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The Real Secret Sauce of Medicare’s Participation in Regional Collaboratives — Network Effects
Last week I asked whether Medicare’s Biggest Change in 40 Years is on the horizon. That post described and discussed implications of Medicare’s new direction for the medical home — the shelving of Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD) and the refocusing on the recently announced Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Initiative (MAPCI).
In that post I touched briefly on the potential for MAPCI to create effective networks at multiple levels — contracting networks, health IT networks, social and collaborative care networks. I’d like to expand […]
Megatrend Spotting: Collaborative Care Management Networks
“Why can’t we all just get along?” Rodney King
The Megatrend: Collaborative Care Management Networks (CCMNs)
It’s been quite a while since I spotted a new Disease Management Megatrend, but here’s one that’s long overdue:
Collaborative Care Management Networks will be necessary to achieve optimal care coordination.
The trend in a nutshell:  payers (and others) are recognizing that optimal care coordination will require collaboration among health care stakeholders. This CANNOT be achieved with yesterday’s proprietary IT and business models.
CCMNs will share many — perhaps all — […]