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Why Calculators Are the Future of Healthcare

By THOMAS GOETZ Want to know the future of medicine and healthcare in one sentence? For my money, it goes like this: The real opportunity in healthcare is to combine our personal data with the huge amount of general biomedical... Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 05 2010 5:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Thomas Goetz

Coming Short with Thinking

By ROB LAMBERTS I am mad at congress. I don’t care if they are Democrats or Republicans, I am sick of healthcare being treated as a political football. How much more of a crisis do we need before we actually... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 04 2010 12:30 PM by The Health Care Blog

Todd Park speaks: Free the data!

By Matthew Holt Todd Park is definitely one of health care IT’s good guys. Todd was the brains (but not the mouth!) behind athenahealth. Since he left athenahealth, he spent a year back in California doing angel investing (Ventana among... Read More....

Published Thu, Feb 04 2010 4:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy

The Health Assurance – Disease Insurance Plan

By NORTIN M HADLER, MD The American health care delivery system is reprehensible for the degree to which it tolerates the under-treatment of those in need and supports the over-treatment of those who are entitled. It invests vast wealth in... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 03 2010 8:31 AM by The Health Care Blog

Simple Steps to Meaningful Health Reform

By KIM BELLARD Now that health reform at the federal level seems to have hit an impasse, Congress and the Administration are scrambling to see if anything can be salvaged this year. Although both the House and Senate bills are... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 03 2010 6:44 AM by The Health Care Blog

10 Insights on the iPad

By Doug Goldstein The iPad got it right and will set the standard for a new and improved way to enjoy our connected lifestyle. The iPhone blazed the way as it shifted mobile phones from something to talk on…to powerful... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 03 2010 6:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Collecting Patient Info in Haiti Using the iPhone

Dr. Elizabeth Cote, from Harvard Humane Initiative collects patient data at Fond Parisien, Haiti using iPhone and iCharts from www.CareTools.com. The developers were kind enough to customize the form in less than a week to support fields and info required...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 5:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Medical Experts Say Haitians Will Need Health Care Help for Years to Come

By POOJA AWATRAMANI The BBC recently reported that medical organizations with members serving the Haitian communities affected by the earthquake on January 12th warn that one of the larger issues for Haitians will likely be the need for increased medical...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 4:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Check Lists and Decision Trees versus Spontaneity and Imagination

By KENT BOTTLES The task of health care reform in 21st century America is to decrease per-capita cost of care and to increase the quality of care delivered to patients. It’s complicated. A famous Rand study concluded that Americans only... Read More....

Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 10:51 PM by The Health Care Blog

Uwe and Heritage agree: we need a tax-funded universal pool

By Matthew Holt When you’re at a party and someone explains to you that they just read a great article in the NY Times explaining why Peggy Noonan doesn’t understand basic math, and you know that they’re referring to Uwe... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 1:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

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

American Healthcare: Caught in a Bad Romance

By Ian Morrison “I want your Ugly. I want your Disease I want your Everything, as long as it’s Free.” —America’s leading contemporary philosopher, Stefani Germanotta (aka Lady Gaga) Insight comes from unlikely sources. Lady Gaga nailed the health reform...

Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 12:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics

Cost, Choice, and Value

By JOHN V. JACOBI The Massachusetts Massacre has everyone stepping back a bit. The President says that we should “coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on,” but it is unclear just which elements those might be,... Read More....

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 11:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Regional Variation Revisited: Price Differences Not A Significant Factor

By MERRILL GOOZNER Dartmouth scholars have revisited their analysis of regional variation in health care spending and found contrary to the assertions of some critics that cost-of-living differentials do not account for much of the difference. However...

Published Fri, Jan 29 2010 6:34 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Cost of Fear

By ROB LAMBERTS I was talking to a fellow physician about a mutual patient. I had information that would help him in their care and he was taking the unusual step of asking me for my information. I was impressed.... Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 9:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Info-Button Standard: Bringing Meaningful Use to the Patient

By DON KEMPER, CEO HEALTHWISE Regardless of the U.S. administration’s “meaningful use” requirements, if health information technology (HIT) is to become meaningful for patients, it must include the prescription of information and tools to help each patient...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 7:52 AM by The Health Care Blog

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