May 2015 - The Health Care Blog - The Network of Care

The Good Part About the Two Midnight Rule

By ANWAR OSBORNE, MD “You gotta change us to inpatient!” Mrs. Mack’s daughter was referring to me changing her mother’s status from “inpatient” to “outpatient.” If Mrs. Mack was discharged as an outpatient, she wouldn’t be able to afford to go to the...

Published Wed, May 06 2015 3:30 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, The Two Midnight Rule

The 5 Percent Conundrum is about Freedom

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE There is something deeply disturbing about the existence of big fat dossiers of personal information, meticulously collected over a lifetime, and stored under lock and key in dark places you are not allowed to enter. There is something...

Published Sun, May 10 2015 5:25 AM by The Healthcare Blog

Filed under: THCB

Open Sourcing What Works in Health & Wellness

By DAVID CHASE Few argue that we have a fully optimized healthcare system. In fact, many argue the opposite. I have good news for you. All of the components of a high achieving health ecosystem have not only been created — they have been proven...

Published Tue, May 12 2015 5:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Patient-Centered Research Can Improve Chronic Pain Care and Address Opioid Abuse

By JOE SELBY, MD For more than a decade, the United States has faced an escalating opioid abuse crisis. The number of deaths associated with abuse of these prescription painkillers more than tripled between 1999 and 2012 and now outstrips the number associated...

Published Fri, May 15 2015 3:24 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Sumit Nagpal, Lumira, talks rebranding & more

Now that the technical reboot of THCB is well underway, I’m going to be running more interviews recorded at HIMSS (April 2015) on THCB. Next up is Sumit Nagpal, CEO of Lumira, which used to be Alere ACS and before that, for those of you with long...

Published Mon, May 18 2015 12:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, HIMSS15, Sumit Nagpal, Lumira

Keep Calm and Interoperate On

By SAURABH JHA, MD Following the recession, the Obama administration sought shovel-ready projects. One unlikely shovel wielding aggregate demand was health information technology. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH...

Published Sun, May 03 2015 4:13 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Meaningful Use

Credibility of Evidence: A Reconsideration of the Logic and Strength of Our Healthcare Decisions

By ROSS KOPPEL and STEVEN SOUMERAI A few days ago, we wrote an editorial for US News and World Reports on the scant or dubious evidence used to support some healthcare policies (the editorial is reproduced in full below). In that case, we focused on studies...

Published Fri, May 22 2015 9:12 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Is Healthcare Designing the Wrong Patient Experience?

By CANCER GEEK Patient experience. It what’s in. It’s what’s vogue. It’s all the rage. There is a not a day that one cannot open a paper, a medical journal, Twitter, FaceBook, email, or a conference brochure and not see something...

Published Tue, May 26 2015 11:38 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Creative Minds: Building a Better Electronic Health Record

By Dr. FRANCIS COLLINS Is 5 too few and 40 too many? That’s one of many questions that researcher David Chan is asking about the clinical reminders embedded into those electronic health record (EHR) systems increasingly used at your doctor’s office or...

Published Thu, May 28 2015 7:37 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, NIH

The Smoking Gun: How U.S. Health Care Came to Cost Insanely More

By JOE FLOWER Cost is the big factor. Cost is why we can’t have nice things. The overwhelmingly vast pile of money we siphon into health care in the United States every year is the underlying driver of almost every other problem with health care in the...

Published Wed, May 20 2015 5:24 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Value-Based Care’s Data Problem

By RACHEL KATZ Lisa is an administrator at an Accountable Care Organization, or ACO — a new healthcare payment model that encourages coordinated, high-quality, and efficient care. Lisa’s ACO facilitates the program at about 100 clinics around California...

Published Thu, May 21 2015 8:10 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Value-based Interoperability: Less is more

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Interoperability in health care is all the rage now. After publishing a ten year interoperability plan, which according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is well positioned to protect us from wanton market competition and heretic...

Published Tue, May 05 2015 9:52 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

An Open Letter to Sheryl Sandberg

By KATIE HAFNER My heart aches for you, even more because the same thing happened to me. You will get through it. But you never will get past it. I was so very sorry to hear about your husband’s death. You must be inundated with condolence letters and...

Published Sun, May 10 2015 4:59 AM by The Healthcare Blog

Filed under: THCB, End of Life Care, Mortality, Moms

The 5 Percent Conundrum

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE There is something deeply disturbing about the existence of big fat dossiers of personal information, meticulously collected over a lifetime, and stored under lock and key in dark places you are not allowed to enter. There is something...

Published Mon, May 11 2015 5:25 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Something Completely Different

By JOHN IRVINE The Endless Page of Scroll Is Dead .. If you’re an observant reader you may have noticed that things are looking a little different around here. That’s because we’ve “upgraded” the site to a new version of...

Published Tue, May 12 2015 5:36 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Registration, John Irvine

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The Good Part About the Two Midnight Rule

The 5 Percent Conundrum is about Freedom

Open Sourcing What Works in Health & Wellness

Patient-Centered Research Can Improve Chronic Pain Care and Address Opioid Abuse

Sumit Nagpal, Lumira, talks rebranding & more

Keep Calm and Interoperate On

Credibility of Evidence: A Reconsideration of the Logic and Strength of Our Healthcare Decisions

Is Healthcare Designing the Wrong Patient Experience?

Creative Minds: Building a Better Electronic Health Record

The Smoking Gun: How U.S. Health Care Came to Cost Insanely More

Value-Based Care’s Data Problem

Value-based Interoperability: Less is more

An Open Letter to Sheryl Sandberg

The 5 Percent Conundrum

Something Completely Different