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First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

If You Want to Stop Hospital Harm, Don’t Call a Capitalist

By MICHAEL MILLENSON, MD The Leapfrog Group has just released its latest report grading the safety of hundreds of individual hospitals, but the real news isn’t the “incremental progress.” It’s how a group started by some of the most powerful corporations ... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 17 2013]

Entities: LeapFrog Enterprises Inc, Lewis Campbell, Business Roundtable, Textron Inc, Medicare

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Using Price Transparency Data Within the Hospital

By David Halpert, MD Last week, CMS unilaterally released chargemaster data from 300 hospitals around the country. As David Dranove summed up well in his recent piece , this is an old hat. Yes, there are big variations in hospitals’ chargemasters. ... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 17 2013]

Entities: Factor VIIa, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Patient

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

The Great Pharma Conspiracy That Wasn’t.

By DAVID SHAYWITZ The birthers , it turns out, aren’t the only ones with wacky conspiracy theories; evidently a lot of people out there really think there are cures “They” don’t want you to know about. In particular, there seems to be a surprisingly ... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 16 2013]

Entities: Drugs, Conspiracy, treatments

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

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New Developer Contest: Create a Cancer Survivor Tool

By Adam Wong, ONC and Abdul Shaikh, NCI ONC and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are challenging app developers to create new tools to help cancer survivors. The new Crowds Care for Cancer: Supporting Survivors Challenge is asking app developers ... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 15 2013]

Entities: Cancer, Patient, Phase I, Phase II

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

When Private Hospitals Cherry-Pick, Teaching Hospitals Pay the Price

By Joanne Conroy, MD I always believed that, if we could harness the entrepreneurial spirit of the American physician, we could be capable of great things. Physician decisions drive much of what is good and bad about our health care system. Their ... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 16 2013]

Entities: Teaching, Patient, Medicare, Appointment

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

LeapFrog Enterprises Inc

The Leapfrog Group and the Spring 2013 Hospital Safety Score Release

By Leah Binder Q: Have hospitals improved since the first Hospital Safety Score last year? A: We saw an incremental improvement in the scores, though it is not as rapid or as dramatic as we would like. For the Spring 2013 Hospital Safety Score, ... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 14 2013]

Entities: LeapFrog Enterprises Inc, Patient, The Score Group

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Did Angelina Do the Wrong Thing?

By SHIRIE LENG, MD A woman’s mother dies at age 56. A blood test is done. The woman finds out she has a genetic pre-disposition to cancer. She takes what action she thinks she needs to take. A familiar story repeated over and over again every ... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 14 2013]

Entities: Double Mastectomy, Ductal Carcinoma, lumpectomy

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Wal-Mart Could Transform Care But Does It Want To?

By Dan Diamond “Why is Wal-Mart speaking at a health care summit?” the company’s vice president for health and wellness, Marcus Osborne, rhetorically offered up at a conference back in January. “Wal-Mart’s in retail, we’re not in health care.” But ... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 15 2013]

Entities: Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Health Care, Dave Chase, Uwe Reinhardt

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Thank You, Angelina

By JAMES SALWITZ, MD Dear Ms. Jolie, Thank you for your bravery and leadership in the battle against breast cancer. In a small way, through my patients, I understand the challenge and pain it took not only to undergo prophylactic mastectomies, because ... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 14 2013]

Entities: Cancer, Breast Cancer, mastectomy

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Is the Online Health Clinic the Wave of the Future?

By Jason Shafrin HealthPartners argues that the answer is yes. In a 2013 Health Affairs article, they argue the following: HealthPartners in Minnesota launched an online clinic called virtuwell in late 2010. After more than 40,000 cases, we report ... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 14 2013]

Entities: HealthPartners Medical Group, Patient, Research Associate, Health Care, Risk (Health)

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Hacking Healthcare

By Fred Trotter There are two definitions of the word “Hacker”. One is an original and authentic term that the geekdom uses with respect. This is a cherished label in the technical community, which might read something like: “A person adept at solving ... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 14 2013]

Entities: Health Care, Computer Hacking, Sophia SA

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Top THCB Blog Posts of the Last Two Weeks

The E-mail I Want to Send to Our Tech Guys But Keep Deleting (40) By Shirie Leng, MD It really shouldn’t be this hard. This doesn’t seem like rocket science, but you keep telling us it is. What’s the deal with the passwords? Why can’t computers ... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 13 2013]

Entities: Electronic Medical Record, Health Care, John Willinsky, John Schumann, Oregon

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If You Want to Stop Hospital Harm, Don’t Call a... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 17 2013]
Using Price Transparency Data Within the Hospital [Published The Health Care Blog - May 17 2013]
The Great Pharma Conspiracy That Wasn’t. [Published The Health Care Blog - May 16 2013]
When Private Hospitals Cherry-Pick, Teaching Ho... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 16 2013]
New Developer Contest: Create a Cancer Survivor... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 15 2013]
Wal-Mart Could Transform Care But Does It Want To? [Published The Health Care Blog - May 15 2013]
Thank You, Angelina [Published The Health Care Blog - May 14 2013]
Did Angelina Do the Wrong Thing? [Published The Health Care Blog - May 14 2013]
The Leapfrog Group and the Spring 2013 Hospital... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 14 2013]
Is the Online Health Clinic the Wave of the Fut... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 14 2013]
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If You Want to Stop Hospital Harm, Don’t Call a... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 17 2013] By MICHAEL MILLENSON, MD The Leapfrog Group has just released its latest report grading the safety of hundreds of individual hospitals, but the real news isn’t the “incremental progress.” It’s how a group started by some of the most powerful corporations ...
Using Price Transparency Data Within the Hospital [Published The Health Care Blog - May 17 2013] By David Halpert, MD Last week, CMS unilaterally released chargemaster data from 300 hospitals around the country. As David Dranove summed up well in his recent piece , this is an old hat. Yes, there are big variations in hospitals’ chargemasters. ...
The Great Pharma Conspiracy That Wasn’t. [Published The Health Care Blog - May 16 2013] By DAVID SHAYWITZ The birthers , it turns out, aren’t the only ones with wacky conspiracy theories; evidently a lot of people out there really think there are cures “They” don’t want you to know about. In particular, there seems to be a surprisingly ...
When Private Hospitals Cherry-Pick, Teaching Ho... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 16 2013] By Joanne Conroy, MD I always believed that, if we could harness the entrepreneurial spirit of the American physician, we could be capable of great things. Physician decisions drive much of what is good and bad about our health care system. Their ...
New Developer Contest: Create a Cancer Survivor... [Published The Health Care Blog - May 15 2013] By Adam Wong, ONC and Abdul Shaikh, NCI ONC and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are challenging app developers to create new tools to help cancer survivors. The new Crowds Care for Cancer: Supporting Survivors Challenge is asking app developers ...