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A Massachusetts health care bill that would force insurers to spend almost 90 percent of their premium revenues on medical care instead of administrative costs awaits Gov. Deval Patrick’s signature
Massachusetts lawmakers say a new health care bill they approved will help small businesses combat rising health care costs and force insurers to spend more on medical care and less on administrative costs.
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Health Care Reform Measure Approved
RICHMOND, Va. Virginia’s lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s health care reform law cleared its first legal hurdle Monday as a federal judge ruled the law raises a host of complex constitutional issues
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Health care reform lawsuit passes first legal hurdle
By MERRILL GOOZNER Check out this study from the Healthcare Performance Management Institute, a business-backed think tank that promotes self-insurance among employers. The survey claims that insurance companies are refusing to provide employers with detailed data about employee claims, citing…
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If Insurers Thought the Public Plan Was A Threat
By Matthew Holt Subtext: Interview with Gilles Frydman, Founder and President of ACOR, at the Health 2.0 Florida Conference, April 24, 2010. ACOR is an online community for cancer patients.
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Health 2.0 Washington DC Conference: Interview with Gilles Frydman
By Matthew Holt Demonstration by Robert Rowley from Practice Fusion at the Health 2.0 In the Doctor’s Office Conference held in Jacksonville, Florida on April 24, 2010. Practice Fusion is one of a new generation of SaaS-based electronic medical records.
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Florida 2010: Practice Fusion Demonstration
By Ida Strom Seljeseth In this video from Health 2.0 Goes to Washingston on June 7, 2010, founders of Health 2.0 Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt review the day. They talked about what really stood out for them and how…
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Closing remarks from Health 2.0 Goes to Washington
By Matthew Holt This is the technology showcase of communities and consumer tools from Health 2.0 Goes to Washington on June 7, 2010, It includes Greg Fitzgerald from HealthCentral, Howard Steinberg from dLife, representing communities, with Ellen Badinelli from ScanAvert…
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Technology Showcase: Health 2.0 Tools for Consumers
Dr. Richard Baron, a Philadelphia internist who’s unusual in that he’s both a private-practice clinician and a well-published and -respected academic (he was recently ABIM Chair ), has been mixing it up in the pages of the New England Journal. To readers of this blog, it’ll be useful armchair review: not just because the theme of generalist clinicians’ decline should concern us, but because the blog itself comes into play! The topic of the day: why primary care doctors are in trouble
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Primary Care and the HC Renewal RUC-kus
Last year we noted that the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) required more detailed reporting starting in 2009 by US not-for-profit organizations. Many US health insurance companies/ managed care organizations, most hospitals, nearly all medical associations, nearly all disease advocacy organizations, all health care charities, and nearly all medical schools are not-for-profit organizations.
By LYGEIA RICCIARDI Last week I heard uber marketer Seth Godin speak about the power of fear. Fear is one of the strongest human emotions, based in the core of our brain–the “lizard brain” that evolved prior to our higher…
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Use Emotion to Drive Adoption—Not Rejection—of Health IT
In the NEJM article ” The ‘Meaningful Use’ Regulation for Electronic Health Records “, David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. (ONC Chair) and Marilyn Tavenner, R.N., M.H.A
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Science or Politics? The New England Journal and "The ‘Meaningful Use’ Regulation for Electronic Health Records"
As a result of my mother’s health IT-related cerebral hemorrhage and resultant multi-month hospitalization (as mentioned here and here ), with transfers to nursing homes then back to acute care due to setbacks, I recently had the chance to observe her care in a small community hospital. This was a hospital that, in her last several days there before going back to a nursing home for rehab, went live with a major vendor CPOE.
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An Open Question on Moral Authority and Healthcare IT
By ROGER COLLIER One thing about a democracy, everyone is entitled to publish their predictions about the future, and on the costs (or savings) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act over the 2010-2019 decade, there are enough to…
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The Reform Dartboard: Predicting Healthcare Costs
In the WSJ today, a letter to the editor was published extolling the major strides made by the U.S. military in voice recognition technology for electronic health records: [ Note: this is not to denigrate the military, and I am very thankful to all who serve and defend our country and freedoms
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If Our Honored Military Personnel’s Medical Care Was Not Involved, This WSJ Letter Might Have Been Considered Oddly Funny
By Matthew Holt SUBTEXT: On stage at Health 2.0 Goes to Washington, June 07, 2010, this panel discussed the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and ways to improve its adoption and the relationship between physicians and patients. The moderator was Joshua…
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Panel Discussion: Can Health 2.0 Improve EHR Adoption?
Meaningful use before meaningful usability ? The Dept. of HHS today has released the final version of “Meaningful Use” rules on HIT, which can be seen here: Meaningful Use – Final Version Full Text .
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Meaningful Use Final Rule: Have the Administration and ONC Gone Insane on Health IT?
ER Fail – FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Funny Pictures and Funny Videos of Owned, Pwned and Fail Moments . Hahahaha…. Related posts: London Olympics 2012: Meet Wenlock and Mandeville, drips off the old block | UK news | The Guardian London Olympics 2012: Meet Wenlock and Mandeville, drips off the..
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ER Waits meet truth in advertizing
The New York Times reports that a medical researcher faked claims to being a Rhodes Scholar, and that a major scandal that has erupted. The scenario is very familiar to readers of Healthcare Renewal, with universities collecting millions from public sources and the pharmaceutical industry, turning a blind eye to credentials discrepancies of faculty “taxpayers”, and the public possibly put at risk through faulty research and suspect “reviews”: Duke Scientist Suspended Over Rhodes Scholar Claims New York Times July 20, 2010 Duke University School of Medicine has suspended a researcher and stopped patient enrollment in three cancer studies upon learning of reports that the researcher had overstated his academic credentials. One of the lead investigators on the cancer studies, Dr.
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Duke Scientist Bringing Millions from NIH and Pharma Suspended Over Rhodes Scholar Claims
The West Virginia Health Care Authority has issued a Notice of Public Comment Period on a new Proposed Certificate of Need Standard for Megavoltage Radiation Therapy Services/Unit . Written comments on the proposed Certificate of Need Standard must be filed with the Authority on or before July 30, 2010
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WVHCA: Proposed CON Standards for Megavoltage Radiation Therapy Services/Units