Identities of Physicians

By GLENN LAFFEL, MD Like everybody else, physicians are expanding their online personal identities. At the same time, they are trying to comply with codes of conduct that help consumers trust them and their profession. There’s no problem so long as the...

Published Thu, May 12 2011 8:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Physicians, Social Media, Facebook, Glenn Laffel, Twitter

(Over)Simplifying EHR Usability

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Dr. P patted the middle aged patient on the back, helped him off the elevated exam table and guided him to the chair by the sink. He picked up the chart and using the exam table as his desk he flipped through the chart, pulling out...

Published Mon, May 02 2011 5:13 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, Margalit Gur-Arie, VistA, Usability

The Fall and Rise of Asynchronicity

By PAUL LEVY The daughter of a friend was bemoaning poor connectivity of the internet at a university in Europe. She said, “It’s vital since I don’t have any other method of communication.”My friend noted, “I was telling...

Published Sat, May 21 2011 5:20 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Paul Levy, Email, BlackBerry

The System Firsthand

By BRAD FLANSBAUM, DO Grandma is 93. The matriarch of my family is in worsening health, and her decline is difficult to observe. We all experience the travails of the US health care system at some point, and in my family’s case, ours is no exception....

Published Thu, May 19 2011 10:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Geriatric, BOOST, Brad Flansbaum, Relocation trauma

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

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

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

Why We Should Think Twice About Getting A CT Scan

By SHANNON BROWNLEE There’s an eerie video up on YouTube, shot by a Japanese journalist who ventured into the evacuation zone surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power plant, armed with a camera and a radiation meter. The video looks like b-roll footage...

Published Tue, May 10 2011 4:57 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Radiation exposure, Shannon Brownlee, CT scans

Microsoft HSG Bets Future on Amalga

By JOHN MOORE Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group (HSG), which has straddled the fence with consumer-facing (HealthVault) and corporate-facing (Amalga), is increasingly moving to the corporate side of the fence. Not that surprising considering that the...

Published Tue, May 03 2011 11:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Microsoft, John Moore, Health Vault, Amalga, Microsoft HSG

Cloud Only is Dead for Health

By DAVE deBRONKART, MD A lot of people are intrigued with using “cloud” applications and storage for personal health data. This week we’re seeing what I think is the final nail in the coffin of “cloud only” for anything important. You gotta have offline...

Published Sat, May 14 2011 9:51 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Cloud-based EHR, Amazon, Cloud Computing, Dave deBronkart, Backups

How Should Medicare Pay for Medical Care?

By JOHN GOODMAN There are basically five possibilities. To compare them, let: S = each unit of service, or a package of services P = the price of each unit of service, or the price of a package of services Then the government can: 1. Dictate every service...

Published Sun, May 15 2011 4:08 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, John Goodman, Medicare payment options

Does Mitt Romney Deserve the Abuse He’s Getting on Health Care? Yes, He Does.

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS Mitt Romney took a big beating on the Wall Street Journal‘s editorial page last week, the same day he laid out his health care plan in the USA Today and defended his position on the topic in a speech in Michigan. I’m not a big Romney...

Published Mon, May 16 2011 7:44 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, David Williams, Romney health plan, GOP candidates

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

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