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Jonathan Bush & the Dinosaurs

Around this time of year I tend to dump a bunch of interviews from HIMSS (April 2015) onto THCB. This year we’re starting with the first I did, which was as ever the most fun. I give you (pre-pie which happened later that night) Mr Jonathan Bush...

Published Sun, May 10 2015 2:20 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Matthew Holt, Jonathan Bush, athenahealth, CommonWell, HIMSS15

Do it for Mom: Sign Up to Support Electronic Access to Your Health Records Today

By LYGEIA RICCIARDI and PETER LEVIN In many families, the mother serves as the Family Health CEO, managing healthcare for her parents, kids, spouse, and herself. It’s Mom who schedules the doctor’s appointments, hunts down the immunization records for...

Published Sun, May 10 2015 5:30 AM by The Healthcare Blog

Filed under: THCB

The 5 Percent Conundrum is about Freedom

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE There is something deeply disturbing about the existence of big fat dossiers of personal information, meticulously collected over a lifetime, and stored under lock and key in dark places you are not allowed to enter. There is something...

Published Sun, May 10 2015 5:25 AM by The Healthcare Blog

Filed under: THCB

An Open Letter to Sheryl Sandberg

By KATIE HAFNER My heart aches for you, even more because the same thing happened to me. You will get through it. But you never will get past it. I was so very sorry to hear about your husband’s death. You must be inundated with condolence letters and...

Published Sun, May 10 2015 4:59 AM by The Healthcare Blog

Filed under: THCB, End of Life Care, Mortality, Moms

It’s Time to Stop Calling Them EHRs

By JACOB RIDER It’s time to stop calling them EHRs. Yes – we also need to stop calling them EMRs. In 2011, ONC discussed the difference between the two terms, but I think that conversation missed the point: whether it’s “medical” or “health” that...

Published Sat, May 09 2015 6:07 AM by The Healthcare Blog

Filed under: THCB, Design, digital health, EHRs

The Good Part About the Two Midnight Rule

By ANWAR OSBORNE, MD “You gotta change us to inpatient!” Mrs. Mack’s daughter was referring to me changing her mother’s status from “inpatient” to “outpatient.” If Mrs. Mack was discharged as an outpatient, she wouldn’t be able to afford to go to the...

Published Wed, May 06 2015 3:30 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, The Two Midnight Rule

Why Cancer Patients and Clinicians Need a Decision Aid Upgrade

THOMAS SMITH, MD We have learned a lot about how to treat cancer in the past 30 years, yet patients still experience significant symptoms, pain, and stress from cancer and its treatments. And we are nowhere near curing patients of some of the most debilitating...

Published Wed, May 06 2015 12:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Value-based Interoperability: Less is more

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Interoperability in health care is all the rage now. After publishing a ten year interoperability plan, which according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is well positioned to protect us from wanton market competition and heretic...

Published Tue, May 05 2015 9:52 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

ONC Awards $300K in Funding to 6 Digital Health Pilot Projects!

The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced the six winners of the inaugural ONC Market R&D Pilot Challenge. The six winners will live-test new...

Published Mon, May 04 2015 9:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, ONC, Pilots, health technology, digital health

Doctors Should Own Up to Creating the Mark Cuban Problem

By ADAMS DUDLEY, MD Much has been made of Mark Cuban’s medical knowledge since he tweeted, “If you can afford to have your blood tested for everything available, do it quarterly so you have a baseline of your own personal health”. Charles Ornstein shared...

Published Mon, May 04 2015 5:39 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Data, Quantified Self, UCSF

Keep Calm and Interoperate On

By SAURABH JHA, MD Following the recession, the Obama administration sought shovel-ready projects. One unlikely shovel wielding aggregate demand was health information technology. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH...

Published Sun, May 03 2015 4:13 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Meaningful Use

In Defense of Epic. No, Really.

By Robert Wachter, MD Today THCB is delighted to feature an excerpt from Robert Wachter’s much-talked about new book “The Digital Doctor.” (McGraw Hill, 2015) . If you enjoy this piece, be sure have a look at the director’s cut interviews Wachter...

Published Thu, Apr 30 2015 12:45 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Wikipedia: Homeopathy and Evidence for Unpatentable Medications

By FRED TROTTER Recently, I have had some interesting conversations with doctors and medical students of Naturopathic Medicine. I am slowly getting involved in editing Wikipedia medicine articles, and I was approached by several proponents of Naturopathic...

Published Thu, Apr 30 2015 7:49 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Evidence Based Medicine, Wikipedia, Homeopathy

Opening the Care Conversation Through Open Notes

By SUSAN DENTZER It’s a memory aid. It’s truth serum. Using it can transform relationships forever. These may sound like come-ons for the type of product typically hawked on late-night television. But in fact, they’re some of the things people are saying...

Published Tue, Apr 28 2015 6:02 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Patients, OpenNotes, Susan Dentzer

HIT: Where We Stand and Where We Go From Here

By KAREN DeSALVO This post is adapted from DeSalvo’s talk at the annual meeting of the Health and Information Management Systems Society in Chicago last week. I am optimistic about the bright future we have to leverage health information technology...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2015 4:55 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, THCB, ONC, DeSalvo

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Jonathan Bush & the Dinosaurs

Do it for Mom: Sign Up to Support Electronic Access to Your Health Records Today

The 5 Percent Conundrum is about Freedom

An Open Letter to Sheryl Sandberg

It’s Time to Stop Calling Them EHRs

The Good Part About the Two Midnight Rule

Why Cancer Patients and Clinicians Need a Decision Aid Upgrade

Value-based Interoperability: Less is more

ONC Awards $300K in Funding to 6 Digital Health Pilot Projects!

Doctors Should Own Up to Creating the Mark Cuban Problem

Keep Calm and Interoperate On

In Defense of Epic. No, Really.

Wikipedia: Homeopathy and Evidence for Unpatentable Medications

Opening the Care Conversation Through Open Notes

HIT: Where We Stand and Where We Go From Here