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David Harlow
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Health care lawyer, consultant & blogger
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Hospital Chargemasters and Open Data from CMS -- The conversation continues
Posted yesterday at HealthBlawg
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Angelina Jolie, BRCA1, Public Health and Patent Law
Going public with her story of a prophylactic double mastectomy after testing positive for BRCA1 (a gene linked to breast cancer) via an op-ed piece in the New York Times, Angelina Jolie is clearly trying to get the message out... Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at HealthBlawg
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The FDA Patient Network Website - Pretty Darn Patient-Centered
Posted 6 days ago at HealthBlawg
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The federales' open data policy and the Medicare hospital chargemaster data dump ... Please don't inundate us with junk.
Posted May 10, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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Ponemon Institute study finds outdated communications technologies cost U.S. hospitals $8.3 billion a year
I spoke with Sean Kelly, CMO of Imprivata, a health IT company with single sign-on and secure SMS solutions that commissioned the study, entitled The Economic & Productivity Impact of IT Security on Healthcare (PDF). The audio file of my... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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Commented May 7, 2013 on Massively Open Online Medicine: Bad Idea or Just Before Its Time? at HealthBlawg
Massively Open Online Medicine: Bad Idea or Just Before Its Time?
The new darling of the online educational community is Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The example which figures most prominently in the popular imagination is the Khan Academy, though its founder says otherwise, noting that MOOCs are merely online transplantations of traditional courses...
Massively Open Online Medicine: Bad Idea or Just Before Its Time?
Posted May 6, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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We're Moving - Please Subscribe to New RSS Feed ... This is Your Final Warning
Posted Apr 30, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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We're Moving - Please Subscribe to New RSS Feed
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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Response to ONC RFI on advancing interoperability of EHRs and HIE
Posted Apr 23, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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#BostonStrong - Body and Mind: Of Bicycles and Health Foo
One week ago today, here in Boston, everything changed. Or did it? While the precise motivations of the bombers are not clear, it seems that as they struck down so many at the Boston Marathon finish line, they sought to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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New OIG Self-Disclosure Protocol
The OIG released an updated self-disclosure protocol this week, about ten months after putting out a call for comments on the old protocol. The new protocol imposes some new burdens on the disclosing entity, such as a shorter timeline for... Continue reading
Posted Apr 18, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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We're Moving - Please Subscribe to New RSS Feed
Posted Apr 18, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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New Policy Statement on Online Medical Professionalism Published by American College of Physicians and Federation of State Medical Boards
The American College of Physicians (ACP) Ethics, Professionalism, and Human Rights Committee, the ACP Council of Associates, and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Special Committee on Ethics and Professionalism spent eighteen months developing a policy statement on online... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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PQRS: Alphabet soup with little meaning
Posted Apr 11, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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Posted Apr 10, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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David Harlow added a favorite at HealthBlawg
Apr 10, 2013
The Medicaid expansion may well exacerbate the PCP shortage (more beneficiaries - no more practitioners), and the ACA offers a short term bump in Medicaid payments for primary care services performed by primary care providers. Ultimately, though, any relief of pressure on the PCP supply will have to be met by reconfiguration of the care delivery system (e.g., medical homes with greater reliance on nurse case managers). As they say ... we have 50 laboratories working on solutions to these problems.
Commented Apr 4, 2013 on Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act - A New Look at the "Before" Picture, with Tim Waidmann, Senior Fellow in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute at HealthBlawg
Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act - A New Look at the "Before" Picture, with Tim Waidmann, Senior Fellow in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute
Financial Burden of Medical Spending by State and the Implications of the 2014 Mediciaid Expansions is the latest report from the Affordable Care Act implementation monitoring and tracking initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (Direct link to PDF of report.) I spoke with Tim W...
Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act - A New Look at the "Before" Picture, with Tim Waidmann, Senior Fellow in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute
Financial Burden of Medical Spending by State and the Implications of the 2014 Mediciaid Expansions is the latest report from the Affordable Care Act implementation monitoring and tracking initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (Direct link to PDF... Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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We're Moving - Please Subscribe to New RSS Feed
Posted Apr 2, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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HIPAA Omnibus Rule Takes Effect Today - Compliance Date is September 23, 2013
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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Posted Mar 25, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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There is an interesting comment on Keith's post regarding the technical difficulties that have yet to be overcome, and expressing doubt that deeming alone will help ... see: http://shrd.by/sM8pc4
Commented Mar 18, 2013 on Electronic Exchange of Lab Results: A social-media-prompted response to the ONC RFI on interoperability at HealthBlawg
Electronic Exchange of Lab Results: A social-media-prompted response to the ONC RFI on interoperability
The final question posed in the recent request for information posted by ONC reads as follows: What specific HHS policy changes would significantly increase standards based electronic exchange of laboratory results? Keith Boone, aka @motorcycle_guy, self-proclaimed GE standards geek and fellow...
Electronic Exchange of Lab Results: A social-media-prompted response to the ONC RFI on interoperability
The final question posed in the recent request for information posted by ONC reads as follows: What specific HHS policy changes would significantly increase standards based electronic exchange of laboratory results? Keith Boone, aka @motorcycle_guy, self-proclaimed GE standards geek and... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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We're Moving - Please Subscribe to New RSS Feed
Posted Mar 17, 2013 at HealthBlawg
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