Healthcare is joining the network economy.
Let’s adapt strategy and business models for
success during the upcoming transformation.
Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA The Internet and digital technologies have transformed many aspects of our lives over the past twenty years. We can get cash at ATMs all over the world; we can book our own airline reservations; we can shop and get best prices over the Internet. Why hasn’t this [...]
Google Health (GH) could be the event of the decade in advancing health care reform — not just healthcare information technology (HIT) reform, but health care system reform. GH promises simultaneously to create AND dominate the market for next generation personal health records (PHRs). There is nothing else in our solar system or in the [...]
Al Lewis, one of the founding fathers of DM, has shaped the face of the DM industry probably more than other any single individual. (This is all fine unless you happen to be the person whose face is being shaped by Al.) Al has been unabashedly pro-DM. Until now. Al writes in a recent article in Managed Healthcare Executive: Disease management as we [...]
Mathematica Research has just released a report: The Evaluation of the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration: Findings for the First Two Years. It’s not pretty. Section F of the Executive Summary is entitled “Synthesizing the Findings: What Works, and What Doesn’t”. That section begins: Given that few of the programs have shown convincing evidence to date [...]
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