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The End of the World as We Know It

By PAUL LEVY One aspect of religious dogma that has entered the medical world is that fee-for-service pricing of medical services is bad and should be replaced by a capitated, or global, arrangement that establishes an annual budget for care... Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 20 2011 8:03 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Tao of Wearables

By JOE KVEDAR, MD The hype around wearables is deafening. I say this from the perspective of someone who saw their application in chronic illness management 15 years ago. Of course, at that time, it was less about wearables and more about sensors in the...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2015 10:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Data, Apple, Wearables, chronic illness, Patel, Fitbit, Wellocracy, JAMA, Volpp

The Last Best Hope

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE According to the recently published CMS Accountable Care Organization (ACO) rules, an ACO needs to care for at least 5000 Medicare beneficiaries. Theoretically, two primary care physicians and a nurse, practicing in a garage, or cottage...

Published Mon, May 16 2011 10:12 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, Margalit Gur-Arie, Private practice, ACOs

A conversation about Health Policy with Elizabeth Rosenthal

By SAURABH JHA, MD The acclaimed author of “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back” physician, and now Editor-in-Chief of Kaiser Health News, Dr. Elizabeth Rosenthal speaks to me about health...

Published Mon, Oct 22 2018 8:01 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Regression to the Mean

By JOHN HALAMKA You may have heard about the Sports Illustrated Effect, the notion that people who appear on the cover of the magazine are likely to experience bad luck, failure, or a career spiral. Over the 30 years of my own professional life, I’ve...

Published Fri, Feb 25 2011 5:25 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Front Page

Will Feeding Watson $3 Billion Worth Of Healthcare Payment Data Improve Its Decisions?

By ROSS KOPPEL and FRANK MIESNER, MD On Feb 18, IBM announced its purchase of Truven Health Analytics for $2.6 billion. Truven collects and crunches payer data on medical costs and treatments. IBM will combine Truven’s data with recent other data acquisitions...

Published Wed, Feb 24 2016 8:08 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Featured, Ross Koppel

A chat with Ian Morrison

My old friend and former boss Ian Morrison will be giving the keynote at Health 2.0’s 10th Annual Fall Conference on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 27th. Ian was President of Institute for the Future in the 1990s, founded the Strategic Health Perspectives...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2016 11:52 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Ian Morrison

The Future of Aging and Technology

By SUSANNAH FOX You might be wondering why a Chief Technology Officer would be talking about aging. Isn’t tech a young person’s game? First of all, I love Alan Kay’s definition: Technology is anything invented after you were born. Second, my grandmother...

Published Fri, Jul 31 2015 9:59 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Susannah Fox

The Numbers Tell The Story

By DANIEL PALESTRANT Yesterday, athenahealth and Sermo released our Physician Sentiment Index℠ (PSI). With over 1,000 physicians polled, the national survey is thought to be the largest of its kind. While many of the findings will come as no surprise...

Published Fri, Mar 26 2010 7:27 AM by The Health Care Blog

Antibiotics for Appendicitis: Penny wise but pound foolish

By SAURABH JHA A Finnish group randomized patients with acute appendicitis to surgery and antibiotics and found that antibiotics were successful in 73 % of patients. Depending on how this is framed, you can celebrate a 70 % success or lament a 30 % failure...

Published Thu, Aug 20 2015 12:29 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Saurabh Jha

Why Large Scale Government IT Projects Fail and What To Do About It

By KEVIN DE SOUZA and KENDRA SMITH The volume of failed large-scale information technology (IT) projects in the public sector is troubling. These projects are failing at an alarming rate. The long history of public sector IT failures has seen billions...

Published Tue, Jun 02 2015 8:09 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Rethinking The Gruber Controversy: Americans Aren’t Stupid, But They’re Often Ignorant — And Why

By UWE REINHARDT M.I.T. economist Jonathan Gruber, whom his colleagues in the profession hold in very high esteem for his prowess in economic analysis, recently appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Gruber was called...

Published Tue, Dec 30 2014 2:39 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Economics, Gruber, American Voters

The Low Hanging Fruit is Lying on the Ground

By J.K. Wall With hospitals and doctors under tremendous pressure to improve costs and quality fast, clichéd calls to “aim for the low-hanging fruit” are ringing in every boardroom and bedpan from Sarasota to Seattle. But medical providers should set...

Published Wed, Jul 29 2015 8:18 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, J.K. Wall

Bridget Duffy: Improving the patient experience

By MATTHEW HOLT Bridget Duffy, the CMO of communications tech company Vocera & head of its Experience Innovation Network, is a national leader in the patient experience movement. And we all agree there are lots of improvements needed in the experience...

Published Wed, Mar 15 2017 6:35 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Patients, Hospitals, Patient Experience, HIMSS17, Experience Innovation Network, Vocera, Bridget Duffy

How Not to Innovate (And the Stuff You Really Should Be Doing)

JOHN HALAMKA, MD I’ve written several posts over the past two years about the need for innovation in healthcare IT – deploying self-developed apps, leveraging third party cloud hosted functions, and embracing the internet of things. I’ve previously...

Published Fri, Mar 24 2017 9:20 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, BIDMC, Innovation

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