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Archive for July, 2007

Ruminations on the 2007 Healthcare Unbound Conference

Although a bit late, I’d like to share perspectives from the latest Healthcare Unbound conference. The conference took place in San Francisco on July 16 and 17 and attracted 400 attendees with a rich blend of business, information technology, and clinical backgrounds. PowerPoint from Opening Keynote Here’s a copy of the PowerPoint for my opening keynote presentation. My [...]

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Disease Management and the Medical Home Model: Competing or Complementary?

I feel like handing out cigars. My article — “Disease Management and the Medical Home Model: Competing and Complimentary” — has been published in the latest issue of Disease Management and Health Outcomes, a peer reviewed journal. I’ve arranged with the publisher to make copies available through my website. You can download a copy here. [...]

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First “Official” Report on Medicare Health Support DM Pilot Finds Virtually No Evidence of Success

I know that I’m sounding like a broken record. The first “official” results from the Medicare Health Support (MHS) disease management (DM) pilot projects were published last week.  While the results are preliminary, there is virtually no evidence of any early success.  Here are three key findings from the executive summary of the report: Tags: care management, conference, disease management, [...]

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“In God We Trust” is NOT an Option for Your PHR: 5 Responses to the Google Health Trust Issue

Dear readers,  Thanks for your interest and feedback on my recent posting Connecting the Dots…Google Health Promises to Create AND Dominate Next Generation PHRs. Despite being over 3,500 words long, this essay has quickly become the #1 most widely read posting on my blog.  It continues to generate several hundred views per day and has been linked [...]

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