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Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA During the past week two reports were released discussing privacy/confidentiality issues surrounding PHRs. One of these reports did it the wrong way; one did it the right way. The general public is just learning about Personal Health Records (PHRs). We believe that the appropriate way to frame [...]
Vince Kuraitis and Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light” Dylan Thomas Despite CMS’ recent cocktail hour pronouncement that Medicare Health Support (MHS) is on its last legs, many are fighting to prolong its life. Recent Developments DMAA is working with Sen. [...]
by Al Lewis, JD Add the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to the growing list of people and organizations who cannot find financial savings through disease management. Weeks after “lowering the bar” on MHS program savings requirements to 0% from 5%, CMS cancelled the program altogether due to the unlikelihood that the much-reduced threshold for savings would be achieved [...]
Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH and Vince Kuraitis Last Tuesday during the cocktail hour, CMS issued documents portending the end of the Medicare Health Support (MHS) project. We initially used the word “bizarre” to describe the announcement from CMS’ staff. After further thought, “reckless” and/or “insubordinate” strike closer to home. First, let’s have the head-honcho [...]
Vince Kuraitis and Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH Today’s POO (persistent obfuscatory orations) Award goes to the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) for their posting of two bizarre documents updating progress on the Medicare Health Support (MHS) program. The documents “appeared” (no press release, no announcement, a reference to “today” but no date) on the web page for the MHS [...]
My colleague Tim Gee and I are guest bloggers on the Get-Connected Forum at the Center for Connected Health. We speculate on: What Will Microsoft’s HealthVault Mean to the Telehealth Community? Our bottom line: HealthVault overall is a positive for telehealth industry growth and scale, even though it will speed the inevitable commoditization of remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices. [...]
by Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA The health care and technology worlds are still trying to figure out what Microsoft’s HealthVault (HV) is all about. We believe that there are a number of misconceptions out there about what HV is and isn’t: Misconception #1: HealthVault is a personal health record (PHR). Misconception #2: People [...]
by David C. Kibbe, MD MBA Dear Colleagues: Thursday I attended a wonderful one day conference, entitled “Health 2.0 — User Generated Health Care.” One of the most interesting events of 2007. Held in San Francisco. I had a chance to talk with Adam Bosworth and Missy Krasner of Google, with Peter Neuport of Microsoft, and [...]
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