When I Googled “meaningful use” this morning just before writing this post, the search yielded over 10 million results. Googling “meaningful use and patient” gets you over 1 million results. Dr. Ted Eytan wrote a post on his blog, Ted Eytan, MD, on May 28, 2009, which captures the core of meaning of “meaningful use.” [...]

Insured workers in the U.S. are cost-sensitive to health care. The recession has been negatively impacting workers’ health: physically, emotionally, financially. However, there may be a silver lining here: that workers are making health improvement a greater priority than they did in 2008. The National Business Group on Health’s report on The Recession’s Toll on [...]

Thinking healthy isn’t the same as acting healthy. The gap between what lifestyle behaviors people perceive build health, versus what actually contributes to health, can lead to less than optimal health outcomes. Based on Yankelovich’s 2009 Health & Wellness Segmentation Study, only one-half of people believe that taking medicines as prescribed is “very important” to [...]

Ten years later, a million lives lost, billions of dollars wasted, is the tag line of a report looking back at the decade since IOM‘s seminal report, To Err is Human, was published in November 1999. Consumers Union has asked, what progress has been made since IOM calculated that 98,000 lives are lost each year [...]

The road to universal coverage will be paved more slowly as the Obama administration comes to terms with the impact of the recession on the general economy, the national deficit, and RealHealthPolitik. An interview with Peter Orszag in this morning’s Financial Times (London’s daily business newspaper) featured a sentence that gave me a double take; [...]