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

To Make Hospital Quality a Priority, Take a Page From Finance

By PETER PRONOVOST, MD When you are a patient at a hospital, you want to know that the executives who run that facility put the safety and quality of care above all other concerns. Encouragingly, more of them are saying that safety is indeed their number...

Published Thu, Jul 09 2015 7:05 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Bungled Payments

By PAUL KECKLEY The proposal involves a five-year bundled payment model across 75 geographic areas whereby hospitals would be eligible for a bonus if their costs and outcomes were optimal or be penalized if not based on results 90 days post-discharge...

Published Mon, Jul 13 2015 10:07 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, CMS, Paul Keckley, Burwell, bundled payments

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

Powering Medical Research With Data: The Research Analytics Adoption Model

By HEALTH CATALYST SPONSORED CONTENT Research is a critical part of creating a learning health system that routinely incorporates the latest treatment guidelines into its clinical care. The efficacy of new treatments and guidelines are studied by researchers...

Published Mon, Jul 13 2015 6:30 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

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

Building a Corporate Venture Group That Matters

By BILL TARANTO “Um…Who are you, and why are you in my office?” This was the verbatim greeting we received from respected Sand Hill Road investors when we first introduced Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund (GHI) in 2010. However, since that time we...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2015 4:30 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Physician Accountability Gets a Big Push Forward

By STEVE FINDLAY Doctors are human. Their talents and skills differ. They make mistakes. And as with every other area of human endeavor: some doctors are really good; some are pretty bad; most are average. If you are over age 50, you’ve likely met an...

Published Wed, Jul 15 2015 3:20 PM 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

No MUwithoutMe: Here’s What Happened When I Requested My Medical Records

By CINDY NAYER As an innovator, restless entrepreneur, and national award winner for consumer engagement, I was intrigued with the stories I was reading about accessing the patient portal for data, basically the looking glass into “my data.”...

Published Wed, Jul 01 2015 11:35 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

A Declaration of Data Independence Through the Lens of the Patient

By BRIAN AHIER This weekend is not only independence day in the US, it’s the culmination of a patient-led uprising to demand that providers hand over their medical data. To that end I & THCB are supporting Health Data Independence Day. Sign...

Published Fri, Jul 03 2015 1:49 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

The Hidden Side of Health Care: How Rural Pennsylvania Is Facing and Overcoming Obstacles

By ALVERNIA NURSING SPONSORED CONTENT Although Pennsylvania is the sixth most populous and ninth most densely populated state in the Union, based on information from the United States Census Bureau from 2010 and 2013, it also is home to a significant...

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

Filed under: THCB

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

Advertising The Future Health Care Marketplace

By MITCH ROTHSCHILD Looking out the train window at a NJ Transit Coastline stop, I saw the future of shopping in health care. On the platform were side-by-side advertisements for health plans. Typically the domain of Broadway shows, mobile carriers and...

Published Wed, Jul 29 2015 11:00 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, astound, Mitch Rothschild

Limelight Health raises $3m to automate insurance quotes

By MATTHEW HOLT A while back Michael Lujan, who was one of the originals working at Covered California, came to see me at the Health 2.0 office. He and his colleagues realized that the workflow for small business health insurance quotations between the...

Published Mon, Jul 20 2015 5:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, ACA, Limelight Health, brokers, insurance quotes

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

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To Make Hospital Quality a Priority, Take a Page From Finance

Bungled Payments

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

Powering Medical Research With Data: The Research Analytics Adoption Model

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

Building a Corporate Venture Group That Matters

Physician Accountability Gets a Big Push Forward

Quantifying the Art of Medicine

No MUwithoutMe: Here’s What Happened When I Requested My Medical Records

A Declaration of Data Independence Through the Lens of the Patient

The Hidden Side of Health Care: How Rural Pennsylvania Is Facing and Overcoming Obstacles

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

Advertising The Future Health Care Marketplace

Limelight Health raises $3m to automate insurance quotes

Designing With Data Across Devices