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CVS Minute Clinics: First Massachusetts sites open this week

Posted on September 19, 2008
Minute Clinic opened for business in Massachusetts this week.Check out the HealthBlawg archive on Minute Clinics.David HarlowThe Harlow Group LLCHealth Care Law and Consulting

Where does HIPAA go? Wherever it wants.

Posted on September 18, 2008
The GAO just issued another assessment of HHS's and ONCHIT's progress in identifying and addressing key HIPAA and other health IT related privacy issues, and developing an overall approach to HIT privacy. The federales -- not known for nimbleness --....

Health Wonk Review, political convention style

Posted on September 18, 2008
We recognize the gentleman from the great state . . . er, Commonwealth . . . of Pennsylvania.Check out Jaan Sidorov's political convention edition of Health Wonk Review, up at his Disease Management Care Blog.David Harlow The Harlow Group LLC...

Grand Rounds is up at Nurse Ratched's Place

Posted on September 17, 2008
This week's edition of Grand Rounds, at Nurse Ratched's Place, is a paean to the old patent medicines -- with nifty ingredients like cocaine -- and the ads that sold them. Put that in your BPA water bottle and suck...

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Obama & McCain proxies duke it out over health care at Harvard School of Public Health

Posted on September 15, 2008
David Cutler and Gail Wilensky spoke about health care reform on behalf of Obama and McCain, respectively, at a Harvard School of Public Health forum last week here in Boston. Martha Bebinger at WBUR's Commonhealth summarizes the discussion of the...

The Medical Home: Primary care panacea or the next doughnut hole?

Posted on September 12, 2008
The news on the medical home model this week is good: A Commonwealth Fund-funded Geisinger study published in Health Affairs demonstrates the extent to which development and implementation of a medical home model can actually prevent those preventable hospitalizations we...

Two-day seminar on Health Law Basics Plus in Boston next week

Posted on September 10, 2008
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education puts on its annual two-day extravaganza introduction to health law next week (September 17 and 18). I'll be speaking on post-acute care, and there is a bang-up panel of speakers filling out the entire two days...

Bloomsday Blawg Review

Posted on June 16, 2008
Molly says yes, but Ireland said no (to the EU) last week. Read all about it and much, much more at Eoin O'Dell's cearta.ie. -- David Harlow

(A) Walk and chew gum? (B) Whistle and eat crackers? (C) Promote a Medicare payment fix and diss the folks across the aisle?

Posted on June 13, 2008
Which of these three things do you think Sens. Grassley and Baucus did today? If you chose (C) Promote a Medicare payment fix and diss the folks across the aisle, you would be correct. The six-month reprieve for the formula-driven...

Score one more for Google Health at the Hub of the Universe

Posted on June 13, 2008
Another Hub health care worthy has signed up with Google Health -- today's Boston Globe reports that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts joins Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -- see John Halamka's GeekDoctor post -- in facilitating the download...

Washington week wrap-up for health wonks

Posted on June 12, 2008
Health Affairs hosts the current edition of Health Wonk Review. A wonderful Washingtonian window on the weltschmertz we wear while winnowing through the past weeks' wealth of health wonkery. -- David Harlow

Health IT: Is it worthwhile, and will the government screw up a good thing?

Posted on June 12, 2008
Item: CBO says EHRs don't really save money after all. Item: DoD is hard at work undermining VistA (developed over years at taxpayer expense and now in the public domain) and replacing it with a zillion-dollar military-industrial complex "solution." Item:...

MS 1.20: Has the Joint Commission comes to its senses on medical staff bylaws?

Posted on June 05, 2008
Let's not break out the bubbly quite yet, but this week the Joint Commission (the organization formerly known as JCAHO) has slowed down the process of implementing a revised MS 1.20. This standard would otherwise have become effective July 1,...

Six degrees of Grand Rounds

Posted on June 03, 2008
The Happy Hospitalist celebrates the interconnectedness of it all in this week's edition of Grand Rounds. -- David Harlow

Sustainable Growth Rate: an unsustainable saga

Posted on June 03, 2008
The SGR -- a zero-sum game for physician reimbursement under Medicare which guarantees year-over-year lower unit prices -- has got to go. Time has run out on the last stopgap measure, and el presidente promises to veto the current fix...

What!? You haven't devised your own health care reform plan yet!?

Posted on June 01, 2008
Hey, everyone's doing it. In the past week, two new entrants in the health care reform plan derby are AHIP and Ezekiel Emanuel. AHIP's potpourri includes a bunch of stuff that's happening anyway (e.g., better management of chronic conditions), a...

Pan-Mass Challenge 2008: Please help me support the Dana Farber Cancer Institute's Jimmy Fund

Posted on May 30, 2008
It's that time of year again: Spring in New England, when a young man's fancy (OK, a middle-aged man's fancy) turns to long-distance bicycling (or, at least, to long-distance bicycling without balaclavas and booties). It's time to get more serious...

CMS contractors seek to bring evidence-based medicine to diagnostic imaging

Posted on May 28, 2008
In last week's mail bag: L&M Policy Research, LLC, and its partners, the National Imaging Associates and the Lewin Group, have been contracted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to develop imaging efficiency measures. In preparation for additional...

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