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Practice Fusion throws its hat in the consumer ring

By Matthew Holt Practice Fusion has been making a fair bit of noise recently with its investment from Salesforce and its trumpeting of 18,000 + physician users. If that number is true it probably makes it the most used EMR...
November 18, 2009 in Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (4)

Conspiracy theory Friday (FDA & CCHIT related)

By Matthew Holt Two fun things—First, Mark Leavitt says he’s quitting CCHIT in March. He says that he’ll be 60 then and wants to go do other stuff. Of course the cynics among you will say that he’s had enough...
November 13, 2009 in Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, HITECH, Pharma | Permalink | Comments (5)

Health 2.0 and AccessDNA

Each year at Health 2.0, we present Launch!, a debut of new products and services to the Health 2.0 community. This year we were able to hear from many great companies, including AccessDNA, a new site that generates personalized genetics...
November 3, 2009 in Health 2.0, Personalized Medicine | Permalink | Comments (0)

On the road--ACHE Social Media, NCI, Healthcamp NYC, Blogging networking LA

By Matthew Holt My time off for good behavior is at an end and today I get back on a plane for four fun conferences and a party. Wednesday I’m keynoting the ACHE Social Media in Healthcare meeting in San...
November 3, 2009 in Blogs, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Val Jones, MD | Permalink | Comments (0)

Health 2.0: Beneath the Hype, There's Cause for Real Hope

By MICHAEL MILLENSON Health 2.0 is a trend accompanied by both buzz and buzzwords. That worries some advocates for the poor, underserved and just plain old and sick. Will those groups be left behind in the latest information revolution? The...
October 24, 2009 in Health 2.0, Michael Millenson | Permalink | Comments (2)

Regina Holliday: Fred's life & death at 73 cents a page

By Matthew Holt If you ever wonder why the efforts to make it easier for patients and families to get information and be treated as equals in their care by the medical care system matter.... If you need convincing that...
October 24, 2009 in e-patients, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Technology | Permalink | Comments (6)

Health 2.0 Tools: The power of Twitter

By Matthew Holt The power of Twitter is real kids, and not for what you think. Used properly Twitter is an information filter. Exhibit A is what happened to the Von Schwebers who run PHARMASurveyor. They were a huge part...
October 23, 2009 in Conferences, e-patients, Electronic Medical Records, evidenced-based medicine, Health 2.0, pharmaceuticals, Technology | Permalink | Comments (5)

Change The Rules and Get Your Labs

By Phil Marshall In 1999 Caresoft developed a consumer web portal called the Daily Apple. The Daily Apple wasn’t all that unique or different than other health portals, until in May of 2000 they began helping consumers download their lab...
October 19, 2009 in Consumers, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Policy, Policy/Politics, Technology | Permalink | Comments (4)

Health 2.0 and the Big Bang

By GLENN LAFFEL It’s hard to believe that last week’s Health 2.0 conference was just the third annual installment of the event. The phrase, “Health 2.0” entered our lexicon at light speed and seems to have been there longer than...
October 15, 2009 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (8)

Ur Doin It Wrong

By CINDY THROOP Susannah Fox aptly illustrated what is happening in health care during the 'The Patient Is In' panel of the Health 2.0 conference with some amusing LOLCat pictures captioned "ur doin it wrong." Put simply, when it comes...
October 13, 2009 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (7)

The ugly, the bad, the very good and the great at the Health 2.0 Conference

By Matthew Holt So the Fall Health 2.0 2009 conference in San Francisco at the Concourse Exhibition Center is over. The bunting is down, the cocktails are drunk, and everyone can get back to the sanctity of the WiFi enabled...
October 10, 2009 in Health 2.0, Matthew Holt | Permalink | Comments (6)

Health Internet - The New Consumer-Friendly NHIN

By Adrian Gropper Consumer directed HIE will become the most visible aspect of health IT stimulus and could lead a shift to consumer-directed health plans, increased interest in wellness programs and family-centered collaboration for the young, old and seriously ill....
October 9, 2009 in Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Information Therapy, Technology | Permalink | Comments (9)

