- Health Populi: Corporate reputation: pharma, gas and finance tie for the penultimate position – Nice analysis from Jane Sarasohn-Kahn about the latest data around corporate reputations
Posts Tagged ‘health_plans’
Health Populi: Corporate reputation: pharma, gas and finance tie for the penultimate position
July 22nd, 2008 | Popularity: 20% 0 comments | Leave a replyAHIP Board of Directors Statement on Patient Centered Medical Home
July 18th, 2008 | Popularity: 14% 0 comments | Leave a reply- AHIP Board of Directors Statement on Patient Centered Medical Home – Encouraging statement from America's Health Insurance Plans. The project we're planning in California is very supportive of what this statement seeks to accomplish, in my opinion.
PCPCC Stakeholders Working Meeting – Misc Notes
July 16th, 2008 | Popularity: 28% 6 comments(presentations online here)
Paul Grundy, MD – “Think huge”
Purchaser guide – there have been many of these, but the first time one prepared with consumers and providers
Health Information Technology – help educate, advocate, demonstrate around PCMH the technology that will be necessary to help physicians make the transformation
Panel – What Does it Cost to Become a Patient Centered Medical Home?
Bob Berenson, MD, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute
“A good medical home”- patient with superficial phlebitis treated via one office visit, 6 phone calls, 6 e-mails, including hematologic consultation, one reimbursement for in-office care
Julia Pillsbury, DO, Alternate RUC Representative, American Academy of Pediatrics
New G codes for Medical Home-type work. Crosswalked to currently existing codes, some subsume current G codes, some do not. Tier 1, 2, and 3, between 6.5 to 9.2 minutes per patient per month, may be around $50/member/month.
Patient Partnership
Sabrina Corlette, Director of Health Policy, The National Partnership for Women and Families
Grant from the Wellpoint Foundation to introduce consumer advocates to PCMH and involve them and shaping it. Environmental scan, Focus Groups, Develop consumer/patient principles
Debbie Peikes, Ph.D., Mathematica Policy Research
We should involve patients and providers in primary care assignment, using claims retrospectively is expedient perhaps but has difficulties
Blues Plan Joins Google Health
June 17th, 2008 | Popularity: 12% 0 comments | Leave a reply- Blues Plan Joins Google Health – It might now be possible for claims and clinical data to be in the same place.
Aetna Clinical Policy: Automated Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
June 4th, 2008 | Popularity: 23% 0 comments | Leave a reply- Aetna Clinical Policy: Automated Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring – Rules for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, which is different from "home" blood pressure monitoring. Useful to know when thinking of connectivity in the California Healthcare Foundation project work. Because health plans and CMS already pay for this type of monitoring, there’s precedent for looking at home blood pressure monitoring. This type of monitoring (ambulatory) pays for itself because it can establish the presence of “white coat” hypertension, which is high blood pressure that only occurs in the doctor’s office. In that situation, it’s better for the patient not to undergo treatment, which saves them (and the system) time and money in unnecessary health care.
Aetna’s CEO Again Attacks 3rd Party PHRs « Chilmark Research
June 2nd, 2008 | Popularity: 20% 0 comments | Leave a reply- Aetna’s CEO Again Attacks 3rd Party PHRs « Chilmark Research – The "d" word is back. Reacting by innovating is a great thing.
The RUC Speaks of Medical Home;Gathering Data on Hypertension;HealthPlan-Hospital Conflict in Arizona
May 13th, 2008 | Popularity: 55% 0 comments | Leave a replyMay 6th through May 7th:
- The Happy Hospitalist: This Deserves The Middle Finger – I guess it is controversial (the RUC report on Medical Home Reimbursement)
- AMA (RBRVS) RUC Medicare Medical Home Demonstration project recommendations – RUC and Medical Home. Might this be controversial?
