Company Helps Patients Become Smart Buyers
Compass will search for the least expensive hospital or facility for a given procedure, find doctors who best suit a patient’s wants and needs, screen for best outcomes and fewest…
Journalists Decry WH Decision to Pull Physicians’ Database
Throughout one’s professional life as a physician, there are some things that are inevitable: changes to Medicare reimbursement schedules due to factors beyond our control, insurance denials, and the presence…
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…
