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Care Management Wildcards!
Megatrend Spotting: Health Plan Role of Having “Best Data About YOUR Medical Conditions” is Up for Grabs
Who has the most comprehensive data about YOUR clinical conditions?
For most people, the answer today is “your health plan”, but it’s not at all clear that health plans will continue to have this role in the future.
As physicians and hospitals adopt EHRs, it’s foreseeable that clinical data about patients will be far more available and accessible.
Will patient data become:
A jockeying point for control and business advantage between health plans and care providers,
A collaborative opportunity to optimize clinical care and care […]
Next Generation Disease Management, ala Google
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Google Wants to Index Your DNA, Too Business Week; April 18, 2008
A few years ago I remember reading a vivid description of how much information is contained in one person’s genetic code: a stack of phone books high enough to reach the top of the Washington Monument.
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How Will the HMO Stock Meltdown Affect Chronic Disease Management?
About three weeks ago Cain Brothers Investment Bankers released a report that foreshadowed the collapse of HMO stock prices that has occurred over the past few days. The report was entitled: FAREWELL TO A TIME OF PLENTY? Health Plan Strategies for Growth in a More Challenging Market.Â
Here are a few highlights from the report:
21 Surprising Ways Wal-Mart Clinics Will Affect US Healthcare
Jessica Hupp at RN Central writes a thought provoking article titled 20 Surprising Ways Wal-Mart Clinics Will Affect US Healthcare.
#20 is “Decreased Continuity of Care”. I think this one is debatable, and I’ll offer as #21 “Increased Continuity of Care”. Â
Jessica writes:
With traditional doctors, patients have charts and medical records, but at in-store clinics, diagnosis is a one-off deal. Problems that could be caught over multiple visits and diagnosis could go unearthed unless the patient works to inform practitioners.
I’m picking up […]
The PowerPoint — DM Megatrends 2008
Last week I did the major annual tune-up of my presentation on Disease Management Megatrends for the MCOL Future Care Web Summit.Â
I’m pleased to share a copy of the PowerPoint presentation with you, and I hope you find it useful and provocative. You can view and/or download a copy here (6MB). This version contains 77 slides, which would be about the length I’d use for a 3 hour workshop; you’d see a more compact version for a conference keynote, Board summary, or management […]
Podcast: The 20 Minute Version of “DM Megatrends”
Over the past week I’ve been doing a major tune-up of my presentation on Disease Management Megatrends for the annual MCOL Future Care Web Summit.Â
More typically, DM Megatrends is 45–90 minute presentation with accompanying PowerPoint slides.
As part of the Web Summit, the good folks at MCOL asked me to do a short podcast on highlights of this presentation. They’re allowing me to share it with you… click here to save or listen to the podcast.
fyi, the DM Megatrends are:
MAGNITUDE: We are just scratching the […]
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 […]
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 […]
More Evidence Suggesting that Consumer Driven Health Plans Can Have a Negative Impact on Chronic Care
What impact will CDHPs (consumer driven health plans) have on patients with chronic conditions? Jason Shafrin of Healthcare Economist blog refers to a recent study examining this important issue:
The authors also found that increased cost sharing led to a slight increase in hospitalizations. However, when the subpopulation of individuals with chronic health conditions is examined, large increases in hospitalization rates are found. This means that individuals with chronic health conditions forego office visits and drug purchases due to the increase in price, […]
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) […]