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HIT Trends Summary for May 2011

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends report for May 2011. You can get the current issue or subscribe here. E-prescribing scale and innovation. Surescripts reports dramatic growth for e-prescribing with a third of office-based physicians...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 4:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, THCB, Michael Lake, Tech

Outrage is Easy. Solutions are Hard.

By MERRILL GOOZNER The inspector general of HHS reported this week that nearly half of the anti-psychotic drugs fed to the demented elderly in nursing homes are inappropriately prescribed. That’s about one in fourteen nursing home residents. Forget about...

Published Tue, May 10 2011 4:42 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, HHS, Nursing Homes

Liquid Vapor

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE For the uninitiated, every year HIMSS runs this big huge trade show for EHR and HIT vendors, which is to the HIT industry what Oscar night is to Hollywood. No, HIMSS does not award any prizes or trophies, but it occasions the same...

Published Tue, Mar 01 2011 12:20 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, Meaningful Use, Margalit Gur-Arie, Front Page, HIMSS 2011

Conflicts Of Interest In Guideline Development: A Dirty Little Secret Gets Aired Again

By DAVID WILLIAMS An Archives of Internal Medicine article (Conflicts of Interest in Cardiovascular Clinical Practice Guidelines) is getting a lot of notice today. In essence, many of the physicians who develop guideline that influence practice patterns...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2011 4:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Quality, NIH, cardiology, Conflict of interest, Guidelines, Eli Lilly, Archives of Internal Medicine

Minor League Report Cards

By DAVID DRANOVE I was pleased to see the Chicago Tribune carry an op-ed piece this week by my friend and colleague Michael Millenson. The gist of the piece was that information about hospital quality is readily available online and we should use that...

Published Sat, Apr 02 2011 3:37 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Quality, Risk adjustment, Leapfrog, PROMIS, Healthgrades, Inside Baseball, Hospital Compare

Inspiration, spirit, connection, optimism–Health 2.0 Spring Fling

By Matthew Holt It’s been crazy post Health 2.0 Spring Fling in San Diego, I tried do my wrap of highlights and feelings from this Health 2.0 before the plane touched down last week, but I never quite finished them. So with a little hindsight, here are...

Published Fri, Apr 01 2011 12:28 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Patients, Tech

THCB Live: Sage CEO Betty Otter-Nickerson

Betty Otter-Nickerson, Sage from Health 2.0 on Vimeo. Matthew caught up with Sage Healthcare CEO Betty Otter-Nickerson at HIMSS to talk about the company’s plans for 2011 and beyond. Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 1:57 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, HIMSS 2011, Betty Otter-Nickerson, Sage

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

2018 Midterms: The Year of the Female Physician

By NIRAN AL-AGBA MD While women make up more than half of the U.S. population, an imbalance remains between who we are as a nation and who represents us in Congress. The gender disparity is no different for physicians: more than one third of doctors in...

Published Mon, Nov 05 2018 6:26 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Politics, Women, Niran Al-Agba, Midterm Elections

The Illness of Work Incapacity

By NORTIN HADLER, MD Etiology, pathogenesis and translational science beat drums to which modern medicine marches – with escalating cadence. Yes, there is cacophony on occasion and missteps, but we all wait for the next insight to trigger a wave...

Published Fri, Jul 15 2016 2:06 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Population Health, Workplace Wellness, Presenteeism, Medicalization, Workman's Compensation

Cyberwar, What Is It Good For?

By MARGLIT GUR-ARIE Some wars are supposed to last forever. Lyndon B. Johnson started a war on poverty. Richard Nixon kicked off a war on drugs. Ronald Reagan initiated a war on terror. Poverty, drug use and terror are booming. It’s time to launch another...

Published Sun, Jul 31 2016 9:14 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

FHIR Use Cases: Population Health and Value-Based Care

By PAUL TAYLOR, MD As a practicing internist, I have followed the gamut of the sturm and drang surrounding interoperability, and have experienced its pros and cons first hand. What’s important now is that interoperability must evolve into population health...

Published Wed, Jul 06 2016 7:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

The Physician’s Case For Trump

By ANISH KOKA, MD Brexit has been hailed as a turning point in the history of Western Democracy by a collection of liberal and conservative elites that decry the vote of a disenchanted and ignorant populace. The greatest threat to democracy in the modern...

Published Thu, Jun 30 2016 7:50 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Anish Koka

How to End MACRA, Meaningful Use and ONC Certified EHRs Programs/Mandates

By HAYWARD ZWERLING, MD While the Federal Government’s promotion of EHRs via the HITECH act has been successful at increasing the prevalence of EHRs, their continued advocacy of Certified EHRs, Meaningful Use (MU) mandates and MACRA seriously impedes...

Published Sat, Jul 02 2016 11:55 AM by THCB

Filed under: Op-Ed, Uncategorized

The Patient Data Positioning System – A GPS for Patient Data

By DAN HOUSMAN First of all I have to admit that I am a convert and not an original believer in the Data Lake and late binding approaches to data analytics. I do not think it is my fault or at least I have a defense of sorts. I grew up in a world where...

Published Sun, Jun 19 2016 9:21 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Dan Housman

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