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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
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:17 AM To: David.Blumenthal@hhs.gov Cc: fschulte@huffpostfund.org; ‘Ross Koppel’; ‘Justin Starren’ Subject: Re: “As Doctors Shift to Electronic Health Systems, Signs of Harm Emerge” Dear Dr. Blumenthal, In the Apr. 20, 2010 article ” As Doctors Shift to Electronic Health Systems, Signs of Harm Emerge ” at http://huffpostfund.org/stories/2010/04/doctors-shift-electronic-health-systems-signs-harm-emerge#ixzz0ljMzNOzD you are quoted as saying that: “..
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A Short, Pithy, Open Letter to the National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. David Blumenthal
On April 16 at ” Healthcare IT Corporate Ethics 101: A Strategy for Cerner Corporation to Address the HIT Stimulus Plan ” I wrote about a Duke Fuqua School of Business paper (apparently authored by a Cerner official) promoting a business strategy of regulatory manipulation to restrain the free market for HIT products. The paper, and the Fuqua School of Business web page ” Past Papers ” on which the paper was promoted, have both disappeared as of this April 18 writing.
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Cerner – Fuqua School of Business ‘Corporate Ethics 101′ Paper and Website Disappear
In 2005 the RAND corporation ‘guesstimated’ figures for healthcare IT benefits based on existing, limited data sets ( http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9136/index1.html ). Their methods and results were contested, such as by the Heartland Institute ( as here ). Recent studies also put the RAND assumptions including those about flawless implementation and acceptance in serious doubt ( as here ).
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If The Benefits Of Healthcare IT Can Be Guesstimated, So Can And Should The Dangers
In the Wall Street Journal article today entitled ” Can Technology Cure Health Care? ” by erstwhile WSJ reporter Jacob Goldstein, H. Stephen Lieber, CEO of the health IT trade group HIMSS disputes the idea that “electronic medical records systems focus on billing [and other administrative tasks] at the expense of patient care” and says: [These systems] are “primarily designed for improving clinical outcomes, and a secondary benefit is that they improve administrative efficiencies.” Is Mr.
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Is H. Stephen Lieber, CEO of HIT Industry Trade Group HIMSS, Misinformed or Simply Lying?
I have never before seen a document like the one entitled ” Health Information Technology Basics “, by the Institute for Health & Socio-Economic Policy, California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee. It is available at this link (PDF). It is long but contains rather interesting views on the issue of health IT, management and clinicians (nurses).
Yesterday I saw a post on the Official Google Blog about making your own search story videos in minutes .
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Testing Google’s New Search Story
At ” 2009 a Pivotal Year in Health IT ” I aggregated a number of reports and articles from that year shedding needed critical light on the irrational exuberance surrounding computers in medicine, an exuberance that seems to consider clinical professionals with years of hard training and expertise as simpletons who should bow to the cybernetic miracles created by the health IT cartel . The critical reviews continue in 2010. Here’s another in Health Affairs from a team at Harvard: Electronic Health Records’ Limited Successes Suggest More Targeted Uses .
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Yet Another Study Shows Health IT Does Not Bat The Ball Out of the Park; And, is HIT an Issue of States’ Rights?
With the passage of health care reform, and the shift of the medical profession away from private practice and toward large institutions already, I wanted to revisit some data about the political orientation of medical students and recent graduates surveyed in the mid-aughts. One of the major issues among American elites has been the occupational bifurcation politically between liberals and conservatives, with the former concentrated in the professions which are often affiliated with the mana…
Today the WVU Mountaineers take on the Duke Blue Devils in the NCAA Final Four. Good luck to the Mountaineers as they try to move on to the Championship Game on Monday night against the winner of the Bulter vs
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NCAA Final Four: It’s a great day to be a Mountaineer wherever you may be!