http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/ ar 2009-11-12T11:32:55-08:00 This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/XzyMWq3msyQ/will-business-force-reform-back-to-the-drawing-board.html By BRIAN KLEPPER and DAVID C. KIBBE Until now, non-health care business has been noticeably absent from the health care reform proceedings, and quiet about the bills' impacts on their management of employee benefits, on cost, and on the larger... Matthew 2009-11-12T11:32:55-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/will-business-force-reform-back-to-the-drawing-board.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/K4GqQjmYQpM/regina-hollidays-mural-for-fred.html By Matthew Holt Regina’s story has been on THCB before—Fred’s Life & Death at 73 cents a page. But you may not have seen the mural. (From NPR) e-patients Electronic Medical Records Matthew 2009-11-12T01:20:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/regina-hollidays-mural-for-fred.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/QfbHknJf3XU/pay-only-for-health-care-that-works-.html Charles Silver & David A. Hyman Health care is expensive partly because governmental payers and insurers foot the bill for large quantities of medical services that are ineffective, unnecessary, or unproven. According to a RAND report, studies of clinical efficiency... Congress Costs Health Plans Policy Reform Matthew 2009-11-11T10:20:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/pay-only-for-health-care-that-works-.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/r_lZw1W10hY/the-best-health-care-idea-all-year.html By ROBERT LASZEWSKI Out of almost nowhere has come momentum for a proposal to create a bipartisan entitlement and tax commission to draft proposals to control the long-term costs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The idea would require the... Reform Robert Laszewski Matthew 2009-11-11T08:11:12-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/the-best-health-care-idea-all-year.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/wj7edGa7MAk/medicares-biggest-change-in-40-years-on-the-horizon.html By Vince Kuraitis Earlier this week CMS issued a typically cryptic Announcement indicating that they were shelving the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD) and instead would focus on the recently announced Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Initiative (MAPCI). My blog post... Medicare Matthew 2009-11-11T08:03:23-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/medicares-biggest-change-in-40-years-on-the-horizon.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/Aiw-o2qllk8/dave-durenberger-on-lieberman.html By Matthew Holt Former Minnesota Senator Dave Durenberger, a thinking centrist Republican (remember them?) puts out an occasional newsletter full of gems. This is today’s zinger: The Senate has a better bill than the House, but it also has a... Policy Policy/Politics Matthew 2009-11-11T07:48:15-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/dave-durenberger-on-lieberman.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/llKhr1882Lc/intermountain-healthcare-proof-that-us-hospitals-can-improve.html By MAGGIE MAHAR I urge everyone to read this story by David Leonhardt in this Sunday’s (November 8) New York Times. (Thanks to HealthBeat reader Lisa Lindel for spotting it. ) Leonhardt profiles Intermountain Healthcare, a network of hospitals and... Matthew 2009-11-10T13:09:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/intermountain-healthcare-proof-that-us-hospitals-can-improve.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/M7dsLFQo3uc/certification-versus-meaningful-use.html By John Halamka Recently, clinicians have asked me "why should I implement my organization's preferred EHR when I've found a less expensive vendor that promises meaningful use?" This illustrates a basic misunderstanding of the difference between Certification and Meaningful Use.... EHR Meaningful Use Matthew 2009-11-10T07:36:04-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/certification-versus-meaningful-use.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/VH-i5dap3E0/the-federated-health-system-of-america.html By GLENN LAFFEL After a spy plane confirmed the Soviet Union was building launch platforms for first-strike ballistic missiles in Cuba in October, 1962, President John F. Kennedy convened his Joint Chiefs of Staff and cabinet members to help him... Matthew 2009-11-10T07:30:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/the-federated-health-system-of-america.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/UjjL3QJQg6c/spotlight-on-health-20-the-patient-is-in-from-sf-2009.html Every week we bring you a new video from Health 2.0! This week we're featuring The Patient is In, a session focusing on how Health 2.0 tools are making a difference for patients. To see more videos from past Health... Matthew 2009-11-09T10:15:04-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/spotlight-on-health-20-the-patient-is-in-from-sf-2009.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/rSFsN0e2m_I/where-were-you.html By MICHAEL PAINTER, Senior Program Officer - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation I distinctly remember the first time I heard the title, “National Coordinator for Health Information Technology”. It was 2004. That’s, of course, the year that RAND released its important... Matthew 2009-11-09T04:43:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/where-were-you.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/xscsbSJetug/by-susannah-foxi-scan-menus-for-keywords-fig-parsnips-salmon-and-it-turns-out-i-scan-twitter-the-same-way-looking-for.html By SUSANNAH FOX I scan menus for keywords (fig, parsnips, salmon...) and it turns out I scan Twitter the same way, looking for anyone who is talking about my favorite topics (data, consumers, information quality...) So when I saw Jonathan... Matthew 2009-11-09T04:22:57-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/by-susannah-foxi-scan-menus-for-keywords-fig-parsnips-salmon-and-it-turns-out-i-scan-twitter-the-same-way-looking-for.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/Co9wCpnXZlg/are-we-too-small-to-succeed.html By DON LINDSTROM The logic behind the government bailouts in the financial and automobile industries goes like this: some institutions are so large and interconnected that their failure could collapse the entire economy. They are considered to be too big... AMA Economics Matthew 2009-11-09T03:50:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/are-we-too-small-to-succeed.