November 2014 - The Health Care Blog

A New Era for our Military Health System

By DAN GARRETT The last day of October was the deadline for proposals in response to the U.S. Department of Defense’s call to overhaul its electronic health record software, also known as the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2014 9:48 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, PwC, Electronic Health Record, DHMSM, Military Health Care System, Defense HEalthcare Management Systems Modernizations, MedSphere, DORHS, OSEHRA

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

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

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

By MICHELLE RONAN-NOTEBOOM HIMSS and CHIME to HHS: ONC Needs Full-time National Coordinator In a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, CHIME and ONC stress the need to hire a full-time National Coordinator for the ONC, should Karen DeSalvo continue...

Published Tue, Nov 18 2014 8:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, HIMSS 2011, CHIME, Epic, Cerner

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

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

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

65 Million People Lost Weight With MyFitnessPal?

Vik Khanna 65 million people lost weight with MyFitnessPal. Really? Now, let’s see, according to Gallup, 18% of American adults are at their ideal weight, so we’ll assume they don’t want to lose weight. That means 82% of American adults or about 198 million...

Published Thu, Nov 13 2014 10:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, MyFitnessPal, BMI, weight loss

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

Gruber’s Voters: Rational Ignorance

By SAURABH JHA, MD I think it’s fair to say Jonathan Gruber will not be offered the role of Pinocchio. Although intelligence agencies, in search of the truth serum, might have an interest in the ingredients of what he drinks. Please put away the pitchforks...

Published Mon, Nov 17 2014 3:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Transparency, Gruber, Rational Ignorance

Why Should Doctors Treat the Well and Nurses the Sick?

By HANS DUVEFELT, MD A rash could be leukemia or idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. A sore throat could be glossopharyngeal neuralgia or a retropharyngeal abscess. A blocked ear could be Ramsay-Hunt syndrome, a self-limited serous otitis or sudden sensorineural...

Published Mon, Nov 17 2014 8:55 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

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

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

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

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A New Era for our Military Health System

Help With Covered California

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

MyFitnessPal Works If You Use It

HIT Newser

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

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

The Case Against Patient Portals

65 Million People Lost Weight With MyFitnessPal?

Why You Should Ditch Your IT System

Gruber’s Voters: Rational Ignorance

Why Should Doctors Treat the Well and Nurses the Sick?

Is Deborah Peel up to her old tricks?

HIT Newser: The CommonWell Alliance Gets More Common

What Is Health?