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Myths and Facts About Health Reform Part II

By MAGGIE MAHAR Lobbyists representing the many who profit from our $2.6 trillion health care industry spent millions in the war over healthcare reform. Yet National Journal Contributing Editor Eliza Newlin Carney suggests that “it's unclear whether...

Published Fri, Apr 16 2010 8:24 PM by The Health Care Blog

A Microsoft EMR: It’s Not Just a Matter of When, It’s a Matter of Who

By AUSTIN MERRITT Microsoft Dynamics is largely present in just about every software market but medical. And they’re missing out big time. The United States healthcare IT market is growing at about 13% per year and is expected to reach... Read More.....

Published Fri, Apr 16 2010 9:13 AM by The Health Care Blog

Engage with Grace on Decisions Day

By Leigh Calabrese-Eck & Alexandra Drane Friday April 16 is National Health Care Decisions Day -- a national campaign that aims to encourage people to complete advance directives or living wills to document end-of-life-wishes. In the sprit of the...

Published Fri, Apr 16 2010 1:08 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Consumers

Health 2.0 Europe - Opening Presentation Available!

Once again, we'd like to thank everyone for making Health 2.0 Europe a smashing success! In case you missed the event (we're sure you had a good excuse!) or if you wanted to see our research again, here's a look... Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 5:20 PM by The Health Care Blog

Important: Input on consumer 'Meaningful Use' requested and required, Apr 20

By Matthew Holt Josh Seidman, now running the meaningful use program at ONC, but formerly of the Center for Ix Therapy writes with an important request: The Meaningful Use Workgroup of the Health IT Policy/federal advisory committee that advises ONC)...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 6:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Consumers, e-patients

Fabulous HWR at HealthBlawg

By Matthew Holt David Harlow has put together a fabulous collection for Health Wonk Review over at HealthBlawg. Who knew that so many notable things happened on April 15? Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 15 2010 5:47 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, health wonk review

Health 2.0 Europe--My Take

By Matthew Holt I’m back in San Francisco after a fabulous Health 2.0 Europe Conference in Paris. We were welcomed wonderfully to Europe by our partner Denise Silber, her colleagues at Basil Strategies and all the fabulous people we met... Read More....

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 7:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

VAT on the horizon

By PAUL LEVY Several months ago, a friend met with a high government official and expressed concern that the new health care bill would be more expensive than people were saying. "Oh yes," said the official, "In several years, the... Read...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 7:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Survey on PHRs: interesting data, wrong emphasis

By Matthew Holt There's a new study on PHR use out today (although it looks like Brian Ahier ignored the embargo in his good summary! Update--he didn't, he just posted late PST so it looked like he did. Sorry Brian!)... Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 13 2010 8:11 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Consumers

Get Privacy Right, So We Can Move On Already

By Lygeia Ricciardi A national survey released today by the California HealthCare Foundation shows that 66% of Americans believe we should address privacy worries, but not let them stop us from learning how technology can improve our health care. Amen...

Published Tue, Apr 13 2010 3:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Meaningful Use in the Real World -- Is the Additional Administrative Burden Worth the Bonus for Small Practices?

By DAVID C. KIBBE An article in the April 10, 2010 New York Times entitled "Doctors and Patients, Lost in Paperwork," brought attention to what may be, in the near term, the Achilles heel of the plan to incentivize doctors... Read More...

Published Sun, Apr 11 2010 6:59 PM by The Health Care Blog

APSO needs to replace SOAP in EMRs

By Dr. Pullen Electronic medical records (EMRs) have a bad reputation among many physicians for generating progress notes that are so verbose and filled with standard phrases that they are nearly useless to other physicians, and even to the physician...

Published Sun, Apr 11 2010 6:24 PM by The Health Care Blog

A song for (Health 2.0) Europe

By Matthew Holt On Tuesday and Wednesday this week we completed a remarkable first—Health 2.0 Europe brought the spirit, technology and passion we’ve hosted at Health 2.0 conferences in the US,and married it to all those qualitites and many more... Read...

Published Sat, Apr 10 2010 4:47 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

The Laboratory of Democracy

By PAUL LEVY People from other states would be wise to watch the sequence of events happening here in Massachusetts with regard to health insurance rates. As I described below: Things are playing out just as one might predict in... Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 6:25 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 Europe Opening Video

Health 2.0 Europe Intro from Health 2.0 on Vimeo. Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 09 2010 3:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

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