September 2017 - The Health Care Blog

Lessons From Massachusetts’ Failed Healthcare Cost Experiment

By SOUMERAI, KOPPELL & BOLOTNIKOVA Massachusetts passed a massive medical cost control bill in 2012, a “Hail Mary” effort to make health-care more affordable in the nation’s most expensive medical market. The problems of the Massachusetts’ law offer...

Published Wed, Sep 27 2017 2:25 PM by THCB

Filed under: Massachusetts, Uncategorized, Harvard Medical School, Partners, Romneycare, cost containment

Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a Recovering Doctor

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD Yeah, I know I used that line once before, but it’s a special day for me today. Humor me. Five years ago today I earned my last money from an insurance company. Yep, today is my five year sobriety date. Five years. That was before...

Published Wed, Sep 27 2017 2:24 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Big Names, Big Ideas at Health 2.0 Fall Conference

The Annual Health 2.0 Fall Conference has harnessed the creativity and passion of health care’s brightest professionals to tackle the industry’s most intractable problems and leverage technology-enabled solutions to drive more compassionate...

Published Wed, Sep 27 2017 2:01 PM by THCB

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

Graham-Cassidy is Dead. It’s Back to the Drawing Board. Why Not a Two-Tier System?

BY BRIAN JOONDEPH, MD Remember back in 2012 when then Vice-President Joe Biden told us, “Bin Laden is dead, General Motors is alive”? The good old days. Also around the time Senators John McCain and Lisa Murkowski promised to repeal Obamacare. Along with...

Published Wed, Sep 27 2017 9:54 AM by THCB

Filed under: Obamacare, Uncategorized, Medicare For All, Graham Cassidy, Two-Tiered System

How health IT organizations are using security as a competitive advantage

BY ANDREW HICKS SPONSORED CONTENT When speaking with our health IT clients, I’m hearing a distinct shift when it comes to cybersecurity. They no longer view it as an IT cost; they understand how it can facilitate growth, create competitive advantage and...

Published Tue, Sep 26 2017 8:13 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Tech, Security, Andrew Hicks, Coalfire

How Wellness Become the Wrong Word

JIM PURCELL What do employers want more than anything? Healthy, engaged, productive, energized, and thriving employees who provide great customer service and high quality products. What they have is all too often the antithesis of that. This article is...

Published Tue, Sep 26 2017 1:01 PM by THCB

Filed under: Wellness, Uncategorized, Jim Purcell, Employee, Wellbeing, Workplace, Happiness

Postgaming Sunday’s Graham-Cassidy Action

By PAUL KONNOTH Another day, another draft of Graham-Cassidy. And yet another slew of special deals for Alaska, which I have criticized as unconstitutional elsewhere. Congresional Republicans must pass their recent version of Obamacare repeal by September...

Published Mon, Sep 25 2017 1:40 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

An Op-Ed Ghostwriter Speaks

By WILLIAM S KLEIN Is it “a breach of trust” for a publication to publish an opinion piece that was written with the participation of public relations professionals? That was the conclusion of a recent article in Health News Review, a publication that...

Published Mon, Sep 25 2017 11:20 AM by THCB

Filed under: Pharma, Uncategorized, William S. Klein, Ghosting, Ghostwriting

Microsoft Set To Demo VR/Mixed reality Physician Education Platform

Dr. Simon Kos had big shoes to fill when he took over the role of Microsoft Chief Medical Officer from Dr. Bill Crounse last year. Dr. Kos said himself that they were some “big scrubs to fill”. However, at the time he had already been with Microsoft for...

Published Mon, Sep 25 2017 11:16 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Physicians, Patients, Economics, Hospitals, Tech, The Business of Health Care, Featured, THCBist, Trending

Interview with Paul Black, CEO, Allscripts

Paul Black is CEO of Allscripts and he’ll be with me at Health 2.0 on October 1-4. Paul has been CEO of Allscripts for about five years, taking over from Glen Tullman who grew the company aggressively by acquisition over the previous decade. Paul...

Published Mon, Sep 25 2017 1:05 AM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Tech, Allscripts, FHIR, Paul Black

As Ohio Goes, So May Go the Nation: The Patient Access Expansion Act

By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD According to recent Ohio statistics, 1.3 million people have limited or no access to primary care physicians. Based on the 2015 Ohio Primary Care Assessment, 60 of 88 Ohio counties have medically-underserved populations. The Patient...

Published Sun, Sep 24 2017 2:03 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Maintenance of Certification: Who’s Regulating the Regulators?

By RICH DUSZAK, MD When four physician certification boards founded the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) in 1933, those forward thinking organizations—and their professional society sponsors—launched a national movement toward ever increasing...

Published Sun, Sep 24 2017 1:39 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Larry Weed’s Legacy and the Next Generation of Clinical Decision Support

BY LINCOLN WEED, JD “Patients are sitting on a treasure trove of data about their own medical conditions.” My late father, Dr. Lawrence L. Weed (LLW), made this point the day before he died. He was talking about the lost wealth of neglected patient data...

Published Fri, Sep 22 2017 2:58 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

How the Government is Failing Health Tech Startups and What to Do About It

By SUHAS GONDI As the Senate debated the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in Washington this past summer, healthcare was front and center in newspapers and conversations around the country. While insurance coverage and the affordability of care certainly...

Published Fri, Sep 22 2017 2:45 PM by THCB

Filed under: Tech

Giving a Voice To Healthcare’s ‘Unacceptables’

By Indu Subaiya Humans are aspirational by nature. We dream big and invest tools that help us dream bigger. But we forget—sometimes willfully—that many of us are being left behind—because of racial, cultural or gender biases; poor access to connected...

Published Fri, Sep 22 2017 11:16 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Featured

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Lessons From Massachusetts’ Failed Healthcare Cost Experiment

Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a Recovering Doctor

Big Names, Big Ideas at Health 2.0 Fall Conference

Graham-Cassidy is Dead. It’s Back to the Drawing Board. Why Not a Two-Tier System?

How health IT organizations are using security as a competitive advantage

How Wellness Become the Wrong Word

Postgaming Sunday’s Graham-Cassidy Action

An Op-Ed Ghostwriter Speaks

Microsoft Set To Demo VR/Mixed reality Physician Education Platform

Interview with Paul Black, CEO, Allscripts

As Ohio Goes, So May Go the Nation: The Patient Access Expansion Act

Maintenance of Certification: Who’s Regulating the Regulators?

Larry Weed’s Legacy and the Next Generation of Clinical Decision Support

How the Government is Failing Health Tech Startups and What to Do About It

Giving a Voice To Healthcare’s ‘Unacceptables’