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Primary Care is Not a Panacea: It Takes a Team

By MAGGIE MAHAR The emphasis on primary care as the “key” to lifting the quality of U.S. healthcare may be exaggerated according to a report, released today, by Dartmouth’s Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. “Primary care forms the....

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 11:21 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians, primary care, Maggie Mahar

Consumers to Pay More Under Reform

By MERRILL GOOZNER The latest analysis of health care reform – out this week from bean counters at Medicare – shows reform will raise health care spending slightly over the next 10 years, not reduce it as promised by President... Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 5:28 AM by The Health Care Blog

Hyperventilating about the Harvard/Health Affairs Malpractice Study

By DAVID DRANOVE A new study from an interdisciplinary team at Harvard University reports that the medical malpractice system costs close to $60 billion annually. The study is published in the policy journal Health Affairs and is receiving lots of......

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 3:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

The History and Future of Medical Technology

By FILED UNDER: THCB CLASSIFIEDS If you are curious about how the amazing technologies found in modern hospitals and clinics came about, check out Ira Brodsky’s entertaining new book, The History and Future of Medical Technology. The hardback tells the...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 4:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0--The Fall Conference is going to be great!

By Matthew Holt Health 2.0 is announcing our (almost) final line-up for the 4th annual Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, October 7-8. Since we started the conference in 2007, Health 2.0 has become the leading showcase of cutting-edge technologies...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 3:59 AM by The Health Care Blog

What's wrong with this picture?

By Matthew Holt And the answer is not the quality of the model! In the comments please! Read More...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 1:17 AM by The Health Care Blog

Thursday Webinar--Intro to Governance from Nat'l eHealth Collaborative

We think you might be interested in this webinar today Understanding governance considerations for nationwide health information exchange The first of a two event series on network governance, this is a key opportunity to explore the various considerations...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 1:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Not all Ratings Are Equal: Part II

By JOHN R. MORROW Read Part I here. Why are all ratings not equal? Because they are designed for different purposes! Herein lay the underlying truth to the many objections posed by organizations being rated. Rightfully so, the Three R’s... Read More....

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 5:25 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Quality, John R. Morrow

Front-Line Managers are Key to Wellness Program Participation

By TOM UNDERWOOD What’s the difference between a company with a high participation rate in wellness programs and a low one? As it turns out, front-line managers—the people who run the daily operations and work the most closely with their... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 4:12 PM by The Health Care Blog

Healthcare unwired: nearly half of US consumers are willing to pay

By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN 40% of U.S. consumers are willing to pay for remote health monitoring devices and services that would send their medical data to doctors, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Healthcare Unwired (PwC). 51% of consumers would not buy...

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 11:38 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Patients

OIG: Imaging pre-authorization may be handled by hospital for referring docs and patients

By DAVID HARLOW The OIG released an advisory opinion at the end of last month OK'ing a hospital's proposal to provide insurance pre-authorization srevices free of charge to patients and physicians. This is an issue that has long vexed folks.....

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 10:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Insurance, David Harlow

Computer Error or Patient-Centered Care?

By HERBERT MATHEWSON, MD The saga continues, but morphs from a discussion of computer error into patient-centered care (1). In my last two posts I tell my story of trying to speed up a six-hour infusion of intravenous medication by... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 7:58 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Herbert Mathewson, Patient Safety, Medical errors

Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Teams Sprint to the Finish

By Bianca Grogan More than 40 teams are putting the final touches on their applications for our Health 2.0 Developer Challenge. The 10 prize winners will be announced by Todd Park, CTO of U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services... Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 07 2010 12:10 PM by The Health Care Blog

And The Best Job In Academic Medicine Goes To…

By BOB WACHTER, MD With all due respect to the Pentagon, humankind has not invented a more complex organization than the modern academic medical center. The combination of high tech and high touch, the Byzantine regulations, the toxic medico-legal environment...

Published Tue, Sep 07 2010 11:43 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Bob Wachter, Academic Medicine

Do Patients Want to Punish?

By PAUL LEVY There is a great debate set forth in the IHI's Open School discussion of the wrong-side surgery case that occurred at our hospital a few years ago. (I have written about this below, but there are some... Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 07 2010 6:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

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