Google Health (GH) could be the event of the decade in advancing health care reform — not just healthcare information technology (HIT) reform, but health care system reform. GH promises simultaneously to create AND dominate the market for next generation personal health records (PHRs). There is nothing else in our solar system or in the [...]
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Archive for June, 2007
The ever concise and articulate David Williams is hosting the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Check it out at his Health Business Blog.
One of the most valuable exercises I sometimes go through with clients is a road-kill autopsy (RKA) — examining what went wrong with a business model or a policy that has been driving down healthcare highway ahead of where we are today.
I hope we can learn a lesson from the progress (or lack thereof) of Consumer Driven Health Plans (CDHPs). [...]
Guest post: Quantifying the Cost of Lost Productivity — And You Thought Direct Medical Costs Were High!
What is the cost of lost productivity due to poor employee health? Actually most employers have no way of knowing since productivity is typically not measured or tracked. But a new tool called the Blueprint for Health: A Framework for Total Cost Impact provides the answer.
The cost of lost productivity actually is higher than direct [...]
Presenting at the Annual Academy Health Research Meeting earlier this week, representatives from Mathematica Research and CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services) presented findings across several Medicare disease management (DM) demonstration/pilot programs.
Again, the findings show minimal evidence of success in any of the Medicare DM programs. Several of the slides from Randall Brown of Mathematica [...]
From Christine Chen at the Foreign Policy Blog:
…a group of public health insurance officials in Osaka are trying a new way of combat in the battle of the bulge. Dieters can use their cell phones to take photos of meals they’re about to eat, and then send the photos to a health expert who can [...]
Let’s drop in on a top Medicare administrator as he reviews his “to do” list over a morning cup of coffee.
TO DO
1) George says everybody’s gotta have an EHR by 2014
tougher than getting a man to the moon in the 60s
stall — G will be gone by then
2) solve chronic disease crisis
chronic disease costs are killing [...]
Greetings from Boston. I’ve been attending and speaking at the Inaugural Summit on Behavioral Telehealth: Technology for Behavior Change & Disease Management.
The conference chair is Dr. Steve Locke, Prof. of Psychiatry at Harvard. He opened the meeting yesterday with a thoughtful line of questioning to the audience.
Dr. Locke asked “How many of you audience members have participated [...]
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