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Are Patients and Interoperability Finally Coming to the Fore of Health IT?

By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD In recent weeks, I’ve witnessed a huge change among my practicing colleagues. For the first time, the true cost of vendor-proprietary records is seen as an existential issue for practices that may need to join an Accountable...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 12:16 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, EHR, THCB, Adrian Gropper, ACOs

Bias And How to Deal With It

By DERICK LOWE, PHD The coverage of the Japanese reactor situation reminds me of the coverage of many other technical issues when they overlap with serious breaking news stories. I wrote a little on this subject a few years ago, talking about the Merck...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 12:15 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Bias, Japanese reactor, Media, Derick Lowe

The Inspector General Observes

By PAUL LEVY A recent report by the Massachusetts Inspector General raises a thoughtful concern about the implementation of global payments in the state. In the effort to contain health care costs, much discourse has centered on moving from a predominantly...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 10:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Paul Levy, Massachusetts, ACOs, Global payments, AQC

AEI defends Health 2.0 vs the “old guard”

Not often a lefty like me promotes AEI, but Jon Entine has written a great piece attacking the behavior of the FDA. For the last 3 years the establishment has been attacking the DTC genomics companies for basically allowing people to access their own...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 12:46 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: micro

Tele-what?

By NEIL VERSEL As a journalist who for the last decade has covered the use of information technology in health care, I’m rather disgusted at some of my brethren in the mass media. I’m none too happy with the medical establishment, either. Both seem hopelessly...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 11:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Neil Versel, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring, Yale, Wireless

Looking For Quality In the Wrong Place

CHRIS LANGSTON Last week I attended the first annual meeting of the Long-Term Quality Alliance and listened to Gregg Pawlson (a geriatrician and executive with NCQA) talk about quality measurement. Right now, quality measurement does too little to drive...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 7:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Quality, Geriatric Medicine

Not So Fast – Why It Pays to Wait Until FY 2012 on Meaningful Use

By PROTIMA ADVANI The registration process and reporting period for the meaningful use incentive program officially commenced on Jan. 3. More than 21,000 health care providers have registered to date and many more are ramping up efforts to meet meaningful...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2011 12:36 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Meaningful Use, Potima Advani

Tough Talk

By PAUL LEVY Some people at the University of Washington and colleagues from around the country run a wonderful website called Tough Talk: Helping Doctors Approach Difficult Conversations. They call it a “toolbox for medical educators” who...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2011 7:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Paul Levy, academic medical centers, Teaching

Maine Waiver Expected to Increase Insurer Pressures on States

By ROGER COLLIER HHS’s bellwether decision of last week to grant the State of Maine a three-year waiver from the medical loss ratio provision of the ACA may lead to new efforts by insurers across the country to persuade states to demand similar waivers...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 3:52 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Roger Collier, Affordable Care Act, Waivers, The States

A Speed Bump on the Road to Meaningful Use

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Meaningful Use has hit a speed bump. It’s of the low, wide and gentle type, not the old raggedy, narrow and mean bump you find in older parking lots. Now that a tentative proposal for Meaningful Use Stage 2 has been published by ONC...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 2:29 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Meaningful Use, ONC, Stages, Margalit Gur-Aire, NIST

A Doctor is Not a Bank

By KEITH W. BOONE All too often I’ve heard the comparison between the financial industry and its efforts to make transactions electronic, and the healthcare industry. But health is not something that I can make deposits on and withdraw later. We...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 2:12 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, THCB, Keith Boone, ATMs

From Jeopardy! To Your Physician’s Black Bag: Could a Supercomputer Really Assist With Health Care?

By DAN PELINO IBM’s Jeopardy-champion computer, Watson, has huge potential for helping physicians and other clinicians work with patients. The leap from TV game show to physicians’ offices will probably take at least two years. But Watson’s understanding...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 8:12 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Physicians, Watson, IBM, Medicine

Catching Babies? JD Kleinke talks (well, IMs)

By Matthew Holt JD Kleinke has been one of my favorite people in health care for at least a decade (or probably more!) notwithstanding his barrages at all and sundry (sometimes including me) on this very blog. He’s been a little quiet of late, but...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 1:37 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Matthew Holt

Medicaid and (supposed) Welfare Dependence

By HAROLD POLLACK Jonathan Cohn has a piece on Medicaid yesterday with which I agree. I want to amplify one related point. National Review and Forbes writer Avik Roy believes that Medicaid is a “humanitarian catastrophe” which is actually...

Published Sun, Mar 13 2011 5:38 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Medicaid, Welfare, Harold Polllack, Avik Roy

Amazing Health 2.0 panel at SXSW

By Matthew Holt My wonderful colleague (and Health 2.0’s Co-Chairman & CEO) Indu Subaiya has literally just come off stage in Austin, Texas where the annual South by SouthWest Conference has for the first time had a health track. Indu moderated...

Published Sun, Mar 13 2011 1:35 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Tech

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