Analytics of Medinnovation Blog
Analytics – The process of developing
optimal or realistic decisions based on insights derived from applying statistical models against existing data.
Definition of Analytics
April 12, 2012 – These days you can scarcely turn
around without hearing the word “analytics.”
This is fancy language for using data to solve problems or to analyze what to
do to exploit opportunities. Increased
computer capacity is what makes analytics such a powerful tool for businesses, particularly
big HIT companies like Google,
IBM, and Microsoft, the social media, and even for little guys like me.I shall now apply analytics to my Medinnovation blog, which is now 5 ½ years and 2250 blogs old.
Here is what
I have learned from over 154,280 page views, which I prefer to call “hits,” on
my blog. In order of frequent
hits, these are the ten top blogs receiving
hits.
1) Is Practice Fusion’s “Free” EHR for
Real. May 23, 2010
This is far
and away the most widely read blog by a factor of 3 over any other blog. The
big reasons why are that Practice Fusion has an innovative
business model that allows physicians to install a “free” EHR, to do so
without hardware on site, to have computing done in “the cloud” in offsite
Internet browser, and to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid bonuses .
2) Interview on Physician Shortage with Richard “Buz”
Cooper, MD, January 24, 2009
Dr. Cooper is
Professor of Medicine at the U. of Pennsylvania and a fellow at the Leonard
Davis Institute of Health Economics there.
Cooper predicted an escalating
physician shortage and analyzed why shortage was taking place. He challenged
the Dartmouth Institute as do true cause of regional Medicare cost variations,
which he attributed to poverty rather
than provider greed.3) Primary Care Revolt: Replace RUC, April 17, 2011
Primary care doctors are angry that the CMS-AMA directed Relative Value Update Committee, which provides physician codes, favors specialists fees over primary care doctor fees. National primary care groups are lobbying for more of their members on RUC board and for more equitable fees.
4) Low Value of Primary Care Doctors, July 1, 2010
This is a blog borrowed from blog of Chris Rangel, MD, a practicing internist. Rangel gives reasons why patients place such a low value on services primary care physicians provide. The Rangle blog also was reproduced in KevinMD.com , which contains a wealth of material on the plight of primary care practitioners.
5) Doctors in Bad Mood, March 2, 2012
This blog drew an immediate and lasting response. It catalogues the response of 5000 doctor members of a Doctors Company’s survey. The Doctors Company is the nation’s largest malpractice carrier. The survey indicated 90% of doctors would not recommend medicine as a profession and 43% said they planned to retire within 5 years.
6) Future of Accountable Care Organizations, January 26, 2011
A schizophrenic anxiety exists out there among doctors about the Accountable Care Organizations, one of the linchpins of Obamacare. The ACO idea is to herd doctors into a common organization that takes care of a defined Medicare population for set budget which will produce “savings” to be distributed to participating hospitals and doctors.
7) Comparative Value (Outcomes/Cost), December 31, 2010
The Health Care Blog, arguably the most widely read of all health reform blogs, reran this blog of mine. In my blog, I expressed skepticism about the practicality and end results of value measurements of physician performance as a means of improving care outcomes.
8) Why Doctors Don’t Like EHRs, October 7, 2011
I wrote this blog at the request of the editor of MIT’s Technology Review. I mentioned cost, drop in productivity, and lack of clinical usefulness, among other factors leading to physician disenchantment. The article drew a spirited negative response among the health information cognoscenti, who look upon data as the Holy Grail , or alternatively as OSHA (Our Savior Has Arrived).
9) Differences between Health Care and Medical Care, April 22, 2009
Obama officials rarely mention it, but there is a tremendous difference between expanding health insurance coverage and providing better care for patients. The elemental question is: what good is expanded coverage to 32 million more uninsured people and 78 million baby boomers now entering Medicare roles without doctors to care for them?
10) Health Reform: Look at Massachusetts First, May 2, 2011
This will undoubtedly be a central talking point during the presidential campaign. How can Governor Romney effectively oppose Obamacare when so-called Romneycare is the foundation for the health care law? Romney’s answer. Each state should have its own approach to health care.
Tweet: Medinnovation.com, is 5 ½ years and over 2250 blogs old Here are the 10 most widely read Medinnovation blogs with reasons why they are read.
Dr. Reece,
ReplyDeleteI think you should substitute the word "posts" for the entries which you refer to as "blogs." The "blog" is the "web log" which contains all the posts. Just a nitpicking suggestion.