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Getting Your Own Health Records Online: The Good and the Not So Good
By LYGEIA RICCARDI Making Sense of Blue Button, Meaningful Use, and What’s Going on in Washington … At the recent Health 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, co-chair Matt Holt expressed frustration about...
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A Tale of Two Sore Throats: On Retail Clinics and Urgent Care
By LESLIE KERNISAN, MD Six years ago, just after arriving in Baltimore for a winter conference, I fell sick with fever and a bad sore throat. After a night of feeling awful, I went looking for help. I...
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The Therapeutic Paradox: What’s Right for the Population May Not Be Right for...
By SCOTT ABEREGG, MD An article in this week’s New York Times called Will This Treatment Help Me? There’s a Statistic for that highlights the disconnect between the risks (and risk reductions) that...
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What Do Women Know About Obamacare That Men Don’t?
By SUSAN DENTZER For the second year running, more women than men have signed up for coverage in health insurance marketplaces during open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. According to the...
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Using a Mobile App for Monitoring Post-Operative Quality of Recovery
By JAAN SIDOROV, MD While your correspondent is tantalized by the prospect of healthcare consumers using mHealth apps to lower costs, increase quality and improve care, he wanted to better understand...
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Dad Has the Flu and There’s a Baby at Home
By PHILIP LEDERER, MD At 6:30 AM, I kissed my 14-week-old son Joe on the forehead and headed off to work at the hospital. By 3 PM I was back in bed with a hacking cough and a fever. I had influenza....
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One of Those Patients
By ROB LAMBERTS, MD “I’ve been getting winded lately.” He’s a middle-aged man with diabetes. This kind of thing is a “red flag” on certain patients. He’s one of those patients. “When does it happen?”...
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What If Restaurant Bills Looked Like Hospital Bills?
By THCB MD You’d get something like this: HAT TIP: Jeanne Pinder. WHHY Philadelphia. Learn more about Pinder and her project here.
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Got an Infection? Good Luck Finding an ID Doctor
By PHILIP LEDERER, MD BOSTON, Ma. — It was Christmas Day. I was on call at the hospital and was waiting for my wife and 6-week-old son to come so we could eat lunch together. She was bringing kimbap,...
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Patients are NOT Customers
By SHIRIE LENG, MD Recently I wrote about the problems with Maintenance of Certification requirements. One of the phrases I read repeatedly when I was researching the piece was “the patient as...
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Health 2.0: Exclusive Interview with Susannah Fox, CTO of HHS
By DEEPA MISTRY Susannah Fox, CTO of HHS, shares how she is fostering patient empowerment and engagement through technology. Matthew Holt, Co-Chairman of Health 2.0, had the opportunity to personally...
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The C Word
By JEFF GOLDSMITH That we are experiencing a “consumer revolution” in healthcare is a durable meme in the media and in policy circles just now. When you hear the word “consumer”, it conjures images of...
View ArticleShould Cleveland Clinic’s Anti-Vax Physician Lose His Medical License?
By SAURABH JHA Years ago, when I was less inflexible, I took up Pilates. My instructor, Jim, a charming chap with an infectious laughter, was a 911 truther. I’d egg him on to hear about his conspiracy...
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The Patient Expert: Healthcare’s Untapped Workforce
By KYM MARTIN One of my favorite patient advocates consultants–that’s Kym Martin (far right) on a panel I ran at Health 2.0–has a new job at one of the most interesting patient consultant companies....
View ArticleBridget Duffy: Improving the patient experience
By MATTHEW HOLT Bridget Duffy, the CMO of communications tech company Vocera & head of its Experience Innovation Network, is a national leader in the patient experience movement. And we all agree...
View ArticleCalcium Scan and Subtractive Medicine
By SAURABH JHA MD Being a radiologist, I rarely speak to patients, but I was asked to counsel Mrs. Patel (not her real name, so calm down HIPAA totalitarians), who was worried about the risks of...
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Doctors Do Know Best. Exhibit A: The Charlie Gard Case.
By SAURABH JHA, MD For American conservatives, Britain’s NHS is an antiquated Orwellian dystopia. For Brits, even those who don’t love the NHS, American conservatives are better suited to spaghetti...
View ArticleThe Best Part Of The Health 2.0 Fall Conference Agenda
There’s still time to secure your ticket before prices increase to this year’s Health 2.0 11th Annual Fall Conference. Whether you’re a Health Provider, Entrepreneur or Investor; the Fall Conference...
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Bringing Behavioral Health into Primary Care Settings
BY MARTHA WHITECOTTON SPONSORED CONTENT The integration of behavioral health into the primary care setting has resulted in a number of benefits. Traditionally, behavioral health and medical...
View ArticleMicrosoft Set To Demo VR/Mixed reality Physician Education Platform
Dr. Simon Kos had big shoes to fill when he took over the role of Microsoft Chief Medical Officer from Dr. Bill Crounse last year. Dr. Kos said himself that they were some “big scrubs to fill”....
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