Health Wonk Review is up at Healthcare Economist
Healthcare Economist hosts the Short and Sweet Edition of the Health Wonk Review blog carnival. Here you’ll find posts on health insurance, mental health, pharmaceuticals, physician pay and value measurement.
I’ll be hosting the next edition at the Health Business Blog. Have a post to submit? Use the contact link at Health Business Group to send it my way. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - August 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Blogs Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
Medicare and the end of racial segregation in healthcare
The story of how Medicare ended segregation in healthcare settings is a pretty remarkable one. Temple University Professor David Barton Smith’s The Power to Health: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America’s Health Care System brings the events of 50 years ago to light.
“In four months [government bureaucrats] transformed the nation’s hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions to our most integrated,”he writes. “A profound transformation, now taken for granted, happened almost overnight.”
In the early 1960s healthcare was even more segregate...
Source: Health Business Blog - August 12, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Culture Hospitals Policy and politics Uncategorized civil rights medicare Source Type: blogs
MGH marketers take on Boston Children ’ s
The doctor will see you now –and forever
I was driving along in Boston last weekend when I heard an intriguing radio advertisement for MassGeneral Hospital for Children, the pediatric division of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
MGH is a world famous hospital, but when it comes to pediatrics it’s much smaller, less well known, and lower ranked than Boston Children’s Hospital –the #1 rated children’s hospital by US News.
I thought MGH picked a clever angle for the ad: highlighting a patient with Crohn’s disease who was diagnosed at age 10 and is now an adult. The message: illnes...
Source: Health Business Blog - August 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Culture Hospitals Uncategorized boston children's hospital crohn's disease Massachusetts general hospital Source Type: blogs
Smoking and the ACA
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has created a wonderful laboratory for studying the impact of changes in healthcare policy. One of the more interesting papers on the topic appears in the latest Health Affairs (Evidence suggests that the ACA’s tobacco surcharges reduce insurance take-up and did not increase smoking cessation). (You’ll need a subscription to read the full article.)
Health plans can’t charge higher prices to people who are sicker, but they can tack on surcharges of up to 50 percent for tobacco users. States can limit or ban the surcharges, and some do. Not surprisingly, people subjected to...
Source: Health Business Blog - July 29, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Health plans Patients Policy and politics Research Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review is up at Medicare Resources
The latest Health Wonk Review blog carnival is posted at Medicare Resources. There’s a Republican National Convention theme, so be prepared! (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - July 22, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Blogs Policy and politics Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Sutter ’ s Dr. David K. Butler on EMR-enabled transformation
https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/hbdew047-david-k-butler-7_20_16-12-40-pm1.mp3
Dr. David K. Butler
Dr. David K. Butler came to healthcare as a digital native, unwilling to accept the paper-based status quo. In about a decade he went from using Microsoft Word to make medical notes legible to being named Epic Systems Physician of the Year for his contributions to the field of EMR implementation and optimization.
Butler is VP of EHR Optimization and Transformation at Sutter Health. In this podcast interview, I asked him to share his opinions and expertise. You’ll hear interesting perspectives on workflow,...
Source: Health Business Blog - July 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Hospitals Physicians Podcast Technology EMR Epic Systems Sutter Health Source Type: blogs
Sutter’s Dr. David K. Butler on EMR-enabled transformation
https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/hbdew047-david-k-butler-7_20_16-12-40-pm1.mp3
Dr. David K. Butler
Dr. David K. Butler came to healthcare as a digital native, unwilling to accept the paper-based status quo. In about a decade he went from using Microsoft Word to make medical notes legible to being named Epic Systems Physician of the Year for his contributions to the field of EMR implementation and optimization.
Butler is VP of EHR Optimization and Transformation at Sutter Health. In this podcast interview, I asked him to share his opinions and expertise. You’ll hear interesting perspectives on workflow,...
Source: Health Business Blog - July 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Hospitals Physicians Technology EMR Epic Systems Sutter Health Source Type: blogs
Drinking while grocery shopping. Is pot next?
Where did my grocery cart disappear to?
Amazon.com seems to be unstoppable. It’s grabbed the lion’s share of the e-commerce market, turned other retailers into mere showrooms for shoppers who then purchase online, discarded list prices in favor of its own internal comparisons, and turned Prime Day into a new national shopping holiday. Little buttons around the house can be pressed to reorder staples, and voice commands to my Amazon Echo can summon goods to the home.
Supermarkets are now in Amazon’s sights. I’ve received come-ons lately for Amazon Fresh.
But instead of quaking in their boots, some s...
Source: Health Business Blog - July 13, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Amusements Culture Pharma Uncategorized amazon drinking alcohol marijuana marijuana legalization Source Type: blogs
