November 2014 - The Health Care Blog

Give the Gift of Blogging

THCBist THCB is read every day by an influential audience of healthcare-obsessed readers including tens of thousands of docs, hospital and health system CEOs, state and federal health officials, investors, analysts, marketers, vendors, media types and...

Published Sun, Nov 30 2014 12:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Wellness Puts CEOs on a Collision Course with Obamacare and Common Sense

VIK KHANNA and AL LEWIS By now readers of this and many other outlets know that conventional workplace wellness doesn’t work. Period. It’s not that there is no evidence for it. It’s far more compelling: all the evidence is against it. The so-called “evidence...

Published Sat, Nov 29 2014 10:59 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Wellness, Business Roundtable, Reuters

A Question for EHR Vendors: What Is a “Real” Computer?

JEROME CARTER, MD This might seem like a silly question with an obvious answer, but is it really? The solution to any problem grows out of the environment in which it appears and from the mindset in which it was conceived. In 1970, the answer to this...

Published Sat, Nov 29 2014 8:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Design, Apple, Smartphones, EHR Industry, Tablet, Mobile Computing

The Case Against Patient Portals

JORDAN SHLAIN, MD Let’s stop calling them patient portals, for crying out loud. It’s a relic of the early internet days; when you could go to this cool technology called the world wide web that let you peer into far away places which were...

Published Fri, Nov 28 2014 2:04 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Words that suck

Recalling To Err’s Impact and a Small (But Telling) IOM Mistake

By MICHAEL MILLENSON This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)’s To Err is Human report, which famously declared that from 44,000 to 98,000 Americans died each year from preventable mistakes in hospitals and another one million...

Published Fri, Nov 28 2014 1:03 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Patient Safety, Medical errors, IOM, Millenson, To Err is Human, Washington Post, New York Times

RIP Meaningful Use Born 2009 – Died 2014???

BOB WACHTER, MD The policy known as Meaningful Use was designed to ensure that clinicians and hospitals actually used the computers they bought with the help of government subsidies. In the last few months, though, it has become clear that the policy...

Published Wed, Nov 26 2014 7:59 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Bob Wachter, Meaningful Use, David Brailer, Rider, Meaningful Use Stage 2, Karen DeSalvo

What Is Health?

By LESLIE KERNISAN, MD For a while now, I’ve been working on an ebook about making digital health more useful and usable for older adults. (Don’t hold your breath, I really have no idea when it will be done. I can only work on it for about...

Published Tue, Nov 25 2014 7:14 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

MyFitnessPal Works If You Use It

By MIKE LEE You may have seen some news regarding a study MyFitnessPal recently did with UCLA. I wanted to take a minute to address this study, since we participated in it directly. We are excited that we got to work with some very smart people to answer...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2014 9:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Quantified Self, MyFitnessPal, Tracking, Mike Lee, Apps, fitness

HIT Newser: The CommonWell Alliance Gets More Common

MICHELLE RONAN-NOTEBOOM The CommonWell Alliance Gets More Common Aprima and CareCloud join Allscripts, Cerner, McKesson, athenahealth, Greenway, and RelayHealth in the CommonWell Alliance, a nonprofit consortium of HIT vendors focused on fostering interoperability...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2014 9:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, CHIME, ICD-10, HIT Newser, CVS Health

Is Deborah Peel up to her old tricks?

By Matthew Holt Long time (well very long time) readers of THCB will remember my extreme frustration with Patients Privacy Rights founder Deborah Peel who as far as I can tell spent the entire 2000s opposing electronic health data in general and commercial...

Published Sun, Nov 23 2014 12:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Unlucky In Coverage

By ACA DATABASE Unlucky in Coverage writes from the Southwest: I am self-insured. I was quite pleased last year when I had a chance to purchase health insurance through the Federal Marketplace because my new plan was significantly less expensive and more...

Published Fri, Nov 21 2014 9:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, ACA Database, Silver plan, Gold Plan

Preparing for Updates to the Medicare Shared Savings Program

By Farzad Mostashari, MD and Travis Broome Later this month – perhaps as early as this week – the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is poised to release a proposed rule to update to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). MSSP is the...

Published Thu, Nov 20 2014 3:48 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Why You Should Ditch Your IT System

By JOE FLOWER So you spent millions to billions of dollars on information systems over the past few years, right? How’s that working out for you? For a large percentage of you, whether or not you admit it, not so well. What you bought needs some serious...

Published Thu, Nov 20 2014 1:49 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Opacity, Data Mining, UI, IT, Vendor, eHealth Initiative

Is Becoming a Doctor Worth $2.6 Million?

By RICHARD GUNDERMAN, MD Each year, over 20,000 US students begin medical school. They routinely pay $50,000 or more per year for the privilege, and the average medical student graduates with a debt of over $170,000. That’s a lot of money. But for some...

Published Thu, Nov 20 2014 7:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Medical School

Help With Covered California

By ACA DATABASE JOE wrote THCB with a interesting question that could be an outlier or could be significant: Do you know of a consulting firm or advisory firm that can assist me in applying for insurance through Covered California? When I applied for...

Published Wed, Nov 19 2014 8:43 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, ACA, ACA Database, Covered California

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Give the Gift of Blogging

Wellness Puts CEOs on a Collision Course with Obamacare and Common Sense

A Question for EHR Vendors: What Is a “Real” Computer?

The Case Against Patient Portals

Recalling To Err’s Impact and a Small (But Telling) IOM Mistake

RIP Meaningful Use Born 2009 – Died 2014???

What Is Health?

MyFitnessPal Works If You Use It

HIT Newser: The CommonWell Alliance Gets More Common

Is Deborah Peel up to her old tricks?

Unlucky In Coverage

Preparing for Updates to the Medicare Shared Savings Program

Why You Should Ditch Your IT System

Is Becoming a Doctor Worth $2.6 Million?

Help With Covered California