Sunday, March 07, 2010

Senator Kerry informs and learns

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US Senator John Kerry joined a BIDMC event last night in Florida to provide an update to members of our community on recent events in Washin...
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Saturday, March 06, 2010

Railing against the tide

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Several months ago, I wrote about the futility of banning social media in a hospital. I argued that it was counterproductive and a waste o...
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May I have the envelope, please?

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In a post below , I listed several of the questions posed by the MA Division of Health Care Finance & Policy in preparation for the firs...
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Friday, March 05, 2010

Magnets help pancreatitis pain

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Please watch this fascinating story on YouTube about a patient with chronic pancreatitis, who found relief in a procedure developed by BIDMC...
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Thursday, March 04, 2010

Me, here and there

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I really enjoy sharing what we have learned about enhancing quality and safety, transparency, and process improvement with health care provi...
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Pioneer speaks about MA health reform

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The Pioneer Institute is a public policy research center in Massachusetts. On the political spectrum, most people would call it conservati...
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

AHCJ to JC: Please be less obscure

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The Association of Health Care Journalists offers advice to the Joint Commission about transparency and clarity.
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These are the good old days

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Interesting point of view from our CIO, John Halamka, in this Business Week article .

Quietly in service

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Mark Krivopal, Medical Director of one of our hospitalist groups, sent me this note: Dr. Kwan Kew Lai is one of our hospitalists and has bee...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Argentina candy invasion

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As my loyal readers know, I am an infrastructure junkie. But I also take some pleasure in noting the country of origin of products I see in...
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A doctor's visit

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This note came from a doctor newly arrived in Boston. As you know, MDs can be the harshest critics of care, so it was heartening to receiv...
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Monday, March 01, 2010

We don't spend more

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Many in the United States bemoan the fact that we spend such a large share of our GDP on health care. We argue that we could do it better a...
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Moore's code

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Although Massachusetts is a relatively small state, it has the sixth largest (by acreage) state park system in the country. One example is ...
Friday, February 26, 2010

It is up to us, not the US

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A conversation with a reporter yesterday helped me clarify my thoughts about federal health care legislation. In my view, the most effectiv...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

More on Atrius and BIDMC

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Several weeks ago, I wrote about a new clinical partnership between Atrius Health and BIDMC. Today's Boston Globe has a story by Liz...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The infrastructure chronicles -- Volume 3

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Back to our occasional series on infrastructure. For this post, I will be digging back into the telecommunications portion of my career, t...
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A back-handed way to make policy

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One of the arcane steps in government regulation of health care is the Physician Payment Rule. This is the manner in which CMS, the Medicar...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Dr. Cocchi goes to Haiti

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This is a story about and by Michael N. Cocchi, MD, a fellow in Critical Care Medicine in our Department of Emergency Medicine. He joined a...
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Easier than voting for tax increases

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Just a thought as federal and state policymakers make speeches about putting a lid on the rates charged by private insurers. One of the bes...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

The Bucket Brigade

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These are pictures from the founding meeting of The Bucket Brigade on January 9. This new charitable organization is the brainchild of Mon...
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