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Health 2.0--The Fall Conference is going to be great!
By Matthew Holt Health 2.0 is pleased to announce our (almost) final line-up for the Fourth annual Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, October 7-8. Since we started the series in 2007, Health 2.0 has become the leading showcase of...
The History and Future of Medical Technology
FILED UNDER: THCB CLASSIFIEDS If you are curious about how the amazing technologies found in modern hospitals and clinics came about, check out Ira Brodsky’s entertaining new book, The History and Future of Medical Technology. The hardback tells the story...
What's wrong with this picture?
By Matthew Holt And the answer is not the quality of the model! In the comments please!
Webinar--Intro to Governance from Nat'l eHealth Collaborative
The first of a two event series on network governance, this is a key opportunity to explore the various considerations that go into the development of a comprehensive and sustainable governance structure for nationwide health information exchange. Designed to provide...
Not all Ratings Are Equal: Part II
By JOHN R. MORROW Read Part I here. Why are all ratings not equal? Because they are designed for different purposes! Herein lay the underlying truth to the many objections posed by organizations being rated. Rightfully so, the Three R’s...
Front-Line Managers are Key to Wellness Program Participation
By TOM UNDERWOOD What’s the difference between a company with a high participation rate in wellness programs and a low one? As it turns out, front-line managers—the people who run the daily operations and work the most closely with their...
Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
By JOHN GOODMAN Have you ever wondered how anyone could possibly think that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) would lead to less health care spending? Consider that the act is expected to (a) insure more than half...
The Red, White and Blue Buttons
The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge announced more details this week on its Blue Button Challenge, including the recruitment of Craig Newmark as a celebrity judge. The challenge comes from Markle Foundation & the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and it's looking...
And The Best Job In Academic Medicine Goes To…
By BOB WACHTER, MD With all due respect to the Pentagon, humankind has not invented a more complex organization than the modern academic medical center. The combination of high tech and high touch, the Byzantine regulations, the toxic medico-legal environment,...
Healthcare unwired: nearly half of US consumers are willing to pay
By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN 40% of U.S. consumers are willing to pay for remote health monitoring devices and services that would send their medical data to doctors, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Healthcare Unwired (PwC). 51% of consumers would not buy mobile health...
OIG: Imaging pre-authorization may be handled by hospital for referring docs and patients
By DAVID HARLOW The OIG released an advisory opinion at the end of last month OK'ing a hospital's proposal to provide insurance pre-authorization srevices free of charge to patients and physicians. This is an issue that has long vexed folks...
Computer Error or Patient-Centered Care?
By HERBERT MATHEWSON, MD The saga continues, but morphs from a discussion of computer error into patient-centered care (1). In my last two posts I tell my story of trying to speed up a six-hour infusion of intravenous medication by...
Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Teams Sprint to the Finish
By Bianca Grogan More than 40 teams are putting the final touches on their applications for our Health 2.0 Developer Challenge. The 10 prize winners will be announced by Todd Park, CTO of U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services...
Do Patients Want to Punish?
By PAUL LEVY There is a great debate set forth in the IHI's Open School discussion of the wrong-side surgery case that occurred at our hospital a few years ago. (I have written about this below, but there are some...
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...
HIT Trends Summary for August 2010
By MICHAEL LAKE This is a summary of the HIT Trends Report for August 2010. You can get the current issue or subscribe here Large insurers make HIT commitments. This month’s trends are dominated by national health plans revealing more...
Health 2.0 Europe: Closing Remarks Day One
By Bianca Grogan Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya from Health 2.0 and Denise Silber of Basil Strategies give their closing remarks for day one of the Health 2.0 Europe Conference, April 6-7, 2010, in Paris, France. The three hosts review...