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Health Care Cost Insights and Capitation for the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH)

The Population Health Blog finally caught up with the Oct 22/29 "Price, Cost and Competition" issue of JAMA . One of the more int...

Is One DIet Program Better Than Another for Weight Loss?

As a doctor , the Population Health Blog was often asked by overnourished patients to help find a "best" diet. Its advice to simp...

Of Risk Stratification, Health System Variation and "Stupid" Decision-Making

A fly in the ointment Years ago, a middle-aged Population Health Blog patient came in for a routine follow-up appointment. Since his last v...

Care Management: What a Bargain

They did it again! Sound familiar? Patients' intake into the program was initiated with a face-to face meeting with a nurse care manager...

Professional Physician Organizations: A Continuing Necessary Ingredient for Ongoing Health Reform

This JAMA article on "Professional Organizations' Role in Supporting Physicians to Improve Value in Health Care" reminds rea...

Insulin for Persons Already on Metformin: A Population Health Perspective

As most population health providers know, diabetes guidelines tend to focus on shorter-term or "intermediate" outcomes, such as av...

Perspectives on Exercise for Elders

Despite its busy travel schedule, the Population Health Blog had a chance to check out " Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for E...

Big Data, Definitions and Population Health

What's the likelihood of diabetes? Utter the term " big data " at any ACO, care management or managed care meeting, and one of...

Medical Marijuana and Population Health

Many population health providers may deal with the chronic conditions of HIV, Alzheimer disease, multiple sclerosis cancer, epilepsy, inflam...

Aren't All Physicians Supposed to Be Experts in Clinical Informatics?

It was just a matter time. " Clinical informatics " has become another medical specialty . It seems that the clinical informatici...

Additive, Not Substitutive, Health Care Innovation

Sirens calling the unsuspecting to their doom If, like many of our policy and political elite, you have also been seduced by the siren call ...

Commitment Devices, Behavior Change and Population Health

A new addition to the behavior change tool box Whenever the Population Health Blog encountered a tobacco user in its clinic, it would gauge ...

I'm From CMS and I'm Here to Help

Writing in JAMA "online first," CMS Administrator Tavenner and colleagues offer a payment reform "framework" that inclu...

For-Profit Meets For-Publication For Big Data

The "for-profit" research side of health care and the academics have always had a strained relationship. The Population Health Blo...

More JAMA Drama: The Medical Home Reduces Costs, But Only For High Risk Patients

A medical home candidate? Just when the Population Health Blog decided to take a break from all the JAMA drama , along comes this study ...

Ten Things to Know About the mHealth App Ecosystem.

A mHealth app walled garden: enter at your own risk? If, like the Population Health Blog, you're interested in the hand-held mHealth app...

Noise to Signal Ratio in the Assessment of the Medical Home

From time to time, the Population Health Blog's consulting business generates supplemental income. When that happens, it gets dropped i...

Caring for the Caregivers Using THETR

Population health service providers may want to add this evidence-based JAMA review of "caregiver burden " to their educational r...

Of Hospital Alarms and the Lessons for Population Health Alerts

This hot-off-the-presses JAMA article by Vineet Chopra Laurence McMahon describes how the cacophony of alarm beeps and bells from hospitals...

More on the Failure of a Huge Medical Home Initiative to Reduce Health Care Costs

Getting the medical home back on the road In this JAMA editorial , Thomas Schwenk agrees with the Disease Management/ Population Health Blo...

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