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Do you remember the scene in the movie Animal House where Bluto Blutarski laments “…seven years of college education down the drain?” Why aren’t primary care physicians expressing similar laments about the shelving of the MMHD (Medicare Medical Home Demonstration) in favor of the MAPCI (Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Initiative). My colleague Jaan Sidorov, MD and [...]
by Steve Adams, CEO, RMD Networks and Acting President, Clinical Groupware Collaborative I’m writing to extend a warm personal invitation to learn more about the Clinical Groupware Collaborative (CGC). To-date, purely through word-of-mouth over 40 companies have expressed interest in the CGC, and we expect that you’ll be hearing a lot more about us over [...]
By Vince Kuraitis and Steven Waldren MD, MS. Dr Waldren is Director of the Center for Health Information Technology at the American Academy of Family Practice (AAFP). Two issues have rightfully surfaced front and center in the public’s understanding of HITECH Act implementation: ” definition of “Meaningful Use” of EHRs, and ” definition of “certification” [...]
by Glen Laffel MD, PhD Many of us have enjoyed a few good minutes of fun having our fortunes told by soothsayers who claim they can predict our future based on patterns of tea leaves in a cup or the playing cards we’ve pulled from a deck. We pay a few dollars for the entertainment [...]
In Part I of my guest post on The Collaborative Forum blog, I wrote that the Medicare Medical Home Demo is in BIG Trouble. Here’s a recap: Political reality dictates that the MMHD must save costs. As currently structured, the MMHD cannot achieve cost savings In any given year, only a small percentage of patients account [...]
by Vince Kuraitis, Steve Adams, and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA Over the past several years, many diverse initiatives have arisen offering partial solutions to systemic problems in the U.S. health care non-system. We see Meaningful Use Criteria recommended by the HIT Policy Committee as a unifying force for these previously disparate initiatives. These initiatives have included: Patient [...]
by Al Lewis, Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International, Inc. Medical homes probably do save money in very controlled settings, where the entire team is literally or at least figuratively under one roof, such as Kaiser. However, the belief that one can overlay a traditional medical home model across an entire state and save money in [...]
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 [...]
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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