Category Archives: health policy
A Regulatory Morass*
Or Why health technology is more exciting than electronic patient records By Peggy Salvatore MBA *Definition 1: An area of muddy or boggy ground. Definition 2: A complicated or confused situation. For many years, the promise of electronic patient records … Continue reading
Finally, Research Solves Scarecrow’s Problem
By Peggy Salvatore MBA “If I only had a brain.” – Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz Here’s the latest place where research, technology, medicine and biology meet in new and amazing ways. From The Guardian on August 18, 2015: An almost … Continue reading
Health Wonk Review: The More Things Change, The More They Cost
By Peggy Salvatore MBA When you look out over the healthcare landscape the last few years, you see nothing but uncharted territory. That goes for science and payment systems. Let’s start with very different change on the far horizon. (If … Continue reading
Looking for Healthcare’s Leading Edge
By Peggy Salvatore Health technology has become massively disruptive. Previously unimaginable leaps in personal healthcare are currently widely accepted, and that has completely changed the trajectory of where health information technology is headed. Yet entrenched entities are clinging to the … Continue reading
Health Wonk Review: Hot Summer Nights, Cool Summer Drinks with Hank Stern
Hank introduces us to the concept of the “Designated Blogger” in this roundup of Midsummer Wonkery.
The 21st Century Cures Act: Using Energy to Pay for Healthcare?
By Peggy Salvatore I liked what I had heard about the 21st Century Cures Act. It seems like a good thing, about time, getting the FDA to streamline the drug and medical device approval process. The logic behind the bill … Continue reading
Decrying the end of the private physician practice? Not so fast!
by Peggy Salvatore I spent the better part of a decade writing training about the healthcare system. I use the term “better part” literally, as it is fascinating to closely watch the ebb and flow of different payment and treatment … Continue reading
Summertime! Health Wonk Review
Louise Norris hosts a hot-off-the-presses edition: Summertime! Health Wonk Review at Colorado Health Insurance Insider. It’s an eclectic edition in her signature style – love the photos! You can find a link to the post here.
The Internet of Healthcare Things @Point of Care
We are oh-so-close to there. By Peggy Salvatore For those of you who follow the Health System Ed blog, you know this doesn’t happen often. I am speechless. I just got off the phone with Dr. Sandeep Pulim, the CMIO … Continue reading
Health Information Technology Ain’t What It Used To Be
By Peggy Salvatore The future ain’t what it used to be. – Yogi Berra For those of you who follow my blog, you know that lately I’ve been searching for the edges of the promise of health information technology. I … Continue reading
