12 02, 2014

Will you rate your Doctor?

By |2018-11-17T09:21:27-08:00February 12th, 2014|Judys Weblog|0 Comments

Rate your doctor. That's what an online survey is attempting to do. It is a research project to figure out how best to get patients to share their experience with their doctors. The results will be used to better understand how well doctors in California meet the needs of patients. CalQualityCare currently collects ratings on physician [...]

13 12, 2013

10 Facts of mHealth

By |2018-11-17T09:21:28-08:00December 13th, 2013|Judys Weblog|0 Comments

I just returned from a conference on the use of mobile devices in healthcare. Here's what stood out: 1. Mobile is being used successfully with chronic diseases by keeping patients out of the hospital, which reduces cost. 2. Many mobile apps are used by healthy people to monitor their weight, calories and other health information. [...]

3 12, 2013

Uninsured Drivers without Health Insurance

By |2013-12-03T15:03:57-08:00December 3rd, 2013|Judys Weblog|0 Comments

Who pays when there is a car wreck and both drivers -who were young and healthy - have neither car insurance nor health insurance? Buying insurance is paying for something that might not happen. In fact, both the insured and the insurance companies count on the probability that the negative event, such as a car [...]

2 10, 2013

Health Insurance Comes to the People

By |2018-11-17T09:21:31-08:00October 2nd, 2013|Judys Weblog|0 Comments

What happens if you build a web site and no one comes? That is a question that the health insurance marketplaces won't have to answer. Deluge. Inundate. Overwhelm. Apt descriptions of what happened nationally and here in California as the health insurance marketplaces went live at the federal site Healthcare.gov and the California site, Covered [...]

7 08, 2013

Farzad, President of Healthcare

By |2018-11-17T09:21:32-08:00August 7th, 2013|Judys Weblog|0 Comments

Unabashed praise for Farzad Mostashari is flowing in from all over the healthcare community since he announced his resignation yesterday after two years as National HIT Coordinator. His four years, two years as Deputy National Coordinator, was a wisp of time in an industry that has struggled to keep the nation's healthcare from falling behind [...]

10 06, 2013

The Suspended Bridge

By |2018-11-17T09:21:32-08:00June 10th, 2013|Judys Weblog|0 Comments

How could it happen? Over 2,000 bolts used in the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge are at risk of failure. The bolts were galvanized to make them harder; oddly they are too hard. This was discovered by accident when recently installed bolts cracked after being tightened. Unfortunately, huge numbers of bolts had already been installed [...]

7 03, 2013

Things that Make a Hospital Look Bad

By |2018-11-17T09:21:33-08:00March 7th, 2013|Judys Weblog|0 Comments

At a time when healthcare organizations are supposed to be improving quality of care and engaging patients and families, my recent visit to Kaiser's Oakland hospital was surprisingly because the hospital staff was careless and indifferent. These are the things in the overall operation of the hospital that raised red flags and made me question the [...]

27 06, 2012

Some Truths about Obamacare

By |2012-08-06T14:13:04-07:00June 27th, 2012|Judys Weblog|0 Comments

The U.S. Supreme court is expected to rule tomorrow on the constitutionality of imposing a mandate that everyone have health insurance. Everyone excludes immigrants. The big question is how much of the healthcare reform law will be kept in place if the individual mandate is removed. Some facts. The individual mandate means two percent of [...]

14 06, 2012

Another Perfect Storm: Facebook

By |2018-11-17T09:21:34-08:00June 14th, 2012|Judys Weblog|0 Comments

A perfect storm. It was the most widely anticipated and watched IPO in history. The face of Wall Street, painted in greed since the latest recession, had a chance to re-gain consumer confidence on a large scale. They couldn’t have failed in a bigger and more public way. Technology failed. Communications failed. Leadership was absent. [...]

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