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

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

Why Can’t Medicare Be Like Visa?

By HERBERT MATHEWSON, MD Last week I made two purchases on the same day with my Visa card, one for $293 and one for $273, but the two transactions could not have been more different. I spent $293 for three pieces of metal to repair line cutters on the...

Published Mon, May 02 2011 4:14 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Medicare, Herbert Mathewson, The Insider's Guide to Health Care, Visa cards

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

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

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

The Lightweight Romney Health Plan

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI Mitt Romney has outlined his new health plan. He outlined five key steps in an op-ed in USAToday. Here is a summary: Step 1: Give states the responsibility, flexibility and resources to care for citizens who are poor, uninsured or...

Published Thu, May 12 2011 1:03 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Robert Lasewski, Mitt Romney, Republican, Romney health plan

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

Newt And The Health Wonks: A Tale of Lust And Power

By MICHAEL MILLENSON When former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced his bid for the GOP presidential nomination, I found myself singing a few bars from Night Moves, Bob Seger’s hard-driving tribute to teenage hormones: “I used her, she...

Published Mon, May 16 2011 10:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Michael Millenson, Newt Gingrich, health care policy

Single Payer in Vermont? Well, Not Exactly

By ROGER COLLIER In just a few days, Vermont’s Governor Peter Shumlin will sign into law what the media is calling “single payer health care reform.” But is it? Vermont has certainly demonstrated more enthusiasm for a single payer approach than any other...

Published Tue, May 17 2011 8:04 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Roger Collier, Affordable Care Act, Vermont, Single payer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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