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Latest Edition of the Health Wonk Review at the Health Business Blog
The ever concise and articulate David Williams is hosting the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review. Check it out at his Health Business Blog.
RKA for CDHPs?
One of the most valuable exercises I sometimes go through with clients is a road-kill autopsy (RKA) — examining what went wrong with a business model or a policy that has been driving down healthcare highway ahead of where we are today.
I hope we can learn a lesson from the progress (or lack thereof) of Consumer Driven Health Plans (CDHPs). More specifically, how did CDHPs get so politicized in the first place, and how can health care information technology (HCIT) and chronic disease management continue […]
Mathematica Researchers Summarize Disappointing Results Across 4 Medicare DM Demonstrations
Presenting at the Annual Academy Health Research Meeting earlier this week, representatives from Mathematica Research and CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services) presented findings across several Medicare disease management (DM) demonstration/pilot programs.
Again, the findings show minimal evidence of success in any of the Medicare DM programs. Several of the slides from Randall Brown of Mathematica cut to the chase:
Guaranteed Weight Loss :) The Cell Phone Diet
From Christine Chen at the Foreign Policy Blog:
…a group of public health insurance officials in Osaka are trying a new way of combat in the battle of the bulge. Dieters can use their cell phones to take photos of meals they’re about to eat, and then send the photos to a health expert who can then evaluate the meal for calorie count and nutrition.
The only drawback is that it can take three days for the results to get back.
A Medicare Administrator’s “To Do” List: the EHR, Chronic Disease Management, Primary Care….
Let’s drop in on a top Medicare administrator as he reviews his “to do” list over a morning cup of coffee.
TO DO
1) George says everybody’s gotta have an EHR by 2014
tougher than getting a man to the moon in the 60s
stall — G will be gone by then
2) solve chronic disease crisis
chronic disease costs are killing us, 5% of seniors account for 50% of costs
baby boomers hit the fan in 2010
note to self — drop the cheeseburger at lunch
3) solve primary […]
20 Minutes of Questions Won’t Fit into a 7 Minute Doctor Visit
Greetings from Boston. I’ve been attending and speaking at the Inaugural Summit on Behavioral Telehealth: Technology for Behavior Change & Disease Management.
The conference chair is Dr. Steve Locke, Prof. of Psychiatry at Harvard. He opened the meeting yesterday with a thoughtful line of questioning to the audience.
Dr. Locke asked “How many of you audience members have participated in an ‘typical, average’ seven minute visit at one of the new retail doctor clinics?” About 75% of the people in the room raised their […]
Latest Edition of the Health Wonk Review at The Sentinel Effect
Richard Eskow is hosting the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at his blog, The Sentinel Effect.
Enjoy reading the recent best writings of health care bloggers. Thanks, Richard.
Links: May 29, 2007
More information on LifeComm, the QUALCOMM sponsored health care MVNO
Qualcomm Announces Healthcare MVNO, Medical Connectivity Consulting blog; May 23, 2007
Qualcomm: Mobilizing healthcare through LifeComm, Fierce Wireless; May 23, 2007
What makes an MVNO stick?, Mobile Diner; May 22, 2007
New Emerging MVNO Business Model, TeleBusillis; May 22, 2007
Qualcomm’s LifeComm Lifestyle, Maperture; May 21, 2007
Qualcomm boosts efforts in wireless healthcare with LifeComm MVNO, ReThink; May 21, 2007
Are All U.S. MVNOs Doomed to Fail; inbabble.com; May 20, 2007
Wireless-Life Sciences: About WLSA, Wireless Life […]
Free at Last, Free at Last — “Health 2.0″ is Free at Last!
Bravo, cheers and congratulations to fellow blogger and consultant Matthew Holt. In a stroke of defiance and brilliance, he has trademarked the term “Health 2.0” and made it available for all to use (presumably except for events that might be confused with his upcoming Health 2.0 conference). From The Health Care Blog:
Yes I’ve trademarked Health2.0. No, I will not stop anyone using it. I’ll be giving control over the trademark to the collective advisory board for the Health2.0 Conference. All I want […]
Whew! Revolution Health Has Figured Out That I’m Not Pregnant.
Last January I signed up at Revolution Health’s website to take a look at the types of personal health tools that the company was making available. Revolution Health Group is Steve Case’s “consumer-centric health company founded to transform how people improve their health by putting consumers at the center of the health system, with better choices, more convenience and more control.”
“My revolution” is my personal home page on the site…it’s kind of like MySpace for health care. “Postings from my […]