Healthcare Policy Archives

Getting Ahead

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Mar 20, 2015 | Healthcare Policy

Update: Although it has been more than six years since I wrote this piece, the key principles still are relevant today. We must move to the cloud, We must facilitate interoperability. We must apply analytics. We must embrace evidence-based guidelines for both clinical...

‘Show Me the Money’ Revisited

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Dec 10, 2012 | Healthcare Policy

In the immortal words of Ronald Reagan, “There you go again.” Something that can be explained simply is twisted to look infinitely complicated with plots and subplots that would make J.K Rowling proud. The recent controversy over the use of EMRs to increase...

It’s All About Jobs

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Nov 2, 2011 | Healthcare Policy

What would Steve do? Steve Jobs, the 20th century’s greatest and most successful innovator, engrained that mantra into the heads of every Apple employee. Only those staff members who thought through problems the way Jobs did would offer solutions that were acceptable...

Keynote Adddress at HIMSS 2010 Annual Conference

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Mar 1, 2010 | Healthcare Policy

(Opening address given at HIMSS 2010 Annual Conference, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA, March 1, 2010.)Our great country is on an unsustainable healthcare cost curve that threatens our ability to bounce back from the severe economic challenges we now face....

Following Lance’s Lead – No Cheating

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Aug 5, 2009 | Healthcare Policy

After a magnificent ride up l’Alpe d’Huez, Floyd Landis came within 89 seconds of the leader Oscar Pereiro after the 15th Stage of the 2006 Tour de France. During Stage 16, another steep ride, Landis “bonked” and fell an insurmountable 8 minutes behind Pereiro. In one...