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Archive for May, 2007

Latest Edition of the Health Wonk Review at The Sentinel Effect

Richard Eskow is hosting the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at his blog, The Sentinel Effect. Enjoy reading the recent best writings of health care bloggers. Thanks, Richard.   No tag for this post.

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Links: May 29, 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 [...]

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Free at Last, Free at Last — “Health 2.0″ is Free at Last!

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, [...]

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Whew! Revolution Health Has Figured Out That I’m Not Pregnant.

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 [...]

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Disease Management Going Mobile & Retail: QUALCOMM’s Health Care MVNO

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 [...]

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Motherhood, Empty Nesting, and Disease Management

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 Tags: disease management

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European vs U.S. Primary Care: We Have Things Backwards

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 [...]

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Evidence for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM): The Glass is More than Half Full

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 [...]

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Cut Co-Pays for Prescription Drugs to Zero? Are You Crazy? No, and Here’s Why.

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 [...]

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