Tweetcasting @ 2011: health reform implementation, mobile health and patient safety

My crystal ball is a little foggy, so I decided to ask my twitter followers (@ HealthBizBlog) to help compile a list of healthcare predictions for 2011. I've integrated my thoughts with theirs and organized the predictions in four themes:

Transparency will be changing from Buzzword, RealityInformation technology are uneven progress, begins with the biggest breakthroughs in mob's culture of RootHealth patient safety reform implementation will advance despite some ugly battles

Buzzword change transparency in reality.

The health care industry is enormously opaque. Patients and physicians know not the price of medical services while pharmaceutical and medical device makers secret financial agreements maintain doctors.

Much is expected to change in 2011 for the better.

Giovanni Colella, CEO of health care transparency company Castlight health (@ CastlightHealth) predicts "Consumers increases your demands for personalized information on health care costs, quality and convenience and revolves around innovative applications to meet these requirements."

Bright lights are trained on the interaction between industry and doctors.

The affordable care Act calls on pharmaceutical and device companies report payments to doctors from 2013; voluntary reporting will pick up expected next year. In addition, that @ PharmaGossip predicts "PharmaWikiLeaks will become a force for good," relying on a recent leak about Pfizer in Nigeria as an attachment a

Information technology progress is uneven, with the biggest breakthroughs in mobile.

AOL Founder Steve case (@ SteveCase) tells me "Mobile health will be a game changer in health and wellness." I agree that mobile applications and devices to present a great opportunity to prevent and manage chronic disease.

Thanks to the advances in the provider and the patient, Kaiser's Dr. Ted Eytan IT adopts (@ Tedeytan) expressed confidence that "The patient will eventually become a customer of health care."

Meanwhile continue to doctors, hospitals, and providers slow, uneven progress in electronic health record implementation in the quest to meet needs good use funds qualify for federal stimulus. Health IT of experts David Ahern (@ dahern1) says, "EPA vendor consolidation will be the order of the day, above all, how companies discover how difficult it to levels 2 and the meaningful use on your own will be to reach 3."

A culture of patient safety starts walking take.

Beth Israel Deaconess President and CEO Paul levy (@ Paulflevy) writes, "Too many people are still in clinical settings due to a lack of focus in the work in hospitals damaged redesign."

Dennis Ferrill (@ DennisFerrill), CEO of e-learning company GSP provides a way in the future, "we will be a turning point in the culture of patient safety as institutions find significant adverse events occur on your clock while more of their peers take concrete steps forward."  "Under the observable data points are a growing trend support this movement, important mandate and safety training protocols for nursing and physician staff as hospitals gain confidence in their duty to control quality and results."

Since the Vioxx debacle, FDA and patients have reassurance on patient safety, a move wanted in 2011, still after iCardiac technologies CEO Mike Totterman (@ Mtotterman). "Regulatory cardiac safety, reinforce requirements but is compliance with new standards better, new technologies facilitate reliable results in clinical studies."

Health care reform will prevail despite ugly battles.

"Always an optimist I think 2011 is the year that economic recovery takes hold," writes Dr. Bruce Siegel (@ Siegelmd), CEO of the National Association of public hospitals. "This changes the national health care debate is dramatically reinforced like administration leverage." "There is ahead some very ugly battles in the State houses, but overall it's a year of consolidation."  To illustrate, he is a realist, he adds, "Even go Redskins to the Super Bowl!"

I'm a little less sanguine than Dr. seal on the prospects for the accountable Care Act. I expect the Republicans to moderate progress chipping away at the law, although is not in sight. The most recent annual sustainable growth rate (SGR) fix the stopped the automatic cutting Medicare reimbursement rates, insurance funded by crack a little bit of PPACA subsidies. Expect more gambits as, which attempts to delay defund or specific provisions, together with objections to the proposed rules, and continuing Court: the law itself challenges.

December 27, 2010 | Permalink

David - have legality, but the key to this consumer has access to accurate and local cost information; Transparency has localized so that people can respond. Is there a source of local consumers cost information available?

Ned Barnett
Las Vegas

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