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It’s Past Time to End the Employer Mandate

By DAVID DRANOVE and CRAIG GARTHWAITE The New Year always brings many changes. In addition to soon to be broken resolutions, this particular year ushered in strict mandates requiring employers with more than 100 full-time employees to either provide health...

Published Thu, Feb 12 2015 12:53 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Obama, ACA, Staples, Benefits, Employer Mandate

Martha’s Mistakes

By JOHN MOORE Not one to comment on broader political issues but just can’t help myself today after awakening to the news that Kennedy’s Senate seat has gone to the Republican upstart Scott Brown. Whatever happened to carrying on Kennedy’s... Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 2:32 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Reform, Policy/Politics, Massachusetts, Democratic Party

ONC Signals a Shift From Documents to Interfaces

ADRIAN GROPPER, MD All of you Meaningful Use and Health IT junkies should read Data for Individual Health Although long, it’s definitely worth a scan by everyone who cares about health tech. This is the third JASON-related report in a year out of...

Published Sun, Dec 07 2014 8:43 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Meaningful Use, JASON, Blue Button, CCDA, Blue Button Plus Push

2015: The Year Well-Designed Interfaces Will Transform Health IT?

By THCBist What else could lie in store? We talked with Nuance’s Nick Van Terheyden, who remains optimistic. Nick van Terheyden, MD, CMIO, Nuance Communications 2015 will be the year well-designed interfaces will transform health IT legacy systems...

Published Fri, Jan 02 2015 3:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Design, Usability, Nick Van Terheyden, Wearables

Is Healthcare IT Ready for its Big Coming Out Party?

By BOB WACHTER In 2001, when my colleagues and I ranked nearly 100 patient safety practices on the strength of their supporting evidence (for an AHRQ report), healthcare IT didn’t make the top 25. We took a lot of heat... Read More...

Published Sun, Oct 25 2009 11:35 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Bob Wachter

HIT Newser: Alarm Issues Top Health Hazard List

MICHELLE RONAN NOTEBOOM CMS Gives Hospitals One Month Attestation Reprieve CMS extends the deadline for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals to attest for MU from November 30 to December 31, giving hospitals more time to submit MU data for...

Published Mon, Dec 01 2014 1:54 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, CMS, Practice Fusion, USDA, VA

Massachusetts, Utah, or Nothing: How States Should Address Exchanges

By JOHN GRAHAM PPACA prescribes states’ “flexibility” in structuring exchanges. Libertarian and conservative policy analysts have criticized Massachusetts’ bloated and intrusive Commonwealth Connector, the country’s first pre-Obamacare exchange. Some...

Published Sat, Jan 22 2011 9:56 AM by The Health Care Blog

Last Chance to Fix the Exchanges

By BILL KRAMER We all know that well-designed health insurance exchanges are a critical element for good health reform, right? And we also hear that exchanges are part of all five reform bills in Congress, so we should be satisfied,... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 7:16 PM by The Health Care Blog

Job Post: Health Policy Coordinator

Organization: The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Location: Los Angeles, CA SEIU is seeking to hire an expert in health care administration and financing to help analyze, develop, and implement policy recommendations that support the members...

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 2:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Human Farming & the Limits of Medical Research

By FRANK PASQUALE A Museum of Modern Art exhibit by Michael Burton once proposed that human beings themselves would be the soil for a “future farm:” Future Farm predicts that the emerging pharmaceutical research in harvesting adult stem cells from......

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 4:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Research, Clinical Trials, Frank Pasquale

Putting the Patient First, Literally

By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD Interoperability is front and center, again. Stage 1 of HITECH was about health records for doctors. Stage 2 is about interoperability. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report is all about interoperability...

Published Tue, Jan 18 2011 5:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

Wellness Puts CEOs on a Collision Course with Obamacare and Common Sense

VIK KHANNA and AL LEWIS By now readers of this and many other outlets know that conventional workplace wellness doesn’t work. Period. It’s not that there is no evidence for it. It’s far more compelling: all the evidence is against it. The so-called “evidence...

Published Sat, Nov 29 2014 10:59 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Wellness, Business Roundtable, Reuters

A Question for EHR Vendors: What Is a “Real” Computer?

JEROME CARTER, MD This might seem like a silly question with an obvious answer, but is it really? The solution to any problem grows out of the environment in which it appears and from the mindset in which it was conceived. In 1970, the answer to this...

Published Sat, Nov 29 2014 8:40 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Design, Apple, Smartphones, EHR Industry, Tablet, Mobile Computing

Marketplace: Digital Health Maven Growth Salon NYC

In MARKETPLACE Have You Ever Attended a Digital Health Event Specially Designed to Meet YOUR Needs? Now You Can On December 12, attend an intimate New York City event designed to focus on your unique strategic, business, relationship and knowledge needs...

Published Wed, Dec 03 2014 3:29 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, THCB Marketplace, Events, Digital Health Maven

I Am Not a Provider.

JORDAN SHLAIN, MD This is the fourth in a never ending series of screeds that attempts to crack open words that are misused, misguided misnomers in the healthcare arena. “Provider” is a substantial, material word that will require a medical sledgehammer...

Published Thu, Dec 04 2014 2:31 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: THCB, Caregiver, Physician, Provider

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