Health 2.0 Accelerator Demonstrates Integration of Consumer Web Apps and EHRs

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – October 7, 2009 – Health 2.0 Accelerator member companies today joined together at the Fall 2009 Health 2.0 Conference to demonstrate a streamlined, consumer-centric integration among nine separate technologies creating a more streamlined user experience. During...
October 7, 2009 in EHR, Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

Health 2.0 a-Go-Go: A Revolution By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet

By J.D. KLEINKE During the standard what’re-you-doing-this-week segment of a Sunday barbecue, I told a neighbor who works in the real world that I was “going to the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco,” a sort of random zeitgeist check...
October 6, 2009 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (7)

The Big Day for Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt Yes, today is the big day for Health 2.0 or rather the first of two huge days. In less than 7 hours Indu and I will be stepping onto the stage and six months of work, rehearsals...
October 6, 2009 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (2)

JSK (national treasure) on data liquidity, and how it fits into Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt Given that she taught me most of what I know about health IT I don’t know why I ever need reminding about how great Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is at keeping her finger on the pulse of health care,...
October 3, 2009 in Health 2.0, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Matthew Holt, Policy, Technology | Permalink | Comments (2)

Two big deals in Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt John Halamka writes about the small but important meeting this week at Harvard Medical School hosted by Zak Kohane and Ken Mandl. Because of the impending arrival of about 1,000 of my best friends next week at...
October 2, 2009 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Health 2.0 Accelerator is really gunning it...

By Matthew Holt The Health 2.0 Accelerator was a glimmer in the eye of Commerce.net’s Marty Tenenbaum late in 2007. But under the dedicated leadership of Julie Murchinson and Aaron Apodaca, something quite remarkable is happening. The Accelerator is an...
October 1, 2009 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (2)

Aneesh Chopra, talks Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt Aneesh Chopra is the Obama Administration's Chief Technology Officer. He'll be giving keynote speech at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Oct 6-7.
September 23, 2009 in Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Policy, Policy/Politics | Permalink | Comments (1)

You're Invited to the Practice Fusion Health 2.0 Afterparty

RSVP: http://www.pingg.com/rsvp/7p88637s56fy4a7pf Connect with your Health Care Blog team at the Health 2.0 conference afterparty! Practice Fusion is hosting drinks and giveaways for all Health 2.0 conference attendees and anyone else interested in learning about the latest innovations in healthcare....
September 20, 2009 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Health 2.0 Conference (Oct 6-7) latest

By Matthew Holt We’re getting into the short strokes for Health 2.0. The conference is going to be in a new bigger venue (SF Concourse) with more, bigger screens and no one sitting more than 65 feet from a screen....
September 17, 2009 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (1)

SXSW--Vote for me, or those other guys!

By Matthew Holt So in Austin every year they have this SXSW conference. Indu goes every year and raves about it. Last year Jay Drayer from CareFlash put me on a panel (but it didn’t get selected). This year he...
August 26, 2009 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Data drives decisions? Crowd-sourcing as the future of research

By Matthew Holt So, I get back from lounging on the beach in Hawaii to find that two strands of the THCB and Health 2,0 worlds have connected! At the Health 2.0 Conference we’re going to be hearing from 23andme,...
August 25, 2009 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Interview with Al Waxman, Psilos Group

Al Waxman is a healthcare entrepreneur who these days runs the Psilos Group, a venture firm that invests in health care services, health care IT and device and instrumentation companies. Among their better known investments are Active Health Management, Health...
August 24, 2009 in Health 2.0, Marketplace, PHRs, Physicians, Podcasts, Policy, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

Shocking Google Health Back to Life

By SCOTT SHREEVE, MD I hope to use this post to motivate my good friends at Google Health into taking a much more public, visible, and proactive role in the health conversation. More importantly, it is a call to Google...
August 14, 2009 in Google, Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (15)

Online behavioral health on American Well's platform, and a hint at Cisco/UHG

By Matthew Holt As usual I am way behind on tech and Health 2.0 news but here's one that was "thrown out with the trash" late last week because the service went live on Saturday. American Well has has added...
August 3, 2009 in Health 2.0, Health Plans, Technology | Permalink | Comments (6)

