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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

HarvardX: Improving Global Health, Focusing on Quality & Safety

By THCB STAFF HarvardX is offering a free online course, Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety, starting on June 27 on edX.org. Participants in this 8-week course will engage with top experts in the field of public health as they grapple...

Published Wed, Jun 07 2017 12:05 PM by THCB

Filed under: Quality, Uncategorized, Safety, HarvardX, Ashish K. Jha

A Proposal to Increase the Transparency and Quality of Electronic Health Records

By HAYWARD ZWERLING, MD The electronic health record (EHR) is now used by the majority of physicians during every patient encounter. The EHR has become the most important tool in our “black bag” and precisely for that reason, the EHR must...

Published Mon, Nov 02 2015 11:44 AM by THCB

Filed under: EHR, Quality, Transparency, Bias, Uncategorized, EHR Errors

Failing Healthcare’s ‘Free Market’ Experiment in US: Single Payer to the Rescue?

By KHURRAM NASIR MD, MPH, MSc In the industrialized world and especially in United States, health care expenditures per capita has has significantly outgrown per capita income in the last few decades. The projected national expenditures growth at 6.2...

Published Tue, Feb 19 2019 7:34 AM by THCB

Filed under: Politics, ACA, Health insurance, Health policy, Single payer, Khurram Nasir

Video Collage: KP Center for Total Health

By MATTHEW HOLT This week I spent quite a bit of time at the very new and very fancy Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health in Washington DC. It’s next door to a very large medical office building (110+ docs) in which KP is showcasing its current...

Published Fri, Apr 08 2011 9:06 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: HIT, THCB, Health 2.0, Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Tech, Kaiser Permanente

A Change in Tactics

By ROBERT PRETZLAFF MD, MBA Those that advocate for change in healthcare most often make their case based on the unsustainable cost or poor quality care that is sadly the norm. A 2018 article in Bloomberg highlights this fact by reporting on global...

Published Wed, Mar 06 2019 8:52 AM by THCB

Filed under: Health policy, Healthcare reform, Robert Pretzlaff

Halamka Speaks; athenahealth & the Future of AMCs as Tech Innovators

By MATTHEW HOLT It’s always interesting to talk with John Halamka, and last week–after athenahealth bought the IP but apparently not the actual code of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) web-based EHR he’s been shepherding...

Published Mon, Feb 09 2015 4:29 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, Matthew Holt, John Halamka, BIDMC, Epic, athenahealth

My Ideal EHR

By NIRAN AL-AGBA Give me technology which improves my life and that of my patients, or give me death. Medical records must be informative, efficient, and flexible; like the physicians they serve. For me, a medical record does not contain just a collection...

Published Tue, Aug 23 2016 11:39 AM by THCB

Filed under: EHR, Uncategorized, Niran Al-Agba, #UX, Diagnoses

Anatomy of a Healthcare Quality Metric

By RACHEL KATZ In the future, doctors who provide better healthcare will be paid more. When a doctor gives good care, she will get credit. For factors out of that doctor’s control, she won’t be penalized. The patient, too, will be rewarded for taking...

Published Fri, Jun 19 2015 5:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Quality, Meaningful Use, PQRS, A1c

Why Data Governance Needs a Henry Kissinger

By DALE SANDERS The number of mergers, acquisitions, and collaborative partnerships in healthcare continues to skyrocket. That’s not going to change for the next few years unless the FTC decides to be more restrictive. In all of these activities, older...

Published Thu, Sep 10 2015 8:18 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Quality, Health Catalyst, Data Governance, Dale Sanders

A Small EHR Vendor’s Emotional Open Letter to Users as They Pull the Plug

By HAYWARD ZWERLING, MD Over the last few years, we have seen large EHR vendors purchase the moderate size EHR vendors, while moderate-size EHR vendors acquire smaller EHR vendors. We can expect to see a further decline in the number and diversity of...

Published Mon, Sep 21 2015 6:57 PM by THCB

Filed under: EHR, THCB, Meaningful Use, ICD-10

Blood Clots Show Limits of Quality Care Penalties

By ELLIOT R. HAUT, MD In the world of medicine, blood clots during hospitalization have become synonymous with imperfect care. As many as 600,000 patients per year experience a blood clot, and more than 100,000 die as a result, accounting for between...

Published Thu, Aug 06 2015 5:28 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Quality, Op-Ed, Johns Hopkins, Blood Clots, Elliot R. Haut

WTF Health | Oscar’s Schlosser on Consumerizing Health Plans, post-ACA & pre-Amazon/JPM/BH

By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of the health industry and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough? Check out more interviews...

Published Mon, Jun 18 2018 2:29 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health Plans, ACA, Health insurance, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, Health Datapalooza, Oscar

Microsoft Set To Demo VR/Mixed reality Physician Education Platform

Dr. Simon Kos had big shoes to fill when he took over the role of Microsoft Chief Medical Officer from Dr. Bill Crounse last year. Dr. Kos said himself that they were some “big scrubs to fill”. However, at the time he had already been with Microsoft for...

Published Mon, Sep 25 2017 11:16 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Physicians, Patients, Economics, Hospitals, Tech, The Business of Health Care, Featured, THCBist, Trending

The Evolution of Precision Health

Health 2.0 sat down with Linda Molnar to discuss the evolution of Precision Health, the imperatives at stake in a fast-paced field, and empowerment through big data. Linda has over 20 years in the field of Life Sciences and is responsible for a number...

Published Thu, Nov 30 2017 2:21 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Physicians, Patients, Tech, Featured, THCBist, Trending

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