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Tweetcasting @2011 : Health Reform Implementation, Mobile Health and Patient Safety

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS My crystal ball is a little foggy so I decided to ask my Twitter followers (@HealthBizBlog) to help compile a list of health care predictions for 2011. I’ve integrated my thoughts with theirs and organized the... Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 27 2010 7:16 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Difficult Science, Part II

By KENT BOTTLES, MD “Despite their great explanatory powers these laws [such as gravity] do not describe reality. Instead, fundamental laws describe highly idealized objects in models.” -- Nancy Cartwright, “Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?” In...

Published Tue, Dec 28 2010 11:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Twas the Night Before [HIT] Implementation

By LISA SUENNEN (stealing liberally from Clement Clarke Moore) An ode to healthcare information technology modernization ‘Twas the night before Christmas, in the ER of St. Strauss, Not a doctor was working, not even House; The IVs were hung by... Read...

Published Thu, Dec 30 2010 4:42 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Doctor Is In and Logged On.

By RAHUL PARIKH Wow. I've just taken care of three patients in 12 minutes, and I didn't do it by "churning" them through my office as if it's some sort of factory assembly line. Rather, those patients (their parents, more... Read...

Published Thu, Oct 08 2009 6:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Physicians, Rahul Parikh

Ur Doin It Wrong

By CINDY THROOP Susannah Fox aptly illustrated what is happening in health care during the 'The Patient Is In' panel of the Health 2.0 conference with some amusing LOLCat pictures captioned "ur doin it wrong." Put simply, when it comes...

Published Tue, Oct 13 2009 8:49 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

Why AHIP needs the public option

By Matthew Holt It’s been a fun week. After years of THCB explaining that neither could AHIP do genuine research nor could its venerable President open her mouth without lying, the rest of the world has caught on. I won’t... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2009 8:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

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

Definition of HIE: What’s Yours?

By JOHN MOORE Trying something new here – soliciting your collective input, the proverbial wisdom of the crowd. As you may have read in yesterday’s post, Chilmark is quickly approaching publication of the Health Information Exchange (HIE) report. One...

Published Sun, Jan 09 2011 7:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

Early Experiences with Hospital Certification

By JOHN HALAMKA, MD As one of the pilot sites for CCHIT's EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals (EACH), I promised the industry an overview of my experience. It's going very well. Here's what has happened thus far. 1. Recognizing that...

Published Mon, Jan 10 2011 3:20 AM by The Health Care Blog

Ghosts of Health Reform Past

By DAVID DRANOVE I have not blogged for several weeks, mainly because I have been making sense of the curious events that transpired over the Christmas holiday. If you a regular reader of my blog, you know that I have... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 10 2011 9:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Data Mining Case Reaches the Supreme Court

By GLENN LAFFEL, MD, PhD Twenty years ago, IMS Health got the idea to purchase prescription records from pharmacies, license physician information from the AMA’s Physician Masterfile, and link the two databases so as to create something new and different...

Published Wed, Jan 12 2011 12:34 PM by The Health Care Blog

Ready, Set…ACO?

By JONATHAN BUSH Happy New Year, everyone! 2010 was certainly action-packed, and 2011 promises the same. I hear a lot of thunder about getting ready for ACOs. This isn’t a crystal ball forecast, but I see hospitals spending tons of... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 14 2011 6:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Change The Rules and Get Your Labs

By Phil Marshall In 1999 Caresoft developed a consumer web portal called the Daily Apple. The Daily Apple wasn’t all that unique or different than other health portals, until in May of 2000 they began helping consumers download their lab... Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 19 2009 1:04 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Policy/Politics, Policy, Consumers

The Best Health Care Idea All Year

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI Out of almost nowhere has come momentum for a proposal to create a bipartisan entitlement and tax commission to draft proposals to control the long-term costs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The idea would require the....

Published Wed, Nov 11 2009 8:11 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Robert Laszewski, Reform

Will Business Force Reform Back To The Drawing Board?

By BRIAN KLEPPER and DAVID C. KIBBE Until now, non-health care business has been noticeably absent from the health care reform proceedings, and quiet about the bills' impacts on their management of employee benefits, on cost, and on the larger......

Published Thu, Nov 12 2009 11:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health Reform: Measurables and Immeasurables

By RICHARD REECE, MD "Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be measured." Dennis Prager, 1948 - radio host, lecturer...

Published Sat, Nov 14 2009 5:47 AM by The Health Care Blog

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