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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 problematic aspects [...]

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New NRC Report Finds “Health Care IT Chasm,” Seeks New Course Toward Quality Improvement and Cost Savings

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 [...]

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“The Innovator’s Prescription”: Christensen’s Book Offers Insightful Dx, Unrealistic Rx

by Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA
Being big fans of Clay Christensen and his theory of disruptive innovation (DI), we have been awaiting his just-released book The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Healthcare .  The book is co-authored by Dr. Jerome Grossman and Dr. Jason Hwang.
We have mixed reactions.
The book is [...]

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An Open Letter to the Obama Health Team on Health IT Spending

By David C. Kibbe, MD MBA and Brian Klepper, PhD
It seems likely that the Obama administration and Congress will spend a significant amount on health IT by attaching it as a first-order priority to the fiscal stimulus package. We take the President-elect at his word when he recently said:

"…we must also ensure that our hospitals [...]

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Engage With Grace

This wonderful project is written up in today’s Boston Globe .  Happy Thanksgiving all!
Vince
by Alexandra Drane and the Engage With Grace team
We make choices throughout our lives – where we want to live, what types of activities will fill our days, with whom we spend our time. These choices are often a balance between our desires [...]

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Empowering Health IT for the Medical Home

by David C. Kibbe, MD MBA
The basic premise of the medical home concept is continuous, uninterrupted care that is managed and coordinated by a personal provider with the right tools that will lead to better health outcomes.
In 2007, the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, and American Osteopathic [...]

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Goldilocks: “Markle’s Framework for Networked Personal Health Information is Just Right”

By Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA
Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. Like most Americans, Goldilocks had concerns about achieving just the right amount of data liquidity for her personal health information (PHI).
Until today Goldilocks felt between a rock and a hard place:
"I want my PHI [...]

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Is the Medical Establishment the Best Guardian of Your Medical Data?

David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA and Vince Kuraitis
Drs. Mandl and Kohane begin their recent article in NEJM with the statement that “large corporations are seeking an integral and transformative role in the management of health care information,” and then warn that this “will profoundly affect the biomedical research enterprise.”   
At issue for the authors is who [...]

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Going to the Mat for Dorothy

by Jill Kuraitis 
Vince gave me Dorothy’s story to read, and here’s what I said:  GO DOROTHY!   ::::goofy little happy dance:::   Dorothy is my new hero. I love people who are willing to go to the mat for a cause, especially one having to do with the elderly, children, the disabled and less fortunate than we.
Since [...]

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