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Health Care Price Tags Won’t Find You the Best Doctor

By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON Say you want to know which baseball players provide the most value for the big dollars they’re being paid. A Google search quickly yields analytics. But suppose your primary care physician just diagnosed you with cancer. What will...

Published Tue, Mar 12 2019 7:07 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Michael Millenson, Hospitals, health technology, health care pricing, Quality of care, transparent pricing

ONC’s Proposed Rule is a Breakthrough in Patient Empowerment

By ADRIAN GROPPER Imagine solving wicked problems of patient matching, consent, and a patient-centered longitudinal health record while also enabling a world of new healthcare services for patients and physicians to use. The long-awaited Notice of Proposed...

Published Fri, Feb 22 2019 7:30 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Data, Health policy, Patient data, HIPAA, health technology, ONC Rules, Arian Gropper, patient empowerment

Radiology Firing Line | Meet the Patients

By SAURABH JHA Should Radiologists talk with Patients? In this episode of Radiology Firing Line Podcast, Ian Amber MD, assistant professor of radiology at Georgetown University advocates for patient interaction. Listen to our conversation here. Saurabh...

Published Mon, Jan 28 2019 7:58 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Saurabh Jha, Radiology Firing Line Podcasts, Radiology Firing Line Podcast, Ian Amber, patient interaction

MedPAC’s Proposed “Reforms” Should Be Tested Before They’re Implemented: CMS’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Is Exhibit A

By KIP SULLIVAN, JD Egged on by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Congress has imposed multiple pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes on the fee-for-service Medicare program. MedPAC recommended most of these schemes between 2003 and 2008...

Published Thu, Dec 06 2018 6:35 AM by THCB

Filed under: Congress, Medicare, CMS, Politics, ACA, Affordable Care Act, MACRA, Kip Sullivan, MedPAC, P4P, Pay for Performance, CHIP, hospital readmissions

The Death of Cancer: Book Review and Reflections

By CHADI NABHAN MD, MBA, FACP Some books draw you in based on a catchy title, a provocative book jacket, or familiarity with the author. For me, recollections of medical school primers written by the renowned lymphoma pioneer Vincent DeVita Jr. and my...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2019 12:38 PM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Oncology, Chemotherapy, Health Care Books, randomized controlled trials, Book Review, The Death of Cancer, Chadi Nabhan, Vincent DeVita

Creating an Infrastructure of Health Data to Support Amazon’s Leap into Healthcare

By CLAUDIA WILLIAMS Amazon has transformed the way we read books, shop online, host websites, do cloud computing, and watch TV. Can they apply their successes in all these other areas to healthcare? Just last week, Amazon announced Comprehend Medical...

Published Mon, Dec 31 2018 7:35 AM by THCB

Filed under: EHR, Tech, Amazon, value-based care, Health Data, Amazon Comprehend Medical, personalized healthcare, Claudia Williams, health informatics, Manifest MedEx

Is CareMore Health’s Population Health Management Model Disruptive?

By REBECCA FOGG Fueled by Americans’ urgent need for better chronic disease care and insurers’ march from fee-for-service to value-based payments, innovation in population health management is accelerating across the health care industry. But it’s hardly...

Published Thu, Dec 27 2018 8:01 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, Patients, Medicaid, Population Health, disruptive innovation, Healthcare innovation, Rebecca Fogg, CareMore Health

Overprescribing Is a Key Component of the Opioid Crisis — Here’s How to Stop It

By DAVE CHASE Today’s opioid crisis is one of the most dire side effects driven by our dysfunctional U.S. healthcare system. A recent JAMA Surgery report found that many surgeons prescribe four times more opioids than their patients use. This opens the...

Published Tue, Jan 29 2019 8:27 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, value-based care, Dave Chase, Opioid epidemic

The Growing Problem of Military Suicides

By MSW@USC STAFF U.S. veterans are dying by suicide at an alarming pace. The national veteran suicide rate was almost 30 per 100,000 people in 2015, or about 20 deaths every day, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The age-adjusted rate of...

Published Tue, Jan 15 2019 7:36 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, veterans, veteran suicide, MSW@USC Staff, suicide rates

The Disruptive Potential of Employer-Centered Care

By LAWRENCE LEISURE When it comes to health care prices, the burden piled on payers can seem almost cartoonishly heavy. News stories on the state of the industry read as though some satirist decided to exaggerate real systemic flaws into cost-prohibitive...

Published Tue, Dec 11 2018 7:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Health insurance, Kaiser Permanente, direct primary care, Castlight Health, Lawrence Leisure, workforce, Employer-based insurance, employer-centered care

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 72 | Haven, Scott Gottlieb, & Crossover Health

On Episode 72 of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I give you a run down of the latest in health tech. At long last, the joint health care venture between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan has a name: Haven. In other news, Scott Gottlieb has decided...

Published Thu, Mar 07 2019 9:47 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, primary care, Mental Health, health technology, Health Tech, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Ableto, Crossover Health, Haven, Joyable

This EHR Mess We’re In

MICHAEL CHEN, MD Dr. Matthew Hahn blogs about the current state of today’s EHR’s and rightly points out many of the same reasons that I have identified in my previous posts: The negative impact of Meaningful Use (MU) since 2009 Poor usability of EHR’s...

Published Thu, Jul 27 2017 7:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: EHR, Open Source, Tech, Michael Chen

Healthcare’s Hundred Years’ War

By JOHN IRVINE Is Trumpcare Dead? Was it ever really alive? Senators Mike Lee and Jerry Moran said yesterday that they would not vote for the Better Care Reconciliation Act, effectively killing the legislation. As anybody who has been following this story...

Published Tue, Jul 18 2017 1:07 PM by THCB

Filed under: ACA, Obamacare, Uncategorized, Exchanges, John Irvine, Trumpcare, McConnell

On Teaching Hospitals and Conflict of Interest and Other Politically Charged Topics

By ASHISH JHA, MD How much does it matter which hospital you go to? Of course, it matters a lot – hospitals vary enormously on quality of care, and choosing the right hospital can mean the difference between life and death. The problem is that it’s hard...

Published Tue, May 23 2017 1:04 PM by THCB

Filed under: Quality, Uncategorized

Watching Obamacare Die

By KIP SULLIVAN It’s hard to know what “Trumpcare” is, but whether it’s “repeal” or “repeal and replace with something terrific,” it was and is going to fail. It was either going to fail to be enacted by...

Published Thu, Jul 20 2017 2:53 PM by THCB

Filed under: ACA, Uncategorized, Kip Sullivan, Trumpacare

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