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Disruption breaking out over at Scott Shreeve's place

Clayton Christensen's publisher is pressing me to read The Innovators Prescription and then interview him. Sadly I haven’t had the time to pay the book the attention it deserves. Messrs Kuraitis & Kibbe already did a review on THCB and...
February 21, 2009 in Economics, HHS, Marketplace, Matthew Holt, Medicare, Scott Shreeve | Permalink | Comments (2)

Open source is a transparent Trojan horse

By Scott Shreeve I have been blogging and twittering from the World Health Innovation and Technology conference this week while waiting to present today. The keynote speaker before me was Scott McNealy, the Chairman and founder of Sun Microsystems. He...
December 12, 2008 in Electronic Medical Records, Scott Shreeve, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

Moving up the health care value chain

By Scott Shreeve Last week, I participated in a very cool live podcast with the ReadWriteWeb editor Richard Macmanus. While I am finishing up my commentary based on that experience, I did want to comment on another post by Richard...
December 5, 2008 in Consumers, Health 2.0, Scott Shreeve | Permalink | Comments (2)

Electronic health records provide the foundation for clinical excellence

By Scott Shreeve I have mentioned this many times but it bears repeating with three recent news articles - the electronic health record itself is not a game changer but it is a powerful information gathering tool. However, by gathering...
November 24, 2008 in Electronic Medical Records, Quality, Scott Shreeve, Technology | Permalink | Comments (5)

At Kaiser, "The EMR is the Foundation of Everything We Do"

By Scott Shreeve Continuing his series of interviews about the business care for Health 2.0, here Scott Shreeve interviews Anna-Lisa Silvestre, the VP of Online Services for Kaiser Permanente. SS: Anna-Lisa, nice to meet you. Tell me a little about...
November 7, 2008 in Announcements, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Scott Shreeve, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

Safeway uses incentives and transparency to improve employee health

By Scott Shreeve In this interview on “The Business Case for Health 2.0," Ken Shachmut, Senior VP Strategic Initiatives, Health Initiatives, and Health Re-engineering at Safeway, shares is thoughts on some of the highly impressive results that the company has...
October 29, 2008 in Marketplace, Policy, Scott Shreeve | Permalink | Comments (11)

Moving forward on genetic testing

By Scott Shreve Three months ago, there was a huge hubbub about genetic testing in California. In a dramatic effort, albeit totally misguided, the California Department of Health sent “cease and desist” letters to multiple vendors who were offering genetic...
October 10, 2008 in Personalized Medicine, Scott Shreeve, Technology | Permalink | Comments (8)

The invisible hand and capitalistic sustainability

By Scott Shreve I, along with everyone else, have been walking around hollow-eyed given the speed of the recent financial meltdown. One-hundred-year old firms disappearing in a weekend, markets roiling with every bit of news, experts clamoring about the greatest...
October 2, 2008 in Economics, Scott Shreeve | Permalink | Comments (4)

Exploring and conquering new health care frontiers

By Scott Shreeve The September/October issue of Health Affairs is dedicated to reviewing concepts of the medical home. It is most likely the most current, authoritative, and impressive review of this emerging idea. Health Affairs is an excellent resource for...
September 17, 2008 in Economics, primary care, Scott Shreeve, The Industry | Permalink | Comments (0)

Do membership practices offer privileges or just reserved for the privileged?

By Scott Shreeve I have watched the meteoric rise of popular term “Medical Home.” While I personally dislike this phrase, it has caught on in the popular vernacular and looks like it is here to stay. In conjunction with the...
September 2, 2008 in Consumers, Physicians, Scott Shreeve, The Industry | Permalink | Comments (3)

Balloon Mania: Happy Birthday Health 2.0

By Scott Shreve Having been around for the beginning of the Health 2.0 movement, it is good to see the conference continuing into its sophomore year. A lot has and continues to happen regarding the ongoing health care innovations that...
August 28, 2008 in Health 2.0, Scott Shreeve | Permalink | Comments (2)

The call for government EHR unification

By Scott Shreeve While on my VistA kick (here and here), I need to respond to several important errors of understanding in the recent press release hailed with a “Bravo!” from Fred Trotter. I also wanted to take the opportunity...
August 14, 2008 in Electronic Medical Records, Policy, Scott Shreeve | Permalink | Comments (1)

Dude! The $100m VistA Open Source Opportunity

By Scott Shreeve Dude. I am known for throwing an occasional “Dude” into my jocular speech. Ok, maybe more than a couple when excited. OK, maybe more than a couple when I am not so excited as well. OK, maybe...
August 7, 2008 in Scott Shreeve, Technology, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (20)

State telemedicine networks: a modern anachronism

By Scott Shreeve I continue to read with interest articles describing new telemedicine projects. I just don’t get it. What are these guys doing? You don’t need a telemedicine network fraught with complicated hookups, poor screen quality, and difficult communication...
July 15, 2008 in Scott Shreeve, Technology | Permalink | Comments (2)

Consumer genetic movement: Cease and desist? How about understand and resist!

By Scott Shreeve I have been following health care consumerism for several years now. Particularly, the “Direct Access” or “Direct To Consumer” laboratory testing market. While analytic lab testing has led out in this area, genetic testing has received all...
July 2, 2008 in Consumers, Health 2.0, Policy, Privacy, Scott Shreeve | Permalink | Comments (1)

Mckinsey smells opportunity in explaining health care

By Scott Shreeve McKinsey Quarterly released an interesting study this week under the moniker, “What Consumers Want in Health Care." The central theme of the publication was the large and growing opportunity for a new type of health care “infomediaries”...
June 19, 2008 in Consumers, Scott Shreeve, The Industry | Permalink | Comments (4)

Going off the Grid - The Rise of 'Direct Practice' Medicine

By Scott Shreeve Grid (grĭd) n. 1. Something resembling a framework of crisscrossed parallel bars, as in rigidity or organization 2. An interconnected system for the distribution of electricity or electromagnetic signals over a wide area, especially a network of...
May 19, 2008 in Personalized Medicine, Physicians, Scott Shreeve | Permalink | Comments (3)

New demands of 'Millennial patients'

By THCB Staff "Millennial patients are the first generation of Americans to grow up with the Internet as a pervasive part of their lives. ... They are amazed, bewildered, and ultimately angry with the inability to access their health care...
May 15, 2008 in Health 2.0, Personalized Medicine, Physicians, Scott Shreeve, Technology | Permalink | Comments (1)

Personalized Medicine: Back to the Future

By Scott Shreeve Personalized Medicine The type of sing molecular analysis to achieve optimum medical outcomes in the management of a patient’s disease or disease predisposition, Right treatment for the right patient at the right time. As I have mentioned...
April 23, 2008 in Personalized Medicine, Scott Shreeve | Permalink | Comments (5)

Health 2.0: The Long Tail of Healthcare

By Scott Shreeve Long Tail: New business phenomenon in which low distribution and storage cost enable significant profits to be realized by selling small volumes of niche items instead of large numbers of popular items. The potential for online retailers...
March 10, 2008 in Economics, Scott Shreeve | Permalink | Comments (3)