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Creating Value-Based Incentives For Primary Care

By BRIAN KLEPPER & DAVID KIBBE, MD In a remarkable recent interview, Donald Berwick MD, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), eloquently described his vision of value-based health care. Paying for value is an incentive...

Published Thu, Jun 02 2011 2:37 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

What Dr. Oz Learned From His Cancer Scare

By DAVIS LIU, MD Dr. Mehmet Oz recently had a piece in Time titled “What I Learned from My Cancer Scare” in which he became the more humbled Mr. Mehmet Oz. As noted previously here, Dr. Oz last summer had a colonoscopy at age 50 and much to...

Published Fri, Jun 03 2011 10:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

First Meaningful Use Dollars Are Just the Start

By JONATHAN BUSH The first of our clients just got issued his Meaningful Use check. He is Dr. Allen Ferguson, a family practice doc in Eaton, Ohio. He practices in a health professional shortage area so it was a little bigger than the $18K maximum year...

Published Wed, Jun 01 2011 3:20 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Meaningful Use, Jonathan Bush, Meaningful use bonus

Reimbursement, Prepare to Die!

JORDAN SHLAIN, MD “Prepare to Die”, said Inigo Montoya to the six fingered man. Reimbursement, prepare to die. Doctors get reimbursed? Interesting…. Do Lawyers get reimbursed? Do accountants get reimbursed? When you send your check to pay...

Published Wed, Nov 12 2014 9:47 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Nobody Knows Anything, Inigo Montoya, Reimbursement, Principal Agent Problem

Wellpoint's wasted opportunity

By Matthew Holt Sometimes with something so egregious gets written that, even if it’s in the Wall Street Journal, you have to notice it. Angela Braly, the CEO of Wellpoint—compensation a hair under $10m in 2009—ought to be happy, even... Read More...

Published Sun, Feb 07 2010 1:49 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy, Health Plans

HIT Newser: A Setback for MyMedicalRecords

By MICHELLE RONAN NOTEBOOM There’s No Place Like Epic’s Home Epic reveals plans for a fifth campus, which is slated to include half a million square feet of office space and pay homage to literary classics like “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and...

Published Mon, Jan 12 2015 11:43 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Why Can’t someone Give Me the Perfect Managed Personal Health Record (mPHR)?

By ALAN PITT, MD I’m not as scared of dying as I am of growing old, Ben Harper, Glory and Consequence Whether we admit it or not, most of us are afraid of growing old. There is a sense of loss, of youth and vigor, coupled with the burden of managing your...

Published Sat, Jan 10 2015 11:21 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, mPHR

The Anti-Hypocrisy Rule

By MARTIN SAMUELS, MD Pundits abound when it comes to health care plans. They come from many different backgrounds: conservatives, liberals, academics, business people, doctors, politicians and more often all the time various combinations of these. But...

Published Wed, Dec 10 2014 2:03 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health policy, Pundits, Disclosure, Punditry, Canada, Punditocracy

#WHITECOATS4BLACKLIVES

By ADERINOLA A. ADEJARE At 3PM EST on December 10, 2014, medical and dental students at over 70 schools participated in the “National White Coat Die-In.” The event was organized on Facebook and spearheaded by students at University of California, San...

Published Thu, Dec 11 2014 1:51 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Facebook, Twitter, Eric Garner, #WHITECOATS4BLACKLIVES, Michael Brown, Darren Wilson

How to Blow the Big One: A Methodology

By JOE FLOWER [Note to the reader: Anything that is in italics and square brackets (such as this note) is addressed to you, personally. Yes, you. Try it on, see if it fits.] Healthcare has, right now, the greatest opportunity we have seen in our lifetimes...

Published Sat, May 21 2011 5:54 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Joe Flower, Healthcare system, Methodology

THCB Live: Microsoft

A few weeks back at HIMSS Matthew Holt caught up with Microsoft Health Solutions’ Sean Nolan (Chief Architect) and Nate McLemore (VP, Business Development) to chat about the technology and business of NHIN Direct, HealthVault and much more. Tweet...

Published Fri, Apr 15 2011 8:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Interview with Andy Cohen, CEO, Caring.com

A couple of weeks back Andy Cohen, CEO and Founder of Caring.com stopped by Health 2.0’s offices to give us an update on the site. having established itself as a (Andy would say the) go-to site for caregivers needing to figure out what to do when...

Published Fri, Apr 15 2011 5:07 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Elderly, caring.com

The Health Insurance EHR

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Kaiser Health News recently published excerpts of an interview with the CEO of Aetna, Mark Bertolini. Interesting article and interesting subject, but one thing Mr. Bertolini said in connection with Aetna’s acquisition of Medicity...

Published Sun, Apr 17 2011 10:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

HIT Trends Summary for April 2011

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends report for April 2011. You can get the current issue or subscribe here. Europe. European progress reports on HIT show us that it’s evolving along many similar lines to current US efforts. One report...

Published Wed, May 04 2011 12:26 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: CMS, Michael Lake, Tech, Incentives, European HIT, EHR vendors

Single Payer Health: It’s Only Fair

By SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS The United States is the only major nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee health care as a right to its people. Meanwhile, we spend about twice as much per capita on health care and, in a wide number of instances...

Published Tue, May 17 2011 8:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, health care reform, Single payer, American Health Security Act, Bernie Sanders

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Creating Value-Based Incentives For Primary Care

What Dr. Oz Learned From His Cancer Scare

First Meaningful Use Dollars Are Just the Start

Reimbursement, Prepare to Die!

Wellpoint's wasted opportunity

HIT Newser: A Setback for MyMedicalRecords

Why Can’t someone Give Me the Perfect Managed Personal Health Record (mPHR)?

The Anti-Hypocrisy Rule

#WHITECOATS4BLACKLIVES

How to Blow the Big One: A Methodology

THCB Live: Microsoft

Interview with Andy Cohen, CEO, Caring.com

The Health Insurance EHR

HIT Trends Summary for April 2011

Single Payer Health: It’s Only Fair