- reportonbusiness.com: Asking ‘why’ again and again is harder than you think, but it works – Good description of the 5 Why's Exercise
- What is Hypertension? – WrongDiagnosis.com – Factoids about Hypertension, useful in planning a community intervension
- Cigna clients seek answers after expiration –
- Cigna ends pact with hospitals, leaves thousands in the lurch – This local story has not made the national news. I wonder why?
Efficiency Improvers for Mac users; Aetna’s Smartsource Demo; Wordpress upgrade on the way
April 1st, 2008 | Popularity: 79% 0 comments | Leave a reply- Safari 3.1 includes hidden one-window preference – This is the holy grail of Safari as the browser of choice. That plus compatibility with blog authoring tools.
- Mac BU promises bibliography improvements to Office 2008 – Interesting discussion somewhat unrelated to the article’s title about the state of bibliographic software. I would look forward to further refinements of Zotero, and maybe a server version.
- QLPlugins – Quick Look Plugins – Great efficiency improver of one of my favorite Leopard features.
- Aetna Smartsource Demo – Aetna’s latest information tailoring system for patients. Getting closer to supporting the patient-provider relationship?
- Apple – Support – Discussions – Unresponsive Keyboard and Trackpad … – This is a real issue for MacBookPro owners – prepare yourself just in case this happens to you.
- A new snapshot of health consumerism from EBRI and The Commonwealth Fund – Nice overview from Jane Sarsohn-Kahn
- Roblog » Batch Categories – Another category management plugin, for Wordpress 2.3 and 2.5
- uwMike » WP-Cats – More preparation to migration to WP 2.5
- Disk Inventory X – Map your hard drive to avoid wasting space
- How to Fly Without ID and Skip Lines | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss – Just in case this happens to you, here is how you can fly and recover.
Challenging Peer Review (on several fronts); Consumerism in Health Survey 2007; Accepting suggestions from Customers using Web 2.0 at Starbucks
March 30th, 2008 | Popularity: 77% 10 commentsMarch 28th through March 29th:
- WordPress ? Search and Replace « WordPress Plugins – Wordpress 2.5 is out. I have a feeling this plugin will be useful to have handy
- JAMA — Preserving Confidentiality in the Peer Review Process, March 24, 2008, DeAngelis and Thornton 0 (2008): 299.16.jed80000 – With tremendous respect for Catherine DeAngelis’ leadership during a tough situation. I am left wondering if the best place to hide is out in the open – if peer review became more Web2.0 like. What would happen in a situation like this?
- Findings From the 2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Survey – EBRI – About 2 percent of the population is enrolled in a consumer directed health plans. Significant points for me: (1) almost half of the population with a chronic condition reports not filling medications or skipping doses or delaying care due to cost. Sobering reminder that patients can and do choose to do what we doctors prescribe. (2) “There have been no significant gains int he provision of information on provider cost and quality by any health plan type over the three years of the survey. There has been no increase in the share of CDHP or HDHP enrollees who say their health plans provide them with quality and cost information about their providers, and they remain no more likely to receive such information than enrollees in more comprehensive plans.” Okay, one more point – they did not ask about the impact of involvement in care in choosing a health plan – no mention of medical records access or involvement in information sharing at the level of the encounter.
- My Starbucks Idea – How about doing this for a health care org?
- Bronson Beta – Mail.appetizer – Nice Mail notification tool, Leopard
Your Voice Video
March 11th, 2008 | Popularity: 30% 3 commentsThis video was posted on the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center Blog and includes the voices of people and their views on health care. There’s one in the middle that I found powerful. See if you agree.
I think more of the discussion should come from those receiving care in general, and I like that YouTube and Web2.0 in general is making that a reality.
There’s an associated slide presentation with data about patient access, and I liked the wording of the question, which was “Patients should be able to obtain accurate and complete information on their own health conditions so they can actively participate in making treatment decisions.” 79 percent said this was Very/Extremely important.
