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Suggested Session Topics for the Next TEDMED Conference by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Smarter than the best EHR The stunning multimedia. The earnest and expert speaker. Telling anecdotes, wry observations and exciting insights. Gasps of appre ... Read on »

What Makes the Disease Management Care Blog Happier Than? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy To the continuing disappointment of the spouse, the Disease Management Care Blog cannot resist pausing its channel surfing to watch the humorous Geico "Happier Than" insur ... Read on »

The Oregon Medicaid Experiment: Good Study, Bad Politics by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Examining the Oregon Medicaid Study By now, most Disease Management Care Blog readers have probably read or heard about the release of the health and costs ... Read on »

Big Data Analytics Salesmanship: A Free Public Service for the Data Management Vendors by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Data analytics for sale! While the Disease Management Care Blog continues to delight in the clever electronic health record humor of the Extormity web site ... Read on »

Prospective Payment Good, Fee For Service Bad, Right? Unless You're a Patient That Is..... by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Applying the brake in the name of patient care? The Disease Management Care Blog poses a simple question: knowing that, despite the best of care, things can ... Read on »

AHIP Steps Up With Their Version of Health Reform by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy While HHS Secretary Sebelius reassures the House Republicans that the Fed's health insurance exchanges are on track , that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act wi ... Read on »

Three Models of Primary Care Teaming (TL, CC and ET): An Unexplored Feature of the Medical Home by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy What defines optimal outpatient primary care "teaming?" The Disease Management Care Blog just assumed that if it took equal scoops of adaptable physicians, dedicated n ... Read on »

Bullying Health Insurance Actuaries by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy "Gotcha!" Years ago, the Disease Management Care Blog proudly showed the consulting health insurance actuaries published data like these and these . It naiv ... Read on »

Reducing Health Care Labor Costs In the United States: Lessons from Overseas by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Now that the Affordable Care Act has increased access to health insurance, progressive-minded policymakers are now turning their attention to increasing access to care. Cos ... Read on »

When It Comes to Nurse Care Managers in Primary Care Settings, It's Not "Build or Buy," It's... by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Seen one of these lately? The Passenger Pigeon. The Dodo bird. The primary care clinic nurse. All are extinct, driven out existence by a changing habitat, ... Read on »

I Waited Patiently... He Inclined Unto Me, and Heard My Cry by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Along with millions of other Americans, the Disease Management Care Blog spent a Friday night in front of the TV, transfixed by the unfolding Boston Marathon manhunt. If it ... Read on »

The Latest Cavalcade of Risk Is Up! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The latest Cavalcade of Risk is up at Jason Shafrin's Healthcare Economist . As usual, the contributing writer-bloggers have done an outstanding job of examining the lates ... Read on »

Electronic Health Records Not Only Don't Save Money.... They Increase Health Care Costs? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy One outcome of the Disease Management Care Blog's authorship of this manuscript that questioned the merits of the electronic health record (EHR) was an enduring belief tha ... Read on »

Retail Clinics for Chronic Conditions Like Asthma, Hypertension, Lipids and Diabetes Mellitus: A... by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Is there a business model in there? To the delight of skeptics, pundits and bloggers everywhere, U.S. health reform continues to follow its predicted trajec ... Read on »

What Do We Know About Blast Injuries: Speculating About the Boston Marathon Bombing by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Remains of a low order device The Disease Management Care Blog's thoughts and prayers go out to the Boston Marathon bombing victims and their families. Like ... Read on »

A Scoring System to Predict Hospital Readmissions by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Knowing, based on this paper , that the readmission rate to U.S. hospitals is as high as 20%, you and your colleagues decide to implement a readmissions prevention program." ... Read on »

Controlling Health Care Costs: Different Countries, Same Levers by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The levers that control health care costs Ask an average voter how health insurers reduce costs and, thanks to years of hostile anti-insurer rhetoric , he o ... Read on »

An Update On Population Health Management: It's Working! by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy CMS, MA Plans & Disease Management? It's a good day when Health Affairs has nice things to say about population health management (PHM). After all, Health ... Read on »

Big Data and the Coming New Value Proposition for Disease, Care and Wellness Management Providers by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Disease Management Care Blog readers know that the its latest interest is "Big Data." While the researcher-DMCB has played in the sandbox of some insurance claims data set ... Read on »

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: Cautions and Caveats by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy "Maybe you should go back to the hospital!" Ask most wonks - especially ones who never took care of a patient - about "readmissions," and, after quoting ... Read on »

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