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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

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

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

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

Medical Loss Ratio: Putting Percentages and Politics Aside

By CONNIE HARVEY The Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) policy written into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires health insurance companies to deliver more direct value to consumers by mandating that they spend a higher percentage of...

Published Tue, Apr 05 2011 2:11 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Insurance companies, Affordable Care Act, Connie Harvey, Medical Loss Ratio

Ryan’s Proposal For Medicare

By MAGGIE MAHAR Representative Paul Ryan (R. Wisconsin) thinks he has found a solution to Medicare inflation. The cost of Medicare has been spiraling for years, thanks to the climbing cost of virtually every product and service in our health care system...

Published Wed, Apr 06 2011 12:27 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Interview: Resilient

Matthew Holt interviews Jonathan Hare of Resilient Network Systems at HIMSS. And for a bonus, here’s Resilient’s product introduction at Health 2.0 last Fall Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 1:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Tech, HIMSS 2011, Resilient

Are Decision Support Tools Turning Doctors into Idiots?

By DAVID WILLIAMS A HealthLeaders article by Gienna Shaw notes that some physicians are reluctant to use computerized decision support (CDS) tools because they fear losing the respect of patients and colleagues. There’s some evidence to support this concern...

Published Thu, Apr 21 2011 8:03 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Physicians, David Williams, CDS, Decision support

Interview: McKesson Health Solutions

Matthew Holt interviews Emad Rizk, President of McKesson Health Solutions at World Health Care Congress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kadZ_XloyA Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 22 2011 1:05 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Tech, McKesson

The Kübler-Ross Model of EHR Adoption

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE For over a hundred years the paper chart has been a trusted partner and best friend to many physicians and nurses. The paper chart was born the day a new patient walked into the office, a pristine, crisp and neatly color-coded folder...

Published Mon, Apr 25 2011 5:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, EHR adoption, Uncategorized, Stages of grief, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Up Next? Oral Health

By ROBERT PAINTER, MD “Can you imagine a time when we fully incorporate mental and dental health into our thinking about health? What is it about problems above the neck that seems to exclude them so often from policy about health care?” That’s what Institute...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 5:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Op-Ed, IOM, Dental health, Robert Painter

PatientsLikeMe refutes clinical trial (eventually)

PatientsLikeMe’s mass trial of Lithium as a cure for ALS was carried out in 2008 very quickly and was reported at many conferences (including of course first at Health 2.0 in 2008). The PLM study was a response to a 2008 clinical study that suggested...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 8:24 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Matthew Holt, micro

The Lightweight Romney Health Plan

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI Mitt Romney has outlined his new health plan. He outlined five key steps in an op-ed in USAToday. Here is a summary: Step 1: Give states the responsibility, flexibility and resources to care for citizens who are poor, uninsured or...

Published Thu, May 12 2011 1:03 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Robert Lasewski, Mitt Romney, Republican, Romney health plan

How Should Medicare Pay for Medical Care?

By JOHN GOODMAN There are basically five possibilities. To compare them, let: S = each unit of service, or a package of services P = the price of each unit of service, or the price of a package of services Then the government can: 1. Dictate every service...

Published Sun, May 15 2011 4:08 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, John Goodman, Medicare payment options

Newt And The Health Wonks: A Tale of Lust And Power

By MICHAEL MILLENSON When former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced his bid for the GOP presidential nomination, I found myself singing a few bars from Night Moves, Bob Seger’s hard-driving tribute to teenage hormones: “I used her, she...

Published Mon, May 16 2011 10:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Michael Millenson, Newt Gingrich, health care policy

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