Steve Jobs and Leadership Philosophy; Health Plans and AMA less EHR supportive?; Two Health2.0 Services
March 10th, 2008 | Popularity: 62% 0 comments | Leave a replyMarch 4th through March 6th:
- Steve Jobs speaks out – On his marathon Monday meetings (9) – FORTUNE – a weekly check and adjust at Apple
- S.F. equity firm launches health initiative with CalPERS, GE, others – San Francisco Business Times: – Maybe this will help California lead in Health IT.
- AMNews: March 10, 2008. Insurer finds EMRs won’t pay off for its doctors … American Medical News – Less health plans are requiring EHR adoption for P4P, and the AMA doesn’t have a policy requiring physicians to adopt them either.
- Virgin HealthMiles – As demonstrated at Health 2.0 – a pedometer program that includes a pedometer that uploads data to the Virgin HealthMiles website
- i2y – As featured at the Health 2.0 Conference. For the 68,000 GenX and GenY individuals who are diagnosed with cancer every year.
Patient-driven interoperability is promising;Consumers want access to their own health information (Deloitte)
February 28th, 2008 | Popularity: 22% 0 comments | Leave a replyPCHIT links for February 26th through February 27th:
- Life as a Healthcare CIO: Dispatch from HIMSS – Related to what I saw at Queens Health Network, a portable personal health record managed by a patient can make interoperability go faster.
- Are Consumers Interested in Having Online Access to Their Medical Records and Test Results? – iHealthBeat – Patient access to EHR’s IS compelling. Low adoption rates mean something else is going on.
Better walking in DC; BIDMC going LEAN?; CEO Blogging; Best Companies 2008
February 7th, 2008 | Popularity: 71% 0 comments | Leave a replyFebruary 4th through February 6th:
- DC Moves for Safer Sidewalks – Get There – Washington government takes a step toward promoting walkability. Sidewalks stay open for business.Walkers rejoice!
- Apple //c – a photoset on Flickr – The OOB experience of an unopened AppleIIc computer. Remember when technology was fun? It still is. And I never even learned to program in Pascal.
- Ryanair’s Changing Altitude – Efficient cost management and charging for everything keeps margins high at RyanAir – a great example of “copy how we think” in terms of being like Southwest
- Running a hospital: More on fetching and work-arounds – BIDMC launches an improvement methodology called SPIRIT. Looks like it’s at least partially based on LEAN?
- The Health Care Blog: Bad Medicine: How The AMA Undermined Primary Care in America – Brian Klepper – Analysis of RBRVS and impact on primary care.
- The ethics of CEO blogging – Nice discussion from Paul Levy about the approach that a CEO takes to blogging. I’m in support!
- Insurers Begin To Reimburse for Online Visits, Concerns Remain – Nice profile of Kaiser Permanente’s program.
- Marriot Rolls Out Web-Based PHR System to Employees Nationwide – iHealthBeat – An employer-sponsored PHR. Will the lack of connection to the health care team be an issue?
- KUOW: Program Archive: Patient Safety, January, 2008 – Dr. Matt Handley, from Group Health Cooperative, is featured
- Best Companies 2008 – FORTUNE Magazine’s Top 100 Employers to Work For – The 2008 list is out. From an HR/Leadership perspective, it is interesting to look at some of the most important qualifications for being on the list, such as support for diversity.
Groundbreaking reimbursement agreement? ; Some patients don’t want PHRs; Role of the Federal Government in PHR Design
February 4th, 2008 | Popularity: 19% 0 comments | Leave a replyPCHIT links for January 30th through January 31st:
- Group Offers Doctors Bonuses for Better Care – WSJ.com – “Far Reaching” seems an accurate description. This could really drive PHR adoption.
- Personal Health Records Online? Just Say No! – Commentary from the Patient Empowerment Blog at About.com. I’ve added my own comment at the bottom.
- Project Health Design Blog: Minimal federal government impact on PHRs in 2008? – Discussion of the federal role in PHR development from the excellent HealthDesign blog. If not useful in designing PHRs, what about in incentivizing them, such as part of current HRSA grant programs?
