VRM. Blueprint For Wellness. How Washington is Screwing Up Health Care Reform – and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It | CommonDreams.org. Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It's become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment - a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn't be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.
The system doesn't work for anyone. It cheats patients and leaves them to die, denies insurance to 47 million Americans, forces hospitals to spend billions haggling over claims, and systematically bleeds and harasses doctors with the specter of catastrophic litigation. Even as a mechanism for delivering bonuses to insurance-company fat cats, it's a miserable failure: Greedy insurance bosses who spent a generation denying preventive care to patients now see their profits sapped by millions of customers who enter the system only when they're sick with incurably expensive illnesses. This, of course, is the hugest of long shots. Everyone knows this, including the president. #health2stat give me my damned data. How Location Services Could Impact Health Care. Consultant’s Guide to Google Health – Part I of IV – An Architecture View « The Health IT Synthesis Project. Consultant’s Guide to Google Health – Part I of IV – An Architecture View May 12, 2009 at 2:01 am As a technology consultant working in the health care industry, I decided to educate myself on Google Health.
Google Health is essentially a central hub where individual users can manage information about their health. The industry calls this a Personal Health Record or PHR. Google is not alone in this endeavor, Microsoft’s HealthVault, and a host of other PHR vendors are participating in this space, but this series will focus on the Google Health platform, giving consultants a basic understanding of it, and discussing how it can be applied today. This article is the first in a 4 part series where I plan to cover the following: As I discuss each of these topics I welcome your feedback and encourage you to share your ideas and experiences. A quick disclaimer: To quote Vince Kuraitis: “Let me be clear. Google Health Architecture Overview A layered view of the Google Health Architecture Conclusion. HealthCare Spending v life expectancy - fascinating Infographic. 2010: The Year of Open Streams & Fax Machines. I started writing this post while watching a livestream of the LeWeb09 conference in Paris and finished it while watching a livestream of TEDxSV.
Open Streams are of many kinds and shapes. They are completely changing how we consume information, news & entertainment. It could be a joke and it could be funny! Instead, it is just the sad truth. And embedded in this sad, sorry truth, lies a complete lack of democratic ideals and a deliberate attempt by various parties to keep as much control of your health data as possible. Close to $2.5 trillions have been spent on health care since President Obama announced his decision to reform the health care system. The end/restart/end-again of the public optionthe expected final/interim/temporary definition of “meaningful use”the amount of savings/taxes/additional expensesmove from FFS (I really mean Fee-For-Service) to PFP andcomparative effectiveness/death panels/healthcare rationing Adam Bosworth posted the following three days ago.
An All-American Healthcare Solution. To solve a problem, it often helps to lay out the major challenges and tools on a table. Here are the challenges, in no particular order. Some may seem unrelated: 1. Everyone must have access to healthcare; currently 50 million Americans don’t (including me). 2. Healthcare costs keep rising, which is the reason for #1. 3. 4. 5. Among the completely undiscussed strengths we have are the following: 1. 2. 3. So here’s my advice for Washington, DC: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Preserving a robust private and public sector will allow competition on outcomes. Senior Program Officer, Innovations for the Underserved - Jobs @ CHCF. The Future of Health Care Is Social [slideshow] #health2con Day 2 kicks off. #health2con - Thoughts. #health2con - Can Health 2.0 make Healthcare more affordable. #health2con - Health 2.0 confirms the vital role of HealthCamp. #health2con - The power Patient Panel. #health2con - @susannahfox on The Patient Is In. #health2con - Living profiles.