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Many say Arizona’s stringent new law demands immigration reform from Washington. But Congress may not be ready for another political showdown so soon after health-care reform.
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After health-care reform, is immigration reform achievable?
Today the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Department of Health and Human Services issued a Request for Information titled HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (75 Fed Reg 23214 May 3, 2010) . More information at the OCR website . The Request for Information by OCR seeks comments from health consumers and health care providers/organizations.
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OCR Request for Information: HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures under HITECH
At ” FDA on Health IT Adverse Consequences: 44 Reported Injuries And 6 Deaths In Two Years, Probably Just Tip of Iceberg ” I wrote about a meeting of the HIT Policy Committee, Adoption/Certification Workgroup on February 25, 2010. The topic was “HIT safety.” The agenda, presenters and presentations are available at this link
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David Blumenthal on health IT safety: nothing to see here, move along
By SUSAN NOACK, IBM BUSINESS ANALYTICS To say that the health care industry is undergoing a significant transformation would be quite the understatement. Current economic conditions have challenged health care organizations to deliver optimal services in the face of compromised…
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The Changing Face of Health Care: How Business Analytics Can Improve Performance & Drive Efficiencies
By Maggie Mahar Summary: Short-term, at least, hospitals are winners. When it came to negotiating with reformers, they “got into the tent early,” and the reductions in Medicare increases that they accepted will be offset by an influx of paying…
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Myths and Facts About Health Reform Part III
By BOB WACHTER If you’ve ever been on a diet, you know that it really helps to keep a food log. Seeing your consumption chronicled in one place is illuminating – and often explains why those love handles aren’t melting…
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What’s Behind Today’s Primary Care Crisis: You Don’t Know the Half of It
By DAVID HARLOW One issue up for discussion in this evening’s free-form health care social media tweetchat was the fake Facebook page of eSara Baker, posted as a form of marketing for a company providing online health-related services (which sound…
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Fake Facebook Profiles and Other Portents of the End of Times
By THCB Staff The Health Care Blog’s Founder & CEO Matthew Holt today announced a policy of absolute transparency concerning the rash of “inappropriate relationships” apparently infecting the health care blogging community. Holt released this statement: I can categorically deny…
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THCB CEO denies improper relationships, payoffs
Some of the US most prestigious academic medical centers have been receiving unusual scrutiny lately. Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York – Presbyterian Hospital. As reported first by the Wall Street Journal, Federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that bid rigging and fraud at Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital resulted in the hospitals awarding contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to outside contractors
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Investigations, Indictments and Guilty Pleas at Famous US Teaching Hospitals
This blog often talks about the failure of leaders in health care. The April, 2010, issue of Harvard Business Review boasts an entire “Spotlight” Section on this subject. Perhaps the two most interesting articles in this section, both by big names– Atul Gawande and Tom Lee –among today’s medical chattering classes, are entitled, respectively, “Health care needs a new kind of hero,” and “Turning doctors into leaders.” The first, an interview, first touts the good doctor’s vaunted emphasis on checklists , then goes on to plead for improved training in team-play: “we don’t train physicians how to lead teams or be team members.” The second, by Dr
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Pondering Leadership
By PAUL LEVY Rob Weisman and Liz Kowalczyk report in today’s Boston Globe that the US Justice Department is investigating possible antitrust violations against Partners Healthcare System, the dominant hospital and physician provider group in Massachusetts.
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Does Market Power Help Patients?
A brief article on Bloomberg.com implied that Celgene has been fighting efforts by the Canadian Patented Medicine Prices Review Board to get pricing data about the drug Thalidomid (thalidomide): Celgene Corp., the biotechnology company specializing in blood-cancer medicines, will get a hearing before Canada’s highest court over the country’s demands to provide pricing information for the drug Thalomid. The Supreme Court of Canada today agreed to hear Celgene’s appeal of a Federal Court of Appeal ruling that said Canada’s Patented Medicine Prices Review Board was entitled to information about the pricing of the drug. The high court gave no reason for its decision.
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Oh, the Prices We Pay, Reloaded – Celgene Balks at Explaining High Price of Thalidomide
Benefits of our CompTIA Security+ Training: Security+ Certification is Required — many companies in the health care industry, the financial industry, and even the federal government are required to staff Security+ Certified individuals Median Salary = $72,498 — Security Engineers have more job security and make nearly $20,000 per year more than the average System Admin Hackers Aren’t
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CompTIA Security+ Training is Here!
By Matthew Holt Everyone’s favorite Harvard Business School professor is back in the news. Those of you with long memories may remember that at THCB I’ve been a tad critical of Regina Herzlinger’s ideas, her presentation of said ideas and—resulting…
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Reg strikes back! Apparently Wellcare were a bunch of crooks after all. Maybe
By Matthew Holt Healthline has been a company that we’ve been looking at since we very first started talking about Health 2.0. Check out the very first podcast about Health 2.0 on THCB with Healthline’s Dean Stephens back in late…
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Healthline on a roll: new funding, Yahoo! deal
By JOHN HALAMKA Although healthcare reform has its supporters and detractors, healthcare IT reform – the use of technology to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare throughout the country – has broad support from all stakeholders. The passage…
By David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA and Brian Klepper, PhD Clinical Groupware is rapidly gaining acceptance as a term describing a new class of affordable, ergonomic, and Web-based care management tools. Since David first articulated Clinical Groupware’s conceptual framework on…
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Clinical Groupware: Platforms, Not Software
The writing is no longer on the wall. It’s everywhere. FORT WORTH — Plans to open an M.D
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JPS board pledges financial support for new M.D. program at UNT Health Science Center | Healt…
In Brooklyn tomorrow, advocates, researchers and service providers will rally around the release of new data on the real cost of living for seniors in New York State. The findings of the New York Elder Economic Security Standard Index™ (Elder Index), a new tool developed by Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) and the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Boston , show that an older New Yorker needs between about $16,100 to over $42,700 to meet basic needs, depending on his or her housing and health status. We all know it is expensive to live, let alone retire, in New York, particularly in the state’s urban areas.
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WOW Launches New York Elder Initiative!
My frail 84 year old mother recently got really sick from not eating due to progressive, severe constipation. She underwent a colonoscopy 3 months ago that found a rectal stricture
