Dev | Working with Open Health Data APIs. Health Barometer 2011: Global Findings. Mark Scrimshire: "RT @healthythinker:How nat. #Health3 How #HIE drives down ER use and drives up Medical Home use. Health 3.0: The Next Online Generation Conference in Orlando Florida. Here is the outline for this session from the published Agenda. Learn How a Health Information Exchange (HIE) works toDrive ER Use Down and Medical Home Use Up for ImprovedHealthcare OutcomesThis session presents a case study of the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange (WHIE). From this study, learn strategies that can be implemented by health plans for effective utilization management through a Health Information Exchange. This will prove how an information support network can add value to the health plan as well as the provider community. As a result, populations will experience improved health outcomes through appropriate use coordination.
Manage appropriate ER usePromote Medical Home PCP involvementGenerate improved health outcomesReduce costs to insurersAchieve accountable care objectives Tom LutzowChief Executive OfficerINDEPENDENT CARE HEALTH PLAN ICHP is a managed care plan established in the early 1990's. Share photos on Twitter. Chaîne de BlueCrossLA. #Health3 Summarizing the conference - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. #Health3 Panel discussion on risks in Social Media - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous.
#health3 health plans and social media panel discussion - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. #Health3 My Navigating risk in #hcsm / mobile session and followed by mHealth Innovations by @endogoddess - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. Mobile and Social Media Information Exchange: Health 3.0. Share photos on Twitter. Mark Scrimshire Presentations. #Health3 Redesigning Finding a Provider - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. #Health3 Create Cost Transparency - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous.
#Health3 Drive Engagement and Change Behavior for Wellness and Care Management - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. #Health3 StrategicPartnerships with Third Party Administrators for HRA/HSA - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. #Health3 How to Evaluate and Measure Social Media for Health Amelia Burke @socialibriumm - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. #Health3 2011 and beyond - a panel discussion - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. #Health3 Winning in the Relationship Era - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. #Health3 63M visits to KP.org in 2009 - How? - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous.
#Health3 How #HIE drives down ER use and drives up Medical Home use - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. #Health3 Conference opens with remarks from Rose Gantner, Sr. Director UPMC - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. Why should social media be important to healthcare companies. #Health3 Engaging the Patient in a mobile world (Dusty Fisher) - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous. #Health3 :The next online generation - Live Blogging from the Orlando Conference - More pre-blogspot than pre-posterous.
SNOMED. Hospital. #health2con - The Patient is in! #Health2con - Supporting the Doctors Office. #health2con - Payers and Health 2.0. Health Care: First, We Need To Reform Ourselves - UConn Emphasizes Defense In Blue-White Spring Game EAST HARTFORD — Defense – clap, clap – defense … The UConn football team was all about defense Saturday during the annual Blue-White Spring Game played before 6,500 at Rentschler Field.
The scoring system was kind of quirky.... Dolson, Hartley Expected To Go Early In WNBA Draft Winning nine national championships, one World Championship and an Olympic gold medal gives Geno Auriemma the forum to tell WNBA coaches and general managers what he thinks. Diaco Changing The Football Culture At UConn EAST HARTFORD — On Wednesday, he brought them over in full practice gear to the women's national championship victory rally on campus. Diaco Changing The Football Culture At UConn. HealthCard Sample. By T.R. Reid -- Five Myths About Health Care in the Rest of the World - washingtonpost.com.
As Americans search for the cure to what ails our health-care system, we've overlooked an invaluable source of ideas and solutions: the rest of the world. All the other industrialized democracies have faced problems like ours, yet they've found ways to cover everybody -- and still spend far less than we do. I've traveled the world from Oslo to Osaka to see how other developed democracies provide health care. Instead of dismissing these models as "socialist," we could adapt their solutions to fix our problems. To do that, we first have to dispel a few myths about health care abroad: 1. It's all socialized medicine out there. Not so. In some ways, health care is less "socialized" overseas than in the United States. 2.
Generally, no. In France and Japan, you don't get a choice of insurance provider; you have to use the one designated for your company or your industry. Canadians have their choice of providers. As for those notorious waiting lists, some countries are indeed plagued by them. HealthCampMN. Invalid quantity. Please enter a quantity of 1 or more. The quantity you chose exceeds the quantity available. Please enter your name. Please enter an email address. Please enter a valid email address. Please enter your message or comments.
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By HUMPHREY TAYLOR Humphrey Taylor is Chairman of The Harris Poll. Prior to joining Harris, Taylor worked in Britain where he conducted all of the private political polling for the Conservative Party and was a close adviser to Prime Minister Edward Heath in the 1970 campaign and subsequently to Margaret Thatcher. What do people really think about health care reform? When political issues are difficult and complicated, published polls sometimes confuse rather than enlighten the debate. And health care reform is fiendishly complicated, with many different issues and many different proposals for addressing them.
