August 2017 - The Health Care Blog

The ACO Fix

By JAMES DOULGERIS, MD Kip Sullivan posted an op-ed in “The Health Care Blog,” “On the Ethics of Accountable Care Research,” on August 25, 2017. Mr. Sullivan’s questioning the ethicality of health system generated research papers touting statistically...

Published Thu, Aug 31 2017 9:46 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Should We Fear an Amazon Monopoly on Healthy Food?

By JASON CHUNG Two months ago, I wrote about the potential impact of the Amazon purchase of Whole Foods on grocery prices. Both here and in the Boston Globe, I hoped and predicted that Amazon would use its famed distribution network to drive down...

Published Tue, Aug 29 2017 7:53 AM by THCB

Filed under: Tech, Amazon, Whole Foods, Jason Chung

Can Tech Put the Breaks on Violence?

By ALEX EPSTEIN As if 100+ deaths on U.S. highways every day isn’t horrific enough, we are all too often reading and hearing about cars being intentionally used as weapons and seeing unbelievable images of victims on sidewalks that have been turned...

Published Tue, Aug 29 2017 12:48 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

To Promote Health Care Excellence, Let’s Recognize Approaches That Assure Value

BY BRIAN KLEPPER A challenge for health care purchasers is choosing vendors whose performance matches their cost and outcomes claims. A 2015 Mercer survey found that only 41 percent of worksite clinic sponsors think that they’re saving money. As Al Lewis...

Published Mon, Aug 28 2017 1:51 PM by THCB

Filed under: Brian Klepper, Uncategorized, World Health Care Congress, Care Innovations Validation Institute

Think Different about Patient Engagement: Aetna, Apple, and a Vision of Digital Health’s Future, Part 2

By LYGEIA RICCARDI This is the second post in a series on digital health inspired by Aetna and Apple, whose developing partnership is poised to impact millions of Americans. Part 1 is Mystery Mission in LA. Getting to Patient Engagement “Patient engagement...

Published Mon, Aug 28 2017 10:23 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

On the Ethics of Accountable Care Research

By KIP SULLIVAN, JD Is it ethical for health policy researchers to claim that a Medicare ACO reduced “spending” by 2 percent if the reduction was not statistically significant? Is it ethical for them to do so if they made no effort to measure the cost...

Published Fri, Aug 25 2017 9:53 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Harvard Medical School, Partners

How To Prevent Burnout: A Case in Point. Frederick This One.

By MARTIN A. SAMUELS I posted an essay on The Health Care Blog (entitled The Prevention of Physician Burnout: A Nine Step Program. Here is an example of how this works. Recall the wonderful children’s book by Leo Lionni, Frederick. Let me remind you of...

Published Thu, Aug 24 2017 7:36 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Confessions of a Healthcare Super User

BY JEFF GOLDSMITH On July 17 of this year, I journeyed from Charlottesville Virginia, where I live, to Seattle to have my cervical spine rebuilt at Virginia Mason Medical Center, whose Neuroscience Institute has a national reputation for telling patients...

Published Tue, Aug 22 2017 11:45 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Healthcare As a Moral Universal

By DAVID INTROCASO In mid-July 3 Quarks Daily posted an essay written by Umair Haque, a London-based consultant and frequent contributor to the online Harvard Business Review, that argued “the American experiment is at an end.” This is because unlike...

Published Mon, Aug 21 2017 5:21 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Tackle The Next Wave Of Healthcare Consumerism

Value-based healthcare initiatives are great, but on their own won’t be enough to bend the healthcare cost curve. The focus must move—and move quickly—from treating people who are sick to helping them get and stay healthy. The only way that’s...

Published Mon, Aug 21 2017 2:51 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Hospitals, Tech, Featured, Trending

What Healthcare Can Learn From United Airlines

By BRIAN JOONDEPH, MD Obamacare repeal and replace is going nowhere, despite seven years of promises by Republican members of Congress. For the foreseeable future, it will remain the law of the land, along with rising insurance premiums and deductibles...

Published Mon, Aug 21 2017 11:59 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

How Can I Tell If Medical News Is Fake or Not?

By ROBERT McNUTT, MD Is coffee good for you? A recent headline suggested that people who drink coffee live longer. Sounds great to me. I drink a lot of coffee, so maybe I will be immortal. But, wait, another report links coffee to cancer. Dang. Estrogens...

Published Sat, Aug 19 2017 8:52 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

A Mystery Mission in LA: Aetna, Apple, and a Vision of Digital Health’s Future, Part 1

By LYGEIA RICCIARDI It was an invitation too intriguing to refuse: fly to LA to participate in a “top-secret mission” related to digital health. Instructions? Bring workout clothes. Don’t disclose your location. “We can’t say much. Just enough for you...

Published Thu, Aug 17 2017 8:33 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Apple, Aetna, Apple Watch, digital health

The Best Part Of The Health 2.0 Fall Conference Agenda

There’s still time to secure your ticket before prices increase to this year’s Health 2.0 11th Annual Fall Conference. Whether you’re a Health Provider, Entrepreneur or Investor; the Fall Conference is the place to see the latest health...

Published Wed, Aug 16 2017 10:54 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Physicians, Patients, Hospitals, Tech, Uncategorized, Featured

A New Pothole on the Health Interoperability Superhighway

By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD On July 24, the new administration kicked off their version of interoperability work with a public meeting of the incumbent trust brokers. They invited the usual suspects Carequality, CARIN Alliance, CommonWell, Digital Bridge, DirectTrust...

Published Tue, Aug 15 2017 11:23 AM by THCB

Filed under: ONC, Tech, Uncategorized, Interoperability

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The ACO Fix

Should We Fear an Amazon Monopoly on Healthy Food?

Can Tech Put the Breaks on Violence?

To Promote Health Care Excellence, Let’s Recognize Approaches That Assure Value

Think Different about Patient Engagement: Aetna, Apple, and a Vision of Digital Health’s Future, Part 2

On the Ethics of Accountable Care Research

How To Prevent Burnout: A Case in Point. Frederick This One.

Confessions of a Healthcare Super User

Healthcare As a Moral Universal

Tackle The Next Wave Of Healthcare Consumerism

What Healthcare Can Learn From United Airlines

How Can I Tell If Medical News Is Fake or Not?

A Mystery Mission in LA: Aetna, Apple, and a Vision of Digital Health’s Future, Part 1

The Best Part Of The Health 2.0 Fall Conference Agenda

A New Pothole on the Health Interoperability Superhighway