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HHS Conscience Rule Would Grant Providers Sweeping Rights to Deny Care

By DAVID INTROCASO In late January the Trump administration proposed a Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) regulation that would legally protect any health care worker who refuses to provide care directly or indirectly to any individual...

Published Fri, Mar 30 2018 11:56 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

What Parents of Athletes Should Know About Injuries and Abuse

By EMILY ANDERSON I’m not a parent. But I was once a gymnast. Now I teach at a medical school. As far as my own injuries, I consider myself lucky; I can walk through airport security without setting off any metal detectors. But I certainly have had my...

Published Tue, Mar 27 2018 5:11 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Facepalming Our Way into the Future

By JOE FLOWER The reform isn’t perfect, but maybe it’ll help us avoid disaster. The rapidly ramifying crisis in health care may (we can pray) end all delusions. It may at least begin to weaken them by exposing them to... Read More...

Published Sun, Aug 01 2010 12:08 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Joe Flower, health care reform

The Business Case for Social Determinants of Health

By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH How can understanding the underlying social risks impacting patient populations improve health outcomes AND save health plans some serious per-member-per-month costs? You’re probably familiar with the concept of ‘Social...

Published Thu, Feb 28 2019 7:58 AM by THCB

Filed under: Social Determinants of Health, Health IT, The Business of Health Care, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, Trenor Williams

Sell Patients like Baseball Players - Seriously

By JOE FLOWER Here's a health care reform strategy that I have not heard anywhere else. Think about this: Why aren't health plans more aggressive in promoting the long-term health of their members, like getting them to eat better, stop... Read...

Published Mon, Nov 16 2009 10:31 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Reform, Patients, Health Plans, Joe Flower

HIMSS Parties, and a little more

By Matthew Holt Next week the health IT world descends on Atlanta which means a lot of chat, lots of meetings and lots of parties. You’ll be seeing the results of my interviews on THCB next week. But meanwhile more... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 24 2010 3:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Matthew Holt, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

500 Meetings a Day

By JOHN HALAMKA, MD In the early 1980's when I was running a small software company while attending Stanford as an undergraduate, my business activities were limited to the number of phone calls I could receive in a day. At... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 22 2010 1:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Hoarding Patient Data is a Lousy Business Strategy: 7 Reasons Why

By VINCE KURAITIS & LESLIE KELLY HALL Among many healthcare providers, it’s been long-standing conventional wisdom (CW) that hoarding patient data is an effective business strategy to lock-in patients — “He who holds the data, wins”. However…we’ve...

Published Wed, Oct 17 2018 10:50 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, primary care, Tech, HIE, Data, HIPAA, patient engagement, Interoperability, health information exchange, value-based care, HealthIT, Information Blocking, patient loyalty, referral leakage, strategy, hoarding, interop

Part 2: Bypassing Prior Authorizations

By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD A few weeks ago, I saw a young patient who was suffering from an ear infection. It was his fourth visit in eight weeks, as the infection had proven resistant to an escalating series of antibiotics prescribed so far. It was time to...

Published Thu, Oct 04 2018 9:12 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, pharmaceuticals, Medicaid, Aetna, Washington state, CVS, pharmaceutical, Pharmacy Benefit Manager, Pharmaceutical companies, health insurance companies, andameds

Announcing the RWJF AI & The Healthcare Consumer Challenge!

By JOHN EL-MARAGHY When it comes to navigating healthcare and making decisions about your health, and the health of loved ones, there is no yellow brick road. Even the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a leading national healthcare nonprofit...

Published Wed, Apr 18 2018 5:58 AM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Catalyst @ Health 2.0

Health in 2 point 00, Episode 20

Jessica DaMassa asks me about the biggest IPO in Digital Health ever, the Platform vs App question and what was Seema Verma tweeting about during #HDPalooza. All in 2 minutes–Matthew Holt Read More...

Published Sun, Apr 29 2018 10:15 PM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Seema Verma, Dev4Health, Health Datapalooza, Ping An, Platforms v Apps, good doctor

Health 2.0 - The Consumer Aggregators

Featuring: Roni Zeiger MD, Product Manager, Google Health, Wayne Gattinella, CEO WebMD, David Cerino, Microsoft Health Solutions Moderator: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Think-Health Overview: With consumers turning to online sources in record numbers, competition...

Published Thu, Oct 22 2009 5:06 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Affordability Model

Health 2.0 News launches

By Matthew Holt Today I'm very excited to tell you that Health 2.0 News is launching. We’ve had the Health 2.0 Blog for several years now and of course have extensively covered the world of Health 2.0 and the Health... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 22 2010 12:59 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

Early Experiences with Hospital Certification

By JOHN HALAMKA, MD As one of the pilot sites for CCHIT's EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals (EACH), I promised the industry an overview of my experience. It's going very well. Here's what has happened thus far. 1. Recognizing that...

Published Mon, Jan 10 2011 3:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Don't Tell, Don't Ask

By LISA SUENNEN A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the unbelievable cost associated with Alzheimer’s disease and how large a population it is likely to affect. According to an op-ed piece written by Sandra Day O’Connor, among... Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 7:34 AM by The Health Care Blog

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