My wife Jill loves her iPhone…she raves about it. Last night she showed me an application she had recently acquired for her iPhone. She was able to explain and demonstrate the app and its functionality to me (yes, to ME!) in about 30 seconds.
I’d describe the app as Garmin-like but running on the iPhone. You type in [...]
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This third and final post in the series addresses questions about the future of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCHM):
What’s problematic about using the RUC methodology with the PCMH?
What’s the optimal level for a PCMH care management fee?
Should primary care leaders pull the RUC out? How?
What’s Problematic About Using the RUC Methodology with the PCMH?
There are [...]
The honeymoon is over.
Prior to April 29, 2008, reviews of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model had been uniformly enthusiastic and positive.
Today the PCMH model is hitting reality — someone’s going to have to bring home money to pay the bills. On April 29 the American Medical Association/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee (RUC) released a report making recommendations relating [...]
The Continua Health Alliance is doing a good job in getting remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices to become plug-n-play — where devices and peripherals from different manufacturers complying with Continua Guidelines will be able to talk to one another.
Continua’s work-to-date is a necessary, but not yet sufficient effort to make RPM devices mainstream.
Knocking down the [...]
My colleague Tim Gee and I are guest bloggers on the Get-Connected Forum at the Center for Connected Health. We speculate on:
What Will Microsoft’s HealthVault Mean to the Telehealth Community?
Our bottom line: HealthVault overall is a positive for telehealth industry growth and scale, even though it will speed the inevitable commoditization of remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices.
Tags: eHealth, HealthVault, [...]
Would you like to have the experience of being parachuted into a deep forest with no map of where you are or clues about how to get out? If so, I suggest that you go directly to Microsoft’s new PHR at www.healthvault.com and just TRY to figure out where you are or where you’re headed.
Initial [...]
An article in Wireless Week announces the creation of a new species: a health care MVNO named LifeComm. LifeComm promises to move disease management, wellness, and fitness into new territories.
What is a MVNO?
More acronyms! What is a MVNO? A Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) is a mobile operator that does not own its own spectrum and usually does [...]
Over the years, there have been a number of meta-analyses examining hundreds of studies relating to effectiveness of RPM. The latest one of these is Systematic Review of Home Telemonitoring for Chronic Diseases: The Evidence Base, published in the May/June 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
My colleague Tim Gee, [...]
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