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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Frequent keynoter, speaker, panel moderator at 40+ industry conferences in the past 3 years Opening keynote speaker – 2004-2009 Healthcare Unbound Conferences Speaker at corporate events sponsored by: Guidant Roche Diagnostics Centocor Arizona Hospital Association Gateway Computer Connecticut Hospital Association, Walgreens National Advisory Board Blue Cross Blue Shield Association HomMed Honeywell Spacelabs …and others Facilitation/consulting [...]
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 [...]
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dangers of limiting $17 B HITECH federal stimulus funds to electronic health records (EHRs) is the risk of locking-in outdated technologies.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 EHR [...]
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 [...]
Dr. Jaan Sidorov conclusively demonstrates his love for showmanship and rock by performing the latest Health Wonk Review at the Disease Management Care Blog. This unretouched file photo shows Dr. S in his more serious and younger days. Tags: disease management
by Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH and Vince Kuraitis What’s the right metaphor for Medicare Health Support (MHS), CMS’ major experiment with disease management for Medicare beneficiaries? We prefer to look it as a bridge failure that presents an opportunity to improve future engineering and design. We’ve now had the time to read, reread, and reread again [...]
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