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The trifecta: Reform idiocy, Hospital CEOs and the Obesity Problem

By Matthew Holt It's rare that you get such a delicious health care story combining human frailty, blindness and multiple stereotypes, but Julie Rovner of NPR found it. In fact I literally thought she’d been set up but she confirmed... Read More....

Published Tue, Sep 07 2010 1:13 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Hospitals, Humor

Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Teams Sprint to the Finish

By Bianca Grogan More than 40 teams are putting the final touches on their applications for our Health 2.0 Developer Challenge. The 10 prize winners will be announced by Todd Park, CTO of U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services... Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 07 2010 12:10 PM by The Health Care Blog

Front-Line Managers are Key to Wellness Program Participation

By TOM UNDERWOOD What’s the difference between a company with a high participation rate in wellness programs and a low one? As it turns out, front-line managers—the people who run the daily operations and work the most closely with their... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 4:12 PM by The Health Care Blog

The History and Future of Medical Technology

By FILED UNDER: THCB CLASSIFIEDS If you are curious about how the amazing technologies found in modern hospitals and clinics came about, check out Ira Brodsky’s entertaining new book, The History and Future of Medical Technology. The hardback tells the...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 4:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

False promises

By PAUL LEVY At a speech last night, Lynn Nicholas, head of the MA Hospital Association, summarized the up's and down's associated with the Massachusetts 2006 universal health care access legislation. She was kind enough to send me her slides...

Published Mon, Oct 04 2010 1:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Paul Levy, Medicaid

Update on Modular EHR Technology: Harvard’s SMArt Research

By DAVID C. KIBBE and BRIAN KLEPPER ONC awarded four Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Project (SHARP) grants earlier this year to ”...address well-documented problems that have impeded adoption of health IT and to accelerate progress towards achieving...

Published Wed, Oct 06 2010 12:02 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, Brian Klepper, David Kibbe, Technology

Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll & Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt I’m so excited that I can’t sleep, so I’m up at 5am giving a Hunter S. Thompson-esque review of Day1 of Heath 2.0 For a start, even before it started you could tell that Health Innovation Week... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 08 2010 6:34 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt

Patients 2.0 - The Growing Demographic of Networked Patients

By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN >In a ballroom at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco last week, several hundred people shared ideas, debated, and painted a multi-faceted picture of the NewPatient: the networked patient. The meeting was convened, in “unconference...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2010 4:55 PM by The Health Care Blog

Tugging on Superman’s Cape

By BOB WACHTER, MD Several years ago, I spoke at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where Michael DeBakey, the legendary heart surgeon, was master of the universe for nearly half a century. I heard lots of DeBakey stories during... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 12 2010 7:36 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Physicians, Bob Wachter, Fatigue

The Swing to the Right: The Election and It's Effects On Health Reform

By DAVID HARLOW Like Tom Friedman, who lampooned some of this year's unreasonable campaign rhetoric in a recent column, I too would be in favor of reality-based political campaigns ... but that seemed to be too much to ask for... Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 06 2010 8:08 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health Care and the 2010 Midterms

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI The election has given us a Republican House and a still Democratic controlled Senate. But, instead of Democrats having the 60 Senators they had when health care was passed in December, they will have a slim majority... Read More....

Published Mon, Nov 08 2010 3:56 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Robert Laszewski, Policy/Politics, health care reform

HIT Trends Summary for October 2010

By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends Report for October 2010. You can get the current issue or subscribe here. The evolving health information exchange market. The HIE segment was center-stage this month with a game-changing... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 10 2010 7:49 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, EHR, Comparative Effectiveness Research, HIEs

mHealth: Is It a Market?

By JOHN MOORE I've been attending the mHealth Summit for the last 3 days and an over-arching theme has been: mHealth is unlikely to ever become a market in its own right. Backing up this claim have been the countless... Read More...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 4:47 AM by The Health Care Blog

Suzanne Delbanco on the new Catalyst for Payment Reform

By Matthew Holt Catalyst for Payment Reform is a new organization set up by several huge employers. Its goal is to pay for health care differently, and make sure that those employers run ahead of any Medicare payment reform coming... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2010 1:02 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy, Employers

Why We Still Kill Patients

By MICHAEL MILLENSON A recent front-page article [1] in the New York Times conveyed grim news about patient safety. The first large-scale study [2] of hospital safety in a decade concluded that care has not gotten significantly safer since the... Read...

Published Wed, Dec 08 2010 5:44 AM by The Health Care Blog

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