Sermo, malpractice, and Howard Dean

By Matthew Holt Sermo’s Daniel Palestrant got on TV with Howard Dean. It was an amusing (and short) little debate which you can find here. The best moment was at the start when Dean claimed that Sermo was just a...
July 29, 2009 in AMA, Health 2.0, Malpractice, Matthew Holt, Physicians, Sermo | Permalink | Comments (14)

Interview with Jonathan Bush, AthenaHealth CEO

By Matthew Holt In this interview Jonathan Bush explains the nation’s major problem: a severe shortage of MUMPS programmers. Well not exactly, but as always the AthenaHealth CEO is well worth watching. And of course he’ll be at Health 2.0...
July 26, 2009 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (3)

Carleen Hawn debuts HealthSpottr and a list

By Matthew Holt Carleen Hawn’s new site HealthSpottr is up and she’s starting with a list of the Top 100 random people in health care. Well it’s supposed to be innovators, but it mashes up a bunch of Health 2.0...
July 24, 2009 in Blogs, Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (28)

Patient, Heal Thyself

By DON KEMPER If you want a better system, support a smarter patient . For weeks now Congress has been stymied by how to pay for extending coverage to the uninsured. While it may seem stupid to look to the...
July 23, 2009 in Costs, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (58)

We love Paris in the Springtime: Health 2.0 announces Europe 2010

By Matthew Holt We've had great participation in Health 2.0 Conferences from Europe and across the globe, and today we're delighted to announce that we're going to be holding a Health 2.0 Conference in Paris on April 6–7, 2010. It’ll...
July 20, 2009 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Eliza gets a nice write up in BusinessWeek

BY MATTHEW HOLT Indeed, it’s so nice that methinks Lucas & Alex were quite seductive! Speaking as a friend and one who’s been indoctrinated into the cult of Alexandra Drane, its interesting to see the mainstream press picking up the...
July 13, 2009 in Health 2.0, Health Plans, Technology | Permalink | Comments (1)

Announcement: 14,000 People With Diabetes Test Their Blood Sugar at the Same Time

July 14 at 4 pm ET, 14,000 people with diabetes are going to test their blood sugar simultaneously and share their results online to help raise diabetes awareness. People with diabetes have to test their blood sugar as part of...
July 10, 2009 in Health 2.0, Technology, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (2)

Meaningful Use vs. Meaningless Adoption of Electronic Health Records

By RICK WEINHAUS MD Dr. David Blumenthal, the new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has stressed that the goal of the ARRA/HITECH initiative is to improve patient care, not to mindlessly adopt health information technology. In this regard, he...
July 7, 2009 in Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Meaningful Use, Physicians, Policy, Policy/Politics, Quality, Reform, Technology, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (9)

The other Michael Jackson mega-mix

By Matthew Holt Never ones to be shy with an interesting view into celebrity pharmacology (and truth be told responding to a little tickle from me) the inventive folks at PharmaSurveyor have added Michael Jackson to their celebrity drug cocktail...
July 6, 2009 in Health 2.0, Pharma, pharmaceuticals, Technology, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (1)

Implementing a Modern Hospital Website

By JOHN HALAMKA Over the past two years, I've witnessed a transition in modern website design from plain text and static information to multimedia centric and interactive. I've written about the new BIDMC website we implemented to meet patient expectations...
June 30, 2009 in Health 2.0, Hospitals, Technology, Web/Tech, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (7)

Health 2.0 NYC Chapter Meetup, July 9th

Once again we are looking forward to an exciting and packed event on July 9th. So RSVP early and please make it firm. Before we get to the agenda, I urge everyone to explore and endorse "A Declaration of Health...
June 29, 2009 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (1)

A Declaration of Health Data Rights

By Matthew Holt THCB & Health 2.0 are happy to be a small part of a very important declaration, made today by a mix of patients, physicians, technologists and concerned citizens. It's a Declaration of Health Data Rights, and it's...
June 22, 2009 in Consumers, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Technology | Permalink | Comments (17)

