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Archive for May, 2007
More information on LifeComm, the QUALCOMM sponsored health care MVNO
Qualcomm Announces Healthcare MVNO, Medical Connectivity Consulting blog; May 23, 2007
Qualcomm: Mobilizing healthcare through LifeComm, Fierce Wireless; May 23, 2007
What makes an MVNO stick?, Mobile Diner; May 22, 2007
New Emerging MVNO Business Model, TeleBusillis; May 22, 2007
Qualcomm’s LifeComm Lifestyle, Maperture; May 21, 2007
Qualcomm boosts efforts in [...]
Bravo, cheers and congratulations to fellow blogger and consultant Matthew Holt. In a stroke of defiance and brilliance, he has trademarked the term “Health 2.0” and made it available for all to use (presumably except for events that might be confused with his upcoming Health 2.0 conference). From The Health Care Blog:
Yes I’ve trademarked Health2.0. No, I [...]
Last January I signed up at Revolution Health’s website to take a look at the types of personal health tools that the company was making available. Revolution Health Group is Steve Case’s “consumer-centric health company founded to transform how people improve their health by putting consumers at the center of the health system, with better choices, more convenience [...]
An article in Wireless Week announces the creation of a new species: a health care MVNO named LifeComm. LifeComm promises to move disease management, wellness, and fitness into new territories.
What is a MVNO?
More acronyms! What is a MVNO? A Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) is a mobile operator that does not own its own spectrum and usually does [...]
My wife, Jill, just wrote a beautiful Mother’s Day essay. Her writing brought a tear to my eye.
What does this have to do with disease management? Nothing, really….well, actually I could use a disease management program targeted at dads who have the condition of having recently become empty nesters.
Vince
The status of primary care is dramatically different in Europe vs. the U.S.
While doing background reading, I was startled by the title of a book: “Primary care in the driver’s seat? Organisational reform in European primary care” The book was reviewed in the International Journal of Integrated Care.
Is primary care capable of taking a dominant role in running [...]
Over the years, there have been a number of meta-analyses examining hundreds of studies relating to effectiveness of RPM. The latest one of these is Systematic Review of Home Telemonitoring for Chronic Diseases: The Evidence Base, published in the May/June 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
My colleague Tim Gee, [...]
The tagline to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal [subscription required] reads: Employers, Insurers Bet That Covering More of the Cost of Drugs Can Save Money Over the Long Term for Chronic Conditions
Desperate for ways to curb soaring health-care costs, a groundswell of employers and health insurers are turning to a radically different approach: [...]
What impact will CDHPs (consumer driven health plans) have on patients with chronic conditions? Jason Shafrin of Healthcare Economist blog refers to a recent study examining this important issue:
The authors also found that increased cost sharing led to a slight increase in hospitalizations. However, when the subpopulation of individuals with chronic health conditions is examined, large increases [...]
A Majority of Consumers Favor Secure Electronic Health Information Exchange Attitude and Opinion Research – Executive SummaryeHealth Initiative Foundation; Released May 2, 2007
Systematic Review of Home Telemonitoring for Chronic Diseases: The Evidence BaseJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association, May/June 2007
Informatics Systems to Promote Improved Care for Chronic Illness: A Literature Review Journal of the [...]
Al Lewis, one of the founding fathers of DM, has shaped the face of the DM industry probably more than other any single individual. (This is all fine unless you happen to be the person whose face is being shaped by Al.)
Al has been unabashedly pro-DM. Until now. Al writes in a recent article in Managed Healthcare Executive:
Disease management as we now define [...]
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