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

What Company Will You Keep? Strategy In Health Care’s New Era

By JOE FLOWER How do you plan? Obviously, you have to. Obviously, you can’t. For your organization, and for you as a health care leader, the rapid and, at times, chaotic changes in the payment systems, the purchasers’ strategies, your population...

Published Wed, Jul 15 2015 1:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Change Management, Complex Adaptive System

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

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

Xerox is extending to consumers & communities

By MATTHEW HOLT I’m steadily getting all those interviews I did 3+ months ago at HIMSS up onto THCB. (For those of you not paying attention we had a bunch of tech issues at THCB needing a big change and had to forswear videos for a while. But we’re...

Published Thu, Jul 30 2015 11:36 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Matthew Holt, Tech, Remote visit, Healthspot, Xerox

(Even) More Disruption, Please !!

By KYLE ARMBESTER There are two questions I hear all the time from digital health care entrepreneurs: 1) How can I gain initial market traction? 2) How do I grow my client base? Health care is an incredibly tough market to sell into. Even if you have...

Published Wed, Jul 08 2015 5:58 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, digital health, Accelerator, Startup, Entrepreneur

What the Atlanta HIV Data Tells Us About Public Health in America

By MAITHRI VANGALA “The night I found out, I slept one and a half hours,” recalls D, a 29-year-old black gay man. He’s talking about being diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. “Even though I work in public health and tell people daily that...

Published Fri, Jul 10 2015 11:54 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, CDC, HIV, AIDSVu, Atlanta, Maithri Vangala

Patient-Driven Interoperability

By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD A few weeks ago a post by David McCallie discussed the ongoing efforts and challenges toward achieving health information interoperability. McCallie presented a list of “sufficient conditions for interoperability” and argued that...

Published Mon, Jul 20 2015 6:50 PM by THCB

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

NantHealth buys Harris: Why?

By MATTHEW HOLT Yesterday Harris Corporation sold its health care operation–mostly based around the former CareFx HIE product (now named FusionFx)–to Patrick Soon Shiong’s NantHealth. This follows close on the heels of NantHealth’s...

Published Thu, Jul 16 2015 11:25 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Matthew Holt, Tech, NantHealth, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Harris Healthcare Solutions, Eileen Rivera

The reboot for Care Innovations: Interview

By MATTHEW HOLT I’m steadily getting all those interviews I did 3+ months ago at HIMSS up onto THCB. (For those of you not paying attention we had a bunch of tech issues at THCB needing a big change and had to forswear videos for a while. But we’re...

Published Tue, Jul 28 2015 8:31 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Matthew Holt, Care Innovations, Validation Institute

Dean Stephens updates Healthline’s new entry into clinical world

By MATTHEW HOLT A few weeks back I caught up with a Health 2.0 veteran Dean Stephens, CEO of Healthline. For those of you who’ve not been paying attention Healthline.com has become a very fast growing consumer site–now with over 30m visits...

Published Mon, Jul 20 2015 11:23 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Media, Dean Stephens, Healtlhline.com, NLP, HEALTHLINE

Who are patient portals really for?

By ADAM BAKER I already know my blood type, what conditions and allergies I have, and when my last appointment was. And I don’t know what to do with the millilitre-by-millilitre values from my last blood workup. It’s important information for my doctor...

Published Thu, Jul 23 2015 10:20 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, patient portal, iodine, ADAM BAKER

The Feminization of Health Care

By AMY COMPTON-PHILLIPS, MD Historically, health care providers and health care leaders have been selected for and nurtured traits that are traditionally seen as “masculine” – traits such as heroism, independence, and competition. Yet it is clear that...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2015 5:05 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

After Transparency: Morbidity Hunter MD joins Cherry Picker MD

By SAURABH JHA, MD When report cards of performance became available, cardiac surgeons in New York and Pennsylvania avoided high risk patients. Could something similar happen, nationally, after the forthcoming revolution in transparency inspired by Propublica...

Published Fri, Jul 17 2015 8:07 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Calendar: Powering Medical Research With Data: The Research Analytics Adoption Model

By HEALTH CATALYST TODAY JULY 22/ 1 PM EST Analytics are becoming imperative to researchers in recruiting patients into studies, making breakthrough discoveries, as well as monitoring the clinical implementation of these discoveries. This webinar will...

Published Wed, Jul 22 2015 7:46 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

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What Company Will You Keep? Strategy In Health Care’s New Era

We Designed An Industrialized Healthcare System

Avoid ICD-10! Yes You Can!

Xerox is extending to consumers & communities

(Even) More Disruption, Please !!

What the Atlanta HIV Data Tells Us About Public Health in America

Patient-Driven Interoperability

NantHealth buys Harris: Why?

The reboot for Care Innovations: Interview

Dean Stephens updates Healthline’s new entry into clinical world

Who are patient portals really for?

The Feminization of Health Care

Watson will replace me? Not a chance

After Transparency: Morbidity Hunter MD joins Cherry Picker MD

Calendar: Powering Medical Research With Data: The Research Analytics Adoption Model