Healthcare is joining the network economy.
Let’s adapt strategy and business models for
success during the upcoming transformation.
by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA . ….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 [...]
by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA Most of the press coverage and attention to HITECH has been to the “buy” side of the market: The central question here has been: “Will doctors and hospitals buy and use EHR technology?” Meanwhile — and much more quietly — the sell (vendor) side of the [...]
There’s a new animal in the barnyard — pigs that fly. Rich Elmore of Healthcare Technology News ably summarizes the pundits’ perspectives on health reform in the latest version of the Health Wonk Review. Tags: eHealth, health reform
Atul Gawande’s most recent New Yorker article “Testing, Testing” addresses the critics who lament that there is no master plan to curb delivery system costs in pending health reform legislation. Gawande retorts: “Is that a bad thing?” …and he answers his own question by describing the value of pilot programs contained in both the Senate [...]
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 [...]
Here’s the big idea: accountable care organizations (ACOs) are about creating accountability. ACOs of various types are being proposed in national health reform legislation. For all you ever wanted to know about ACOs, read How to Create Accountable Care Organizations from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. I spent an hour and a half poring over the details of [...]
David Williams writes the latest Health Wonk Review…read about Health Reform, Get Fatty, Brain Spasm, and Questionable Practices. Tags: health reform
by Scott Shreeve, MD We are entering an unprecedented season of change for the United States health care system. Americans are united by their desire to fundamentally reform our current system into one that delivers on the promise of freedom, equity, and best outcomes for best value. In this season of reform, we will see [...]
On March 24, Stand for Quality — a new group representing 165 diverse health care organizations — called for a new era of quality in health care. Their white paper is titled Building a Foundation for High Quality, Affordable Health Care: Linking Performance Measurement to Health Reform . The perspectives of Stand for Quality are a [...]
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