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Finally! CMS Provides a Flood of Details About the Medicare Medical Home Demo
I’ve been critical in the past when CMS has been silent in explaining their thinking, so I’ll start this post by congratulating CMS on sharing a flood of details about the upcoming Medicare Medical Home Demonstration project.
An email from CMS arrived in my inbox this morning at 2 am. That email notified me that they have updated the MMHD homepage . A quick click lead me to 8 new documents containing 155 pages of newly available details on the MMHD.
If you have time to read […]
From PHRs to PHRSs
Personal health records (PHRs)Â are evolving toward becoming Personal Health Record Systems (PHRSs).
…that’s my key takeaway from attending the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Project Health Design (PHD) conference in Washington D.C. on September 17. The conference was entitled A ‘Report Out’ from Project HealthDesign and Forum on Next-Generation PHRs .
A PHD Fact Sheet capsulizes the evolution from PHRs to PHRSs:
The Medical Home: Confusion Over Care Management Fees
The honeymoon is over.
Prior to April 29, 2008, reviews of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model had been uniformly enthusiastic and positive.
Today the PCMH model is hitting reality — someone’s going to have to bring home money to pay the bills. On April 29 the American Medical Association/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee (RUC) released a  report making recommendations relating to payment levels of care management fees for the PCMH.
This report has stirred cries of confusion and outrage. I’ll elaborate on these cries in the second posting of […]
Could a Linkage Between Amalga and HealthVault Become a Centerpiece of Microsoft’s Healthcare Strategy?
Writing in ZDNet, Mary Jo Foley ponders the question of whether it might make sense for Microsoft to link HealthVault (HV) and Amalga.
I’ll take this a step further and ask “Could a linkage between HealthVault and Amalga become a centerpiece of Microsoft’s broader health care strategy?”
Healthcare Informatics Webinar: Google, Microsoft, & Dossia Create the Personal Health Information Network
What are companies like Google, Microsoft, and Dossia (sponsored by Intel, Wal-Mart, AT&T and others) hoping to accomplish in health care?
What is the emerging Personal Health Information Network (PHIN) and why should you care?
What’s the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) Standard, and how is it destined to become an initial focal point of data exchange initiatives?
Why is the PHIN potentially disruptive to many business models? What types of companies or organizations could be affected the most?
What are opportunities and threats to major health care players — hospitals, […]
Search Engines Using Your Personal Health Information: Creepy or Cutting Edge?
When using a search engine, should results be customized based on your personal health information (PHI)? Should your search engine of choice take into account your previous history of medical searches, or even provide results tailored from data about your personal medical history?
Two companies — Aetna and Microsoft — have come up with 180 degree different answers.
In this post, I will:
Describe how Aetna’s and Microsoft’s approaches differ
Speculate on why their approaches make strategic sense for the respective companies
Explore how technology and expectations about […]
Birth Announcement: the Personal Health Information Network (PHIN)
Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBAÂ
The Internet and digital technologies have transformed many aspects of our lives over the past twenty years. We can get cash at ATMs all over the world; we can book our own airline reservations; we can shop and get best prices over the Internet.
Why hasn’t this happened in health care? Something is missing.
Recently, major global information and communication companies have announced their intention to bring their technologies and business models to health care. […]
The Wrong Way and the Right Way to Frame PHR Privacy/Confidentiality Issues
 Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBAÂ
During the past week two reports were released discussing privacy/confidentiality issues surrounding PHRs. One of these reports did it the wrong way; one did it the right way.
The general public is just learning about Personal Health Records (PHRs). We believe that the appropriate way to frame the dialogue for the public is to acknowledge both the benefits and risks:
Benefits: PHRs (and EHRs) have the potential to save lives, reduce medical errors, improve patient […]
Four Misconceptions About HealthVault and the Emerging Personal Health Information Ecosystem (PHI-Ecosystem)
by Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBAÂ
The health care and technology worlds are still trying to figure out what Microsoft’s HealthVault (HV) is all about. We believe that there are a number of misconceptions out there about what HV is and isn’t:
Misconception #1: HealthVault is a personal health record (PHR).
Misconception #2: People don’t trust Microsoft, so they won’t sign up for and use HV.
Misconception #3: Patients don’t understand PHRs, don’t want them, and don’t know what they’d do with them. […]
Ruminations on the 2007 Healthcare Unbound Conference
Although a bit late, I’d like to share perspectives from the latest Healthcare Unbound conference. The conference took place in San Francisco on July 16 and 17 and attracted 400 attendees with a rich blend of business, information technology, and clinical backgrounds.
PowerPoint from Opening Keynote
Here’s a copy of the PowerPoint for my opening keynote presentation. My colleague and fellow blogger Tim Gee did a great job summarizing key points on his blog. THANKS, Tim.
In a nutshell, my main theme is that the adoption of Healthcare Unbound […]