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The War Between the States

By MICHAEL TURPIN Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. ~Richard Lamm The day after a... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 10 2010 6:42 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, PPACA, Michael Turpin

The Ryan/Rivlin Plan

By JOHN GOODMAN Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Alice Rivlin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), have proposed an entitlement spending reform plan that is striking both for its boldness and its left-right-coming-together origins...

Published Thu, Dec 02 2010 12:16 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, John Goodman, ACA

HHS wants to hear from YOU about empowering consumers

By Matthew Holt HHS is developing a 5 year strategic plan for publication in early 2011. Part of that is more work on the role of HHS in encouraging consumer empowerment. Here are the current proposed objectives: Objective A. Engage... Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 03 2010 12:17 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, HHS

Cool Stuff I Taught My EHR to Do

By HAYWARD ZWERLING, MD I am an IT geek physician. I have my an EHR which I created and control. Today, I wanted to understand my diabetic practice a little more, so I dumped all my HbA1c data out of my EHR and into a spreadsheet where I was able to manipulate...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2015 8:21 AM by THCB

Filed under: EHR, THCB, Data, Physician, Customization, Hayward Zwerling

The verdict is in: All three of CMS’s “medical home” demonstrations have failed

By KIP SULLIVAN Between September of 2016 and last month, CMS released “final evaluations” of all three of its “medical home” demonstrations. All three demos failed. This spells bad news not just for the “patient-centered medical home” (PCMH) project...

Published Thu, Jun 07 2018 10:01 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Op-Ed, PCMH, Kip Sullivan

A New Era for our Military Health System

By DAN GARRETT The last day of October was the deadline for proposals in response to the U.S. Department of Defense’s call to overhaul its electronic health record software, also known as the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2014 9:48 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, THCB, PwC, Electronic Health Record, DHMSM, Military Health Care System, Defense HEalthcare Management Systems Modernizations, MedSphere, DORHS, OSEHRA

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

HIPAA RFI Comments: Patient Privacy Rights

By ADRIAN GROPPER and DEBORAH C. PEEL Among other rich nations, US healthcare stands out as both exceptionally privatized and exceptionally expensive. And taken overall, we have the worst health outcomes among the Western Democracies. On one hand, regulators...

Published Mon, Feb 11 2019 5:32 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Adrian Gropper, HIPAA, value-based care, Health Data, Deborah C Peel, federal regulations

The Root Cause of Physician Burnout: Neither Professionals nor Skilled Workers

BY HANS DUVEFELT MD Too many specific theories about physician burnout can cloud the real issue and allow healthcare leaders to circle around the “elephant in the room”. The cause of physician burnout isn’t just the EMRs, Meaningful Use, CMS regulations...

Published Wed, Jan 02 2019 6:50 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Hans Duvefelt, physician burnout

Can CMS’ Proposed ACO Changes Really Help Medicare Beneficiaries?

By REBECCA FOGG Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma proposed bold changes to Medicare’s Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), with the goal of accelerating America’s progress toward a value-based...

Published Tue, Sep 04 2018 11:19 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, Patients, CMS, ACOs

Making Healthcare a Consumer Biz: Livongo’s Glen Tullman on his New Book & IPO Rumors

By JESSICA DA MASSA, WTF Health “If we just shop for healthcare like we shop for everything else…we would take care of a lot of the problems…” So says Glen Tullman, CEO of Livongo, a very hot startup with a chronic condition management platform...

Published Wed, Sep 26 2018 11:08 AM by THCB

Filed under: Glen Tullman, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, Livongo, consumer health, On Our Terms, consumer driven health

(Limited) Sympathy for the Blue Devil(s)

By Matthew Holt A year on from Wellpoint's ju-jistu move of announcing a 39% rate increase in California, therefore re-invigorating the health care bill and guaranteeing themselves billions in government subsidies, Blue Shield of California (that...

Published Mon, Jan 10 2011 2:23 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy, Health Plans

Electronic Medical Records 2017: Science Ignored, Opportunity Lost

By KENNETH BARTHOLOMEW, MD My big brother Bill, may he rest in peace, taught me a valuable lesson four decades ago. We were gearing up for an extended Alaskan wilderness trip and were having trouble with a piece of equipment. When we finally rigged up...

Published Mon, May 08 2017 12:39 PM by THCB

Filed under: EHR, Uncategorized, EMR, value-based care, Knowledge Coupler, POMR, Number Needed to Kill

The Bond Markets and Health Care Financing

By ROBERT LASZEWSKI When will the Congress and the White House finally make the hard decisions in order come to grips with the federal deficit problem? When will we finally deal with real health care reform and get the entitlements,... Read More...

Published Sun, Nov 28 2010 11:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Robert Laszewski, Policy/Politics, Health care costs

Treating Chest Pain With a Cup of Tea

By ANISH KOKA, MD It is very early. I am running to the ‘clinical decision unit’ (CDU) to see a patient of mine sent in the night before from a local skilled nusing facility. Also known as clinical observation units, ‘obs’ units...

Published Sat, Jan 09 2016 8:34 AM by THCB

Filed under: EHR, Uncategorized, Chest Pain, CCTA

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