Healthcare is joining the network economy.
Let’s adapt strategy and business models for
success during the upcoming transformation.
Please join me at a live teleconference next Tuesday, August 21 at 1 pm Eastern: New Health Plan Strategies for Disease Management: Lessons Learned From the Medicare Health Support Pilot Click the link for details about the agenda and registration. The faculty includes: CHRISTOBEL SELECKY, chairman, president and CEO of LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc. She also [...]
Although a bit late, I’d like to share perspectives from the latest Healthcare Unbound conference. The conference took place in San Francisco on July 16 and 17 and attracted 400 attendees with a rich blend of business, information technology, and clinical backgrounds. PowerPoint from Opening Keynote Here’s a copy of the PowerPoint for my opening keynote presentation. My [...]
I know that I’m sounding like a broken record. The first “official” results from the Medicare Health Support (MHS) disease management (DM) pilot projects were published last week. While the results are preliminary, there is virtually no evidence of any early success. Here are three key findings from the executive summary of the report: Tags: care management, conference, disease management, [...]
Greetings from Boston. I’ve been attending and speaking at the Inaugural Summit on Behavioral Telehealth: Technology for Behavior Change & Disease Management. The conference chair is Dr. Steve Locke, Prof. of Psychiatry at Harvard. He opened the meeting yesterday with a thoughtful line of questioning to the audience. Dr. Locke asked “How many of you audience members [...]
Bravo, cheers and congratulations to fellow blogger and consultant Matthew Holt. In a stroke of defiance and brilliance, he has trademarked the term “Health 2.0” and made it available for all to use (presumably except for events that might be confused with his upcoming Health 2.0 conference). From The Health Care Blog: Yes I’ve trademarked Health2.0. No, [...]
Jay Srini – MS, MBA, FHIMSSVice President, Emerging TechnologiesUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center Jay Srini, FHIMSS is an experienced professional with more than 20 years of hands on operational, technology and executive leadership experience. She has proven expertise in multiple industries (financial, manufacturing, logistics and healthcare) and diverse organizations that include startup, large brick and [...]
The 1990’s experiment around development of integrated delivery systems (IDSs) mostly did not take root. This experiment was primarily about financial integration — doctors joining with hospitals so that they could together contract with health insurers for capitated reimbursement, hospitals starting their own health plan, or hospitals buying physician practices as a way of guaranteeing [...]
Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA is Principal and founder of Better Health Technologies, LLC (http://e-CareManagement.com ). BHT consults to companies in developing strategy, partnerships and business models for chronic disease management and eHealth applications delivered in homes, workplaces, and communities. BHT’s clients — both established organizations and early-stage companies — include: Intel Digital Health Group, Philips [...]
October 25, 2006 Commentary — Lifemasters Pulls the Plug on Oklahoma Medicare Health Support Project October 16, 2006 The Next Big Thing — Hospital at Home June 16, 2006 “Will Physicians Collaborate or Compete with DM Companies?” June 15, 2005 “Resolving the ROI Debate — A Call for Transparency” June 7, 2004 “Resources And Commentaries [...]
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