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Microsoft’s HealthVault: User Manual = C-, Strategy to Create a New Ecosystem = A
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 confusion put aside, I think HealthVault is strategically brilliant. While I’d give Microsoft a C- for explaining HealthVault (HV), I’ll give them an A for […]
Health 2.0 Deserves Careful Watching
by David C. Kibbe, MD MBA
Dear Colleagues:
Thursday I attended a wonderful one day conference, entitled “Health 2.0 — User Generated Health Care.” One of the most interesting events of 2007. Held in San Francisco. I had a chance to talk with Adam Bosworth and Missy Krasner of Google, with Peter Neuport of Microsoft, and with David Brailer, among many others. It was particularly good to see Drs. Walter Lim and Rick Chan, with the Ministry of Health in Singapore, who came […]
Disease Management and the Medicare Health Support (MHS) Project: “Houston, we have a problem.”
Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH and Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA
The conventional wisdom in the disease management (DM) community has been that the Medicare Health Support (MHS) project would provide the evidence to resolve two issues:
First, MHS would once-and-for-all resolve the issue of “does DM have ROI? (return on investment).” It was thought that the randomized control trial process employed in MHS would provide scientific evidence to prove that DM has a positive ROI, clearing the way for unqualified acceptance and widespread […]
Teleconference — New Health Plan Strategies for Disease Management: Lessons Learned From the Medicare Health Support Pilot
Please join me at a live teleconference next Tuesday, August 21 at 1 pm Eastern:
New Health Plan Strategies for Disease Management: Lessons Learned From the Medicare Health Support Pilot
Click the link for details about the agenda and registration.
The faculty includes:
CHRISTOBEL SELECKY, chairman, president and CEO of LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc. She also is immediate past president of the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA).
JEAN BISIO, CEO of Green Ribbon Health LLC, a joint-venture company created by Humana Inc. and Pfizer Inc. […]
Cardiac Monitoring System: “Go Directly to the Nearest Hospital, Do Not Pass Go, You Are Having a Heart Attack”
NOT science fiction.
A Bluetooth heart monitor could text your local hospital if you are about to have a heart attack, according to research published in Inderscience’s International Journal of Electronic Healthcare. The device measures electrical signals from the heart, analyses them to produce an electrocardiogram (ECG) and sends an alert together with the ECG by cell phone text message. Portable heart monitor sends emergency alerts and ECG as text message, Virtual Medical Worlds, August 2007
Original article: Design of wearable cardiac […]
Ruminations on the 2007 Healthcare Unbound Conference
Although a bit late, I’d like to share perspectives from the latest Healthcare Unbound conference. The conference took place in San Francisco on July 16 and 17 and attracted 400 attendees with a rich blend of business, information technology, and clinical backgrounds.
PowerPoint from Opening Keynote
Here’s a copy of the PowerPoint for my opening keynote presentation. My colleague and fellow blogger Tim Gee did a great job summarizing key points on his blog. THANKS, Tim.
In a nutshell, my main theme is that the adoption of Healthcare Unbound […]
Disease Management and the Medical Home Model: Competing or Complementary?
I feel like handing out cigars.
My article — “Disease Management and the Medical Home Model: Competing and Complimentary” — has been published in the latest issue of Disease Management and Health Outcomes, a peer reviewed journal.
I’ve arranged with the publisher to make copies available through my website. You can download a copy here.
Why is this an important topic? Here’s the big picture:
Current chronic disease management demonstration/pilot projects in Medicare are showing little evidence of success.
Physicians have woken up to […]
First “Official” Report on Medicare Health Support DM Pilot Finds Virtually No Evidence of Success
I know that I’m sounding like a broken record.
The first “official” results from the Medicare Health Support (MHS) disease management (DM) pilot projects were published last week. While the results are preliminary, there is virtually no evidence of any early success. Here are three key findings from the executive summary of the report:
“In God We Trust” is NOT an Option for Your PHR: 5 Responses to the Google Health Trust Issue
Dear readers,
Thanks for your interest and feedback on my recent posting Connecting the Dots…Google Health Promises to Create AND Dominate Next Generation PHRs.
Despite being over 3,500 words long, this essay has quickly become the #1 most widely read posting on my blog. It continues to generate several hundred views per day and has been linked to by over a dozen other bloggers and news sources.
Reader comments center around two primary themes:
1) Should I trust Google Health’s (GH’s) next generation personal health record (PHR) with my […]
Connecting the Dots…Google Health Promises to Create AND Dominate Next Generation PHRs
Google Health (GH) could be the event of the decade in advancing health care reform — not just healthcare information technology (HIT) reform, but health care system reform. GH promises simultaneously to create AND dominate the market for next generation personal health records (PHRs). There is nothing else in our solar system or in the entire universe like it.
While Google has not “officially” announced the details of GH, they’ve left a lot of clues. In this essay I’m going to […]