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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

Fixing The Failure At Physician Compare

By MICHAEL MILLENSON The launch of Medicare's Physician Compare website at year-end should have been a watershed event in the long campaign for health care transparency and patient empowerment. Instead – and it pains me to write this – Physician....

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 7:08 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health in 2 point 00, Episode 13

Jessica DaMassa asks Matthew Holt all the questions she can about health & technology in 2 minutes. Today’s firing of VA Secretary Shulkin dominated the conversation, but there was time for a quick word on Oscar Health and what its recent huge funding...

Published Wed, Mar 28 2018 10:39 PM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, VA, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Shulkin, Oscar Health

Hospitals Can and Should Support Employees Who Are Victims of Domestic Violence: Here’s How

By PATRICK HORINE Every October we recognize Domestic Violence Awareness Month, an important opportunity to discuss this widespread social and public health problem and to take stock of what we can do better to protect victims of domestic abuse. Unfortunately...

Published Fri, Oct 26 2018 1:24 PM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, Hospitals, domestic violence awareness, workforce;, Domestic Violence

Dave Durenberger on Lieberman

By Matthew Holt Former Minnesota Senator Dave Durenberger, a thinking centrist Republican (remember them?) puts out an occasional newsletter full of gems. This is today’s zinger: The Senate has a better bill than the House, but it also has a... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2009 7:48 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Policy

Open Letter to Athena: Open Up the Afterburners!

By SCOTT SHREEVE Afterburner (af·tər′bər·nər) n. A device for augmenting the thrust of a jet engine by burning additional fuel in the uncombined oxygen in the gases from the turbine The augmentation of thrust obtained by afterburning may be well... Read...

Published Wed, Oct 21 2009 5:31 AM by The Health Care Blog

Interview: Robert Armstrong, CEO, Appstem

By MATTHEW HOLT Continuing my series of interviews from HIMSS17, is one with Robert Armstrong, CEO of Appstem. Appstem is one of the companies that quietly builds most of those ubiquitous mobile apps branded by health plans, pharma companies and a large...

Published Mon, Mar 06 2017 7:33 PM by THCB

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Robert Armstrong, Appstem, mobile apps

Health 2.0 Goes To Washington

Special 2 for 1 registration for Health 2.0 conferences! Time is running out for you to take advantage of our best deal ever! For a very limited time you can come to both the Health 2.0 Goes to Washington and... Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 17 2010 6:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

The Current State of Patient Portal Adoption

By DAVID CLAIN, MANAGER of ATHENARESEARCH In an effort to improve health outcomes and patient quality of life at lower costs, provider groups around the country are increasingly focused on developing a deeper connection with patients. Expanding digital...

Published Mon, Aug 10 2015 6:22 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, David Clain

Waving goodbye to Wave

By PAUL LEVY Google recently announced that it was abandoning Wave, a multimedia social media collaboration tool. I'm sorry about this, as I thought it had great potential. That being said, I never used it, so perhaps I was typical.... Read More....

Published Mon, Aug 09 2010 2:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

NPfIT Blazing the Trail

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE The National Audit Office (NAO) in the UK has recently published a report evaluating the status of “The National Programme for IT in the NHS” (NPfIT). The program is a very ambitious top down initiative to deploy Health Information...

Published Tue, May 24 2011 5:34 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Uncategorized

The Republican health care argument

By Matthew Holt Just in case you thought we’d gone soft by featuring Sarah Palin, here’s what Tom Toles thinks (from the WaPo) Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 21 2009 4:10 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Policy

The Compromise

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI This week's House health care repeal vote is little more than a political stunt--everyone knows the effort will die in the Senate. But, when the day is done the only way for the Republicans to do anything... Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 18 2011 2:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Centrists Back Health Care Reform

By MERRILL GOOZNER The tone on Capitol Hill during Tuesday’s debate was more civil, the partisan rhetoric less harsh than previous exchanges on the House floor. But there’s little doubt that the Republican-led House will vote later today to repeal......

Published Wed, Jan 19 2011 5:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

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