Showing posts with label Health Affairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health Affairs. Show all posts

You Get What You Pay For in Cancer Care and Insurers Get What They Save With the Medical Home

The latest issue of Health Affairs is out and the Population Health Blog couldn't stay away.  Three interesting articles: The United S...
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Is the United States the Only Country Into "Patient Engagement?" (plus a definition)

Patient engagement is there too! The answer is no.  Check out this paper in Health Affairs that defines patient engagement as ordinary peop...
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Think Bundled Payment is Inevitable? Think Again

Getting bundles of these is easy? This just published Health Affairs article finds some flies in the bundled payment ointment.  The summa...
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The Majority of Medicare Spending Variation Is Unexplained

From time to time, the Population Health Blog spouse finds that her husband is insufficiently attentive.  During a recent conversation about...
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Success Ingredients for Spread of Accountable Care Organizations

Mixing up some ACO No matter what you think about the long-term sustainability of accountable care organizations (ACOs), the Health Affair...
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Is $1 Billion a Good Investment for Disease Management? We May Finally Have an Answer

Take two of these and call for savings in the morning Anyone familiar with the history of disease management industry will almost certainly ...
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How Does the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Think About EHR Portals?

EHR portals at work? The Disease Management Care Blog had this thoughtful reply logged onto its "Follow-Up" post on the topic of ...
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"Down Jobbing" to Primary Care Technicians?

Heard of "down-jobbing?" Your PCT will see you now..... The Disease Management Care Blog first became aware of the term years ago ...
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Demanding Medical Excellence: How Do Things Stand?

Disease Management Care Blog colleague Michael Millenson has written a book called Demanding Medical Excellence . Like many other insightful...
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More on the Definition of Care Management (and how well do IPAs and PHOs deliver on it)

Care management in action? What is "care management?" As discussed and quoted by the Disease Management Care Blog , here's one...
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How Badly Obamacare Beat Up On the Health Insurers, and What Does It Mean for the Individual Market

D.C. deals with health insurers As Disease Management Care Blog readers are aware (for example, here and here ), Obamacare forces health in...
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Just Because You Build It They Won't Come: What ACOs, PCMHs and Population Health Advocates Need to Know About Poverty and Emergency Room Use

Thinking about an ER visit..... As part of a research requirement that it had to fulfill prior to medical school graduation, the young Disea...
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Controlling Health Care Costs: Different Countries, Same Levers

The levers that control health care costs Ask an average voter how health insurers reduce costs and, thanks to years of hostile anti-insurer...
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An Update On Population Health Management: It's Working!

CMS, MA Plans & Disease Management? It's a good day when Health Affairs has nice things to say about population health management ...
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Does Worksite Wellness Work? A Critical Look at the "Wellness Incentives In the Workplace" Article

A waste of money and a basis for discrimination? The answer to the "Does Worksite Wellness Work?" question depends on your frame o...
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