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I spent a couple days this week at the annual meeting of the Medical Group Management Association , in San Antonio. read more Read More...

Don't miss the 9th annual Connected Health Symposium this October 25 and 26th, at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel and Tower. I was there last year and it was a great experience! I'm sure 2012 will be even better. This year, the theme is: Innovations to Build Value, Accountable Care and Patient Engagement. With over 100 speakers and numerous networking events, attendees will have an opportunity to hear innovative thinking, participate in discussions and network. This is our chance to come together and define the future of care delivery and ensure better integration of quality care in the day...

I've written several posts about BIDMC 's use of "private cloud" approaches to host electronic records and gather community-wide quality data. Election Feature Content: No sticky read more Read More...

  I’m captivated by a recent tweet from HBSer Andrew Rosenthal (who is also involved in noted bay-area start-up MassiveHealth), reporting that at a recent HBS conference, it was claimed that 80% of women at the top (in business, I presume) have husbands who don’t work. Whoa. As high as that number is, I believe [...] Read More...

I just got back from a trip to Boston and I'm looking forward to another excuse to return to Boston this month. I'm speaking at the 2011 Connected Health Symposium (Oct 20-21 in Boston). I'll be on this panel on Tuesday: Expert panel #5: Facebooking Health: Scouting Out the Latest Trends in Online Patient Communities and Social Media (Plaza) Moderator: Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, Assistant Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine - John Brownstein, PhD, Research Faculty, Children's Hospital Boston; Director, Computational Epidemiology Group,...

Partners Health Care (the dominant provider network in Greater Boston) and Neighborhood Health Plan (a local mostly-Medicaid HMO) just announced that the former intends to acquire the latter, and maintain it as a separate operating entity. No money will change hands between the parties, but an unspecified amount of money will be given by Partners as grants to community health centers where NHP members receive much of their health care services. read more Read More...