My colleague Dr. Dave Rearick asked me to review his recent book, Good Health is Good Business. I’m pleased to recommend it enthusiastically.
While the book is targeted at small to medium size employers, the lessons go far beyond this audience.
By the end of the 3rd chapter, Dr. Rearick had convinced me of two conclusions that I’d describe as [...]
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Archive for April, 2008
Google Wants to Index Your DNA, Too Business Week; April 18, 2008
A few years ago I remember reading a vivid description of how much information is contained in one person’s genetic code: a stack of phone books high enough to reach the top of the Washington Monument.
David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA and Vince Kuraitis
Drs. Mandl and Kohane begin their recent article in NEJM with the statement that “large corporations are seeking an integral and transformative role in the management of health care information,” and then warn that this “will profoundly affect the biomedical research enterprise.”
At issue for the authors is who [...]
Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA
Tomorrow’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article entitled “Tectonic Shifts in the Health Information Economy”. While we have not yet fully digested this article, it’s clear that the authors’ description of the “Health Information Economy” closely parallels our initial description of the Personal Health Information Network (PHIN).
The [...]
Writing in ZDNet, Mary Jo Foley ponders the question of whether it might make sense for Microsoft to link HealthVault (HV) and Amalga.
I’ll take this a step further and ask “Could a linkage between HealthVault and Amalga become a centerpiece of Microsoft’s broader health care strategy?”
What are companies like Google, Microsoft, and Dossia (sponsored by Intel, Wal-Mart, AT&T and others) hoping to accomplish in health care?
What is the emerging Personal Health Information Network (PHIN) and why should you care?
What’s the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) Standard, and how is it destined to become an initial focal point of data exchange initiatives?
Why is the PHIN potentially disruptive to [...]
While not providing anything close to the “final answer”, The New York Times does a good job summarizing the onoging Medicare Health Support (MHS) fracas. To borrow from one of my colleagues, it’s more “enlightened ambiguity” about the ultimate fate of the MHS beached whale.
Medicare Finds How Hard It Is to Save Money, The New York Times; April 7, 2008
For [...]
Our colleague Dr. Aniruddha Malpani, MD has posted a diverse and enlightening latest version of the Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival.
Dr. M summarizes 4 major influences which will help patients to regain control over their healthcare:
1. Patients will keep their own medical records using a PHR ( Personal Health Record)
2. Information Therapy can be prescribed to them, tailored [...]
The Continua Health Alliance is doing a good job in getting remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices to become plug-n-play — where devices and peripherals from different manufacturers complying with Continua Guidelines will be able to talk to one another.
Continua’s work-to-date is a necessary, but not yet sufficient effort to make RPM devices mainstream.
Knocking down the [...]
The ever-gracious and ever-eloquent Brian Klepper has written up the latest rendition of the Health Wonk Review. Check it out here on The Health Care Blog.
…and check out Brian’s own website here.
Older Americans 2008: Key Indicators of Well-Being, AgingStats.gov, Federal Agency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics
Healthy@Home, commissioned by AARP and the Blue Shield of California Foundation
State of Technology in Aging Services, Center for Aging Services Technology (CAST)
These reports are succinctly profiled with links to the full studies at Profiles of older health care consumers: living longer, longing for technology on [...]
Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA
Who is the federal government calling on to breathe life into the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)? Google and Microsoft.
In our first article of this series describing the Personal Health Information Network (PHIN), we noted early entrants as Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault, and Dossia. We also noted that the [...]
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