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By Bob Coffield

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Last Entry: April 27, 2020 at 10:14:36

Happy Earth Day!

Posted on April 22, 2008
Happy Earth Day courtesy of Google. Take a few minutes and check out the environmental features of Google Earth from the Google Earth Blog.For my West Virginia readers (and those who may consider a get away to West Virginia) check out this earth day idea by fellow Charleston blogger, Rebecca Burch, who highlights the new project called Picture West Virginia ...

Consumers' Checkbook v. HHS Update

Posted on April 21, 2008
The WSJ Health Blog, "Feds Fight to Keep Doctor Data Secret," has the latest on the Consumers' Checkbook v. HHS matter involving whether or not Medicare physicians claims data should be made publicly available. Consumers' Checkbook, a nonprofit consumer information and service resource, wants to use the data to rate physicians and health care services...

Blawg Review #156 Virtually Hosted at Virtually Blind

Posted on April 21, 2008
This week's edition of Blawg Review is hosted by Benjamin Duranske at Virtually Blind.Don't miss this edition if you are intrigued by (or just want to better understand) what is happening in the legal world (including the virtual legal world).

National Healthcare Decisions Day (April 16)

Posted on April 16, 2008
Today (April 16, 2008) is ?National Healthcare Decisions Day?, a collaborative effort of national, state and community organizations committed to ensuring that all adults with decision-making capacity in the United States have the information and opportunity to properly communicate and document their healthcare decisions...

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After Tax Day Thought: Intuit CEO Returning To Speak In West Virginia

Posted on April 16, 2008
West Virginia claims its share of high profile thinkers leading and funding some of the most innovative companies and businesses in the world. Add to this list Brad Smith, President CEO of Intuit, Inc.Last week I learned from Matt Ballard, President of the Charleston Area Alliance that Mr...

Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System Rule

Posted on April 15, 2008
CMS posted on its website yesterday (April 14, 2008) the Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2009 (CMS-1390-P).The proposed rule includes changes to the Physician Self Referral law (Stark law) regulations and seeks comments on the Disclosure of Financial Relationship Report...

Practical Advice on the Death Spiral

Posted on April 11, 2008
The Death Spiral, courtesy of the WSJ Health Blog.Great graphic which highlights advice from my dad, a retired physician in West Virginia, who always warned us of such risks. He would say, "eat better, eat less, take small bites, drive defensively with two hands on the wheel, don't climb ladders and be careful with guns...

Is Prevention Cheaper than Treatment?

Posted on April 10, 2008
David Williams over at the Health Business Blog looks at this question and surprisingly answers it saying that studies show it's often cheaper to let people get sick. This perspective comes from a Washington Post article, In the Balance, Some Candidates Disagree, but Studies Show It's Often Cheaper to Let People Get Sick...

The Value of Wiki Collaboration

Posted on April 07, 2008
A great graphic from Wikinomics of why wiki collaboration beats email collaboration. A picture says a 1,000 words.For me the graphic also demonstrates where we may be headed with cloud computing.Tip to Doug Cornelius' post "Wikis and Happiness" at KM Space.

Dartmouth Atlas Health Care Stats on End of Life Care Costs

Posted on April 07, 2008
The WSJ Health Blog posts (WSJ article, More Choices Drive Cost of Health Care) interesting statistics on end of life care costs according to the latest Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care edition (due out today).The report shows:. . . that the cost of individual medical services isn?t the big driver of Medicare spending, at least for chronically ill patients in their last two years...

Virtual Medical Dangers of Web 2.0

Posted on April 04, 2008
Thought provoking post by Bertalan Mesko at ScienceRoll on one of the dangers of web 2.0. Bertalan is a Hungarian medical student who plans to become a clinical geneticist and specialize in personalized genomics.Bertalan highlights a danger of virtual medicine and gives us a glimpse at what might be the reality of the future as real and artificial life start to merge and blend...

Thoughts on HIPAA and Privacy: NYT Article on PatientsLikeMe

Posted on April 02, 2008
First, an apology to my regular blog visitors for the lack of posts over the last month. Busy, busy, busy at work and home. No time to blog. The last couple of days I have been experimenting a bit with micro blogging via Twitter as a result of a conversation with my firm's IT director and blogger...

Google Sites: Collaboration from Google

Posted on March 02, 2008
Need to create a team site to centralize all types of data and information (think wiki)? Check out Google Sites a part of Google Apps. Here is Google's short summary of what it does:Google Sites makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document...

Official Google Blog: Google Health, a first look

Posted on March 01, 2008
Official Google Blog: Google Health, a first look

HITCHtv: HIPAA Fun and HIStalk HISsies Awards 2008

Posted on February 27, 2008
Who says HIPAA law and health care technology (aka e-lectric-medical records) are boring topics. Health IT can be fun!If you are missing HIMSS08, check out the HIStalk HISsies Awards 2008 (video) courtesy of the Healthcare IT Transition Group and HITCHtv...

dCard: Health 2.0 Group Releases Standard for Physician Information

Posted on February 27, 2008
My health colleagues over at change:health (Christopher and Robert) and Organized Wisdom (Steve and Unity) along with Within3, the founding members, have worked together to release a new open standard dCard (doctor card) to establish basic e-standards for the collecting, storing and sharing of physician information...

