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Medicare’s major thrust at chronic disease management innovation — the Medicare Health Support (MHS) pilot project — continues to gather storm clouds. Today’s POO (persistent obfuscatory orations) Award goes to Healthways for their explanation of MHS progress (or lack thereof) in an April 4 press release. If you can understand what they’re saying about MHS (see p. 3) without having your [...]
Mathematica Research has just released a report: The Evaluation of the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration: Findings for the First Two Years. It’s not pretty. Section F of the Executive Summary is entitled “Synthesizing the Findings: What Works, and What Doesn’t”. That section begins: Given that few of the programs have shown convincing evidence to date [...]
Next Thursday April 12, Dr. Randy Williams and I will jointly be presenting our perspectives in a webinar entitled:. Disease Management (DM): Will Providers Seize the Opportunity to Be Back in Charge? Click the link for details about the agenda and registration You can receive a 15% discount by entering the following Promotional Code: 0412VK Tags: [...]
Thank you to Jane Hiebert-White, who hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at the Health Affairs Blog. Health Wonk Review is a bi-weekly round-up of the best in health care policy blogging commentary. This edition is entitled “Health Wonk Review And Health Reform 2.0”. Jane’s tribute to Paul Hiebert really touched me: For [...]
TA Associates announced that it has partnered with management in a $175 million buyout of Alere Medical Incorporated, a leading disease management company. Here are a few of my initial impressions: Tags: care coordination, disease management, Healthways
I’m honored to have been invited to be a guest blogger at the World Health Care Blog, an innovative experiment by the World Health Care Congress. Today’s question is: Technology in Health Care: Villain or Hero? No tag for this post.
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