Tag Archives: patient safety

Guest podcast: Suzanne Leveille from OpenNotes

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Neil Versel

I now present the latest health IT-related podcast from Sivad Business Solutions, an interview with Suzanne Leveille, research director of OpenNotes, a project to give patients online access to the entirety of their own medical records, including the visit notes … Continue reading →

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My HIMSS will be all about quality and patient safety

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Neil Versel

As regular readers might already know, 2012 was a transformative year in my life, and mostly not in a good way. I ended the year on a high note, taking a character-building six-day, 400-mile bike tour through the mountains, desert … Continue reading →

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Automation is good. Robocalls are bad.

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Neil Versel

I just got a robocall from my primary care physician’s office asking first if this was actually me — not that anyone would actually lie — and then if I had received a flu vaccine this season. Well, the practice … Continue reading →

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When you talk health reform, don’t forget quality and IT, in that order

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Neil Versel

In my previous post, I was perhaps a bit too critical of Maggie Mahar in her hosting of last week’s Health Wonk Review. I noted that there was not a word about health IT in that rundown, but that’s not … Continue reading →

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Health Wonk Review gets hung up on insurance

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Neil Versel

The last edition of Health Wonk Review prior to the Nov. 6 presidential election falls into the familiar big-media trap of portraying the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, as being only about health insurance and of effectively … Continue reading →

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Medical harm explained, in graphics and Farzad style

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Neil Versel

INDIAN WELLS, Calif.—Still think the United States has the “best healthcare in the world?” You clearly haven’t been paying attention. Last month, the Wall Street Journal ran this excellent commentary from Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Marty Makary about how the … Continue reading →

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Health Wonk Review: October Surprise edition

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Neil Versel

The newest installment of Health Wonk Review is up, courtesy of David Williams at the Health Business Blog, and my recent post about politicians perpetuating the myth that the U.S. has the “best healthcare in the world” is featured prominently. … Continue reading →

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Most ‘sentinel events’ caused by poor communication

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Neil Versel

LOS ANGELES—I’m on the west coast now, first for the  USC Body Computing Conference here Friday, and then for the annual Health 2.0 conference up in San Francisco Monday and Tuesday. Friday there was a lot of talk of healthcare … Continue reading →

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Podcast: This time, I’m the interviewee

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Neil Versel

In a rare turn of events, I’m the one being asked the questions on a podcast by Sivad Business Solutions, which hosts regular audio discussions on a variety of business topics. I give kind of a high-level view of health … Continue reading →

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Podcast: Carrie Handley on patient empowerment with an iPad

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Neil Versel

Did you happen to catch my story in MobiHealthNews on Thursday about Carrie Handley, the IT consultant-turned-cancer patient? She got frustrated with first a misdiagnosis and then the hassle of lugging around a binder full of paper records that she … Continue reading →

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