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Mr.Trump’s Proposal for the Sale of Health Insurance Across State Lines

By JIM PURCELL Donald Trump’s website has a position paper entitled “Healthcare Reform To Make America Great Again.” And some of his suggested reforms make sense. However, the question of the moment involves Item 2: “Modify existing law that inhibits...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2016 1:09 PM by THCB

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Homo ex machina

By ASIF DHAR, MD ‘Temet Nosce’ or know thyself. This is what The Oracle tells Neo when they first meet in The Matrix. Who we are and how we learn is a combination of our biology and our personal experiences. The plasticity of our minds and our genes make...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2016 5:07 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Featured, Asif Dhar

The Meme-ifcation of Health Care

By YEVGENIY FEYMAN Why can’t we have nice things? As a self-anointed health policy wonk, I find myself asking this question many times. It seems that every potentially transformative (to use a tired cliché) health care trend must eventually go through...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2016 4:54 AM by THCB

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Not Quite DOA: Why Reports of the Demise of the President’s Budget May be Exaggerated

By CECI CONNOLLY Anyone who has spent a few years in Washington knows the federal budget dance: President stands behind podium with a fancy seal and flags and unveils a giant tome. The next morning newspapers declare the tome DOA, Dead on Arrival. And...

Published Wed, Mar 02 2016 3:21 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Ceci Connolly, Featured

Omar Hussein, CEO Imprivata

By MATTHEW HOLT This is the first of a series of interviews I’m doing at the behemoth HIMSS conference. They will hopefully give you a quick overview of the companies, and give you a sense of where the system is going. First up, grabbed in the corridor...

Published Wed, Mar 02 2016 2:02 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Matthew Holt, HIMSS16, Imprivata, Omar Hussain

EMR Data show: The ACA has Improved Access to Care for Low-Income Patients

By JOSH GRAY As Barack Obama’s presidency draws to a close, we anticipate growing discussion of his legacy. Much of that discussion will focus on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), his signature legislative accomplishment. The legislation is complex and in...

Published Wed, Mar 02 2016 11:48 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Featured, Josh Gray

Building Virtual Kaisers; Transcending Healthcare’s Tower of Babel

By GARY MENDOZA Twenty years ago this month, California created an organizational architecture for integrated delivery systems taking global capitation—the restricted Knox-Keene (RKK) license. At its creation, I envisioned the RKK as a pathway to virtual...

Published Tue, Mar 01 2016 12:55 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Featured, Gary Mendoza

Getting to the Patient Cloud and Guardian Angels

By DAN HOUSMAN It’s been an exciting 2016 already in the realm of cloud computing and patient engagement. As I was preparing for the HIMSS16 conference, I was reflecting on how things are moving so quickly with the addition of new technologies and yet...

Published Tue, Mar 01 2016 7:32 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Dan Housman, Featured, Cloud, Guardian Angels

Sorry. Congress Needs to do Something About Data Blocking

By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD and DEBORAH PEEL, MD Now it’s clear. On Thursday, the Office for Civil Rights, responsible for HIPAA enforcement and protecting the public, published a new guidance to interpret HIPAA with respect to data blocking. The limits of...

Published Sun, Feb 28 2016 3:33 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Adrian Gropper, Featured, Deborah Peel

The Health Care Question We Need to Be Asking the Candidates

By ANEES CHAGAR, MD As many of the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates lament the high cost of healthcare and put forth how they aim to make it more cost effective, few have focused on the impact of out-of-pocket costs specifically for cancer...

Published Sun, Feb 28 2016 1:19 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Anees Chagar

Readmissions, Observation, and Improving Hospital Care

By ASHISH JHA, MD Reducing Hospital Use Because hospitals are expensive and often cause harm, there has been a big focus on reducing hospital use. This focus has been the underpinning for numerous policy interventions, most notable of which is the Affordable...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2016 12:16 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Featured, Ashish Jha

Why Healthcare Costs Rise Faster Than General Inflation Part 4

By DAVID TOOMEY AND TOM EMERICK Over the last few years, the latest buzz in the healthcare industry has been Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and the next wave will be the promotion of “value-based contracting”. These are similar approaches, different...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2016 9:33 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Featured

Silicon Valley’s Healthcare Problem

By RACHEL KATZ Silicon Valley wants to love healthcare. The industry is enormous and full of inefficiency, which is to say, perfect for technology investment. So it comes as no surprise that venture money in healthcare technology startups has quadrupled...

Published Thu, Feb 25 2016 11:11 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Rachel Katz

Ransomware, Interoperability, Power Outages, Natural Disasters, Oh My!

By MERLE BUSHKIN Question: What do ransomware, malware, the lack of medical record interoperability, power outages, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes have in common? Answer: They make it impossible for doctors to access their patients’ electronic medical...

Published Thu, Feb 25 2016 7:47 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Featured, Merle Bushkin

Will Feeding Watson $3 Billion Worth Of Healthcare Payment Data Improve Its Decisions?

By ROSS KOPPEL and FRANK MIESNER, MD On Feb 18, IBM announced its purchase of Truven Health Analytics for $2.6 billion. Truven collects and crunches payer data on medical costs and treatments. IBM will combine Truven’s data with recent other data acquisitions...

Published Wed, Feb 24 2016 8:08 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Featured, Ross Koppel

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