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Philips — Interview with Carla Kriwet

By MATTHEW HOLT Now I’ve got them uploaded and semi edited I’ll be running the interviews I did at the HIMSS conference earlier this month. They will hopefully give you a quick overview of the companies, and give you a sense of where the system...

Published Sun, Mar 13 2016 11:23 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Matthew Holt, Philips, remote monitoring, Carla Kriwet

Regina Holliday: Fred's life & death at 73 cents a page

By Matthew Holt If you ever wonder why the efforts to make it easier for patients and families to get information and be treated as equals in their care by the medical care system matter.... If you need convincing that... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 24 2009 9:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, e-patients

Dicker With Your Doc? Not So Fast…

By JESSIE GRUMAN, PhD “How to Haggle With Your Doctor” was the title of a recent Business section column in The New York Times. This is one of many similar directives to the public in magazines, TV and Websites urging... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 21 2011 2:04 PM by The Health Care Blog

WTF Health | Kyruus co-founder, Julie Yoo

By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of health and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough? Check out more interviews at www.wtf...

Published Thu, Apr 19 2018 4:55 PM by THCB

Filed under: Startup, Startups, Kyruus, Julie Yoo, AI, Jessica DaMassa, #HIMSS18, WTF Health, AI startups

WTF Health | Scaling Up NLP with Simon Beaulah of Linguamatics

By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of the health industry and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough? Check out more interviews...

Published Fri, May 25 2018 1:29 PM by THCB

Filed under: EMR, NLP, AI, Jessica DaMassa, #HIMSS18, WTF Health, HealthIT, Simon Beaulah, Natural language processing, Linguamatics

Health in 2 point 00 — Late night HIMSS18 edition

For reasons a little lost in the fog we have committed to doing an episode of Health in 2 Point 00 every day at HIMSS. As I didn’t meet my co-host Jessica DaMassa till late it was more like “Health in 22.00”. But we still covered a few...

Published Tue, Mar 06 2018 8:12 AM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Pilots, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Google API, Telemedicine in Space, #HIMSS18, Eric Schmidt

JSK (national treasure) on data liquidity, and how it fits into Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt Given that she taught me most of what I know about health IT I don’t know why I ever need reminding about how great Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is at keeping her finger on the pulse of health care,... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 03 2009 1:45 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Policy, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

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

Unpacking the 21st Century Cures Act

By STEVEN FINDLAY President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law this week. It’s the largest piece of health legislation since the Affordable Care Act. No doubt you’ve heard or read that—and it’s true. But while the legislation was three years...

Published Thu, Dec 15 2016 3:11 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Beyond CQI: How Patient-Centered Care and Efficiency Go Hand-in-Hand

By BEN SAWYER Hospital administrators are finding that true continuous quality improvement (CQI) requires a radical change in thinking. For decades, automakers, the packaging industry and the airline industry have created better products, improved processes...

Published Fri, May 20 2016 6:50 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, CQI

Job Post: Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Policy Director

Organization: The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Location: Washington, D.C. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is seeking a talented and forward-thinking individual for the position of HCBS Policy Manager. This is a senior...

Published Mon, Nov 01 2010 4:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Contemplating Safety While Lying Down

by JESSIE GRUMAN I write about what it takes for us — whether we are sick or well — to find and make good use of health care today. At the end of September I was hospitalized for surgery to... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 01 2010 8:59 PM by The Health Care Blog

Extormity launches WHIO to compete with Health Internet

Electronic health records vendor Extormity, seeking to establish itself as the dominant force in the healthcare IT space, is launching its World Health Information Organization or WHIO platform at a public launch event in Brussels. “WHIO is like a mega...

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 5:59 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Ha Ha, Weird press releases

Seema Verma Hyperventilates About Tiny Differences Between ACOs Exposed to One-and Two-Sided Risk

By KIP SULLIVAN, JD There is no meaningful difference between the performance of Medicare ACOs that accept only upside risk (the chance to make money) and ACOs that accept both up- and downside risk (the risk of losing money). But CMS’s administrator...

Published Tue, Aug 21 2018 1:49 PM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, ACOs, Seema Verma

AI Doesn’t Ask Why — But Physicians And Drug Developers Want To Know

By DAVID SHAYWITZ MD At long last, we seem to be on the threshold of departing the earliest phases of AI, defined by the always tedious “will AI replace doctors/drug developers/occupation X?” discussion, and are poised to enter the more considered conversation...

Published Fri, Nov 16 2018 6:06 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, pharmaceuticals, Tech, Artificial intelligence, Health Tech, David Shaywitz, AI

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