IHE Connectation; A Health Plan in Hawaii works to spur EHR Adoption
February 2nd, 2008 | Popularity: 45% 0 comments | Leave a reply- IHE.net IHE North America Connectathon 2008 Conference – Happening today – vendors getting together to demonstrate connectivity – ahead of standards
- Report: One in Five D.C. Residents Is Without Regular Health Care – washingtonpost.com – Sobering data about the health of DC residents
- Details Sparse, But Federal EHR Program Draws Praise, Optimism – iHealthBeat – Information about Blue Cross of Hawaii’s efforts to spur EHR adoption, with $20,000 per physician.
- Local News | Hospitals to tear up bills for medical mistakes | Seattle Times Newspaper – Washington State Health Care Organizations agree not to bill for “never” events
- Achieving a High-Performance Health Care System with Universal Access: What the United States Can Learn from Other Countries — American College of Physicians 148 (1): 55 — Annals of Internal Medicine –
White Paper – Patient-Centered Applications, Forrester on Health Plans and PHRs
December 28th, 2007 | Popularity: 33% 0 comments | Leave a replyPCHIT links for December 26th through December 27th:
- Early Experiences with Personal Health Records — Halamka et al. 15 (1): 1 — Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association – As reviewed here: http://www.tedeytan.com/2007/12/27/242/
- Patient-centered Applications: Use of Information Technology to Promote Disease Management and Wellness. A White Paper by the AMIA Knowledge in Motion Working Group — Demiris et al. 15 (1): 8 — Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association – Nice description of what we know/don’t know about PCHIT. However, given that the rest of the world uses IT in a more customer centric way, are we going to wait for research?
- PHRs: From Evolution To Revolution by Liz Boehm – Forrester Research – Interesting commentary on health plans, PHRs, and adoption. Are health plans ready?
Background on health plans and small practices; Working on our special report
December 27th, 2007 | Popularity: 24% 0 comments | Leave a replyToday’s links are representative of the fact that we aren’t doing observations right now. Instead, we are preparing our first 90 day interim report for our partners. This means looking back on the last 90 days, and putting together our impressions at the interface between patient and health system, along with relevant background and policy information. We’ll post that here, of course.
PCHIT links for December 24th through December 26th:
- U.S. healthcare payers to limit IT investments in 2008 –
- ACGroup, Inc. Whitepapers – Nice overviews of the EHR market and physician practices
- PHRs: From Evolution To Revolution by Liz Boehm – Forrester Research – Interesting commentary on health plans, PHRs, and adoption. Are health plans ready?
iMedix allows patients to share treatment stories; Health Plans and Customer Experience; Handy Tip for Leopard Users; Handy Tip for DC Residents
December 27th, 2007 | Popularity: 42% 0 comments | Leave a replyDecember 24th through December 26th:
- iMedix – Find Health Information, Share Symptoms & Discuss Treatments – Israeli startup that connects patients to each other with the same condition(s). Imagine if their doctors could be part of the conversation.
- Metropolitan Police Department Crime Search, Washington DC – A handy tool for looking at crime statistics in your area. All the information is there.
- Customer Experience Index Snapshot: Health Plans by Bruce D. Temkin – Forrester Research – There’s an enormous opportunity for health plans to radically improve their customer experience ? and go after the majority of consumers that are interested in switching plans.
- gladwell dot com – personality plus – Malcolm Gladwell writes about corporate use of personality tests. I have not really been a fan of Myers-Briggs myself.
- Unicru Test Items – A potential employee posts the Unicru personality test used by many retailers.
- Rock Creek Park – Monuments, Statues and Memorials (U.S. National Park Service) – Descriptions of memorials in the Mount Pleasant / Columbia Heights area
- macosxhints.com – 10.5: Move apps between spaces with the app switcher – For Mac users out there, this is a tip that makes the new Spaces feature very usable. I’ve had it turned on for a few months now and getting the hang of it (I always try new things for a bit, but know when to stop trying them, this is why I am early major
