How Much Will A Data Breach Cost You?
The going rate for a compromised medical record seems to be $1000 (well, at least that’s the asking price) as seen in papers filed in the eleven class action lawsuits against Sutter Health following...
View ArticleHow Obama Botched The Health Reform Message
While it’s comforting to just blame the GOP for the unhappiness with health reform threatening the president’s re-election, the truth is that Barack Obama repeatedly botched, bungled and bobbled the...
View ArticleSize Matters: Hospital Consolidation
As health reform evolves, I’ve been watching multihospital systems grow in size and power and speculating what their gigantic size means. Here, as of 2008, were the 10 largest systems in revenue size:...
View ArticleSCOTUS Ruling For Healthcare
The Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a frustrating situation in which conservatives won the policy battle, but lost the war over the Act. In particular, the Court held that...
View ArticleEmployers and Health Reform
“Change, before you have to…” Jack Welch We live in a society that loathes uncertainty – particularly the unintended consequences that sometimes result from a catastrophic event or in the case of...
View ArticlePhysicians Aren't (Feeling Very) Social
There were two interesting developments in the field of social networks for healthcare practitioners last week. The first was the publication of a paper in JAMA “Variation in Patient-Sharing Networks...
View ArticlePersonalized Medicine vs. Obamacare
Personalized medicine is the future. It is where the science is going. It is where the technology is going. It is where doctors and patients will want to go. Yet unfortunately for many of us, this is...
View ArticleThe New, New Medicine
As both the private and public sector aggressively shift healthcare incentives from a “do more, bill more” to a value and outcome based model, healthcare providers ignore patients role in driving...
View ArticleObamacare Is Still Vulnerable
President Obama has won reelection, and his administration has asked state officials to decide by Friday, November 16, whether their state will create one of Obamacare’s health-insurance...
View ArticleThe Fix That Failed
I recently came across the following article written by Westby G. Fisher, MD, who is a board certified internist, cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist practicing at NorthShore University...
View ArticleThe Doctor Will Tweet You Now
I really like Twitter. Its scrolling 140-character tableau of news nuggets fit perfectly on my hand held device, lap top and home personal computer. It’s easy to glance at between tasks and the...
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Obamacare In Pictures
A seasoned colleague recently told me that some PowerPoint presentations have no power and make no point. But sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words. Or maybe — in the case of any...
View ArticleIs Practice Redesign The Answer?
Most experts agree that primary care needs to be re-invented. There are a lot of promising ingredients of practice redesign: better scheduling, electronic medical records with patient portals,...
View ArticleChronic Care At Walgreens? Really?
Walgreens, the country’s largest drugstore chain, announced on April 4th that its 330+ Take Care Clinics will be the first retail store clinics to both diagnose and manage chronic conditions like...
View ArticleThe Doctor Is...Overbooked!
At the New York Times’ City Room Blog, Joel Cohen writes: "My wife and I are convinced that all medical students should have to pass Overbooking 101 before they can become doctors. Again and again,...
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Hospitals Lost Jobs Last Month!
An old data series got new life, when the Brookings Institution issued a report that compared health care jobs growth versus all other industries. It’s “a truly astonishing graph,” according to Derek...
View ArticlePatient Engagement Needed
What’s behind the recent EHR public relations blitz over fear for the Affordable Care Act’s future? Oh, the ACA can weather political challenge in the short term, but in the long run, only health cost...
View ArticleEnable, Don't Replace Physicians!
The reality of today’s funding environment for digital health entrepreneurs is that it’s traditional tech investors who have the lion’s share of the money, while most long-time healthcare investors...
View ArticleAffordable Healthcare That Works!
BACMT Umbrella Health Memberships HEALTHCARE YOU DESERVE, AT A PRICE YOU CAN AFFORD! BACMT Umbrella Health Memberships are an innovative and affordable alternative to traditional health insurance....
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Want To Finance Your Procedure?
BAC Medical Financing (BACMF) has partnered with Prosper, the world's largest peer-to-peer lending service, to be able to offer special financing for medical / dental procedures and treatments to BAC...
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