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

Real Meaningful Use? Curing Healthcare’s Digital Divide

By JAAN SIDOROV, MD For better or worse, policymakers, politicians and health leaders in the United States are committed to achieving paperless healthcare environment. Even if there is lack of high quality research and reasonable skepticism over the ultimate...

Published Mon, May 11 2015 3:04 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

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

Patient Engagement: Much Bigger Than Patient Portals

By Tom Giulianni, MD There is no doubt that the topic of patient engagement has taken center stage in healthcare. It was the hot topic at HIMSS 2015 where a major national study was unveiled, Three Perspectives of Patient Engagement. And that was just...

Published Tue, May 19 2015 1:55 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

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

ONC Awards $300K in Funding to 6 Digital Health Pilot Projects!

The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced the six winners of the inaugural ONC Market R&D Pilot Challenge. The six winners will live-test new...

Published Mon, May 04 2015 9:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, ONC, Pilots, health technology, digital health

A Shout Out For Our Sponsors: Health Catalyst

By MATTHEW HOLT THCB would literally not exist without the support of our generous sponsors. This blog and the work we do is made possible by the forward-thinking people at companies like HealthCatalyst who have come on board as flagship sponsors. Love...

Published Wed, May 27 2015 6:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Why Cancer Patients and Clinicians Need a Decision Aid Upgrade

THOMAS SMITH, MD We have learned a lot about how to treat cancer in the past 30 years, yet patients still experience significant symptoms, pain, and stress from cancer and its treatments. And we are nowhere near curing patients of some of the most debilitating...

Published Wed, May 06 2015 12:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

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

Do it for Mom: Sign Up to Support Electronic Access to Your Health Records Today

By LYGEIA RICCIARDI and PETER LEVIN In many families, the mother serves as the Family Health CEO, managing healthcare for her parents, kids, spouse, and herself. It’s Mom who schedules the doctor’s appointments, hunts down the immunization records for...

Published Sun, May 10 2015 5:30 AM by The Healthcare 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

The “21st Century Cures” Draft Bill: A Step Away From Transparency

By NIAM YARAGHI There is optimism that Congress will soon pass the 21st Century Cures bill. The draft bill proposed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee aims to foster medical innovation by streamlining the FDA regulatory process and increasing...

Published Mon, May 18 2015 7:39 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Physicians, FDA, CMS, Innovation, Niam Yaraghi, Continuing Medical Education

A Shout Out For Our Sponsors: HealthCatalyst

By MATTHEW HOLT This fine blog would not be possible without the support of our wonderful corporate underwriters. The days when blogs ran on shoestrings and sticky tape are, alas, long gone. Putting on a show like the one you see on THCB takes considerable...

Published Tue, May 19 2015 1:59 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

An Interview with BID-Plymouth CIO Ron Rutherford and Clinical Informatics Nurse Jean Marie Grupillion

By MICHELLE RONAN NOTEBOOM Michelle Noteboom: Give me a bit of background on your hospital. Ron Rutherford: Jordan Hospital is a 100-plus-year-old, a 155-bed community hospital that actually was acquired and became a part of the Beth Israel Deaconess...

Published Mon, May 18 2015 8:19 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Uncategorized, Voalte BID-Plymouth

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

Jonathan Bush & the Dinosaurs

Around this time of year I tend to dump a bunch of interviews from HIMSS (April 2015) onto THCB. This year we’re starting with the first I did, which was as ever the most fun. I give you (pre-pie which happened later that night) Mr Jonathan Bush...

Published Sun, May 10 2015 2:20 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Matthew Holt, Jonathan Bush, athenahealth, CommonWell, HIMSS15

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Real Meaningful Use? Curing Healthcare’s Digital Divide

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

Patient Engagement: Much Bigger Than Patient Portals

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

ONC Awards $300K in Funding to 6 Digital Health Pilot Projects!

A Shout Out For Our Sponsors: Health Catalyst

Why Cancer Patients and Clinicians Need a Decision Aid Upgrade

Keep Calm and Interoperate On

Do it for Mom: Sign Up to Support Electronic Access to Your Health Records Today

Something Completely Different

The “21st Century Cures” Draft Bill: A Step Away From Transparency

A Shout Out For Our Sponsors: HealthCatalyst

An Interview with BID-Plymouth CIO Ron Rutherford and Clinical Informatics Nurse Jean Marie Grupillion

Sumit Nagpal, Lumira, talks rebranding & more

Jonathan Bush & the Dinosaurs