Transparency
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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An Open Response To HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt
04/22/08
Under the Bush Administration, HHS officials keep telling us how they support health care pricing and performance transparency. But in withholding Medicare physician data from public scrutiny - they have followed the AMA's advice that doctors have a right to privacy - they demonstrate that their interest in transparency is selective.
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.
Health Care Quote of the Year
12/21/07
Why Consumers' Checkbook v HHS Is A Sideshow
10/20/07
The battles over transparency information will ultimately be swept away and remembered as anachronisms, as the overwhelming pressure for data that can drive decisions wins out.
A Broad Vision of Health 2.0
10/12/07
By creating product, service and knowledge exchanges, then knowledge- and data-driven decision support for everyone involved with health care, the Health 2.0 movement holds the promise to fundamentally and positively change how health care works.
What About Health Plan Transparency
09/15/07
Shouldn't the performance of health plans be as transparent as they have demanded of providers?
Consultants to Hospitals: Prepare for Transparency
08/16/07
Very progressive health systems like Louisville Norton Healthcare have improved their performance by making it transparent to consumers and, equally important, to their staffs. Now a consulting group advises hospitals that the way of the future is to follow Norton's example.
Transparency and Health Care Power Shifts
08/09/07
The Transparency Genie is out of the bottle and we won't get it back in. It's impossible to succeed in the change by stonewalling or whining. The best strategy is to demonstrably prepare and perform better.
Don't Invite Anyone From Health Care
07/27/07
In October 2006, the Northern Nevada Health Care Coalition decided to hold a health care conference. They made sure their community's health care leaders knew about it, but pointedly told them they weren't invited. And the attendees unanimously agreed to contribute their data into a common data repository, so that it could be mined to identify problems and opportunities. Now they're focused on addressing each problem and opportunity they've found.
Employers, as the purchasers, can drive real solutions when they decide to be decisive.
Employers, as the purchasers, can drive real solutions when they decide to be decisive.
Should We Have Health Care Performance Transparency? By Whom? And How?
07/19/07
To heal health care, we need transparency. But it should be provided by neutral organizations that don't have conflicts of interest, and handled to assure doctors and everyone else involved in health care that the reporting will be fair and without prejudice.
The Cognitive Dissonance of Conflicted Care
06/15/07
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