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DrChrono shows their iPad chops

By Matthew Holt The guys from DrChrono have come a long way since we saw them first just last summer. They have a SaaS based practice management system, but at Health 2.0 at the Doctor's Office they introduced an iPad-based... Read More...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 1:01 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, EHR/EMR

The Road to Wellville: Pilots and Demos?

By ROGER COLLIER As might be expected of reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act places a lot of emphasis on innovation. Reasonably enough, most of the potential changes—at least in Medicare—are to be preceded by pilot or.....

Published Wed, Jun 30 2010 7:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: PPACA

The Not For-Profit / For-Profit Divide

By PAUL LEVY Many people involved in hospitals wonder how it can be financially prudent for investors to put their money into for-profit ventures that buy non-profit hospitals. (Examples here and here.) After all, the argument goes, the newly privatized...

Published Fri, Jul 02 2010 7:43 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Hospitals, Non-profits

A Permanent "Doc-Fix" Remains Elusive

By NAOMI FREUNDLICH For now, all those physicians who threatened to make a mass exodus from Medicare can take a breather. Last week, the House voted to once again delay the mandated 21% cut in physician fees by another six... Read More...

Published Mon, Jul 05 2010 3:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

HIT Trends Summary for June 2010

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends Report for June 2010. You can get the current issue here. E-prescribing. Not much to report here other than some feedback to the DEA around its long-awaited proposed rule... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 06 2010 8:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

Navigating Cancer

By Matthew Holt Gena Cook is the CEO of Navigating Cancer, a new Health 2.0 company aiming at getting cancer patients online with their care providers. Gena tracked me down in a Starbucks in Seattle (oxymoron I know) when I... Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2010 1:03 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

Esther Dyson – “Health, Not Healthcare!”

By Matthew Holt At the Health 2.0 Goes to DC conference Esther Dyson gave a powerpacked 3 minute rant about how the Health ecosystem really works -- dividing it into three markets: Healthcare, Bad Health and Health 2.0. Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 1:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Conferences

ONC announces HITECH amendments to HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules

By DAVID HARLOW The federales announced a new set of HIPAA regulations today (to be published in the Federal Register on July 14) in a press conference featuring Kathleen Sebelius (HHS Secretary), Georgina Verdugo (HHS OCR Director) and David Blumenthal...

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 9:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

Op Ed: Dr. No to Run CMS

By JOHN GOODMAN President and CEO, National Center for Policy Analysis Let’s do a thought experiment. Suppose you were a U.S. Senator and the President’s nominee to head CMS appeared at his confirmation hearing: Wearing a Che Guevera t-shirt, sporting...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 10:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Donald Berwick, Op-Ed, John Goodman

Meaningful use, and cats & dogs

By Matthew Holt More than a year or so of squabbling is (sort of) over and today HHS announced its criteria for the first phase of meaningful use. Essentially the 25 criteria for qualifying for “meaningful use” (in other words... Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 13 2010 9:16 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Matthew Holt, e-patients, HHS

New and Improved Meaningful Use

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE The long anticipated final rule on Meaningful Use was unveiled yesterday with much pomp and circumstance in a rather unusual ceremony which, interestingly, also marked the first public appearance of Dr. Berwick as CMS Administrator...

Published Wed, Jul 14 2010 9:13 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Meaningful Use, Margalit Gur-Arie

Christmas in July: Meaningful Use as a Gift for the Consumer

By DON KEMPER Everyone was expecting the new meaningful use rules to include some important, but relatively basic advances for the consumer—and it did. However few of us expected meaningful use would include a real consumer gift: the requirement that...

Published Thu, Jul 15 2010 10:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

Open access scheduling at the doctor's office

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS I’m quoted in the Boston Globe today (A new practice: The doctor will see you today) on open access scheduling. (I’m all the way down at the bottom of the article.) Open access is one of... Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 16 2010 5:41 PM by The Health Care Blog

Checking in with BenefitFocus

By Matthew Holt It's been a little while since I checked in with the folks at BenefitFocus. They essentially create a system that allows employees to sign up for benefits all at once. They market it via a lead health... Read More...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 1:13 AM by The Health Care Blog

Life Saving Errors

By DENNIS GRACE On March 28, 1979 the Three-Mile Island Unit-2 nuclear power plant experienced a feed system failure which prevented the steam generators from removing heat from the plant. The reactor automatically shutdown but, without the feed system...

Published Wed, Aug 25 2010 4:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

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