Changing Needs
1900-1950 Infectious Diseases
1950-2000 Episodic Care
2000-2050 Chronic Care
Gerard F. Anderson, PhD; Johns Hopkins University
Download a copy here . Excerpts from the Executive Summary:
Effective Interventions
Three types of interventions have been demonstrated to be effective in reducing hospitalizations for Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions who in general are not cognitively impaired:
Transitional care interventions in which patients are first engaged while in the hospital and then followed intensively [...]
Part Medical Home 101, part strategy session to rescue primary care, part revival meeting — the National Medical Home Summit held earlier this week in Philadelphia was an amazing event.
The optimism, energy, and dogged persistence of attendees and presenters was pervasive. The event was standing room only with another 200 people tuning in to a [...]
Warrantee
War`ran*tee"\, noun. A written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications.
Today when we buy practically any consumer item we expect a warrantee.
What’s the “warrantee” after you are discharged from a hospital?
Last September I wrote a post posing the question “What’s the Best Way to Get Hospitals Involved [...]
We have learned that coordinating care of patients — particular care of Medicare patients — is complex and time consuming for physicians.
A breakthrough study quantifies just how complex and challenging care coordination really is. The study is reported in the February 17 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine and is entitled Primary Care Physicians’ Links to Other Physicians Through Medicare Patients: [...]
by David C. Kibbe MD, MBA
What would you call health care software that:
Is Web-based and networkable, therefore highly scalable and inexpensive to purchase and use;
Provides a ‘unified view’ of a patient from multiple sources of data and information;
Is designed to be used interactively – by providers and patients alike – to coordinate care and create [...]
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 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 [...]
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