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

No Magic Pill to Cure Poor Medication Adherence

By JESSIE GRUMAN You are sick with something-or-other and your doctor writes you a prescription for a medication. She briefly tells you what it’s for and how to take it. You go to the pharmacy, pick up the medication, go home and follow the instructions...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 6:46 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Consumers, Jessie Gruman, Medication adherence, Patient

It’s THCB’s Health Wonk Review

By John Irvine & Matthew Holt It’s Thursday morning. Fresh off the digital presses. It’s finally here. THCB (after a long absence) is back hosting Health Wonk Review…. Health IT Dept We start close to home with huge news for THCB’s...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 5:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

HIT Trends Summary for May 2011

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends report for May 2011. You can get the current issue or subscribe here. E-prescribing scale and innovation. Surescripts reports dramatic growth for e-prescribing with a third of office-based physicians...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 4:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, THCB, Michael Lake, Tech

Online Communities & Attrition from Health Intervention Programs

By GLENN LAFFEL, MD Provider-centric, face-to-face health intervention programs that help people quit smoking, lose weight and increase activity levels have been shown to work, but they are expensive, don’t scale, and inconvenient. By contrast, Internet...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 3:33 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Online Communities, Glenn Laffel, Health information programs, Attrition

Health 2.0 will be running challenges & scanning innovation for ONC

By Indu Subaiya & Matthew Holt We’re delighted to tell the Health 2.0 Community that all of your great work in the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge has received tremendous backing of the highest order. Today HHS confirmed officially that ONC...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2011 12:45 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Uncategorized

The Great Wellness Revolt of 2011

By MICHAEL TURPIN The scene opens with a fit, thirty-something man running down the hallway of an office building. His white shirt is stained on right side by what appears to be orange juice. He frantically looks behind him to see if anyone is following...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2011 11:16 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health Plans, Michael Turpin, Wellness programs

The Unbridgeable Gap between Left and Right on Health Reform

By JEFF GOLDSMITH Though thoroughly smothered under 2900 pages of well meaning but poorly focused, expert-driven “good works”, the core of the Affordable Care Act was providing 30 million people subsidized health insurance coverage. As the country continues...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2011 11:03 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Policy/Politics, Jeff Goldsmith, health care reform, Uninsured

Defining Quality in the Health Insurance Industry

By VIPAN NIKORE, MD My patient, whom I’ll call Jane, had a neurologic disorder that prevented her from emptying her bladder properly. She required a permanent urinary foley catheter to help her urinate. Jane landed back at the hospital with yet another...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2011 10:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health insurance, Vipan Nikore, Cost effective

The Doctor is In (and Using an iPad)

By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN The past year has seen a huge jump in the number of hours that physicians spend online; at the margin, the increase is due to physicians’ use of online via mobile platforms. Meredith Abreu-Ressi, President of Manhattan Research,...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2011 10:14 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, EMR, Tablet-based

Making Hard Decisions Easier

By AMY BERMAN Shortly after I was diagnosed with inflammatory *** cancer a scan showed a hot spot on my lower spine. Was it the spread of cancer? My oncologist scheduled a bone biopsy at my hospital, Maimonides Medical Center, in order for us to find...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2011 10:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Amy Berman, Advance directive, POLST

Inconvenient Facts (For Both Republicans and Democrats)

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI I call your attention to Ezra Klein’s column in the Washington Post this morning. In it he cites data that has been out there for a long time but Ezra puts some perspective on it that never occurred to me before. Examining the Kaiser...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2011 9:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Vouchercare for Cancer

By MERRILL GOOZNER The health care cost debate takes place on two stages using two languages, one scientific, the other economic. The net result is a failure to communicate. The scientific texts emanated over the weekend from the American Society of Clinical...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2011 8:38 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Medicare, Merrill Goozner, Vouchers, Cancer treatments

All the Care that Money Will Buy

By JOHN GOODMAN I believe we could spend our entire national income on health care. Not by frittering money away, but by spending it on goods and services that even in small ways could improve the odds of better health. (Examples below.) I find that most...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2011 8:34 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, John Goodman, Healthcare costs, Healthcare spending

Coordinating Care Coordination

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Care coordination is one of the four pillars of Meaningful Use, one of the six NCQA Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) standards and one of the main goals of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO). Care coordination, particularly...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2011 7:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, THCB, Margalit Gur-Arie, ACOs, PCMH, Care coordination

Calling All Health Innovators: Health Data Palooza

By Todd Park This week the Health 2.0 team will be at Health Innovation Week DC, and the biggest event there will be the Health Data Initiative Forum. One day, 50 demos, mixing more government and private data than you can imagine. We’ve been helping...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2011 11:25 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, HHS, IOM, Aneesh Chopra, Todd Park, Health Data Initiative, Health Innovation Week DC, HealthData.gov

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