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Health 2.0 Conference 2010: Day 2

By HENRY LI Day 2 of the fourth annual Health 2.0 Conference started bright and early with three conversations with CEOs: John de Souza of MedHelp, Giovanni Collella of Castlight, and Jeff Arnold of Sharecare (which we saw demoed yesterday).... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 08 2010 7:33 PM by The Health Care Blog

The Top Five Recommendations For Improving the Patient Experience

By KATHLEEN MERKLEY and ANNE MARIE-BERKMORE Healthcare organizations are working diligently to improve patient satisfaction and the patient experience of care. After all, patient experience of care is a critical quality domain used to evaluate hospital...

Published Wed, Sep 07 2016 11:41 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Patient Experience, HealthCatalyst, Health Analytics Summit

Why Do We Need ACOs and Insurance Companies? Part 3. The HMOs Strike Back!!!

By KIP SULLIVAN, JD This is the last installment in a three-part series that asks why we need both an insurance industry and an ACO industry. We are now stuck with the worst of all possible worlds – an inefficient insurance industry layered on top of...

Published Tue, Mar 20 2018 11:39 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

THCB Spotlight: Jesse Ehrenfeld, AMA

Today, we are featuring Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld from the American Medical Association (AMA) on THCB Spotlight. Matthew Holt interviews Dr. Ehrenfeld, Chair-elect of the AMA Board of Trustees and an anesthesiologist with the Vanderbilt University School of...

Published Tue, Dec 11 2018 6:48 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, AMA, Tech, Artificial intelligence, digital health, American Medical Association, AI, CVS-Aetna, THCB Spotlights, health innovation, Jesse Ehrenfeld

Tweetcasting @2011 : Health Reform Implementation, Mobile Health and Patient Safety

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS My crystal ball is a little foggy so I decided to ask my Twitter followers (@HealthBizBlog) to help compile a list of health care predictions for 2011. I’ve integrated my thoughts with theirs and organized the... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 27 2010 7:16 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Difficult Science, Part II

By KENT BOTTLES, MD “Despite their great explanatory powers these laws [such as gravity] do not describe reality. Instead, fundamental laws describe highly idealized objects in models.” -- Nancy Cartwright, “Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?” In...

Published Tue, Dec 28 2010 11:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Health 2.0 Accelerator is really gunning it...

By Matthew Holt The Health 2.0 Accelerator was a glimmer in the eye of Commerce.net’s Marty Tenenbaum late in 2007. But under the dedicated leadership of Julie Murchinson and Aaron Apodaca, something quite remarkable is happening. The Accelerator is an...

Published Thu, Oct 01 2009 1:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0

The Cat's and Dogs of Health IT

Abortion Coverage Is About Math As Well As Politics

By AL LEWIS Let us start by acknowledging that those who think abortion is a sin must be respected, and not forced into a risk pool that covers abortion. Let us also acknowledge that those who are pro-choice need to... Read More...

Published Thu, Nov 12 2009 8:06 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health Plans, The Public Option

Ur Doin It Wrong

By CINDY THROOP Susannah Fox aptly illustrated what is happening in health care during the 'The Patient Is In' panel of the Health 2.0 conference with some amusing LOLCat pictures captioned "ur doin it wrong." Put simply, when it comes...

Published Tue, Oct 13 2009 8:49 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

Definition of HIE: What’s Yours?

By JOHN MOORE Trying something new here – soliciting your collective input, the proverbial wisdom of the crowd. As you may have read in yesterday’s post, Chilmark is quickly approaching publication of the Health Information Exchange (HIE) report. One...

Published Sun, Jan 09 2011 7:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

HIT Newser: An Epic Loss for Cerner & GE + Google Glass Confusion

By MICHELLE RONAN NOTEBOOM An Epic Loss for Cerner and GE Mayo Clinic announces it will replace its existing Cerner and GE systems with Epic’s EHR and RCM system. The prestigious Mayo Clinic name and clinical reputation make the win especially sweet for...

Published Mon, Jan 26 2015 6:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, AMA, Meaningful Use, ONC, GE Healthcare, AAFP, Epic, Cerner, Pristine, NextGen, Augmedix, HITNewser, Orion Health, eClnicalWorks, EHR certification, Google Glass

Health 2.0 Accelerator Demonstrates Integration of Consumer Web Apps and EHRs

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – October 7, 2009 – Health 2.0 Accelerator member companies today joined together at the Fall 2009 Health 2.0 Conference to demonstrate a streamlined, consumer-centric integration among nine separate technologies creating a more...

Published Wed, Oct 07 2009 10:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, Technology, Health 2.0

The Needle In the Haystack

By J. LEONARD LICHTENFELD, MD Well, it didn't take long to get into the New Year, did it? There I was this earlier this week, starting my New Year right by getting exercise on my elliptical when I heard the... Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 06 2011 9:01 AM by The Health Care Blog

Why Hillarycare failed…and what we need to learn from that failure

By MATTHEW HOLT In July 2005 George W Bush had relatively recently won a Presidential election in which the Republican won the popular vote (something that will likely never happen again) & the Republicans controlled all three branches of Government...

Published Tue, Aug 14 2018 12:37 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, HillaryCare

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