by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA
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….or to be more specific, HITECH is synergistic with payment reform that could come from the recently passed national health care reform legislation — the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
We’ll keep this post fairly short and try to avoid many of the more divisive aspects of [...]
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Check out the latest Health Wonk Review penned by Dr. Jaan Sidorov over at the Disease Management Care blog. I commend Dr. Sidorov for his selection of a new personal photo on his blog — very handsome, and certainly a better presentation than this earlier photo from his youth.
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I just received an email from CMS announcing the latest official word on the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD):
10/26/2009 – In Washington, the efforts to reform health care and health insurance include proposed legislative language that would have an impact on the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration as described in section 204 of the Tax Relief and [...]
Jim Giuffré, MPH — Healthwise
Steve Hards — Telecare Aware
Rose Higgins, RN, BSN, MPM — iMetrikus
Jim Jacobson, JD — Holland & Knight
Ken Joslyn, MD, MPH — Medica Health Plans
David C. Kibbe, MD MBA — The Kibbe Group
Joseph Kvedar, MD — Center for Connected Health
Al Lewis, JD — Disease Management Purchasing Consortium
Ariel Linden, DrPH, MS — Linden [...]
Updated 6:10 pm, September 14, 2009
One bad deal can ruin your day.
Today, LifeMasters filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. According to its press release:
“The Chapter 11 filing is the most efficient path for the company to restructure liabilities that are a result of Demonstration Projects previously performed under contracts with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [...]
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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 the [...]
One of the potential dangers of limiting $17 B HITECH federal stimulus funds to electronic health records (EHRs) is the risk of locking-in outdated technologies. Let’s consider what this might mean.
If you think of today’s EHR technology as EHR 1.0, what might EHR 2.0 look like? This post presents a number of innovative ways to conceptualize [...]
by John E. Riedel
Study breaks new ground in calculating the "normal impairment factor."
We know that poor health accounts for a considerable amount of productivity loss-anywhere from 1 ½ to 3 times direct medical costs. The potential for disease prevention and disease management programs to reduce productivity loss has, for obvious reasons, caught the [...]
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