February 2018 - The Health Care Blog

The Peril of Online Physician Reviews

By NIRAN AL AGBA, MD You may have heard that before you pick a doctor you are supposed to look them up online and see what other people have to say about them before you set up an appointment. In the Age of Amazon this makes sense. Why wouldn’t you? Allow...

Published Wed, Feb 28 2018 7:03 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

A Whiff of Market-Based Health Care Change

By BRIAN KLEPPER Tuesday’s announcement about Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan (A/BH/JPM) was short on details. The three mega-firms will form an independent company that develops solutions, first, for their own companies’ health plans and then...

Published Thu, Feb 01 2018 6:58 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

The Skeptical Oncologist

By BISHAL GYAWALI, MD Why conduct post approval studies at all? Atezolizumab previously received accelerated approval in second-line metastatic or advanced urothelial cancer based on response rates from a single arm trial. The results of post approval...

Published Wed, Feb 07 2018 9:09 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Why Raising Hospital Prices is a Zero Sum Game

By ROBERT PEARL, MD In the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy said, “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” It was a clarion call, a full-throated warning against national complacency in an era of great prosperity. It was during...

Published Fri, Feb 09 2018 10:51 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Questioning the Link Between Sports-Related Concussions and CTE

By JASON CHUNG, PETER CUMMINGS and UZAMA SAMADANI On Jan. 18, an article by Dr. Lee Goldstein of Boston University and colleagues in Brain, a leading neurological journal, was released and touted as proving the link between subconcussive hits to the head...

Published Mon, Feb 12 2018 4:25 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, football, Boston University, Sports-Related Concussions, CTE

The Healthcare.gov Rescue and the Hawaii False Alarm . When Good Government Tech Goes Bad.

By ERIE MEYER By now, you’ve heard of the Hawaii False Alarm, and about the blowback and blame as people try to sort out how this could have happened. In government circles, however, there have been empathy and knowing cringes. It is the norm, not the...

Published Fri, Feb 16 2018 3:12 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

The Intractable Debate over Guns

By SAURABH JHA When Russian forces stormed the school held hostage by Chechen terrorists, over 300 people died. The Beslan school siege wasn’t the worst terrorist attack arithmetically – the fatalities were only a tenth of September 11th. What made the...

Published Tue, Feb 20 2018 4:51 PM by THCB

Filed under: Op-Ed, Uncategorized, @roguerad, guns

Consider This Speculative Amazon Scenario

By TORY WOLF Amazon has many puzzled about its plans for healthcare. Arguably, Amazon is just as puzzled, but is – in effect — running a massive Delphi process to sort out the plan. Amazon is, after all, the Breaker of Industries, Destroyer of Margins...

Published Sun, Feb 25 2018 3:19 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Amazon, Castlight, Orbitz

Apple’s EHR: Why Health Records on Your iPhone is Just the Beginning

BY RYAN MARLING Americans on average will visit a care provider about 300 times over the course of their lives. That’s hundreds of blood pressure readings, numerous diagnoses, and hundreds of entries into a patient’s medical record—and that’s potentially...

Published Tue, Feb 27 2018 7:27 AM by THCB

Filed under: EHR, Uncategorized, Apple, FHIR, App

Will Amazon Eat the Market?

By PAUL KECKLEY Last Tuesday, a trio of corporate heavy weights announced they were joining forces to fix the U.S. healthcare system. The CEOs of the three—Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway, and Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan, vowed...

Published Mon, Feb 05 2018 2:56 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

The Conference Created by Innovators for Innovators

Get set for a new exciting conference experience coming this spring from Health 2.0 and HIMSS, focused on the collaboration between developers and healthcare providers on building emerging digital health technologies: Dev4Health. Join hundreds of developers...

Published Thu, Feb 08 2018 8:49 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Hospitals, Tech, Featured, THCBist, Trending, The Vault

Health in 2 point 00, Episode 1

We are going to start some new content on THCB in the next few weeks including a lot more video hosted by Jessica DaMassa. And one weekly show will be her asking me as many questions as I can answer in two minutes. Here’s the first crack at it....

Published Sun, Feb 11 2018 9:20 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa

Impact of FHIR and SMART on FHIR in Healthcare

The Future of Data Access in Healthcare The advent of FHIR and SMART on FHIR has been a huge game changer in recent years. FHIR is radically changing the way we think about integration of innovative applications, making it faster, easier and less disruptive...

Published Thu, Feb 15 2018 10:06 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Featured

CMS Quietly Launches an Offensive Against Direct Primary Care

By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD Our healthcare system is self-destructing, a fact made more obvious every single day. A few years ago, a number of brave physicians who were fed up with administrative burden, burnout, and obstacles to providing care for patients...

Published Mon, Feb 19 2018 9:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Uncategorized, direct primary care, value-based care

A National Health Encounter Surveillance System

By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD Trust is essential for interoperability. One way to promote trust is to provide transparency and accountability for the proposed national system. People have come to expect email or equivalent notification when a significant transaction...

Published Sat, Feb 24 2018 3:48 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

February 2018 - The Health Care Blog

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Archives

The Peril of Online Physician Reviews

A Whiff of Market-Based Health Care Change

The Skeptical Oncologist

Why Raising Hospital Prices is a Zero Sum Game

Questioning the Link Between Sports-Related Concussions and CTE

The Healthcare.gov Rescue and the Hawaii False Alarm . When Good Government Tech Goes Bad.

The Intractable Debate over Guns

Consider This Speculative Amazon Scenario

Apple’s EHR: Why Health Records on Your iPhone is Just the Beginning

Will Amazon Eat the Market?

The Conference Created by Innovators for Innovators

Health in 2 point 00, Episode 1

Impact of FHIR and SMART on FHIR in Healthcare

CMS Quietly Launches an Offensive Against Direct Primary Care

A National Health Encounter Surveillance System