Recently wrote a brief post on the GE-Boston Scientific partnership, but left a few questions unanswered awaiting a reply from one of the companies. Received an email today that helps clarify the partnership. First-off, it is an exclusive partnership between these two companies. No need to despair, however, as the exclusive clause is for a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘healthcare’
Update on the GE-Boston Scientific Partnership
Posted in EMR, HL 7, telehealth, tagged Boston Scientific, EMR, GE, healthcare, HL7, telehealth on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Aetna Joins Cigna and Goes One Step Further
Posted in consumer health, P4P, policy, tagged Aetna, Cigna, healthcare, quality on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Aetna, under pressure from the New York Attorney General’s office, has agreed to change its physician quality ranking system. This follows a similar move by Cigna about two weeks ago. Both UnitedHealth and WellPoint BS/BC are the remaining hold-outs, but I expect them to follow suit in the near future. What is interesting about the [...]
Hidden Costs of Deployment
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged costs, healthcare, IT, software on November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Over on the eZine, Health Data Management there is a poll asking whether or not your software vendor was upfront about the hidden costs of implementing their software. Guess which way the poll is leaning? Over two-thirds of respondents state that no, their software vendor was not upfront about hidden costs! At first, one may [...]
In Search of Meaning or at Least Being Relevant
Posted in consumer health, health portals, tagged consumer, cost, healthcare, quality, Revolution Health on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Was just over on my Gmail account and there was this discrete little advert at the top of my screen about the five top things to never say at work. No problem with that, as I see such little advice teasers all the time in these quick sound-bite, better yet, word-bite messages in Gmail. What [...]
GE and Boston Scientific Push Telehealth Envelop
Posted in EMR, Microsoft, telehealth, tagged Boston Scientific, EMR, GE, healthcare, telehealth on November 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Mid last week, GE and Boston Scientific made an interesting announcement wherein Boston Scientific’s patient monitoring platform, LATITUDE will be able to automatically update a patient’s Centricity-based electronic medical record (EMR). Currently, cardiologists use LATITUDE to remotely monitor a patient’s defibulator implant, but this data is collected and stored separately, outside of a patient’s core [...]
Is there a Doctor Online?
Posted in telehealth, tagged healthcare, telehealth on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On a bike ride recently, a good friend of mine, who is a practicing physician got to talking about delivering care via telephone or email. While he sees great value and utility in using such tools he does not has the vast majority of payers do not reimburse for such services. Looks like that may [...]
Who’ya Gonna Trust
Posted in policy, Privacy, tagged healthcare, Massachusetts, Privacy, universal healthcare on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Coming in on the T this morning picked up the local free rag, Metro. What to my wondering eyes is plastered across the front page banner: “Health Concerns.” Seems as though yesterday, during the meeting of the Health Care Quality and Cost Council (HCQCC), concerns were raised regarding privacy of patient records and how to [...]
And then There Were Three
Posted in HSA, P4P, PHR, policy, telehealth, VEBA, tagged Chrysler, Ford, GM, healthcare, UAW on November 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This weekend the NY Times reported that the Ford’s UAW members will be voting on a negotiated contract agreement that is similar to the recent ones signed with GM and Chrysler wherein Ford will hand over the responsibilities of managing retirees health benefits to the UAW. In a previous posting I talked about the implications [...]
Telehealth Goes to Washington
Posted in policy, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged healthcare, Medicare, policy, telehealth on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At the recently held Connected for Health symposium, which I reported on previously, a widely held belief among participants was that telehealth would not see substantial growth until the largest potential market, seniors, start receiving Medicare benefits that covered telehealth programs. Coming close on the heels of this conference is a report released this week [...]
Exposed – Orthopedic Payola
Posted in PHR, policy, tagged health, health policy, healthcare, information technology, medical device, orthopedics on November 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Looks like payola in the healthcare sector extends beyond pharma. Late yesterday, the Wall Street Journal health blog posted an article on consultant fees paid by implant manufacturers. In a settlement agreement with the government, leading implant manufacturers (Zimmer, J&J, Smith & Nephew, Biomet and Stryker) agreed to post on-line, fees they have paid to [...]