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/tcOHEha9aq0/modest-step-in-the-reform-journey-shows-the-idiocy-of-our-political-system.html By Matthew Holt It does seem to take a health care bill to remind us all how incredibly screwed up the political process is in these here United States. The Medicare Modernization Act was railroaded through by Tom Delay and... Congress Democratic Party Policy/Politics Reform Matthew 2009-11-08T08:22:33-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/modest-step-in-the-reform-journey-shows-the-idiocy-of-our-political-system.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/MKCKUdS0jl0/we-the-consumers.html By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE There has been much talk lately about the Consumer movement in health care. The health insurance industry has given us the Consumer Driven Health Care (CDHC), which has gained much traction in the marketplace in the form... Consumers Matthew 2009-11-07T03:47:58-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/we-the-consumers.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/MtA2p31z_6E/johns-hopkins-medicine-and-the-health-care-debate.html By Greg Rienzi, Staff writer for the Johns Hopkins Gazette While concepts for health care reform volley back and forth in Washington, D.C., and around the nation, Johns Hopkins has quietly but meaningfully injected itself into the debate. Johns Hopkins... Costs Policy Reform Matthew 2009-11-05T07:02:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/johns-hopkins-medicine-and-the-health-care-debate.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/0HeRldt8nTQ/why-free-market-competition-fails-in-health-care.html By JOE FLOWER In trying to think about the future of health care, thoughtful, intelligent people often ask, “Why can’t we just let the free market operate in health care? That would drive down costs and drive up quality.” They... Economics Marketplace Reform Matthew 2009-11-03T16:59:20-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/why-free-market-competition-fails-in-health-care.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/6nasN8fKxHs/back-to-basics-toward-a-core-set-of-relevant-and-portable-personal-health-information.html By DAVID C. KIBBE In the cacophony of health IT issues, products, and goals that compete every day for our attention, it is easy to lose sight of the profound value that could come from the universal availability of a... David Kibbe EHR HIT Meaningful Use Matthew 2009-11-03T06:22:24-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/back-to-basics-toward-a-core-set-of-relevant-and-portable-personal-health-information.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/qGgUcAnJLvU/as-you-know-each-year-at-health-20-we-present-launch-a-debut-of-new-products-and-services-that-generates-personalized-ge.html Each year at Health 2.0, we present Launch!, a debut of new products and services to the Health 2.0 community. This year we were able to hear from many great companies, including AccessDNA, a new site that generates personalized genetics... Health 2.0 Personalized Medicine Matthew 2009-11-03T06:00:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/as-you-know-each-year-at-health-20-we-present-launch-a-debut-of-new-products-and-services-that-generates-personalized-ge.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/6z2XYiRkyaY/on-the-road--ache-social-media-nci-healthcamp-nyc-blogging-networking-la.html By Matthew Holt My time off for good behavior is at an end and today I get back on a plane for four fun conferences and a party. Wednesday I’m keynoting the ACHE Social Media in Healthcare meeting in San... Blogs Health 2.0 Matthew Holt Val Jones, MD Matthew 2009-11-03T01:26:00-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/on-the-road--ache-social-media-nci-healthcamp-nyc-blogging-networking-la.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/GDgrPPKMBJU/spotlight-on-health-20-launch.html Every week we'll be bringing you a new video from Health 2.0! This week we're featuring Launch!, an introduction of new tools and services to the Health 2.0 community. To see more videos from past Health 2.0 conferences, or to... Matthew 2009-11-02T12:09:38-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/spotlight-on-health-20-launch.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/SwxSD1FnJLE/a-third-school-of-cost-containment.html By BILL KRAMER Is there a “Third School” of reformers that could help us resolve the long debate about how to contain health care spending? Drew Altman’s recent column describes the history of the debate between the “Regulators” and the... Costs Reform Matthew 2009-11-02T10:33:28-08:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/11/a-third-school-of-cost-containment.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/-Hx5xfaebl8/time-to-put-aside-the-intellectual-disputes-for-now.html By Matthew Holt It’s always fun to see my friends beating each other up in public....and if you read down in the comments on the post published yesterday you’ll see a significant dispute between Maggie Mahar and the Klepper/Kibbe/Lazsweski/Enthoven team... Brian Klepper David Kibbe Maggie Mahar Matthew Holt Policy Policy/Politics Public Option Robert Laszewski Matthew 2009-10-31T15:00:17-07:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/10/time-to-put-aside-the-intellectual-disputes-for-now.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/AUxGPRVyCkM/saving-health-care-saving-america.html By BRIAN KLEPPER, DAVID C. KIBBE, ROBERT LASZEWSKI and ALAIN ENTHOVEN So far, Congress' response to the health care crisis has been alarmingly disappointing in three ways. First, by willingly accepting enormous sums from health care special interests, our representatives... Brian Klepper Corruption Current Affairs David Kibbe Marketplace Policy Policy/Politics primary care Reform The Industry Transparency Brian Klepper 2009-10-30T06:08:35-07:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/10/saving-health-care-saving-america.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/nNeM/~3/glNIGRQOw9U/cms-reinstates-paying-for-avastin-used-offlabel-for-macular-degeneration.html MERRILL GOOZNER Medicare has reinstated payment codes for eye specialists who use Genentech's Avastin to treat wet macular degeneration. A tiny amount of Avastin, which is sold for cancer treatments, successfully treats the condition at about $100 per shot. Genentech... CMS Medicare Merrill Goozner Matthew 2009-10-29T21:00:00-07:00 http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/10/cms-reinstates-paying-for-avastin-used-offlabel-for-macular-degeneration.html