Category Archives: health IT
Inaugural Health Wonk Review Host Lisa Lines of the Medical Care Blog Reports from APHA
Reporting from the American Public Health Association in San Diego this week, Lisa Lines, PhD MPH, is a health researcher and takes her first turn at the wheel to drive Health Wonk Review this month. Here’s the link to the … Continue reading
Technology is Catching Up to the Dream
By Peggy Salvatore, MBA About 8 years ago, I started Health System Ed as an educational portal about the value of health information technology. It started with a blog called “Imagine” that described the dream of having all relevant patient … Continue reading
Halloween HealthWonkReview! From Health Strategy Associates
Straight from Managed Care Matters, here’s this month’s Health Wonk Review. Enjoy. And thanks to Joe Paduda for his dedication to the cause! Happy Halloween! By Joe Paduda Okay, I’m a bit early on the pumpkin-and-costume thing, but time is … Continue reading
The Waning Days of Summer Health Wonk Review
Over at Health Wonk Review, the hits keep coming. This month, Julie Ferguson posts her compilation of health wonkery at her home blog turf Worker’s Comp Insider. Click to go there for the fun or check it out right here. … Continue reading
Health Wonk Review: Ideas of March Edition
Direct from David E. Williams’ Health Business Blog, the Ideas of March. Enjoy the wonkery, and check out the video podcast CareTalk interview below with David and CareCentrix CEO John Driscoll. “Beware the Ides of March” –Soothsayer to Julius Caesar “Fear not … Continue reading
2018 HIMSS Survey of Priorities for Health Information and Technology
Last week was the most important annual convention for health information technology, HIMSS 2018. The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) provides a forum for thought leaders and a venue for innovative products. The 2018 U.S. HIMSS Leadership and Workforce … Continue reading
Health Wonk Review: Going for the Gold Edition
Note to readers: This week’s Health Wonk Review is re-posted in full here. No need to click the link to visit Steve Anderson’s healthinsurance.org website. But if you’d like to comment on his site, click here to get there. … Continue reading
Late Days of the Empire Edition of Health Wonk Review
From Andrew Sprung of xpostfactoid: We’re addled on many fronts here in Trumpville, and this week’s Health Wonk Review reflects that. We have snapshots of a country that continues to trail its peers in population health measures; an opioid vendor … Continue reading
Wow! Special DOUBLE Edition of Health Wonk Review – ACA and “Other”
Here it is…the FIRST EVER Double Edition of HWR. Part One is all ACA and Part Two is everything else you have come to expect from the Wonkers who wander through healthcare land. Enjoy. And comment below. We love hearin’ … Continue reading
CMS Meaningful Use Payments to Providers: Incentives or Sophie’s Choice?
Sophie’s Choice: You have to choose when there are no good options. Sophie’s Choice was an award-winning 1983 movie based on the William Styron novel about a Nazi concentration camp survivor who was forced to choose which of her two children to send … Continue reading
