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Starvation: The Cure For the Obesity Epidemic. Or Will Esther Dyson Be My Next Mother-In-Law?

By MARTY FELSENTHAL I was enjoying drinks last week with Jody Holtzman (AARP), Terry Booker (IBC), and Doug Ghertner (change:healthcare) at a wonderful conference sponsored by Oliver Wyman. Jody was waxing eloquent about how every start-up needs a strategy...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2014 2:40 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Obesity, Esther Dyson, Geriatrics, Humor Not Legitimate Policy Proposals (HNLPP), AARP

Sony Hack Reveals Health Details on Employees and Their Children

By DEBORAH PEEL, MD On top of everything else, the Sony data breach revealed employees’ sensitive health information: Top Sony executives saw lists of named employees who had costly medical treatments and saw detailed psychiatric treatment records of...

Published Sun, Dec 14 2014 10:25 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Sony, health information, Patient Privacy Rights, Trusted Relationships

Why Can’t someone Give Me the Perfect Managed Personal Health Record (mPHR)?

By ALAN PITT, MD I’m not as scared of dying as I am of growing old, Ben Harper, Glory and Consequence Whether we admit it or not, most of us are afraid of growing old. There is a sense of loss, of youth and vigor, coupled with the burden of managing your...

Published Sat, Jan 10 2015 11:21 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, mPHR

Why Technology May Not Fix The Medication Adherence Problem

By DAVID SHAYWITZ, MD I wish I could assign Lisa Rosenbaum’s characteristically wonderful essay in the latest New England Journal of Medicine to every twentysomething brogrammer in Silicon Valley planning to disrupt healthcare based on his uninformed...

Published Mon, Jan 12 2015 7:01 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Aza Raskin, New England Journal of Medicine, Disruption, Brogrammer

Invaders from Mars with Commentary from Robert Burns

BY MARTY SAMUELS, MD Just over a half-century ago, in the mid-50s, at the height of our paranoia about communists and the Soviet Union, a boy sees a flying saucer land in the distance. No one else sees the event. The occupants of the mysterious spacecraft...

Published Wed, Jan 14 2015 6:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Rock Health and the Search for ‘Home Screen Health App’

By KIM KRUEGER & MATTHEW HOLT Rock Health has one of the most interesting views of the digital health market having been around since 2011 first as an accelerator and now as an early stage venture fund. Matthew Holt had a chance to sit down with Rock...

Published Wed, Jan 14 2015 6:46 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0

The American Healthcare Consumer

By IAN MORRISON When you hear the word “empowerment,” it’s code for “You’re on your own, pal.” Health care leaders are starting to recognize that consumers are becoming a major decision-making force. Let’s be...

Published Fri, Jan 16 2015 3:39 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Consumerism

My World in 2015

By JACOB RIDER, MD I started my blog over 15 years ago. Yes – it’s been less active in recent years, and as I reflect on why I’ve been less active – only part of the reason is that I was working for a publicly traded company from...

Published Wed, Jan 21 2015 6:31 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, ONC, Khosla Ventures, Blogging, Jacob Reider, Innovation

Safe Doctors, Unsafe Patients: A Tale of Two Infections

By MICHAEL MILLENSON Call it a tale of two infections. It’s the story of how hospitals have blocked transmission of a dangerous infection that patients can give doctors, while a hospital-caused infection that can kill patients continues to be widely tolerated...

Published Sun, Jan 25 2015 2:26 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, AHRQ, CDC, CLABSI

Is There a Business Case For Patient Engagement?

By DAVID CHASE In the past, the AMA published an article questioning the merits of patient portals — the primary tool for engaging patients. Rob Tennant, senior policy adviser with the MGMA-ACMPE, the entity formed by the merger of the Medical Group Management...

Published Wed, Mar 04 2015 4:40 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Kaiser Permanente, patient engagement, Patient Satisfaction, direct primary care, patient portal

Anthem Arrogantly Refuses Audit Processes. Twice.

By FRED TROTTER Recently, I took a bunch of heat for writing that Anthem was right not to encrypt. My point was that the application encryption is just one of several security measures that add up to a security posture, and that we needed to wait until...

Published Fri, Mar 06 2015 10:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Fred Trotter, Anthem, OIG, Government Auditing Standards, Wellpoint

Nancy Turret, Edelman: "Health is the new Green"

By Matthew Holt Late last year PR/Communications giant Edelman released a survey called the Health Engagement Pulse. (Here’s the press release and here are the charts) This is separate from both Edelman’s Engagement Barometer which has looked at consumer...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 1:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Consumers, The Industry

Wanted: Surgeons, nurses, and other medical personnel to help in Haiti

By Partners in Health We are deeply grateful for the multitude of people who have contacted us wanting to provide medical assistance. As patients flood to our sites from Port-au-Prince, we're finding ourselves in need of both medical personnel and...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 8:30 PM by The Health Care Blog

Thinking the unthinkable--no Health Care bill?

By Matthew Holt After a resounding Democratic Presidential election win, a terrible recession, and a bruising year of politics, it would be just like America that a crazy election result torpedoes the health care reform bill. It would be the... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 15 2010 1:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy, Election 08

Grand Rounds: Can Food Be Health care?

By John La Puma, MD http://drjohnlapuma.com will host Grand Rounds early early a.m. on Tuesday, January 19, 2010; the deadline for blog submission is Sunday January 17, 2010 at 3 p.m. PST. A weekly synthesis of the best posts from... Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 17 2010 5:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

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