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“Expect Greater Use of eHealth in DM in 2004 – 7 Key Trends Focus on Integration of Technologies, Convergence of Devices” Disease Management News Reprint
Cost Management Will Continue to Be the Primary Driver of DM Technology Adoption
Predictive Modeling Technologies Will Focus on “Impactability”
Information and Communication Technologies Will Enable DM Assembling as a Viable Business Strategy
Consumer Electronics Giants Will Bring DM into the Living Room
Remote Patient Monitoring and Wireless Technologies Will Enable “Healthcare Unbound”
Personalization Technologies Will Allow Patients to “Have It Your Way”
The Electronic Health Record Will Break From the Pack
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Evidence-Based Medicine is Pivotal in Advancing Care Management
Evidence-based Medicine and Managed Care: Applications, Challenges, Opportunities
Results of a National Program to Assess Emerging Applications of Evidence-based Medicine to Medical Management Strategies in Managed Care
Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine, December 2003
Health plans touch all facets of healthcare and therefore have a unique opportunity to stimulate adherence to evidence-based practices….The purpose of this program was to explore how managed care is applying principles and concepts of evidence-based medicine to its delicate balancing of cost and quality management.
Some of the key […]
Today’s Great Idea – The Continuity of Care Record
While attending the Mobile Healthcare Alliance meeting earlier this month in Minneapolis, I was introduced to a brilliant, yet simple concept — the Continuity of Care Record (CCR).
The usefulness of the CCR struck me like a BFO — a blinding flash of the obvious. Two speakers — Peter Waegemann, CEO of the Medical Records Institute, and Claudia Tessier, Executive Director of the Mobile Healthcare Alliance — eloquently described and advocated for the CCR.
The CCR is a concept quietly being developed […]
Healthcare Unbound: Convergence of Consumer and Healthcare Technologies
The Opportunity
Consumer healthcare technologies are driving opportunities to serve patients in new ways and in new settings. Forrester Research recently coined the term “Healthcare Unbound” to encompass the trends toward self care, mobile care, and home care. More specifically, Forrester Research describes Healthcare Unbound as “technology in, on and around the body that frees care from formal institutions.”
In addition to dramatically changing traditional healthcare delivery, Healthcare Unbound attracts a range of companies that previously have not been deeply involved in […]
Sustaining E-Health in Challenging Times
Report on the Fourth Annual eHealth Developers’ Summit, April 2003
This report summarizes the discussions held during the Third Annual eHealth Developers’ Summit in November 2002. Some key findings include:
Consumers and health care organizations are perceived to be the major eHealth players in the short-term, but government influence on eHealth seems to be increasing.
Consumers, with few exceptions, are still unwilling to pay for online health information or services, thus consumer-oriented eHealth products will need to incorporate incentives in their business models […]
Change Your Thinking About Heart Disease and Cancer
Stereotypes of two medical conditions — heart disease and cancer — are changing. Recent stories in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal describe how mainstream thinking is being challenged.
The New York Times quotes Dr. Claude Lenfant, Director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. “In the old days, you had a heart attack and you died…. You were almost signing the death certificate in advance. Now you know you can get another 20 […]
Remote Patient Monitoring Inching Its Way into DM
Disease Management News Reprint
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) promises to be the next evolution of the digital age in health care. More than 75 companies are developing RPM offerings. While many of these are start-ups, the field has also attracted large, established companies such as Medtronic, GE, Phillips, Siemens, EDS, and others.
This article appeared in the October 10, 2002 print edition of Disease Management News.
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Welcome to Our New Format!
For the first time, this edition of E-CareManagement News is being sent out in HTML (graphical) format. If your email program can read HTML, then you should be viewing this edition with color and graphics. If you are having trouble viewing this newsletter, it’s also available at the BHT website. Please bear with us while we fix any bugs and please let us know if you have problems reading the newsletter.
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DMPC Realigns Its Business Model – A Major Step Forward!
Who’s really influential in the world of disease management (DM)? You don’t have to go very far before you bump into the name of Al Lewis, Executive Director of the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium (DMPC).
Don’t let his grin fool you. Alfred B. Lewis (Al) is a shrewd businessman….and getting shrewder every day. This article will describe how Al has recently realigned the DMPC business model and how this change will benefit both DM vendors and health plans.
In a nutshell, the […]
Broadband and E-Health: Joined at the Hip
“Slow broadband deployment is the key limitation in our high technology economy.” Andrew Grove, Chairman, Intel
Here’s a pop quiz — the answer might surprise you: What percentage of US households have high-bandwidth Internet connections? What percentage of South Korean households? (Answer below)
Several recent reports have examined the compelling advantages of broadband (high-speed) Internet and have highlighted some of the most promising health care applications. This brief reviews key excerpts and highlights some of the surprising findings.
Broadband: A 21st Century Technology […]