Patients with complex cases don’t want multiple provider portals, Rady CIO says
How about some real, original content for a change? Yeah, that’s why you started coming to my blog in the first place, isn’t it? You’re tired of nothing but video embeds from others and short, offbeat attempts at humor.
I recently interviewed Albert Oriol, CIO of Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, for a story that will appear elsewhere (read: a paying client) soon, but I had a lot of material I left out of that story. I get to use some of the rest here in a little experiment to see what it does to this site’s traffic.
Obviously, pediatric hospitals aren’t eligible for the Medicare side ...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - April 29, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: data mining EMR/EHR Healthcare IT meaningful use regulations Telehealth California Medicaid patient portals pediatrics Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego telemedicine Source Type: blogs
CNN highlights health apps, clinical intelligence
CNN hasn’t exactly shined of late with its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath, but the embattled news network got my attention by airing a segment on cutting-edge health IT over the weekend. (Actually, credit goes to Scott Anzel, CEO and co-founder of MDconnectME, one of the three companies featured in the short video.)
MDconnectME makes an app intended to keep people up to date with short, secure messages when their loved ones are in surgery. I actually wrote about Philadelphia-based MDconnectME for MobiHealthNews last fall, after clinicians at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York found tha...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - April 23, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil VerselNeil Versel Tags: consumerism data mining disease management gaming health 2.0 health IT health reform Healthcare IT Innovation media mobile patient safety video cancer treatment CNN Flatiron Health Google Ventures Hurricane Sandy Labora Source Type: blogs
Guest podcast: Deborah Gordon of Network Health talks reform with Sivad Solutions
Discussion topics included:
1. The challenges of serving a very diverse population and customer base, along with lower income customers as a result of income or job situation.
2. Network Health, and states like Massachusetts, have lead the nation in Medicaid health care. How can that trend, and how can the reforms found in Massachusetts, spread across the land?
3. The creation of the Health Insurance Exchange is the key to success…which brings competition and market forces to bear in health care. “It is like Expedia for health insurance…”
4. A focus on quality patient care going forward…
5. What are the challenge...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - April 17, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Accountable Care Organizations care coordination consumerism data mining disease management education Finance health reform patient safety podcast quality regulations hospital readmissions Massachusetts Medicaid Network Healt Source Type: blogs
Dentzer leaves Health Affairs, replaced by founding editor Iglehart
Susan Dentzer has stepped down as editor of influential policy journal Health Affairs and will be replaced on an interim basis by Founding Editor John Iglehart.
In a press release issued Friday, Health Affairs gave the usual, vague reason: Dentzer is “leaving to pursue a new opportunity.” Her brief Wikipedia entry says Dentzer “stepped down abruptly on April 11, 2013.”
I know no more than that, though the press release suggests it wasn’t acrimonious.”We thank Susan Dentzer for her contributions and wish her well in her new endeavor,” Project HOPE President and CEO Dr. John P. Howe ...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - April 15, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: media public health Health Affairs John Iglehart Project HOPE Susan Dentzer Source Type: blogs
Condolences to some well-known people in health IT
It’s been a sad couple of weeks for at least four people I know in and around health IT, and I want to send personal condolences to them and their families.
On March 26, Dr. Mark Frisse, the Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University, lost his wife of 35 years, Catherine Loretta Walsh Frisse, who, according to an announcement posted on Dr. Frisse’s personal website, lost her battle with breast cancer after putting up a strong fight for two decades. Mrs. Frisse was a teacher, volunteer and philanthropist in the St. Louis area, as her husband and daughter both attended Washington Unive...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - April 5, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: obituaries personal notes Bill Hersh J.D. Kleinke Mark Frisse Sheila Teasdale Source Type: blogs
DoD-VA integration failure is no laughing matter, even to Stewart
Last week, I had a clip from “The Colbert Report” because Dr. Eric Topol appeared on the show to discuss digital health in a lively segment with Stephen Colbert. (I reported on it for InformationWeek Healthcare. The editors told me to have fun, so I did.) This time around, I’m going to give Jon Stewart equal time, not because I feel like having more fun with “fake news,” but because the host of “The Daily Show” had some insightful comments about the failure of the Military Health System and the Veterans Health Administration to get their EHRs to interoperate.
Though his job is to m...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - April 2, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Barack Obama EMR/EHR health information exchange health IT Healthcare IT interoperability video AHLTA Department of Veterans Affairs Jon Stewart Military Health System VistA Source Type: blogs
I’m speaking at the Health Technology Forum in SF
If you’re in Northern California, or plan to be, I will be on a panel at the Health Technology Forum’s 2013 Innovation Conference: Platforms for the Underserved on Friday, April 19, in San Francisco. I’ll be sharing the podium with Jan Oldenburg, Aetna’s VP for provider and patient engagement, in a breakout session on patient engagement. (There will be at least one other panelist, still to be determined.)
We’re still working on the details, but I suspect this session will cover what it means to be an engaged patient, the 5 percent portal usage requirement in Stage 2 of meaningful use, the rela...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - March 29, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: consumerism EMR/EHR health 2.0 health reform Healthcare IT Innovation meaningful use patient safety public health Aetna Health Technology Forum patient engagement patient portals patient satisfaction Source Type: blogs
Topol visits Colbert for a heart, ear exam
You asked for it, so here’s the video of Dr. Eric Topol on “The Colbert Report” from last night. Check out coverage by Jonah Comstock at MobiHealthNews.
