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Latest Edition of Health Wonk Review at the Health Affairs Blog
Thank you to Jane Hiebert-White, who hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at the Health Affairs Blog. Health Wonk Review is a bi-weekly round-up of the best in health care policy blogging commentary. This edition is entitled “Health Wonk Review And Health Reform 2.0”.
Jane’s tribute to Paul Hiebert really touched me:
For myself, my hope is to stay just a fraction as sharp as my father-in-law, Paul Hiebert, whose memorial service I attended yesterday. In his last 2 months […]
TA Associates Completes $175 Million Buyout of Alere Medical
TA Associates announced that it has partnered with management in a $175 million buyout of Alere Medical Incorporated, a leading disease management company.
Here are a few of my initial impressions:
World Health Care Blog
I’m honored to have been invited to be a guest blogger at the World Health Care Blog, an innovative experiment by the World Health Care Congress. Today’s question is: Technology in Health Care: Villain or Hero?
Links: April 1, 2007
Telemedicine in the Ambulatory Setting: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
First Consulting Group, March 2007
New Technologies For Chronic Disease Management And Control: A Systematic Review
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, March 2007
Systematic Review of the Chronic Care Model in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Prevention and Management
Google Gets It: Personal Health Information is Really Complex
I give Adam a lot of credit for this posting:
He acknowledges that health care is really complicated
He understands the dangers — that providing less than perfect information has the possibility of causing harm
He doesn’t claim to have all the answers
He asks for input
Many have been speculating about Google’s entry into health care. Read Jeff […]
Does Ron Also Have an EHR?
This story by David Williams made my morning!
AARP On the Fence About Care Coordination Roles
Just in case this particular item hasn’t yet reached the top of your own to read pile, let me bring to your attention recent testimony to the Senate Finance Committee on Medicare Payment of Physician Services.
The testimony was presented on March 1 by Byron Thames, MD, an AARP Board member. With over 35 million members, AARP is the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization for people age 50 and over in the United States.
Here are my take-away points from Dr. Thames […]
Porter/Teisberg JAMA Article: Out-of-the-Box or Out-of-Touch?
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and reality. In reality, there is.” Yogi Bera
Out-of-the-box thinking is good; out-of-touch thinking is not. Dr. Porter and Teisberg’s (PT’s) recent article in JAMA “How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care” is disappointing, unrealistic and dangerous.
Disappointing: Please Answer the Challenges About Why Your Theory isn’t Workable
Unrealistic: Money Does Matter a Lot
Dangerous: Measuring Process in Health Care Does Add Value
What’s so seductive about their writing is that about 90% […]
Today’s BFO: How can P4P Work W/O a QB?
Translation Todays blinding flash of the obvious (BFO): How can you expect pay-for-performance (P4P) programs in Medicare to work with out a designated physician quarterback (QB)?
Please allow me to elaborate.
P4P programs are based on two assumptions:
Patients are assigned to a physician or a practice that will have primary responsibility for their care, and
That a meaningful fraction of the care physicians deliver is for patients from whom they have primary responsibility
Wouldn’t you expect that this would be problematic for older (Medicare) […]
Practice Fusion’s EHR: Can Google’s “Endorsement” Overcome a Weak Business Model?
Practice Fusion (PF) has announced a deal with Google to provide a free electronic health record (EHR) to physicians. The EHR will be supported by ad revenues from pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and others. Read more here.
What’s the connection to care management and chronic disease? EHRs and personal health records (PHRs) are wildcards in the care management equation. You can look at this two ways: 1) The lack of EHRs and PHRs is a potential rate-limiting step […]