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By MICHELLE RONAN-NOTEBOOM HIMSS and CHIME to HHS: ONC Needs Full-time National Coordinator In a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, CHIME and ONC stress the need to hire a full-time National Coordinator for the ONC, should Karen DeSalvo continue...

Published Tue, Nov 18 2014 8:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, HIMSS 2011, CHIME, Epic, Cerner

Why You Should Ditch Your IT System

By JOE FLOWER So you spent millions to billions of dollars on information systems over the past few years, right? How’s that working out for you? For a large percentage of you, whether or not you admit it, not so well. What you bought needs some serious...

Published Thu, Nov 20 2014 1:49 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Opacity, Data Mining, UI, IT, Vendor, eHealth Initiative

Is Deborah Peel up to her old tricks?

By Matthew Holt Long time (well very long time) readers of THCB will remember my extreme frustration with Patients Privacy Rights founder Deborah Peel who as far as I can tell spent the entire 2000s opposing electronic health data in general and commercial...

Published Sun, Nov 23 2014 12:45 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

A Secret Playbook to Torment Doctors

By PETER ELIAS, MD A physician friend commented recently that he was being ‘meeting-ed to death’ and wondered if it was intentional. It turns out, he was on to something. One of my colleagues has a neighbor whose sister’s piano tuner has a friend whose...

Published Thu, Dec 18 2014 9:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Physicians, Peter Elias, Signs of the Apocalypse, Meetings

The Little Exchange that Could…Transform the U.S. Health Care System

By ROBERT S. RUDIN and JAYME FUGLESTEN What do the classic children’s’ book “The Little Engine that Could” and federal investment in health information exchanges have in common? More than you’d think. Much has been said about the fragmentation of the...

Published Wed, Jan 28 2015 3:32 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, HIEs, Rand

Medical Necessity and Unnecessary Care

By PAUL KECKLEY Unnecessary care that’s not evidence-based—usually associated with excess testing, surgical procedures or over-prescribing—accounts for up to 30% of what is spent in healthcare. In recent months, enforcement actions against physicians...

Published Thu, Jan 29 2015 6:53 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Medical Necessity, Unnecessary Care

KLAS Announces 2014 Best in KLAS Winners

By MICHELLE RONAN NOTEBOOM Epic regains its top spot in the 2014 Best in KLAS awards, winning in the Overall Physician Practice Vendor and Overall Software Suite categories. Impact Advisors was named the Overall IT Services Firm. Last year athenahealth...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2015 4:58 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Epic, Cerner, Klas, athenahealth

Health IT: Glass Half Empty? Half Full? Shattered?

By JACK COCHRAN, MD and CHARLES KENNEY Technology occupies an unusual place in health care. Some people say that electronic health records are clumsy barriers between patients and their doctors. Others suggest that technology is a kind of secret sauce...

Published Wed, Feb 04 2015 5:31 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Jack Cochran, Charles Kenney

The Psephology of Early Diagnosis in Britain’s NHS

By SAURABH JHA, MD Consider this equation. Early Diagnosis = Early Diagnosis + Overdiagnosis (1.1) This sort of unequal algebra will fail high school mathematics. A new NHS initiative is arithmetic defying as well. Patients who think they have symptoms...

Published Fri, Feb 06 2015 11:49 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Why Data Handoffs Matter

By JORDAN SHLAIN, MD Chief information officers (CIOs) and chief medical information officers (CMIOs) have spent the better part of two decades on a quest for interoperability; yet, their Achilles heel lies in the “information” part of their titles. If...

Published Mon, Mar 09 2015 10:10 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Quality, Data, Medical Claims, Data Handoffs, Cost

From Google to New Reimbursement Models, Digital Health Trends for 2015

By RYAN BECKLAND There is no question that 2014 was an exciting and eventful year for digital health. Even with all of the advancements and innovations in 2014, this year promises to be even better. The growth in business cases for new models of healthcare...

Published Tue, Mar 10 2015 4:55 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Telemedicine, Tracking, Wearables, 2015 Predictions, Ryan Beckland

Apple Research Kit is Open Source But Is It “Open”?

By VINCE KURAITIS For now, the answer is “we don’t know”. But… the question is very important and worth tracking over the coming months. Let’s not assume that open source will equate to “open”. What is ResearchKit? Apple’s press release provided an overview...

Published Thu, Mar 12 2015 8:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Open Source, iPhone, Android, Control points, ResearchKit, Attrition bias, iWatch

Pelosi’s Hidden Tort Bomb -- an Alternative View

by Charles Silver & David A. Hyman We once thought Democrats would accept tort reform to win Republicans’ support for national health care legislation. Now, however, Democrats have dispensed with bipartisanship. Perhaps they think they can ram health...

Published Tue, Dec 08 2009 1:03 PM by The Health Care Blog

Senate Compromise on Health Care Reform: Political Genius?

By JOE FLOWER Democrat Roland Burris, the sudden senator who replaced Barack Obama in that august body, has now joined those who are pledging to filibuster any bill that does not have a "public option" – joining of course those,... Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 10 2009 9:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health 2.0 in Europe: Couldn't? Wouldn't? Does!

By Denise Silber They said it couldn’t happen in Europe, that social media and online tools wouldn’t catch on, because the healthcare context was soooo different from the US. They said that Europeans don’t worry about access and cost, that... Read More...

Published Sun, Dec 13 2009 2:33 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0

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