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Kudos to Stephen Colbert for asking the question about insurance companies mining personal data.
In case you missed it, here‘s the “Rock Center with Brian Williams” segment on Topol from January.
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Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - March 27, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: data mining health IT health reform Healthcare IT humor imaging Innovation mobile physicians video Creative Destruction of Medicine digital health Eric Topol Stephen Colbert Source Type: blogs
HIMSS CIO survey visualized
I already reported the results of the annual HIMSS healthcare CIO survey in a story I wrote for InformationWeek the other day. Since everybody seems to love infographics these days, HIMSS produced one visualizing some of the highlights, including the finding that two-thirds of U.S. hospitals already have met Stage 1 meaningful use. Based on this, I’m guessing that close to 90 percent should be there by the end of the year, which means that CMS and ONC will have achieved their objectives for Stage 1, at least on the hospital side. (Of course, the physician part is proving to be much more difficult.) Someone in the kno...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - March 7, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: ARRA CMS EMR/EHR health IT health reform Healthcare IT HHS HIMSS hospitals ICD-10 meaningful use physicians regulations CIOs health IT workforce HIMSS13 Source Type: blogs
Video: Live from HIMSS with Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush
NEW ORLEANS—I made my debut for the new Health Innovation Broadcast Consortium last night with a live webcast interview with Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush. As usual, I didn’t need to prepare much for the interview because Bush almost interviews himself, so I just decided to wing it. Also as usual, we kept it light, as each of us had a beer in our hand, since we were at the House of Blues in the French Quarter, where Athenahealth had its annual HIMSS party. (This year featured a jazz funeral marking the “death of software.”) But we did discuss some topics actually relevant to health IT, including meanin...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - March 4, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Accountable Care Organizations ARRA athenahealth clinical decision support cloud computing EMR/EHR health reform Healthcare IT HIMSS Innovation Jonathan Bush meaningful use mergers and acquisitions mobile Patient Protection and Source Type: blogs
Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber: 2013 edition
Once again, as has become custom, I sat down with HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber at the organization’s Chicago headquarters the week before the annual HIMSS conference to discuss the conference as well as important trends and issues in the health IT industry. I did the interview Monday.
Here it is late Friday and I’m finally getting around to posting the interview, but it’s still in plenty of time for you to listen before you get on your flight to New Orleans for HIMSS13, which starts Monday but which really gets going with pre-conference activities on Sunday. At the very least, you have time to download the podc...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - March 1, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil VerselNeil Versel Tags: Accountable Care Organizations ARRA care coordination consumerism EMR/EHR health information exchange health IT health reform Healthcare IT HIMSS hospitals Innovation interoperability meaningful use mobile ONC Patient Prote Source Type: blogs
Maybe Topol and Agus are rock stars after all?
I saw this advertisement on bus shelter near my home in Chicago Tuesday night:
Yes, that’s Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, and Dr. David Agus, co-founder of Navigenics, flanking pop star Seal, in an ad for fashion house Geoffrey Beene’s Rock Stars of Science program. (The www.rockstarsofscience.org URL currently redirects to Geoffrey Beene’s home page, but the Facebook page still works.) The photo actually is from a GQ shoot in 2009, as readers of MobiHealthNews might recall, but I’ve only noticed the outdoor ads recently. I guess the band must be on ...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - February 27, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: genomics health IT Healthcare IT Innovation mobile personalized medicine David Agus Eric Topol HIMSS13 Navigenics Rock Stars of Science Scripps Health Source Type: blogs
New Media Meetup at HIMSS13
Next week at HIMSS13, John Lynn, el queso grande of the Healthcare Scene blog network, of which I am a member, is hosting his fourth annual New Media Meetup, and readers of this and all affiliated blogs are invited. It’s Tuesday, March 5 at 6 p.m. at Mulate’s Party Hall, right by the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Click here for details and to register. I should be there for at least a little while. Deadlines beckon, but I’ve got to have a little bit of fun in the Big Easy, right? Laissez les bons temps rouler! (That’s three languages in one paragraph. What do I win?)
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Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - February 26, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: blogging HIMSS social media HIMSS13 Meet the Bloggers Source Type: blogs
Misfit Wearables gets some ‘Jeopardy!’ love
Misfit Shine, the first product from Sonny Vu’s Misfit Wearables, was part of a clue on a recent episode of “Jeopardy!”
The reference is at just before the 9:00 mark of this video.
Jeopardy! (Season 29.23-5) – Jason, Keith… by R38102
A tip of the hat to Paul Sonnier of the LinkedIn Digital Health Group for sharing this with me.
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Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - February 25, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: consumerism mobile social media video Jeopardy! digital health LinkedIn Misfit Wearables Sonny Vu Source Type: blogs
Chart: Current state telemedicine legislation
Here’s a handy chart from the American Telemedicine Association showing the current status of telemedicine legislation in all 50 states plus D.C. Specifically, it shows which states have already mandated private and Medicaid insurance coverage for telemedicine services, as well as which states are considering such a law. (Medicare policy of course is set at the federal level.) This information is current as of this month.
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Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - February 22, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Legislation reimbursement Telehealth American Telemedicine Association insurance Medicaid States Source Type: blogs
