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Personal health records: will doctors connect?

BY JANE SARASOHN-KAHN What doctors are most likely to use patients’ personal electronic health records? Fewer than 1 in 2 are willing to. Those who most likely would include Hispanic physicians, doctors who practice in rural areas, those employed in hospitals...

Published Sun, Feb 20 2011 9:34 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HITECH, Physicians, PHRs, Front Page

Let’s Face(book) the Hard Truth About Healthcare

By PETER KRUGER ‘In the time when new media. Was the big idea.’ These two lines at the end of the album track ‘Kite’ earned U2 a place in a recent list of suspect popular song lyrics. Some Health 2.0 vendors are also struggling to get ‘social media...

Published Mon, Feb 21 2011 8:04 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Front Page

Spotlight on Health 2.0: Consumer Aggregators from SF '09

Every week we bring you a video from the world of Health 2.0. This week we're featuring a video from our latest conference in San Francisco on October 6-7, 2009. Hear the latest from WebMD, Google Health and Microsoft. To... Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 2:13 PM by The Health Care Blog

Why Wait Four Years?

By PAUL LEVY I was struck during President Obama's health care speech before Congress several months ago that the reforms he advocates would not go into effect for four years, until 2014. This timetable, too, is written into both the... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 02 2009 6:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health Journos Protest FDA Interview Rules

By MERRILL GOOZNER The Association of Health Care Journalists, the Society of Professional Journalists and 9 other scribbler groups have asked the Food and Drug Administration to lift its requirement that agency officials first get permission from the...

Published Fri, Dec 04 2009 12:19 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Annals of Journalism

Laboratories of Democracy, Part 2

By MERRILL GOOZNER Experimentation in how states would move toward universal health care coverage was written into the DNA of the Affordable Care Act. The law allowed any state to petition for a waiver that would enable it to enact its own brand of reform...

Published Tue, Mar 01 2011 9:57 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Merrill Goozner, Front Page, Obamacare, Repeal, Waivers

Health 2.0 Spring Fling Updates

Health 2.0’s Spring Fling is just 3 weeks away. We are expecting a great crowd, so register today! Catch expertly curated sessions with brand new themes, products debuting to the public for the first time, and discussion on compelling success stories...

Published Wed, Mar 02 2011 4:07 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Tech, Front Page

Health 2.0 Spring Fling–preview interviews

By Emily Ebert At Health 2.0 we are getting very excited for the Spring Fling this March 20-21, and in preparation, we’re doing a series of interviews with some of the speakers and panelists. Below is a list of all the interviews we’re already...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2011 3:06 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Front Page, Health 2.0 Live

Realizing Value from Health IT: A BCG Response to the PCAST report

By BENJAMIN BERK, MD, SIMON KENNEDY, & BCG HCIT Team If we are to achieve the aims of health insurance reform/PPACA, let alone eventual health delivery reform, the US needs coherent, comprehensive federal health IT policy. In late December, PCAST...

Published Fri, Mar 04 2011 8:54 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, Front Page, BCG, PCAST

HIT Trends Summary for February 2011

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends Report for February 2011. You can get the current issue or subscribe here. Innovations in provider and patient solutions. DrFirst announced that it acquired AdherenceRx to integrate e-prescribing and...

Published Sun, Mar 06 2011 3:46 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, THCB, Michael Lake

A Speed Bump on the Road to Meaningful Use

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Meaningful Use has hit a speed bump. It’s of the low, wide and gentle type, not the old raggedy, narrow and mean bump you find in older parking lots. Now that a tentative proposal for Meaningful Use Stage 2 has been published by ONC...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2011 2:29 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Meaningful Use, ONC, Stages, Margalit Gur-Aire, NIST

Not So Fast – Why It Pays to Wait Until FY 2012 on Meaningful Use

By PROTIMA ADVANI The registration process and reporting period for the meaningful use incentive program officially commenced on Jan. 3. More than 21,000 health care providers have registered to date and many more are ramping up efforts to meet meaningful...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2011 12:36 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Meaningful Use, Potima Advani

The Inspector General Observes

By PAUL LEVY A recent report by the Massachusetts Inspector General raises a thoughtful concern about the implementation of global payments in the state. In the effort to contain health care costs, much discourse has centered on moving from a predominantly...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 10:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Paul Levy, Massachusetts, ACOs, Global payments, AQC

Bias And How to Deal With It

By DERICK LOWE, PHD The coverage of the Japanese reactor situation reminds me of the coverage of many other technical issues when they overlap with serious breaking news stories. I wrote a little on this subject a few years ago, talking about the Merck...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 12:15 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Bias, Japanese reactor, Media, Derick Lowe

Oregon Death with Dignity Act vindicated

To no one rational’s surprise, a study confirms that those few Oregon patients (400 over 10 years) who chose legal physician assisted suicide in case of terminal illness had a better quality of death than those who didn’t. Sadly because those...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2011 7:53 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy, Quality, micro

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