February 2019 - The Health Care Blog

Radiology in Africa

By SAURABH JHA MD What are the challenges of getting imaging to Africa? In this episode of Radiology Firing Line, I convene a panel of experts in Africa. We discuss the challenges of bringing new technology to Africa, the new need for imaging driven by...

Published Fri, Feb 15 2019 7:20 AM by THCB

Filed under: Radiology, Saurabh Jha, Radiology Firing Line Podcasts, Radiology Firing Line Podcast, RogueRad, Global Health, equipment dumping, Africa, JACR

THCB Spotlights: EyeforPharma

By ZOYA KHAN Jessica DaMassa interviews Paul Simms, the Chairman of Eyepharma. Eyeforpharma are the “media moguls” when it comes to the Pharma industry. In order to innovate the industry, they are holding two different conferences this year to bring pharma...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2019 12:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceutical industry, health technology, jessica da massa, THCB Spotlights, health tech startups, paul simms, pharma innovation, eyeforpharma

Our Dead on Every Shore

By MAYURA DESHPANDE I once made a serious error. The patient had taken an overdose of paracetamol, but because I was single-handedly covering three inpatient acute psychiatric wards due to sickness of two other trainees which medical HR had been unable...

Published Tue, Feb 26 2019 7:14 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, NHS, Mayura Deshpande, Adverse Events

Innovation Amidst Crisis: Health IT and the Opioid Abuse Epidemic | Part 2 – Fostering Situational Awareness

By COLIN KONSCHAK, FACHE and DAVE LEVIN, MD The opioid crisis in the United States is having a devastating impact on individuals, their families, and the health care industry. This multi-part series will focus on the role technology can play in addressing...

Published Mon, Feb 04 2019 5:31 PM by THCB

Filed under: Tech, Data, Health IT, Opioid epidemic, Dave Levin, Colin Konschak, access healthcare data

HIMSSanity Preview

By MATTHEW HOLT It’s time for my favorite busman’s holiday of the year, the HIMSS global conference, held this year in the cultural wasteland of Orlando, Florida (which given its cultural competition is Las Vegas is saying something!). But...

Published Fri, Feb 08 2019 9:02 PM by THCB

Filed under: HIMSS

Obsessive Measurement Disorder: Etiology of an Epidemic

By KIP SULLIVAN JD Review of The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller, Princeton University Press, 2018 In the introduction to The Tyranny of Metrics, Jerry Muller urges readers to type “metrics” into Google’s Ngram, a program that searches through books...

Published Wed, Feb 13 2019 8:07 AM by THCB

Filed under: Data, Kip Sullivan, Metrics, Book Review, Benchmarks, The Tyranny of Metrics, performance indicators, Jerry Z. Muller

Failing Healthcare’s ‘Free Market’ Experiment in US: Single Payer to the Rescue?

By KHURRAM NASIR MD, MPH, MSc In the industrialized world and especially in United States, health care expenditures per capita has has significantly outgrown per capita income in the last few decades. The projected national expenditures growth at 6.2...

Published Tue, Feb 19 2019 7:34 AM by THCB

Filed under: Politics, ACA, Health insurance, Health policy, Single payer, Khurram Nasir

ONC’s Proposed Rule is a Breakthrough in Patient Empowerment

By ADRIAN GROPPER Imagine solving wicked problems of patient matching, consent, and a patient-centered longitudinal health record while also enabling a world of new healthcare services for patients and physicians to use. The long-awaited Notice of Proposed...

Published Fri, Feb 22 2019 7:30 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Data, Health policy, Patient data, HIPAA, health technology, ONC Rules, Arian Gropper, patient empowerment

The Business Case for Social Determinants of Health

By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH How can understanding the underlying social risks impacting patient populations improve health outcomes AND save health plans some serious per-member-per-month costs? You’re probably familiar with the concept of ‘Social...

Published Thu, Feb 28 2019 7:58 AM by THCB

Filed under: Social Determinants of Health, Health IT, The Business of Health Care, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, Trenor Williams