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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

The Business Case for Social Determinants of Health

By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH How can understanding the underlying social risks impacting patient populations improve health outcomes AND save health plans some serious per-member-per-month costs? You’re probably familiar with the concept of ‘Social...

Published Thu, Feb 28 2019 7:58 AM by THCB

Filed under: Social Determinants of Health, Health IT, The Business of Health Care, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, Trenor Williams

The Leaning Tower of Jello: Why No-one Believes Health Reform will be Deficit Neutral

By JEFF GOLDSMITH President Obama has promised not to sign any health reform legislation that increases the federal deficit. This promise recognized rising public concern about an Argentinean fiscal trend that, unchecked, could leave us with $19 trillion...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 7:52 AM by The Health Care Blog

Defined Contribution Health Care—The Conservatives’ Silver Bullet

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI Conservatives are in a full court press these days telling us the answer to America’s out-of-control health care costs—and our fiscal crisis—is to move Medicare, Medicaid, and the tax code subsidy for private insurance to a defined...

Published Tue, Mar 01 2011 7:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Robert Laszewski, Front Page, Conservatives, Defined contribution

Why Berwick Matters

By ROBERT WACHTER Two cover stories in this week’s Time magazine debate a provocative question: Is America in decline? Both the yes and no arguments are made persuasively, and I found myself on the fence after reading them, perhaps leaning ever-so-slightly...

Published Sat, Mar 12 2011 5:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, CMS, PPACA, Berwick, IHI

Is That Thorazine in the Baby’s Bottle?

By PSYCH GRIPE One of the most disturbing trends in mental health today is the increasing use of powerful antipsychotic medication to treat behavioral problems in children, even very young children. According to a 2009 report by the Food and Drug Administration...

Published Thu, Mar 24 2011 4:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Diagnosis, Antipsychotics, Neuroleptics

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (EHR) Bomb

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE Remember the fear mongering rhetoric about weapons of mass destruction and all sorts of other bogey men that sometimes led to war death and true destruction and other times to just animosity, hatred and counterproductive waste of...

Published Mon, Mar 28 2011 7:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, EHR, THCB, Margalit Gur-Aire

Medical Loss Ratio: Putting Percentages and Politics Aside

By CONNIE HARVEY The Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) policy written into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires health insurance companies to deliver more direct value to consumers by mandating that they spend a higher percentage of...

Published Tue, Apr 05 2011 2:11 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Insurance companies, Affordable Care Act, Connie Harvey, Medical Loss Ratio

Ryan’s Proposal For Medicare

By MAGGIE MAHAR Representative Paul Ryan (R. Wisconsin) thinks he has found a solution to Medicare inflation. The cost of Medicare has been spiraling for years, thanks to the climbing cost of virtually every product and service in our health care system...

Published Wed, Apr 06 2011 12:27 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Kosmix bought by Wal-mart

In a move I don’t quite understand, Wal-Mart has bought search & content site Kosmix for a reported $300m. Kosmix has been doing various things around presentation of search information from different sites and places on the web (including...

Published Tue, Apr 19 2011 11:12 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, micro

Interview: Medicity and ActiveHealthManagement

Matthew Holt interviews Brent Dover of Medicity and Jeff Jacques of ActiveHealthManagement at HIMSS. Tweet this Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2011 1:05 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB

Microsoft HSG Bets Future on Amalga

By JOHN MOORE Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group (HSG), which has straddled the fence with consumer-facing (HealthVault) and corporate-facing (Amalga), is increasingly moving to the corporate side of the fence. Not that surprising considering that the...

Published Tue, May 03 2011 11:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Microsoft, John Moore, Health Vault, Amalga, Microsoft HSG

The Social Life of Health Information

By SUSANNAH FOX “I don’t know, but I can try to find out” is the default setting for people with health questions. The internet has changed people’s relationships with information. Data collected by the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare...

Published Thu, May 12 2011 9:38 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0

The Quantified Self and the Future of Health Care

By GARY WOLF The Quantified Self is a global collaboration of users and tool-makers interested in the personal meaning of personal data. There are now Quantified Self groups in more than twenty cities around the world. Our inspiration is the Homebrew...

Published Thu, May 12 2011 5:07 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, PatientsLikeMe, Quantified Self, Cure Together

Does Mitt Romney Deserve the Abuse He’s Getting on Health Care? Yes, He Does.

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS Mitt Romney took a big beating on the Wall Street Journal‘s editorial page last week, the same day he laid out his health care plan in the USA Today and defended his position on the topic in a speech in Michigan. I’m not a big Romney...

Published Mon, May 16 2011 7:44 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, David Williams, Romney health plan, GOP candidates

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