September 2016 - The Health Care Blog

The Letter of Recommendation: A Two Way Legal Instrument

By VARUN SETHI, MD Letters of recommendation (LORs) are a common part of the job application. Employers rely on them to help choose new hires. Many physicians have written reference letters for their peers and trainees. It is important to appreciate that...

Published Fri, Sep 30 2016 2:47 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Fail to Scale: Why Great Ideas In Healthcare Don’t Thrive Everywhere

By JEFF GOLDSMITH and LAWTON BURNS In the world of fine wine, it is well known that some types of wine grapes grow only in very specific climates and ecologies. The concept borrowed from the French is “terroir” (ter-WAHR). Terroir explains why the finest...

Published Thu, Sep 29 2016 2:09 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Advancing Health IT and Preventing Data Blocking through Model Contract Language

By ANDY SLAVITT and VINDELL WASHINGTON, MD As we move to transform the health care system into one that delivers more coordinated care across various clinicians and providers, it is important that data is available to providers and patients when and where...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2016 6:57 AM by THCB

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Building Better Metrics: Focus on Patient Empowerment

By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD Growing up during the 1970’s and 80’s, the “Little House on the Prairie” television series was an iconic part of my childhood. Doc Baker was the physician and veterinarian for all of Walnut Grove, in spite of limited resources. Medical...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2016 12:09 AM by THCB

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Interview with Rasu Shrestha, CIO at UPMC

More about Health 2.0 Rasu Shrestha, CIO at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center, will be joining me on stage this afternoon in our Provider Symposium (on his birthday) and again on Tuesday, September 27th for our Information Blocking, APIs &...

Published Sun, Sep 25 2016 1:30 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

The Rise and Decline of the Dartmouth Atlas

By KIP SULLIVAN In my first comment in this series (an open letter to President Obama), I criticized Obama for stating in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association that the Affordable Care Act is deflationary. I promised him I would...

Published Sun, Sep 25 2016 10:58 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Practicing Physicians and Healthcare Reform: Population Health vs. Compensation Wealth

By NATHAN KAUFMAN In her August 14th 2016 interview with the LA Times regarding the ACA and value-based reimbursement, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell stated, …”and medical providers want this.1” After reading this article, I wondered for a moment if I am...

Published Sun, Sep 25 2016 10:20 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, ACOs, Uncategorized, MACRA, Catalyst for Payment Reform, payment reform

A chat with Ian Morrison

My old friend and former boss Ian Morrison will be giving the keynote at Health 2.0’s 10th Annual Fall Conference on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 27th. Ian was President of Institute for the Future in the 1990s, founded the Strategic Health Perspectives...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2016 11:52 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Ian Morrison

For Healthcare Cybersecurity the Whole is Weaker Than the Sum of the Parts

By JESSE WALKER and ROSS KOPPEL Before addressing the special attractions and vulnerabilities of healthcare data and software, a little background on cybersecurity of complex systems may be helpful: The single most important lesson from our experiences...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2016 11:49 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Rallying Cry: Cloud and Data First For Pharma

By DAN HOUSMAN Maybe it is just the shock of being post Labor Day and realizing that summer is fading into the rear view mirror or maybe it was something I ate for breakfast that spurred new hope. But I think that this is the year that the patient centric...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2016 11:20 AM by THCB

Filed under: Pharma, Clinical Trials, Uncategorized, Cloud, Unstructured data, Data Lake

A Fail For Activity Trackers: The I Told You So’s vs Need More Datas

By DAVID SHAYWITZ, MD Perhaps the normally measured physician-economist Aaron Carroll best captured the reaction and sentiments of the healthcare community in response to a recent JAMA article demonstrating that subjects in a weight reduction study using...

Published Thu, Sep 22 2016 6:16 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Fitbit, David Shaywitz, Activity Trackers

The Nordics at Health 2.0

By now you all know that the 10th Annual Health 2.0 Fall Conference is next week. What you may not know is that it’s a great place to meet delegates from across the world. In particular both tech companies and providers & government officials...

Published Wed, Sep 21 2016 1:09 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0

Statin Wars: Less-is-More versus Unlimited Medicine

By SARAH JHA, MD It is the beauty of evidence-based medicine (EBM) that a scientist can at once be a Pope and a Galileo. His transmutation is as effortless as it is discretionary. If you think you’ve met Galileo – a rebel, a free thinker, a rocker...

Published Tue, Sep 20 2016 11:07 AM by THCB

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The Rest of the Story About the Economic Good News

By PAUL KECKLEY Legendary radio commentator Paul Harvey ended his daily report with a final story introduced by the tease “Now for the rest of the story.” Last Tuesday, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that median household income increased 5.2% in 2015...

Published Mon, Sep 19 2016 12:01 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Paul Keckley

Accessing & Using APIs from Major EMR Vendors–Some Data at Last!

By MATTHEW HOLT Today I’m happy to release some really unique data about a pressing problem–the ability of small tech vendors to access health data contained in the systems of the major EMR vendors. There’ll be much more discussion of...

Published Sun, Sep 18 2016 9:49 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Tech, EMR, EHR vendors, CHCF, API, Survey

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The Letter of Recommendation: A Two Way Legal Instrument

Fail to Scale: Why Great Ideas In Healthcare Don’t Thrive Everywhere

Advancing Health IT and Preventing Data Blocking through Model Contract Language

Building Better Metrics: Focus on Patient Empowerment

Interview with Rasu Shrestha, CIO at UPMC

The Rise and Decline of the Dartmouth Atlas

Practicing Physicians and Healthcare Reform: Population Health vs. Compensation Wealth

A chat with Ian Morrison

For Healthcare Cybersecurity the Whole is Weaker Than the Sum of the Parts

Rallying Cry: Cloud and Data First For Pharma

A Fail For Activity Trackers: The I Told You So’s vs Need More Datas

The Nordics at Health 2.0

Statin Wars: Less-is-More versus Unlimited Medicine

The Rest of the Story About the Economic Good News

Accessing & Using APIs from Major EMR Vendors–Some Data at Last!