Healthcare is joining the network economy.
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success during the upcoming transformation.
The message is clear from Washington – “Comparative Effectiveness” has been proposed as the foundation for coverage decisions in Medicare. As the feds lead – this will more than likely "trickle down" to the commercial sector. The Population Health Impact Institute (PHII) has convened national experts to develop a practical, comparative-based system to help purchasers [...]
The federal government sponsored Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT ) is undertaking a certification process for personal health records (PHRs) . The CCHIT PHR Work Group has invited public comment on the First Draft of the PHR Certification Criteria . The current draft of the PHR Certification Criteria specifies use of the HL7 [...]
Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH and Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA The conventional wisdom in the disease management (DM) community has been that the Medicare Health Support (MHS) project would provide the evidence to resolve two issues: First, MHS would once-and-for-all resolve the issue of “does DM have ROI? (return on investment).” It was thought that the [...]
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