New CMS Site Aggregates Compare Tools
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched the Quality Care Finder designed to help beneficiaries and their caregivers find better health care options. It is really an aggregation of tools…
Physician Malpractice Data in Chart Form
David Leonhardt writes for the New York Times' Economix blog regularly. Recently, he authored a piece on the incidence of physician malpractice in the U.S. It contained a nifty chart,…
Benefits of Private Cloud Computing: Compliant & Cost-Effective
When it comes to security and compliance, private cloud computing trumps the public cloud. According to a 2011 study by the Aberdeen Group, the private cloud saves a total of 12%…
Social Media Revolution 2011- Video
One of my HIT Seminar students gave me a link to this video and it is worth watching, especially if you believe social media is a passing fad! One of…
Health IT Confusion and Clarification
This is National Health IT week, if you did not know that already. It runs from September 12th-16th. President Obama declared it in an official Proclamation and a Senate…
All Our Problems in One Graph
This is Sarah Kliff, writing at Ezra Klein’s blog: This is Sarah Kliff, writing at Ezra Klein’s blog: The study actually isn’t good news when you look into what type…
What’s Missing in NIH COI Rules
The National Institutes of Health recently issued new rules for academic institutions to follow in “managing” faculty members who receive government grants yet maintain ties to private firms, especially drug…
Health Wonk Review: In Their Own Words
Welcome to the Health Wonk Review. Rather than following my usual hosting path of pithy commentary on each post, I’m letting the bloggers tell their own stories. Enjoy! Health policy…
ICD 10 Craziness
Next time you go to see your MD don’t worry about the seemingly inane questions he / she will ask you. If he doesn’t he will be in violation…
Difficult Patients and Unnecessary Catheters. Could They be Related?
Two stores in the latest Today’s Hospitalist caught my eye. The first, Making Headway with Difficult Patients discusses “how to defuse tension, cope with patient fears, and have less stress.”…