Meaningful meaning? (with UPDATE)

By Matthew Holt The first draft of “meaningful use” came out early yesterday, and I was struck by two things. First, probably influenced by the NCVHS recommendations and the Consumer Partnership for e-Health (See Update), the work-group included a lot...
June 18, 2009 in Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Meaningful Use, Technology | Permalink | Comments (6)

The Journal of Participatory Medicine

By Matthew Holt ePatientDave and Giles Frydman have been working on the Society of Participatory Medicine for a while and Alan Greene MD will be the first President. Now there’s a editorial board for the Journal of Participatory Medicine. The...
June 17, 2009 in Annals of Journalism, Consumers, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Technology | Permalink | Comments (3)

Matthew went to Redmond, 2--Bert van Hoof, HealthVault & devices

By Matthew Holt Continuing my tour around Microsoft’s HealthVault team I met with Bert van Hoof. Bert is the devices guy who showed me lots of ways to get data into HealthVault. If you’re interested in how a power user...
June 10, 2009 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

Matthew went to Redmond, part 1-- Bill Reid, Healthvault

By Matthew Holt Last week I went to a search summit in Seattle where Microsoft told us all about Bing, their latest attempt to do something about Google’s Windows-like market share in search. After a quick chat with Health search...
June 10, 2009 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

American Well gets busy with guidelines, Optum

By Matthew Holt Our friends over at American Well have two announcements today. First, they’re releasing what they call Online Care Insight, which is essentially the integration of care guidelines into their online care system. We saw a glimpse into...
June 3, 2009 in Health 2.0, Health Plans, Technology | Permalink | Comments (3)

Launch! Healogica--Clinical Trials Recrutiment service

By Matthew Holt Healogica was one of the companies that presented at Launch! at the Health 2.0 Meets Ix conference in Boston in April. I felt that the quality of the Launch! companies as so strong that they all deserved...
June 2, 2009 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

Death to Innovators – The Tragedy of Healthcare Innovation

By SCOTT SHREEVE Tragedy A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life A tragic aspect or element. A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially...
May 31, 2009 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (13)

Bringing Patients into the Health IT Conversation About "Meaningful Use"

By DAVID C. KIBBE and BRIAN KLEPPER The Obama health team at HHS and ONC are gradually establishing the rules that will determine how approximately $34 billion in ARRA/HITECH funds are spent on health IT over the next several years....
May 21, 2009 in Brian Klepper, Consumers, David Kibbe, Electronic Medical Records, Google, Health 2.0, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Marketplace, Policy, Policy/Politics, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (35)

More on HITECH , Microsoft mea culpas, Google, et al

By Matthew Holt I draw your attention to a troika of articles, all of which show how things can be slightly misinterpreted. First, who knew that Blackford Middleton was either the most influential health policy wonk out there, or single-handedly...
May 19, 2009 in Google, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Technology | Permalink | Comments (2)

Vaccine refusal, or Jenny McCarthy, better with fewer clothes on

By Matthew Holt Kaiser Permanente has released a study from its EMR database looking at use of vaccines in its Colorado region. KP in Colorado has data on about 480,000 members dating back to the mid-1990s from when they started...
May 13, 2009 in Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Health Plans | Permalink | Comments (4)

Me & Mr Jones, (Jr.)

By Matthew Holt I met Leroy Jones at Health 2.0 Meets Ix in Boston. He runs the Technical Jones web site, and is a veteran of both sides of DC politics (inside and outside of Capitol Hill and the White...
May 12, 2009 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

An Open Letter to the New National Coordinator for Health IT: Part 3 -- Certification As The Elephant in Health IT's Living Room

By DAVID C. KIBBE and BRIAN KLEPPER In the first and second parts of this series we talked about how and why there is no universal definition for the term "EHR." Instead there is a legitimate, growing debate about the...
May 8, 2009 in Brian Klepper, David Kibbe, e-patients, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Obama administration, Online Communities, Policy, Policy/Politics, Quality, Technology, The Industry, Transparency, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (20)