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E-Care Management News
RWJF Report Forecasts Health Care in the U.S. Through 2010
A report entitled “Health and Health Care 2010” has been released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute for the Future.
Here are a few summary findings from the section of the Executive Summary entitled “Care Processes and Medical Management”:
Medical management — the active management of the care of patients and populations — is currently applied sporadically, if at all. There are two main issues in the future of medical management. The first is the debate over which care […]
Healtheon/WebMD to Acquire Care Insite and Medical Manager – Good News for Advancing Care Management
The Richter scale shook again this week as Healtheon/WebMD announced an acquisition of CareInsite and Medical Manager. This mega-merger will bring together the #1 and #2 companies providing e-health connectivity. Details of the proposed deal can be reviewed at:
Healtheon to Buy Medical Manager
Healtheon-WebMD to CareInsite: “Be Mine!”
Online Health Firms Unite
Healtheon-WebMD Pops a Big Question
So what does the new HealtheonWebMD mean for those of us interested in disease management, care management, and clinical integration approaches?
Mostly it’s very good news.
Why? It avoids […]
“e-Care” Emerges as a Distinct Internet-Health Category
Internet health analysts initially divided the world of e-health into 3 or 4 “Cs” – usually Content, Connectivity, and Commerce (and sometimes Community).
Wit Capital has recently another C to the list –- Clinical Care.
Wit’s excellent 58 page report “eHealth 2000: Healthcare and the Internet in the New Millennium” can be viewed in either HTML or Adobe Acrobat formats.
Wit Capital’s report identifies this new category as — Clinical Care: The Convergence of Disease Management, Health Management and the Internet.
“Relentlessly rising healthcare […]
Five Simple Truths About Employers and Disease Management
Employers are playing an increasingly active role in disease management (DM) initiatives for their employees. Employers are recognizing that a disproportionate amount of health costs are incurred by a small percentage of their employees (typically 5% of a group accounts for about 60% of health care costs). Many employers are frustrated by perceptions that health care premiums are rising faster than medical costs and that health plans and providers are not taking enough steps to manage clinical care.
Here are 5 […]
Will the Internet Connect – or Disconnect – Patients and Physicians?
It’s hardly news these days, but there’s another entrant into the Internet health portal race. However, this one brings some unique twists. Medem has opportunities to employ both push and pull strategies to promote its web site and to improve the patient-physician relationship.
Wall Street and Main Street Health Care
At the new millennium, U.S. health care is living in two different worlds.
The world of Wall Street recognizes the huge opportunities in bringing the Internet to health care. In 1999, market capitalization […]
B2B eDM: Revolutionary Opportunities!
“What’s B2B eDM?” you ask. It stands for business-to-business Internet disease management.
The Internet is receiving great attention for its potential to improve disease management processes. However, almost all the attention has been paid to business-to-consumer (B2C) applications, rather than business-to-business (B2B) applications.
This parallels the attention that all B2C Internet companies have received over the past several years. The explosive potential of the B2B Internet market is just emerging!
This article highlights some of the strategic opportunities relating to B2B eDM. In […]
United Healthcare Pulls MBAs Licenses to Practice Medicine
In a story making national headlines this week, UnitedHealthcare (UHC) has announced that it is giving doctors the final say on treatments for their patients.
Good Medicine and Good Business
It’s hard to overstate the significance of UHC’s move. This is a sentinel event in the shift from managing cost to managing care!
It’s the right thing to do AND will prove to be an excellent business decision.
It’s another sign of the ending of the era of “MBAs Practicing Medicine”.
UHC’s Care Coordinator Program
United […]
Finally! Three e-Health Companies Focusing on Clinical Management Preparing to go Public!
A first wave of e-health companies went public earlier this year. These e-health companies focus primarily on 1) Automating back-office transactions (Healtheon, CareInsite, Claimsnet.com) or 2) Patient and/or physician content (DrKoop.com, adam.com, Mediconsult.com, Medscape).
We’re gratified to see funding ready to flow to companies focusing on care management opportunities. Within about the past two months, three care management companies have filed S1 statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a required step in taking a company public. The companies (and citations […]
Accordant Health: A Prototype for Clicks and Mortar Disease Management
Explaining “Clicks and Mortar”
David Pottruck, the co-CEO of Charles Schwab, recently coined the phrase “clicks and mortar” to describe the formula for success in the new economy. An article by Jonathan Weber in the Industry Standard describes the essence of this new catchphrase:
“the basic concept…is that the most successful businesses of this remarkable era will combine the power of the Internet with the ability to operate effectively in the offline world.”
Pottruck uses the brokerage company Charles Schwab as his prime […]
What’s Up with ASPs?
Application service providers, or ASPs, was one of the hottest topics under discussion last week at the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group Conference in San Diego. In this article, we will briefly describe ASPs, explain why they will be important, and list some specific implications for care management approaches. While ASPs will be attractive to all health care organizations, we will focus on the unique advantages they can provide for physician offices.
Not a Poisonous Snake, But a Great Concept
ASPs are a […]