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HIT Newser: Massachusetts Modifies Meaningful Use Mandate

By MICHELLE NOTEBOOM New Life for ACOs CMS announces that 89 new organizations were selected to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings program, bringing the total number of participating ACOs to 424. The announcement comes on the heels of a recently...

Published Tue, Dec 30 2014 4:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Meaningful Use, Massachusetts, ACOs, Total Child Health

You want yer 2015 predictions?

Gautam Gulati crowdsourced a whole lot of predictions by asking health care types what they expected to see in 2015, and you can see them all on his site. Mine is above–Matthew Holt Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 02 2015 1:52 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Matthew Holt

Commentology: The Real Professor Baicker

By THCBist Influential RAND researcher Soren Mattke had this to say in support of Al Lewis and Vic Khanna’s latest post on the Wellness story “Would the Real Professor Katherine Baicker Please Stand Up?” Gentlemen. Great post. Like you...

Published Sun, Jan 04 2015 2:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Do You Really Know What’s in That Cracker? Tellspec Does

By Kim Krueger and Matthew Holt There’s a lot we don’t know about food and our health. Butter in your coffee, eat like a caveman, or no animal products: you name it and there’s an expert backing it. Even the nutritional labels placed on the majority of...

Published Tue, Jan 06 2015 11:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

(Big) Garbage In. (Big) Garbage Out.

FROM THE TECH DESK In December, THCB asked industry insiders and pundits across health care to give us their armchair quarterback predictions for 2015. What tectonic trends do they see looming on the horizon? What’s overrated? What nasty little surprises...

Published Wed, Jan 07 2015 5:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, information exchange, Big Data, Voalte, Android, Giannulli, Lauderdale, DeSantis, Kareo, Big Garbage, BYOD, Patient Portals

Reality-Based Policy and the Digital Doctor: An Interview with Mark Smith

By ROBERT WACHTER, MD Mark Smith, MD, MBA, was the founding CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation; he served in that role for 17 years before stepping down last year. I’ve known Mark since we were residents together at UCSF in the mid-1980s, and...

Published Wed, Feb 18 2015 9:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, California HealthCare Foundation, Mark Smith

Why Anthem Was Wrong Not to Encrypt

By DAN MUNRO Being provocative isn’t always helpful. Such is the case with Fred Trotter’s recent headline ‒ Why Anthem Was Right Not To Encrypt. His argument that encryption wasn’t to blame for the largest healthcare data breach in U...

Published Sun, Feb 22 2015 7:34 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Fred Trotter, Anthem, Encryption, Heartbleed, CHS, Data Security

HIT Newser: Black Book Rankings Not So Unbiased?

By MICHELLE-RONAN NOTEBOOM Black Book: Not so Unbiased and Relevant? Black Book Rankings announces that it will change its EHR survey methods and remove ballots cast by provider organizations that serve as resellers/VARs, and/or channel partners. The...

Published Sun, Feb 22 2015 11:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Meaningful Use, Epic, Cerner, HIT Newser, SureScripts, Apple Watch, ONC. Black Book

The Facebook Model for Socialized Health Care

By EDGAR T. WILSON As government involvement in U.S. health care deepens—through the Affordable Care Act, Meaningful Use, and the continued revisions and expansions of Medicaid and Medicare—the politically electric watchword is “socialism.” Online, of...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2015 5:23 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Social Media, Data, Facebook, Wearables, Big Data, Internet of Things

Shared Responsibility in the Affordable Care Act

By DRANOVE AND GARTHWAITE Recently we wrote that it was well past time to end the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act. In light of some commentary, we thought it best to revisit this issue in more detail. It seems that most of the support for...

Published Sun, Mar 01 2015 12:55 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, ACA, Personal responsibility, Employer-based care, Mandate

What’s wrong with Cannon, Burwell & King in 5 tweets

By MATTHEW HOLT When the latest post from Michael Cannon–he who seeks to sink the subsidies attached to the Federal exchange–hit my inbox, I wondered, “Why don’t his opponents stop arguing the specifics, and instead explain what...

Published Mon, Mar 02 2015 5:37 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Matthew Holt, ACA, SCOTUS, Michael Cannon, King, Halbig

Nancy Turret, Edelman: "Health is the new Green"

By Matthew Holt Late last year PR/Communications giant Edelman released a survey called the Health Engagement Pulse. (Here’s the press release and here are the charts) This is separate from both Edelman’s Engagement Barometer which has looked at consumer...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 1:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Consumers, The Industry

Wanted: Surgeons, nurses, and other medical personnel to help in Haiti

By Partners in Health We are deeply grateful for the multitude of people who have contacted us wanting to provide medical assistance. As patients flood to our sites from Port-au-Prince, we're finding ourselves in need of both medical personnel and...

Published Wed, Jan 13 2010 8:30 PM by The Health Care Blog

Thinking the unthinkable--no Health Care bill?

By Matthew Holt After a resounding Democratic Presidential election win, a terrible recession, and a bruising year of politics, it would be just like America that a crazy election result torpedoes the health care reform bill. It would be the... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 15 2010 1:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy, Election 08

Grand Rounds: Can Food Be Health care?

By John La Puma, MD http://drjohnlapuma.com will host Grand Rounds early early a.m. on Tuesday, January 19, 2010; the deadline for blog submission is Sunday January 17, 2010 at 3 p.m. PST. A weekly synthesis of the best posts from... Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 17 2010 5:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

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