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Archive for May, 2009

Incentive to Innovate: Giving Health Reform a Rocket Boost

by Scott Shreeve, MD We are entering an unprecedented season of change for the United States health care system. Americans are united by their desire to fundamentally reform our current system into one that delivers on the promise of freedom, equity, and best outcomes for best value. In this season of reform, we will see [...]

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Time for EHRs to Become Plug-and-Play

by David C. Kibbe MD, MBA The remarkable report, “Initial Lessons From the First National Demonstration Project on Practice Transformation to a Patient-Centered Medical Home,” published in the May/June issue of Annals of Family Medicine, the Nutting Report, makes this point about the state of primary care IT offerings: Technology needed in a PCMH is [...]

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Hope for Primary Care … from a Payer? A White Paper on the Collaborative Payer Model

by Tom Doerr, MD and Randy Bak, MD, JD What if the health care payer were re-imagined as a service to the primary care doctor – supplying the tools, information and funding primary care physicians needed to meet the call to reform health delivery? The structure of physician payment is considered one of the most [...]

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