June 2016 - The Health Care Blog - The Network of Care

Making Transparency Work: Why We Need New Efforts to Make Data Usable

By ASHISH JHA, MD Get a group of health policy experts together and you’ll find one area of near universal agreement: we need more transparency in healthcare. The notion behind transparency is straightforward; greater availability of data on provider...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2016 8:12 AM by THCB

Filed under: CMS, Data, Uncategorized, Hospital Compare

Mark Andreeseen on “Will Computers Replace Doctors?”

By DAVID SHAYWITZ, MD A constant frustration for many in healthcare is the cognitive dissonance between the elegant, highly anticipated promise of technology solutions and the messy, lived complexity of clinical practice. In this context, I was fascinated...

Published Fri, Jun 03 2016 10:00 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Consumer Groups Weigh in on EHRs Under MACRA

By STEVEN FINDLAY One of the things that needs to happen as physician payment reform and EHR interoperability (post-meaningful use) evolve under MACRA is this: CMS and ONC need to promote, measure and significantly enhance consumers’ access to their health...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2016 12:38 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Features Which Should Be In Most EMRs/EHRs

By HAYWARD ZWERLING, MD I have been in the health information technology field since 1990 when I began creating ComChart EMR. It was a labor of love which ultimately evolved into a small business. From 2004 until 2012, ComChart EMR had amongst the highest...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2016 2:32 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Assessing the Validity of MACRA’s Risk Adjustment Schemes

By KIP SULLIVAN The feedback doctors will receive from CMS under CMS’s proposed MACRA rule will arrive in two forms: Money (more or less of it) and data. Neither form of feedback will be accurate. For that reason, the behavior desired by Congress and...

Published Tue, Jun 14 2016 8:32 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

All Risk is Local

By JEFF GOLDSMITH and BRUCE HENDERSON We all knew how this was going to go, or thought we did. Fee-for-service payment for health services was going to disappear, and be replaced by population health risk-based payment (or as some term it, “capitation...

Published Thu, Jun 16 2016 10:55 AM by THCB

Filed under: Jeff Goldsmith, Affordable Care Act, Uncategorized, ACO, risk

The Black List Part II (Features Which Should Be In Every EHR, But For Some Reason Aren’t)

By HAYWARD ZWERLING, MD I have been involved in HIT for 2.5 decades as a designer and primary programmer of a commercial EMR which I developed for my practice and was sold from 2000 until 2015. As a result of that experience, and 15 years of interactions...

Published Sat, Jun 18 2016 5:38 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, The Black List

Will Federal Court Back Rules Treating Health Insurance as a Utility, Not a Luxury?

BY HOWARD GREEN, MD On June 14, 2016 a Federal Court ruled that broadband internet is as essential to American as phones, electricity, water and sewer systems and should be available to all Americans as a utility, rather than a luxury that doesn’t need...

Published Tue, Jun 21 2016 9:11 AM by THCB

Filed under: Affordable Care Act, Healthcare, Uncategorized, monopoly, Utility

The Insurer Fee Disconnect

By JIM PURCELL A message to health insurance CEOs, COOs, and CFOs. I believe there to be a fundamental disconnect between typical health insurer provider reimbursement strategies and the long term good of our healthcare delivery system and its financing...

Published Thu, Jun 23 2016 1:02 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Retraction and the Rise of the Truth Jihadis

By SAURABH JHA, MD A petition to the British Medical Journal (BMJ) asking for Makary’s paper on medical errors to be retracted has received over 100 signatures. I, amongst others, criticized Makary’s analysis. But I shall not be signing the petition....

Published Sun, Jun 26 2016 9:11 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

The Physician’s Case For Trump

By ANISH KOKA, MD Brexit has been hailed as a turning point in the history of Western Democracy by a collection of liberal and conservative elites that decry the vote of a disenchanted and ignorant populace. The greatest threat to democracy in the modern...

Published Thu, Jun 30 2016 7:50 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Anish Koka

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Making Transparency Work: Why We Need New Efforts to Make Data Usable

Mark Andreeseen on “Will Computers Replace Doctors?”

Consumer Groups Weigh in on EHRs Under MACRA

Features Which Should Be In Most EMRs/EHRs

Assessing the Validity of MACRA’s Risk Adjustment Schemes

All Risk is Local

The Black List Part II (Features Which Should Be In Every EHR, But For Some Reason Aren’t)

Will Federal Court Back Rules Treating Health Insurance as a Utility, Not a Luxury?

The Insurer Fee Disconnect

Retraction and the Rise of the Truth Jihadis

The Physician’s Case For Trump