Cavalcade of Risk is up at Colorado Health Insurance Insider |   | Wed 13 Jan |
| Colorado Health Insurance Insider has done a nice job of presenting the latest Cavalcade of Risk blog carnival.
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Grand Rounds is up |   | Tue 12 Jan |
| If you’re familiar with Dr. Rich, you won’t be surprised that he’s posted an insightful and entertaining Grand Rounds. Give it a read.
If you like what you see, I also highly recommend his book Fixing American Healthcare; Wonkonians, Gekkonians and the Grand Unification Theory of Healthcare.
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Podcast interview with Zynx Health CEO, Dr. Scott Weingarten (transcript) |   | Tue 12 Jan |
| This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Dr. Scott Weingarten, CEO of Zynx Health.
David Williams: This is David E. Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business Blog. I’m speaking today with Dr. Scott Weingarten. He is President and CEO of Zynx Health. Dr. Weingarten, thanks for your time [...] |
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Podcast interview with Zynx Health CEO, Dr. Scott Weingarten |   | Mon 11 Jan |
| Zynx Health is a clinical decision support company whose technology is in place at more than 1700 hospitals in the US, covering more than half of hospitalized patients. Decision support is an important part of meaningful use, and now that the detailed definition has been published, Zynx is busy working with its customers to help [...] |
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Podcast interview with Phil Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software (transcript) |   | Fri 08 Jan |
| This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Lieberman Software CEO, Philip Lieberman.
David Williams: This is David E. Williams, Co Founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business Blog. I’m speaking today with Philip Lieberman, he is CEO of Lieberman Software. Phil, thanks for your time today.
Philip Lieberman: Yes, hello David.
Williams: [...] |
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Podcast interview with Phil Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software |   | Thu 07 Jan |
| Lieberman Software provides enterprise solutions for security and systems management. Its emphasis is on Privileged Identity Management solutions, which protect all-powerful administrator accounts from being compromised. The company has historically focused on the financial services and government markets. Lately, with the increasing penalties for health care organizations that lose control of patient information, they are [...] |
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Plenty of room for nurses and robots |   | Wed 06 Jan |
| My pre-Xmas post Welcoming immigrants and robots to fill the nursing shortage has taken a lot of flak from commenters on the Health Care Blog and Glorfindel of Gondolin, who wants to know what I’ve been smoking. The big objection seems to be to my suggestion that by 2025 robot nurses could provide encouragement and [...] |
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Enemy of the state? Give me a break |   | Tue 05 Jan |
| Overall the Boston Globe has done a pretty good job of covering the topic of health care, but yesterday’s op-ed In Medicare blame game, seniors aren’t at fault by Margaret Morganroth Gullette demonstrates that the editors aren’t immune from inanity.
I don’t know what motivated Gullette to pen this piece, beyond promoting her forthcoming book. But [...] |
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Grand Rounds is up at Blogborygmi |   | Tue 05 Jan |
| The first Grand Rounds edition of 2010 is posted at Blogborygmi by Grand Rounds founder Nick Genes. It’s a fitting start to the year and comes with the grudging(?) roll out of a Grand Rounds Twitter feed and Facebook page.
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Boston Public Health Commision is ?Talkin ?bout the flu? |   | Mon 04 Jan |
| I have to hand it to the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) for using social media to educate people about the H1N1 flu. The rap-style YouTube video, Talkin ’bout the flu has been up since Thanksgiving. I just found out about it now, by listening to an iHealthBeat podcast on the topic featuring BPHC officials. [...] |
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