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Can Good Care Produce Bad Health?

By AMY BERMAN For those of you who haven’t yet heard, I have recently been diagnosed with Stage IV inflammatory *** cancer. This rare form of *** cancer is known for its rapid spread. True to form, it has metastasized... Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 5:35 PM by The Health Care Blog

A Medical Student's Dilemma

By LIBERTAD FLORES I remember joking with Dad about how he'd outlive us all. He had gone vegetarian 10 years before I was born, never smoked, took vitamins, and asked for a designated driver after his annual Heineken at the... Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 31 2011 7:01 AM by The Health Care Blog

Insurers Flat Foot Their Way Into the Social Media Era

By DAVID WILLIAMS A couple of related pieces caught my attention today: @HealthPlan: How insurers use social media and Insurers are scouring social media for evidence of fraud. Slowly but surely health plans and other insurers are stepping into the.....

Published Mon, Jan 31 2011 5:00 PM by The Health Care Blog

Ethical Blinders?

By PAUL LEVY Is this a case of ethical blinders? Today's New York Times has an important story about the ineffectiveness of removal of lymph nodes for certain women with *** cancer. That is a significant result of clinical research.... Read More....

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 11:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Real Cost of Early Elective Deliveries

By VANESSA HURLEY What if I told you that across the country there’s a procedure being performed on pregnant women that makes their newborns more likely to end up sick and in a $3,000-a-day Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)? Too... Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 10 2011 11:39 AM by The Health Care Blog

Why This Primary Care Doctor Loves His EHR

By DAVIS LIU, MD A recent post in the Wall Street Journal Health Blog noted that a study found electronic medical records don’t improve outpatient quality. The authors of the Archives of Internal Medicine article, Electronic Health Records and Clinical...

Published Mon, Feb 07 2011 3:35 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: EHR, CDS, Electronic Health Records, Davis Liu, EHR adoption

The Perfect Office Note? SOAP, APSO or aSOAP?

By HANS DUVEFELT MD I’ve been toying with this dilemma for a while: SOAP notes (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan) are too long; APSO just jumbles the order, but the core items are still too far apart, with too much fluff in between. We need something...

Published Wed, Jan 16 2019 6:12 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, EMR, Hans Duvefelt, Patient Notes

Has U.S. Health Care Spending Finally Stabilized? An Outlook for 2019

By ETIENNE DEFFARGES The official 2017 statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) are out, and there are some good news: The annual growth rate of health care spending is slowing down, and is the lowest since 2013 at 3.9%...

Published Tue, Jan 22 2019 8:16 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, Medicaid, Health insurance, Healthcare costs, Healthcare spending, Finance, Etienne Deffarges

AHA’s FutureScan Publication Available Now

Out this week is the AHA (or more precisely their SHSMD division’s) Futurescan publication. This year it’s edited by futurist Ian Morrison @seccurve and it features a bevvy of forecasting articles including one called “Flipping the Stack...

Published Fri, Jan 25 2019 9:20 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Tech, Health Care Books, AHA

Watch This Space: 3 Phenomena That Will Drive Health Care Innovation in 2019

By REBECCA FOGG Back at their desks after the holidays, health care payers, providers and policymakers across the country are staring down their list of 2019 priorities, wondering which they can actually accomplish. Innovation to improve care quality...

Published Thu, Jan 31 2019 7:34 AM by THCB

Filed under: ACA, Obamacare, value-based care, health innovation, Rebecca Fogg, value-based payments

Innovation Amidst Crisis: Health IT and the Opioid Abuse Epidemic | Part 2 – Fostering Situational Awareness

By COLIN KONSCHAK, FACHE and DAVE LEVIN, MD The opioid crisis in the United States is having a devastating impact on individuals, their families, and the health care industry. This multi-part series will focus on the role technology can play in addressing...

Published Mon, Feb 04 2019 5:31 PM by THCB

Filed under: Tech, Data, Health IT, Opioid epidemic, Dave Levin, Colin Konschak, access healthcare data

HIMSSanity Preview

By MATTHEW HOLT It’s time for my favorite busman’s holiday of the year, the HIMSS global conference, held this year in the cultural wasteland of Orlando, Florida (which given its cultural competition is Las Vegas is saying something!). But...

Published Fri, Feb 08 2019 9:02 PM by THCB

Filed under: HIMSS

Obsessive Measurement Disorder: Etiology of an Epidemic

By KIP SULLIVAN JD Review of The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller, Princeton University Press, 2018 In the introduction to The Tyranny of Metrics, Jerry Muller urges readers to type “metrics” into Google’s Ngram, a program that searches through books...

Published Wed, Feb 13 2019 8:07 AM by THCB

Filed under: Data, Kip Sullivan, Metrics, Book Review, Benchmarks, The Tyranny of Metrics, performance indicators, Jerry Z. Muller

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

ONC’s Proposed Rule is a Breakthrough in Patient Empowerment

By ADRIAN GROPPER Imagine solving wicked problems of patient matching, consent, and a patient-centered longitudinal health record while also enabling a world of new healthcare services for patients and physicians to use. The long-awaited Notice of Proposed...

Published Fri, Feb 22 2019 7:30 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Data, Health policy, Patient data, HIPAA, health technology, ONC Rules, Arian Gropper, patient empowerment

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