July 2018 - The Health Care Blog - The Network of Care

Health in 2 point 00, Episode 36

Back in the US of A to celebrate the nation’s birthday, Jessica DaMassa asks about Amazon buying Pill Pack, GE spinning off its health division, and what Rock Health and Startup Health’s numbers say about health tech investment–Matthew...

Published Fri, Jul 06 2018 10:56 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, GE Healthcare, Amazon, Startup Health, Rock Health, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Health Tech Investing, Pillpack

Medicare Holds Out Promise of Health Record Access Revolution

By MICHAEL MILLENSON This is the second of two posts from the Society of Participatory Medicine about the important policy issue regarding portability of our medical records. The first provided background, with link to a PDF of the comments SPM submitted...

Published Tue, Jul 10 2018 10:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: Michael Millenson, Op-Ed, Policy Issues, Medical Records, Trends and Principles

Medical Care in Rural India

By SAURABH JHA I’ve humbly realized that doctors aren’t always indispensable. When I was three, a compounder – a doctor’s assistant – allegedly saved my life. Dehydrated from severe dysentery, I was ashen and lifeless. My...

Published Mon, Jul 16 2018 6:27 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Information Blocking :The AHA Comments & PPR Responds

By ADRIAN GROPPER The focus on the CMS rules on information blocking continues on THCB. We’ve heard from Adrian Gropper & Deborah Peel at Patients Privacy Rights, and from e-Patient Dave at SPM and Michael Millenson. Now Adrian Gropper summarizes...

Published Fri, Jul 20 2018 3:40 PM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, ONC, Op-Ed, Tech, Seema Verma, Information Blocking, Patients Privacy Rights, CNS

Making Sense of the Health Care Merger Scene

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In the past 12 months, there has been a raft of multi-billion-dollar mergers in health care. What do these deals tell us about the emerging health care landscape, and what will they mean for patients/consumers and the incumbent actors...

Published Mon, Jul 23 2018 11:39 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Hospitals, Healthcare systems, The Business of Health Care, the future of healthcare, Healthcare merger

Giving Consumers the Tools and Support They Need to Navigate Our Complex Healthcare System

By CINDI SLATER, MD, FACR As physicians and healthcare leaders, we are already well aware that the majority of patients do not have the information they need to make a medical decision or access to appropriate resources, so we didn’t need to hear...

Published Fri, Jul 27 2018 1:34 PM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, Health care leaders, Health care technology, patient-provider relationship, Physician's Responsibilities

Susannah Fox on Teens & Digital Health Study

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF Health How are teens and young adults engaging with digital health? Results of a national survey asking just that were released today by Susannah Fox (Former CTO at US Dept of HHS) and her research partner, Victoria Rideout. You...

Published Tue, Jul 31 2018 3:58 PM by THCB

Filed under: Susannah Fox, Uncategorized, digital health, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, digital health marketplace, Survey of Teens and Digital Health, Victoria Rideout, teens and digital health

Stay Out of my Wellness

By VA WEST HAVEN COE CLINIC On a sunny New England morning at a secluded guest house with a perfectly manicured lawn, medical residents, each with their own brightly colored yoga mat, were getting ready to assume the downward dog position. They were on...

Published Mon, Jul 02 2018 11:11 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Residency, physician suicide, physician wellness

Social determinants on becoming a physician

By SAURABH JHA Poverty is known to be an important determinant of a person’s health and longevity. A person’s zip code is more relevant than genetic code. Does a physician’s zip code – that is where they were born and raised – have an effect on where...

Published Fri, Jul 06 2018 5:21 PM by THCB

Filed under: Op-Ed

My Triple Aim of Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addicted Patients

by HANS DUVEFELT, MD My second foray into Suboxone treatment has evolved in a way I had not expected, but I think I have stumbled onto something profound: Almost six months into our in-house clinic’s existence, I have found myself prescribing and adjusting...

Published Wed, Jul 11 2018 9:42 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Small Practice, Opioid crisis, Opioid Addiction, Treatment

Maine Voices: Want better, less complicated health insurance? Push the narrative, not the name

By WILLIAM ROSENBERG A ‘single-payer’ plan is a target on the back of its supporters. But what about a ‘Medicare Public-Private Partnership’? MOUNT VERNON — In February 2017, President Trump famously said: “Nobody knew health care...

Published Tue, Jul 17 2018 10:33 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, Health insurance, Trump's Health, health insurance premiums, single-payer system

Is Medical Imaging a Ricardian ” Derived Demand”?

By SAURABH JHA Medical Imaging and the Price of Corn After the Napoleonic wars, the price of corn in England became unaffordable. The landowners were blamed for the high price, which some believed was a result of the unreasonably high rents for farm land...

Published Sat, Jul 21 2018 3:55 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 40

In this episode Jessica DaMassa asks about the thunder from Down Under, well the noise about the My Health Record program in Australia, the latest on women in health IT from Rock Health, and nearly gets to Click Therapeutics $17m round…all under...

Published Tue, Jul 24 2018 4:15 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Rock Health, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Australia My Health Record, Tim Kelsey, Australia Digital Health Agency, Women in Health IT

Will Computers Really Replace Radiologists?

By SAURABH JHA There is hope, hype and hysteria about artificial intelligence (AI). How will AI change how radiology is practiced? I discuss this with Stephen Borstelmann, a radiologist in Florida and a scholar in machine learning. Listen to our discussion...

Published Sun, Jul 29 2018 6:15 AM by THCB

Filed under: Artificial intelligence, Radiology Firing Line Podcasts

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