The Blogger Eye View of HIMSS Orlando

Posted on February 26, 2008
Jay Parkinson and Scott Shreeve give those of us not attending a glimpse into the happenings at HIMSS Orlando. I particularly enjoyed Dr. Parkinson's round soap theory of health care IT.For another viewpoint check out HIStalk. Learn more about what really goes on here...

Google Health: Google Partners with Cleveland Clinic

Posted on February 21, 2008
The New York Times Technology Section reports on a pilot project between Gooogle and the Cleveland Clinic in an article, Google to Store Patients' Health Records.The article indicates the pilot project will involve a volunteer patient group transferring their personal health records so that they are available via Google Health, a new health record product being developed by Google...

David Harlow's Grand Rounds Gets To the Heart of the Matter

Posted on February 12, 2008
Congrats to fellow health law blogger, David Harlow at HealthBlawg who does a wonderful job weaving together a special Valentine's Day edition of Grand Rounds. David's edition gets to the heart of the matter and includes a wide range of posts - covering the love hormone, the Dead, death from Q-tips, Lupercalia and so much more...

AHLA Physicians and Hospital Law Institute

Posted on February 12, 2008
Tomorrow I'm off to attend the American Health Lawyers Association's Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute in Orlando tomorrow. Looking forward to the Florida warmth as the temperature here in West Virginia dips into the single digits tonight.If your interested in the law of health care the AHLA is the group to join...

Web/Health 2.0 For Dummies

Posted on February 07, 2008
Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and social networking for dummies courtesy of Pew Trusts' e-patients.net. Simple explanations and visual demonstrations to better understand the basic concepts.I've watched a couple of these before -- but have not seen a post with them conveniently in one place...

CMS Releases New Physician Self Referral (Stark) FAQs

Posted on February 06, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently modified its website and included a new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section under the Physician Self Referral (Stark) section. CMS added 12 new Stark FAQs on January 31, 2008. A number of these new FAQs relate to the new Stark III regulations.

Grand Rounds: Health 2.0 Explosion At Diabetes Mine

Posted on February 05, 2008
Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine explores the Health 2.0 Explosion in this week's edition of Grand Rounds, Vol. 4, No 20. If you are interested in health care social networking and health 2.0 topics don't miss reading this week's edition.Great job Amy!

Hospitals and Anonymous Blogging: An Update of the Paris Regional Medical Center Lawsuit

Posted on February 02, 2008
Just pick up the latest news from Greg Piche of the Holland & Hart Healthcare Law Blog about the pending libel lawsuit against an anonymous blogger filed by Paris Regional Medical Center, a subsidiary of Essent. For some background on the case check out Jeff Drummond's past post Hospital Sues Blogger...

West Virginia E-Prescribing Regulations

Posted on January 31, 2008
On January 4, 2008, the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy filed a Notice of Emergency Rule amending CSR 15-1, Licensure and Practice of Pharmacy, implementing the requirements of SB 1001 (See SB 69 and HB 2289) passed during the 2007 Legislative Session permitting electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) of legend drugs in West Virginia, including through the use of electronic data intermediaries...

Results of Tech President Primary

Posted on January 30, 2008
Want to know where the presidential hopefuls stand on technology?Check ou the result of the TechCrunch Tech President Primaries. You can see where the candidates stand on 10 key tech issues. Based on the results the TechCrunch endorsements goes to Barack Obama and John McCain...

Grand Rounds . . . Revolution

Posted on January 29, 2008
Grand Rounds Volume 4, No. 19 is up over at my favorite nurse blog, Emergiblog. Kim has wonderful vision into the world of health care and is a creative writer to boot. I've gotten out of the habit of submitting posts to Grand Rounds. Never enough time in the day...

West Virginia Educational Social Network

Posted on January 29, 2008
The State Journal reports that West Virginia University with the backing of a grant from Verizon will create a social network for middle and high school students focused around education (with emphasis on the energy sector) to get a head start on career decisions...

Newsweek Features Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine

Posted on January 26, 2008
Great to see Newsweek run a story on Amy Tenderich and the success of her blog, DiabetesMine. Amy's efforts are a great example of how blogs can be used to creatively share valuable information with a patient community.Here is a taste of the article and how Amy got started,I've been writing my Web site for three years now, and some amazing things have happened...

Get Your Google Health . . . Soon

Posted on January 25, 2008
Various reports out about the coming of Google Health. As Matthew Holt indicates, the Google purists found a log in page (screen shot).The log in page has since been pulled down but Matthew and Tech Crunch provide a list of what the log in page said Google Health will do for you, including:With Google Health, you can: Build online health profiles that belong to youDownload medical records from doctors and pharmaciesGet personalized health guidance and relevant newsFind qualified doctors and connect to time-saving servicesShare selected information with family or caregiversI'm particularly interested to check out the "Google Health Privacy Policy" which is referenced on the log in screen shot...

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