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The Top Five Recommendations For Improving the Patient Experience
By KATHLEEN MERKLEY and ANNE MARIE-BERKMORE Healthcare organizations are working diligently to improve patient satisfaction and the patient experience of care. After all, patient experience of care is a critical quality domain used to evaluate hospital...
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Wed, Sep 07 2016 11:41 AM
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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...
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Fri, Sep 23 2016 11:52 PM
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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...
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Mon, Sep 26 2016 6:57 AM
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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...
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Fri, Sep 23 2016 11:49 AM
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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...
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Sun, Sep 18 2016 9:49 PM
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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...
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Mon, Sep 19 2016 12:01 PM
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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...
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Thu, Sep 22 2016 6:16 AM
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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...
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Tue, Sep 20 2016 11:07 AM
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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...
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Sun, Sep 25 2016 10:20 AM
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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 &...
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Sun, Sep 25 2016 1:30 PM
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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...
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Fri, Sep 30 2016 2:47 PM
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A Hole in the Heart, Part II
By ANISH KOKA, MD Click here for part 1 “A Hole in the Heart, Part I” If you have NOT read part I, we highly recommend that you go there now and then come back and read the continuation. – The Editors Analysis of the Randomized Control...
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Sun, Sep 11 2016 1:19 PM
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The Health 2.0 10 Year Global Retrospective Awards
By MATTHEW HOLT Yup, more blowing the trumpet about Health 2.0! We’re celebrating our 10th conference in 2 weeks and over the summer we’ve been looking back at the people and organizations who’ve made a mark in health tech, digital health...
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Mon, Sep 12 2016 4:39 PM
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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...
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Thu, Sep 29 2016 2:09 PM
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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...
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Sun, Sep 25 2016 10:58 AM
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