“Where’s the single best place to get up to speed on how the Feds should spend $20 billion to advance health information technology (HIT)?”
A colleague asked me this question a couple of days ago, and at first I hesitated. Then it struck me — Matthew Holt’s The Health Care Blog has become the focal point [...]
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A friend sent me these in an email this morning and I could hardly stop laughing:
These hilarious exchanges are from a book called ‘Disorder in the American Courts’.
They were recorded verbatim and published by Court Reporters that had the torment of staying calm and remaining professional while these exchanges were actually taking place.
ATTORNEY: This [...]
Dr. Jaan Sidorov conclusively demonstrates his love for showmanship and rock by performing the latest Health Wonk Review at the Disease Management Care Blog.
This unretouched file photo shows Dr. S in his more serious and younger days.
Tags: disease management
Would you like to receive a complimentary issue of a new publication — Medical Home News ? Click on the link and then on “Sample Issue” in the upper left corner.
Here’s a preview of the first issue:
Introducing Medical Home News
An Annotated Guide to the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD)
Subscriber’s Corner
Johns Hopkins Lipitz Center to Assist [...]
by David C. Kibbe, MD MBA
Like the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 2001 counterpart report, "Crossing the Quality Chasm," a new report from the National Research Council of the National Academies is complex, full of new ideas assembled from multiple disciplines, and is likely to have seminal [...]
The latest Health Wonk Review is at The Health Care Blog. Brian Klepper ably hosts.
Tags: eHealth
by Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH and Vince Kuraitis
What’s the right metaphor for Medicare Health Support (MHS), CMS’ major experiment with disease management for Medicare beneficiaries? We prefer to look it as a bridge failure that presents an opportunity to improve future engineering and design.
We’ve now had the time to read, reread, and reread again the very [...]
Dr. Steven H. Landers writes a thoughtful article in today’s JAMA . He asks why the term Medical Home doesn’t include the patient’s home:
“…the Medical Home initiative, as currently articulated, ironically fails to emphasize the complex chronically ill patient’s actual home. This represents a failure to recognize the profile of the highest-risk beneficiaries driving much [...]
by Vince Kuraitis and Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH
CMS has just released the 2nd Report to Congress evaluating the Medicare Health Support (MHS) program. MHS is Medicare’s most visible and significant demo focusing on chronic disease management.
We’ve been poring over the report and will provide more detailed analysis and implications later this week. This 2nd Report to Congress [...]
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