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What Health Care Reform Means For: Small Businesses

by SABRINA SHANKMAN and OLGA PIERCE, ProPublica Fairfield Lighting and Design Location: Fairfield, Conn. Employees: 12 (10 receiving health insurance) Sales: $2 million annually Payroll: $384,000 annually Their story Fairfield Lighting and Design has...

Published Mon, Nov 09 2009 3:23 PM by The Health Care Blog

Physician Executives Should Not Ignore How Smartphones Will Transform Healthcare

By KENT BOTTLES Physician executives who ignore smartphones and their healthcare applications will miss the most important disruptive technology trend in the next five years. Physician executives who understand how smartphones will transform the industry...

Published Mon, Jan 31 2011 10:11 PM by The Health Care Blog

Radiologist: Commoditize Thyself

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS There is little in the health care world as amusing as watching radiologists work themselves into a froth over some real or perceived threat to their profession. Usually the villain is non-radiologists daring to encroach on... Read...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 7:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

NJ ACO: A Sheep in PHYCORE Clothing

By SCOTT SHREEVE, MD I am on an email list of Bill DeMarco’s, a reputable industry insider who has written and consulted extensively in the physician group and medical management space. He recently sent me a note about several physician... Read More....

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 3:54 PM by The Health Care Blog

Why Aren’t The Uninsured Protesting In The Streets Like The Egyptians?

By MICHAEL MILLENSON Maybe the uninsured could learn something from Egyptians and the Arab street. At a time when landmark health reform granting most of the uninsured access to medical care for the first time in their lives is being... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 03 2011 1:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

A Patient is Not a Shunt

By EVAN FALCHUK Some people may tell you that health care IT will solve many of the quality and cost problems in health care. I don’t believe them. I know a 70-year old man named Carlos (not his real name)... Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 05 2011 11:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Greater Fool

By PAUL LEVY In the last four decades, we have witnessed a series of investment "bubbles" that have all collapsed. It seems that there is no end to the number of people with cash who will be intoxicated by a... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 07 2011 7:13 AM by The Health Care Blog

mHealth – Potentially Valuable, But Not Ready For Primetime

By TED DRISCOLL, PHD mHealth – otherwise known as mobile healthcare – sounds like just what the doctor ordered to help make healthcare delivery cheaper and more effective. And since the Internet today essentially resides in everybody’s pocket, it would...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2011 1:02 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Tech, Ted Driscoll, mHealth, Mobile healthcare

Getting an Estimate

By MONTE JAFFE A couple of years ago my primary care physician suggested that I have a colonoscopy at the age of 47. My father died from Hodgkin’s disease at 34 and my mom survived *** cancer in her 40’s. I suffer from irritable bowel syndrome so she...

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 9:54 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Front Page, Costs of medical tests, Monte Jaffe, Costs of Care

The Individual Mandate: Another Look at the Penalty Trade-Off

By ROGER COLLIER Most of the recent attention on the 2010 health care reform legislation has focused on the individual mandate. After two federal court rulings upholding the mandate, a third federal judge—in Virginia—ruled that the Constitution does not...

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 12:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health Plans, Roger Collier, Penalties, Individual mandate

Two Kidneys and 100,000 Lives

By PAUL LEVY This story about a kidney transplant mix-up in California is bound to get lots of coverage. It is these extraordinary cases that get public attention. I am sure it will lead to a whole new set of national rules designed to keep such a thing...

Published Sun, Feb 20 2011 10:24 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Paul Levy, Front Page

HIMSS11 Live: Meaningful Use

By NEIL VERSEL What can be said about “meaningful use” of electronic health records that hasn’t already been said? Actually, plenty, if the events leading up to Monday morning’s official opening of HIMSS11 are any indication. Last week, HIMSS honcho Steve...

Published Mon, Feb 21 2011 8:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, Front Page, HiMMS 11, Neil Versel

Why It’s a Good Idea to Get a Second Opinion, and Maybe a Third…

By ELAINE SCHATTNER, MD A few years ago I started writing a book on what it was like to be a cancer patient and an oncologist. This morning I came upon this section on second opinions: Is it OK to get a second opinion? Definitely. And there’s no need...

Published Mon, Feb 21 2011 1:35 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, Front Page, Elaine Schattner

What’s In a Word?

By MARK FRISSE, MD The “HIE” at HIMSS 2011 appears noticeably different than the “HIE” of HIMSS 2010 or 2009. HIE will be ubiquitous. It is not just a topic for a Sunday session any more. Of the 26 sessions listing HIE as a topic...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2011 10:55 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIEs, Front Page, HIMSS, Mark Frisse

Is Economic Credentialing A Tool for Primary Care to Lead ACOs?

By VINCE KURAITIS, JD Is economic credentialing — the use of economic factors such as loyalty and utilization rates in the physician credentialing process — a potential tool for primary care physicians to lead ACOs? and reestablish the vitality of primary...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2011 8:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: primary care, Vince Kuraitis, Front Page, Economic credentialing

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