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Tag Archives: Medical Management
Using Strong Carrots and Sticks To Drive Health Care That Works
Brian Klepper Posted 5/09/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog On a recent call with a large manufacturer, my company’s team expected to describe how we develop primary care medical homes that become platforms for managing comprehensive health care clinical and financial … Continue reading
A Broader Approach To Managing Health Care Risk
Brian Klepper Posted 2/15/13 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog Health care’s purchasers crave certainty. But complexity – and therefore uncertainty – rules. Assurances are hard to come by. The most common question asked by prospective clients of my onsite clinic/medical … Continue reading
Following the Money
Brian Klepper Posted 12/06/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog On The Health Care Blog, veteran analyst Vince Kuraitis reviews a report from the consulting firm Oliver Wyman (OW), arguing that the trend toward reconfiguring health systems to deliver more accountable care is … Continue reading
Why Medical Management Will Re-Emerge
Brian Klepper Posted 7/31/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Several years ago I had dinner with a woman who had served in the late 1990s as the national Chief Medical Officer of a major health plan. At the time, … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Benefits, Brian Klepper, Health Care Cost, Medical Management, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Quality, Reform, Tools
Tagged Brian Klepper, Medical Management
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Six Ways to Save One Trillion Dollars
George Lundberg, MD Published 4/23/2012 on MedPage Today http://www.medpagetoday.com/mediaplayer-licensed-viral/player-licensed-viral.swf
iMedicine: The Influence of Social Media on Medicine
Kent Bottles Posted 4/25/12 on Kent Bottles’ Private Views iMedicine: The Influence of Social Media on Medicine was the topic of the day-long 27th Annual Physician Student Awareness Day (SPAD) held on April 24, 2012 on the campus of New York Medical … Continue reading
Posted in Health IT, Innovation, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians
Tagged Kent Bottles, Medical Management, Social Media
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Of Zombies, Emperor’s New Clothes, Documentation Inertia: LIngering Untrue Diagnoses That Persist in the Electronic Health Record
Jaan Sidorov Posted 4/04/12 on The Disease Management Care Blog Every practicing physician using an electronic health record (EHR) has seen them. Past diagnosis zombies that stumble endlessly through every encounter record. “Coronary heart disease” that the patient never really had, ”diabetes” that was only … Continue reading
Doctors’ Personal Health Choices
Tom Emerick Posted 2/28/12 on Cracking Health Costs Doctors often do not seek for themselves treatments they offer patients. This is particularly true for end of life care. I’ve seen examples of that all my career. I’ve also asked doctors about whether … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Medical Management, Physicians, Quality
Tagged Doctors, End of Life, Medical Management, Tom Emerick
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Can Medical Management Succeed Within A Fee-For-Service Environment?
Brian Klepper The column immediately below is an important discussion by Douglas Elmendorf, the Director of the CBO – actually it was prepared by Lyle Nelson of CBO’s Health and Human Services Division, but it has Mr. Elmendorf’s imprimatur – … Continue reading
Important Research From Medicare Demonstration Projects: Almost Nothing Works
Robert Laszewski Posted 1/23/12 on Health Policy and Marketplace Review I will suggest that most of us believe the way to control health care costs, and at the same time maintain or improve quality, is to both use the managed … Continue reading
Curbing Overuse of CT Scans – And Other Interventions
Kenneth Lin Posted 1/18/12 on Common Sense Family Doctor The urban public hospital where I completed most of my training as a medical student had a single CT scanner. To ensure that this precious resource was put to effective use, any … Continue reading
Posted in Medical Management, Physicians, Quality
Tagged Computer Tomography, CT, Kenny Lin, Medical Management
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Finally, a Good EHR Anecdote
Jaan Sidorov Posted 11/2/11 on the Disease Management Care Blog The Disease Management Care Blog remembers when it was first introduced to an electronic health record (EHR). After many days of learning how to document, link, retrieve, order, manage, view, … Continue reading
Predictive Modeling: The Second Most Important Ingredient for Provider Accountability
Jaan Sidorov First posted 10/04/11 on The Disease Management Care Blog “Accountability.” Everyone wants it, right? While it’s one thing for health care providers to be “accountable” for costs, it’s another for them to actually make money at it. The Disease Management … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Medical Management, Physicians, Quality
Tagged Case Management, Jaan Sidorov, Medical Management, Predictive Analytics
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Avatars, Computers and Robots Are Coming To Primary Care
Kent Bottles First posted 8/19/11 on Kent Bottles Private Views Within in five years primary care providers will begin being replaced by sociable humanoid robots, avatars, and computer programs. Within ten years you will no longer hear any complaints about medical … Continue reading
Why Medical Specialists Should Want to End the Reign of the RUC
Paul M. Fischer, MD The old doctors know. The practice of medicine has changed in a very basic way over the last 20 years. Physician relationships have lost their civility and have been replaced by a level of tension that … Continue reading
