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December 12, 2007
Health 2.0 Casting Call
We are excited to announce a new panel format at our Spring conference, "Connecting Consumers and Providers" in San Diego on March 3-4, 2008. In addition to spotlighting demos and reactions from industry experts, we will be capturing the user-experience of people living with health conditions as they use Health 2.0 technologies in their everyday lives.
Has the web changed your life? Does it help you deal with the isolation of a condition or improve your quality of life in some other way? We are looking for a few good consumers/patients to feature live on stage or in a video segment. Our roving video crew will be traveling the country to document interesting real-life stories showing how Health 2.0 impacts both people and the healthcare system.
User-generated content
And for those of you budding videographers, we are also accepting user-generated video clips that show how you are using Health 2.0 technologies in your daily life. Maybe it's an active online community where you've found support, a portable medical device, an online tracking tool, a blog, a video game, a virtual world, or some combination of the above. If you have something to say, we'd love to hear about it so we can help you share your stories with your peers and other members of the Health 2.0 community. We welcome you to join the conversation with some of the most progressive minds in healthcare including consumers, health providers, technologists and entrepreneurs. If you are a physician using health 2.0 technologies to connect with your patients or if you know of patients for whom technology has made a real difference, please drop us a line.
Email John our resident Health 2.0 web guru/talent scout at john@health2con.com
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Comments
I was researching this whole communication in the medical field this week and found that HIPAA is really limiting what can be done and used for communication in the medical field. I also found a site that allows physicians, medical professionals, as well as patients to communicate in a HIPAA compliant portal. The site was imedicor.com and i just wanted to see if anyone else has seen this site. It looks great and very useful.
Posted by: Phillip | Dec 13, 2007 1:59:30 PM
Phillip
Re: HIPAA
I, and so many others, could not agree with you more.
See this link for additional details:
http://healthcarefinancials.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-hipaa-mess/
Best.
Dr. David E. Marcinko
www.HealthcareFinancials.wordpress.com
Atlanta, Georgia
Posted by: Dr. Marcinko says | Jan 23, 2008 2:28:13 PM
I would like someone to get to the bottom of our CORRUPT healthcare (or lack thereof) system in this country. I, for one, at 58 years of age, am at the point of making the choice NOT TO EVER SUBJECT "MY MIND" TO THE AFTERMATH OF BEING TAKEN CARE OF IN AN EMERGENCY ROOM IN THIS COUNTRY EVERY AGAIN - EVEN IF IT MEANS I THINK I'M HAVING A HEART ATTACK AND GOING TO DIE- THAT'S HOW FURIOUS I AM. I just got the BCBS statements reflecting what Southcrest Hospital has billed them for my recent ER visit and my subsequent "follow up doctor's visit." I went through this a few years ago with another hospital in this town. I am NOT one of those people that rushes out to a doctor! Quite frankly, I think 99% of them are ripoff artists. I refuse to even go for "annual exams." My recent experience has me OUTRAGED. I had 3 very strange physical events that landed me in an urgent care clinic (THAT doctor bill paid was reasonable and he didn't add "fake stuff" on his bill), the ER, and at my "new" primary care physician's office for a follow-up who directed me (I am NOT a logical candidate for heart problems) to have an echocardiogram. My gut feeling was to tell her to forget that but I (like an idiot) went along with it. When I look at the charges on the ER visit I (a) feel like I AM having a heart attack and (b) understand why people get "postal!" For the minute amount of blood drawn in the ER, they had SEVEN "diagnostic lab tests" with a total amount of $1063!!! PLUS some "diagnostic test" for $227! There were two "prescription drug" costs AND THEY GAVE ME NO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. The "medical care" cost was "$1280" and the doctor saw me "maybe 3-5 minutes" MAX. When I went in, they checked me in, threw me in a bed in the ER, hooked me up to their monitor, took ONE chest X-ray, drew A LITTLE blood, and let me lay there a few hours - then the doctor talked to me 3-5 minutes and they let me go home. $2,836.25 FOR THAT???????? SOMEONE NEEDS TO INVESTIGATE THE HEALTH CARE COSTS IN THIS CORRUPT COUNTRY AND GET TO THE BOTTOM OF IT. HOW CAN WE ALL JUST IGNORE THE ABSURD WAY THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY CAN BILL AND THE INSURANCE COMPANIES JUST PAY "WHAT'S ALLOWED" EVEN IF YOU TELL THEM YOU THINK THE BILL IS AN OUTRAGE AND WHAT THEY "REALLY DID TO YOU." When I've spoken to the FEPBLUE reps about their statements and providers' bills, they just say they depend on the consumer to review their bills and note any discrepanceis; however, WHEN YOU TO BRING RIDICULOUS BILLS TO THEIR ATTENTION, YOU GET BRUSHED OFF. HOW can hospitals/providers decide on their own what (if any) lab tests they'll take -- how do we know these lab tests were even performed??? DOES ANYONE EVER AUDIT THIS CRAP AND ASK FOR PROOF WHAT WAS BILLED WAS ACTUALLY DONE?????? Everything on the bills/insurance statements is "coded" to the point of nothing making sense and WE (THE CONSUMER) are responsible for "ensuring it's accurate"??? Then, when you call a foul, no one listens anyway??????? WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?????????
Posted by: Lori Ross | Jan 23, 2008 7:21:01 PM
How dare the medical community call their product "healthcare." Certainly, there are exceptions, but exceptions don't change the rule: The common person's encounter with medicine is neither satisfying nor satisfactory. The best we can hope for is medical treatment -- followed by a persistent flood of confusing and repetitive bills from every single person and agency involved. The profession has corrupted itself at the expensive of this great country and her great people.
Posted by: Hank Ross | Jan 23, 2008 7:40:15 PM
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