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

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

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

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

Medicare Announces Rules For Quality Bonuses To Hospitals

By JORDAN RAU Medicare took its broadest step yet in moving away from its traditional hospital payment method, finalizing a plan to alter reimbursements based on the quality of care hospitals provide and patients’ satisfaction during their stays. The...

Published Sun, May 01 2011 8:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Medicare, Hospitals, CMS, Jordan Rau, Quality bonuses

High costs cut drug use…and not in a good way

This pretty interesting study from Avalere Health confirms what several others have shown. If you add a user fee to any medical procedure people use less of it. And of course their decision to use it less is not based on whether it’s medically necessary...

Published Fri, May 20 2011 12:48 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, pharmaceuticals, micro

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

Where is there mHealth, really?

Health 2.0 aficionados will know that I’ve been railing against the term “mobile health” or “mHealth” for about three years. Health 2.0 is simply the next thing in health technology, and will remain so (whatever that might...

Published Wed, May 04 2011 5:36 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, mHealth, micro, J&J, Babycenter, Episurveyor, Datadyne

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

Maybe there really is mobile health after all

OK, I’m kidding–but Ford Motor Co is excited enough about its new collaboration with WellDoc that it wanted to fly me to Detroit to take a look at it. (I declined–perhaps they should move their headquarters to San Tropez). Welldoc is...

Published Wed, May 18 2011 2:36 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, micro

Health Care in the Cloud: A ‘Case Study of What Not To Do’

By GLENN LAFFEL, MD Amazon Web Services (AWS), “the cloud” for many, experienced a serious interruption in service beginning on April 21st. The problem lingered for at least 6 days. Many websites that relied on Amazon services went down or saw their performance...

Published Mon, May 02 2011 6:03 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Cloud-based EHR, Amazon, Glenn Laffel, Cloud Computing

GOP Bill Promotes Greater Federal Control of Exchanges

By MERRILL GOOZNER The latest Republican effort to undermine health care reform hits the House floor this week with the law of unintended consequences clearly in play. If the bill actually became law – an unlikely event since the Democrats still control...

Published Mon, May 02 2011 5:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Merrill Goozner, GOP, Insurance Exchanges

Health 2.0 Pavilion @ Maker Faire Bay Area THIS WEEKEND

By MATTHEW HOLT Maker Faire Bay Area is the worlds biggest DIY and tinkerers festival–at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds (about 20 mins south of San Francisco). I’ve heard it called a cross between the Home Depot & Burning Man. And this...

Published Sat, May 21 2011 10:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0

The Hospitalist Field Turns 15: What The Past Says About The Future

By BOB WACHTER, MD I just returned from the Society of Hospital Medicine’s annual meeting in Dallas. Seeing more than 2,000 hospitalists in one place is remarkable, since I remember the days when we all fit into a mid-sized conference room at a Holiday...

Published Mon, May 16 2011 7:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Quality, Bob Wachter, Patient Safety, Hospitalists

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