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The Limits of the "Return on Investment" Measure in Population Health, Disease and Care Management... by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy But where's the money? The Disease Management Care Blog has always been leery of the "return on investment" (ROI) metric in health care. It knows that there ... Read on »

Why Population-Based Care and Disease Management Can Increase Access to Primary Care by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy If the population health management (PHM) service industry needed just one evidence-based medical journal article to justify its existence, it couldn't do better than th ... Read on »

The Health Wonk Review, Come Back, We'll Leave The Light On For You Edition by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog (DMCB) welcomes readers to this edition of the Health Wonk Review. The DMCB is a physician-writer with knowledge and experience in pr ... Read on »

A Cavalcade of Risk Is Up! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Better late than never, so the DMCB wants to alert readers to the May 16 edition of the Cavalcade of Risk that is ably hosted at the "Insurance Claims And Issues" blog. The ... Read on »

Outcome Measures for Both the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and Population Health... by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog remembers years ago when it watched several captains of the disease management (DM) agree in a meeting that "third party" organizatio ... Read on »

Combine Chronic Conditions and Facebook: A New Start Up Called "Woebook" by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy It's the Disease Management Care Blog's 31st wedding anniversary. To celebrate, the happy couple is at hideaway that offers what the DMCB spouse refers to as "chai ... Read on »

Facebook and ACO's Similarities by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Investors just ponied up well over $100 billion for a piece of the social media giant Facebook. While Mr. Zuckerberg and his co-founders deserve a hearty congratulations, th ... Read on »

Population Health Management: A Road Map for Primary Care Practices by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Too-big-to-fail JP Morgan is losing billions of dollars. Greece is getting ready to prop up their banks with devalued drachmas. Facebook is getting ready to monetize you ... Read on »

Emergency Room Overutilization by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy It's no secret that Americans are overusing emergency rooms and it's only destined to get worse. And Washington state's Medicaid program, according to this New England J ... Read on »

Health Insurance Rebates: A $1.3 Billion Non-Event by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Disease Management Care Blog has a lingering weakness for garden statuary. It thinks that nothing quite compliments phlox and snapdragons better than a weenie che ... Read on »

Comprehensive Care Management for COPD .... Kills? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy That was a possible conclusion thanks to a just-published study in the latest Annals of Internal Medicine titled "A Comprehensive Care Management Program to Prevent Chro ... Read on »

The Latest Health Wonk Review Is Up! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A host of brainy insightful posts awaits you at the Spring Hath Sprung edition of the Health Wonk Review, ably hosted by Hank Sterns Insure Blog. There's contrarian stuff h ... Read on »

Some Raffle Ideas for the Obama Campaign by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Who wants a raffle ticket? President Obama's reelection campaign is continuing with its hallmark electoral innovation, including entering small dollar donor ... Read on »

Population Health Management Talking Points by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Getting ready for another announcement Cornered by the politically inconvenient utterings of members of his Administration, President Obama threw election-y ... Read on »

Commercializing On-Site Care Management for Primary Care: The Outsourcing Option They Won't Tell... by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Disease Management Care Blog regulars are fully aware of the rich variety of care coordination approaches that exist outside of the patient centered medical home (PCM ... Read on »

Mergers Ahead! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Mergers ahead! The Disease Management Care Blog doesn't intentionally subscribe to many health care email newsletters. But, here's a weekly one authored by ... Read on »

How About Some Shared Decision Making on the Merits of Shared Decision Making? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy "Shared decision making" (SDM) is a good thing , right? Defined as " model of patient-centered care that enables and encourages people to play a role in the managemen ... Read on »

Disease and Population Health Management Programs Do NOT Exclude Other Conditions by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Playing 'whacamole' "Immunizations cause autism." "Health care blogging will never lead any serious beer money." "Disease management coaching focus ... Read on »

Medicare's Costs: Current Law vs. Looming Reality by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy So, how bad is it? While HHS Secretary Sebelius' Affordable Care Act nostrums help the Obama Administration's muddling of policy and election year politics ... Read on »

How About Team-Based Care AND Experts? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Disease Management Care Blog readers may recall this snarky " It's Team Based Care, Not More Experts " speechifying that challenged a John A Hartford Foundation report on ... Read on »

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