Healthcare is joining the network economy.
Let’s design strategy and business models for
success during upcoming industry disruption.
Earlier this week CMS issued a typically cryptic Announcement indicating that they were shelving the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD) and instead would focus on the recently announced Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Initiative (MAPCI). My blog post from Tuesday provides details and asks the question “What does all this mean?”
Today’s blog post will tackle:
Medicare’s biggest change [...]
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 [...]
How big a network will the Health Internet (aka National Health Information Network) be?
My BOTE (back-of-the-envelope) calculation is that this network could consist of about 301 million nodes. Here’s my math (pls. clarify or amplify):
300 million individuals in U.S.
700 K doctors
5 K hospitals
295 K — other B2B healthcare entities
Very rough…but I hope you get the point.
So let’s put into perspective [...]
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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TOPICS – Healthcare Enters the [...]
This post is a foundational overview of characteristics of network industries. Much of the terminology will deserve deeper discussion, but we have to start somewhere.
In his book The Economics of Network Industries, Professor Oz Shy lists four characteristics of network industries.
The main characteristics of these markets which distinguish them from the market for grain, dairy products, apples, and treasury bonds [...]
“We need to make care linkages a core competency of American health care.”
George Halvorson, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Kaiser Foundation Hospital
There’s a double meaning to the title of this new series: Healthcare Crosses the Chasm to the Network Economy
At the level of technology, it’s a reference to Geoffrey Moore’s bestselling business/technology book [...]
by Vince Kuraitis, Steve Adams, and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA
Over the past several years, many diverse initiatives have arisen offering partial solutions to systemic problems in the U.S. health care non-system.
We see Meaningful Use Criteria recommended by the HIT Policy Committee as a unifying force for these previously disparate initiatives. These initiatives have included:
Patient Centered Medical Homes [...]
by Tom Doerr, MD and Randy Bak, MD, JD
What if the health care payer were re-imagined as a service to the primary care doctor – supplying the tools, information and funding primary care physicians needed to meet the call to reform health delivery?
The structure of physician payment is considered one of the most problematic aspects [...]
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