Health 2.0
From Description to Action: The Future of Health 2.0 Tools
07/28/08
Health 2.0 ventures will rapidly evolve from merely describing biological, clinical and financial processes, to using knowledge and data to recommend action.
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Knowledge Like Clear, Clean Water, Muir Gray on Health Care's Progress
04/07/08
Sir Muir Gray's vision of the challenges we now face in health care - he is Chief Knowledge Officer of Britain's National Health Service - merits attention by anyone seriously interested in the topic.
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Four Big Trends
01/15/08
Four relatively little-noticed trends will have profound, positive impacts on health care. Health 2.0 is using the Web to bring patients much better knowledge and data about all aspects of health care. The lawsuit by the advocacy group Consumer Checkbook to get HHS to make Medicare physician data public has the potential to make physician performance profiling easy. Come October, 2008, Medicare and most commercial health plans will stop paying hospitals for avoidable errors like "never-events." And though its slow, we're making steady progress toward the establishment of a national health care "comparative effectiveness" agency.
Policy- vs. Market-Based Reforms: RHIOs As A Case Study
12/20/07
RHIOs as Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) offered great promise in theory, but have been blocked by interest groups concerned that the exchange of data would hurt their competitiveness. But that role is now taking on much greater power through Health 2.0 ventures, which will make data available independent of the wishes of those who wish to keep information secret.
Aspen Health Forum - Healing Unbound: The Promise of Advancing Computational Power
10/15/07
Some of health care's greatest promise can be seen in its new technologies, which are blossoming because of rapidly growing computational power.
How Might Information Technology Actually Change Health Care
09/20/07
The application of information technology to health care is still in its infancy, but its potential for risk identification and evaluation is very broad, holding immense promise.
