October 2015 - The Health Care Blog

Stop Calling Them Patients!

BY JIM PURCELL We have a healthcare system that is provider-centric indeed. Why else would we call the consumers of their services “patients?” Perhaps because they have to be patient. Patient because they have to wait long after their appointed hour to...

Published Fri, Oct 23 2015 10:25 AM by THCB

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Healthcare’s Deadly Data Problem

By LEONARD D’AVOLIO I have read with interest the ongoing conversation about the ProPublica Surgeon Scorecard in THCB and beyond, not because I believe this latest effort at measuring quality will have a significant effect on patient care, but because...

Published Mon, Oct 26 2015 5:19 PM by THCB

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Is Health IT Finally Ready to Tackle Last-Mile Analytics?

By DAN HOUSMAN I have spent several years working with specialty medical offices like oncology centers, diabetes clinics, IPAs (Independent Practice Associations), and disease advocacy groups seeking to build health care data warehouses and analytics...

Published Tue, Oct 27 2015 1:20 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Dan Housman

Practice Data Points

Private Medicine in India is a Free Market

BY SAURABH JHA, MD Once, a farmer from a village in Bihar was diagnosed with colon cancer. He came to Patna, the capital city, to have the tumor removed. Because he was poor, my father recommended a young surgeon who trained in the UK. The surgeon was...

Published Thu, Oct 01 2015 9:20 AM by THCB

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Tyson’s Law

By MICHAEL PAINTER, MD I’m reading the morning news on my iPad at 32,000 feet en route from New Jersey to Silicon Valley for the annual fall Health 2.0 meeting. I love coming to this place with its promise and hope pushing us toward better futures. Of...

Published Sun, Oct 04 2015 3:24 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

Measured Outcomes: A Future View of Value-Based Care

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Published Mon, Oct 05 2015 2:57 PM by THCB

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The Legend of the Avoidable Hospital Readmission

By HANS DUVEFELT, MD A long, long time ago, hospitals existed to admit patients when they were sick, treat them with medicines or surgery and good nursing care, and discharge them after they became well. Hospital care was at one time a charity, which...

Published Tue, Oct 06 2015 10:58 AM by THCB

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Small Groups Changing the World: ReThink Health’s Report On Multi-Sector Partnerships for Health

By SUSAN DENTZER “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has,” goes the quotation usually attributed to the late anthropologist Margaret Mead. Today, huddled around...

Published Wed, Oct 07 2015 2:36 PM by THCB

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Healthcare Startups – Why Now and So What?

By LEONARD D’AVOLIO It’s 8:15 on Friday evening. I’m almost through editing the job description for a user interface engineer after sending off an introductory slide deck to a potential client. Today I met with a business development prospect, held...

Published Fri, Oct 09 2015 12:59 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Leonard D’Avolio

Cool Stuff I Taught My EHR to Do

By HAYWARD ZWERLING, MD I am an IT geek physician. I have my an EHR which I created and control. Today, I wanted to understand my diabetic practice a little more, so I dumped all my HbA1c data out of my EHR and into a spreadsheet where I was able to manipulate...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2015 8:21 AM by THCB

Filed under: EHR, THCB, Data, Physician, Customization, Hayward Zwerling

Scoring the Surgeon Scorecard

By MARK W. FRIEDBERG Mark W Friedberg, PhD, is a researcher at the RAND Institute and a co-author of the recent RAND analysis of the Surgeon Scorecard. He posted this on THCB in response to Ashish Jha’s post “Misunderstanding ProPublica.”...

Published Tue, Oct 13 2015 9:55 AM by THCB

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An Interview with PatientSafe CEO Joseph Condurso

By MICHELLE RONAN NOTEBOOM An interview with Joseph Condurso, president and CEO of PatientSafe Solutions Michelle Noteboom: Give me a short overview of PatientSafe and your role in the company. Joseph Condurso: I’m the president and chief executive officer...

Published Mon, Oct 12 2015 10:02 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Uncategorized

GET Funded Service – What did we learn?

By PASCAL LARDIER Part of an EU-funded programme, the GET Funded service targeted European digital health SMEs looking for follow-up investments – typically between 0.5 and 2M € – and was designed to provide them with training, resources and networking...

Published Thu, Oct 15 2015 12:35 PM by THCB

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Why Watson May Not Quite Be the Great Civilizational Advance IBM Says It Is

By PAUL LEVY The joke goes like this: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson decide to go on a camping trip. After dinner and a bottle of wine, they lay down for the night, and go to sleep. Some hours later, Holmes awoke and nudged his faithful friend. “Watson...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2015 12:12 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Paul Levy

October 2015 - The Health Care Blog

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Stop Calling Them Patients!

Healthcare’s Deadly Data Problem

Is Health IT Finally Ready to Tackle Last-Mile Analytics?

Practice Data Points

Private Medicine in India is a Free Market

Tyson’s Law

Measured Outcomes: A Future View of Value-Based Care

The Legend of the Avoidable Hospital Readmission

Small Groups Changing the World: ReThink Health’s Report On Multi-Sector Partnerships for Health

Healthcare Startups – Why Now and So What?

Cool Stuff I Taught My EHR to Do

Scoring the Surgeon Scorecard

An Interview with PatientSafe CEO Joseph Condurso

GET Funded Service – What did we learn?

Why Watson May Not Quite Be the Great Civilizational Advance IBM Says It Is