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

Avoid ICD-10! Yes You Can!

By JACOB REIDER, MD Lots of news/talk about ICD-10 these days. Most organizations are spending time and money training care providers on it. Software developers are busy implementing it – often by changing diagnosis selection search menus from ICD...

Published Thu, Jul 23 2015 2:34 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, ICD-10, Jacob Reider, ICD-9, SNOMED-CT

We Designed An Industrialized Healthcare System

By ANDY DELAO Process improvement. The 80 / 20 rule. 6 Sigma. Lean. Defects. Waste. Efficiency. Output. Production. Value added. Automation. Productivity. Workflow. Capacity Management. Quality. Access. Costs. Scale. I have noticed over the past few years...

Published Tue, Jul 28 2015 9:34 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Andy Delao

At 50, Medicare and Medicaid Face the Challenge of a New Generation of Super-Expensive Drugs

By STEVEN FINDLAY Happy birthday Medicare and Medicaid! Fifty years old today. Middle age. Congratulations. You’ve survived a lot—and 76 million baby boomers and 60 million low-income Americans are mighty glad you’re still around, covering one in three...

Published Thu, Jul 30 2015 11:33 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Steven Findlay

The Future of Aging and Technology

By SUSANNAH FOX You might be wondering why a Chief Technology Officer would be talking about aging. Isn’t tech a young person’s game? First of all, I love Alan Kay’s definition: Technology is anything invented after you were born. Second, my grandmother...

Published Fri, Jul 31 2015 9:59 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Susannah Fox

HIT Newser: CMS & AMA Agree to be Odd ICD-10 Bedfellows

By MICHELLE RONAN NOTEBOOM CMS agrees to first-year flexibility in ICD-10 claims processing CMS releases guidance that will allow for flexibility in the claims auditing and quality reporting process for the new ICD-10 codeset. CMS will keep the October...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2015 3:45 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Why Doctors Quit (And What to Do About It)

By JOHN HAUGHOM, MD I got an e-mail from out of the blue the other day. The e-mail informed me that a colleague, a man I respected greatly, had tendered his resignation at the hospital. That coming Friday would be his last day. There would be an informal...

Published Wed, Jul 08 2015 3:36 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Physicians, John Haughom, Millenials, Self-Esteem

How Big Data Can Be Used to Improve Early Detection of Cognitive isease

By CYNTHIA RUDIN The aging of populations worldwide is leading to many healthcare challenges, such as an increase in dementia patients. One recent estimate suggests that 13.9% of people above age 70 currently suffer from some form of dementia like Alzheimer...

Published Mon, Jul 13 2015 7:19 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Alzheimer's, Uncategorized, Big Data, Machine learning models

Surgical Complication Rates just got Simple: MedicineBall Is the New MoneyBall

By JORDAN SHLAIN, MD In an age where the importance of data, statistics and predictive modeling can win games for baseball teams and make money for high-frequency traders, the last bastion of opacity is in the midst of getting a whopping dose of sunshine...

Published Wed, Jul 15 2015 4:48 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Watson will replace me? Not a chance

PO-HAO CHEN, MD Arthur C. Clark and Stanley Kubrick predicted supercomputers more intelligent than humans. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the HAL states, with typical human immodesty, “The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made… We are all...

Published Thu, Jul 16 2015 6:35 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Standards Alone are not the Answer for Interoperability

By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD Adrian Gropper, MD discussed the ongoing efforts and challenges toward achieving health information interoperability. McCallie presented a list of “sufficient conditions for interoperability” and argued that “Congress should accordingly...

Published Sun, Jul 19 2015 6:56 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Tech, HIPAA, Interoperability, FHIR

The ProPublica Report Card: A Step In the Right Direction

By ASHISH JHA, MD Last week, Marshall Allan and Olga Pierce, two journalists at ProPublica, published a surgeon report card detailing complication rates of 17,000 individual surgeons from across the nation. A product of many years of work, it benefitted...

Published Tue, Jul 21 2015 4:52 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Quantifying the Art of Medicine

By BRIAN C. QUINN Historically, placebos have been defined as a sugar pill or inert substance used as a control variable in experimental studies. Placebo effects were considered a nuisance. Researchers and clinicians have paid little attention to the...

Published Wed, Jul 01 2015 3:12 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Designing With Data Across Devices

By MATTHEW HOLT If flying an airplane without cockpit instruments is equivalent to having no data about healthcare delivery, then flying an airplane with an overwhelmingly complex cockpit data environment is probably just as dangerous. In this compelling...

Published Sat, Jul 04 2015 6:30 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

It’s “Slack for Health Care”- athenaText

By MATTHEW HOLT By now it’s not a secret that EMRs are “records” and yet we’ve been trying to cram communication functions down their throat. Meanwhile the hottest tools in enterprise tech are souped up versions of AIM Read...

Published Wed, Jul 22 2015 1:21 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, EMR, athenahealth, athenaClinicals, IM, text messaging, Abbe Don

I Ditched My Free EHR. Here’s What Happened Next …

By MOLLY MALOOF, MD SPONSORED CONTENT When thinking about the phrase return on investment (ROI) what immediately comes to mind is money saved or earned (ROI = net gain/cost). But, when it comes to HIT, calculating investments and returns is Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 23 2015 5:09 AM by THCB

Filed under: HIT, EHR, THCB, Small Practice, Molly Maloof

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Avoid ICD-10! Yes You Can!

We Designed An Industrialized Healthcare System

At 50, Medicare and Medicaid Face the Challenge of a New Generation of Super-Expensive Drugs

The Future of Aging and Technology

HIT Newser: CMS & AMA Agree to be Odd ICD-10 Bedfellows

Why Doctors Quit (And What to Do About It)

How Big Data Can Be Used to Improve Early Detection of Cognitive isease

Surgical Complication Rates just got Simple: MedicineBall Is the New MoneyBall

Watson will replace me? Not a chance

Standards Alone are not the Answer for Interoperability

The ProPublica Report Card: A Step In the Right Direction

Quantifying the Art of Medicine

Designing With Data Across Devices

It’s “Slack for Health Care”- athenaText

I Ditched My Free EHR. Here’s What Happened Next …