No wonder that the debate is generating more heat than light. While policy makers have to address the details of the proposed policies, most people do not. However, if you study all the polls, as opposed to cherry picking them as many politicians do, a clear picture of public opinion emerges: Most people are unhappy with the current health care system and favor reform. The Health Care Blog: How to Rein in Medical Costs, RIGHT NOW. By GEORGE LUNDBERG I believe that there are still many ethical and professional American physicians and many intelligent American patients who are capable of, in an alliance of patients and physicians, doing “the right things”. Their combined clout is being underestimated in the current healthcare reform debate.
Efforts to control American medical costs date from at least 1932. With few exceptions, they have failed. Health care reform, 2009 politics-style, is again in trouble over cost control. It would be such a shame if we once again fail to cover the uninsured because of hang-ups over costs. Physician decisions drive the majority of expenditures in the US health care system. Fee-for-service incentives are a key reason why at least 30% of the $2.5 trillion expended annually for American health care is unnecessary.
Story continues below Currently several House and Senate bills include various proposals to lower costs. George D. Filed Under: Uncategorized. The Health Care Blog: Two rules by which to judge a health reform bill. By Matthew Holt Right now we have sausage-making going on in DC and lots of uninformed opinions and outright lies being strewn across the front pages and on cable from newly declared experts. I sat in an airport last night and heard 5 Wall Street pundits spewing rubbish about health reform on one cable show. It even included an aging upper-class British twit declaring that government health care was more expensive than private systems.
Clearly he’d managed to miss comparing the 8% of GDP his (and my) original homeland spends on health care versus the 17% we spend here. Later on CNN had 4 random people including Christine Hefner—yes one of those Hefners—talking about it. I suspect that if you know something about health care and your name’s not Michael Cannon you’re just not allowed on cable TV.
Rule 1 A health care reform bill needs to guarantee that no one should find themselves unable to get care simply because they cannot afford it. Seventy years later the story is the same. Better Health » Where Obama Is Right On Health Care Reform. July 31st, 2009 by Happy Hospitalist in Better Health Network, Health Policy Cost is the enemy here. via the WSJ blog “If we do not control these costs, we will not be able to control our deficit. If we do not reform health care, your premiums and out-of-pocket costs will continue to skyrocket. …if somebody told you that there is a plan out there that is guaranteed to double your health care costs over the next 10 years, that’s guaranteed to result in more Americans losing their health care, and that is by far the biggest contributor to our federal deficit, I think most people would be opposed to that.Well, that’s status quo.
That’s what we have right now.” Proponents and supporters can argue forever about whether this is the fault of the free market or the fault of too much or too little government. Every insurance I am involved with has a beginning and an end. With health care insurance, we haven’t defined an end point. The current model is not sustainable. Obama is right. Better Health » Advertising On Cigarette Packs May Help Smokers Quit. July 25th, 2009 by Jonathan Foulds, Ph.D. in Better Health Network, Health Tips You may have noticed that over the past few years the cigarette companies have been trying to persuade the pubic that they are really nice people trying to make the world a better place. For example, at the start of this decade in the U.S. we saw ads on T.V. showing that Philip Morris tobacco company was bringing bottled water to flood victims or donating to good causes.
Why would I be cynical and call this a P.R. stunt? Well for one thing because they spent more money on telling the public about the good deeds than on the good deeds themselves! More recently companies like Philip Morris have been involved in such odd activities as providing consumers with booklets designed to help them to quit smoking. Of course, if the tobacco companies really did have their customers best interests at heart they would withdraw their products completely. Hypertension. Two Trillion Dollars in Healthcare Reform is a Game Changer for Hospitals : Better Hospitals. The Clearinghouse is Dead. (HealthNewsDigest.com) - Transformation of the nation’s healthcare system will require fundamental changes in the rules and regulations governing healthcare delivery, as well as the key players.
The most important of these required player changes will be the replacement of traditional clearinghouses with transaction integrators. The claims clearinghouse traces its modern day origin to the 1970s and the first significant applications of automated processing for the insurance industry. Data entry clerks fed mammoth machines using dumb terminals to key in data from paper forms. Batch programs lumbered overnight to churn these mountains of data into even more paper for distribution through the U.S. In many ways the fundamentals of the 70s-era clearinghouse model still exist. Without question the road to a digital revolution in healthcare is littered with many obstacles, chief among them the reliance on an inadequate data exchange infrastructure dominated by claims clearinghouses. Mark J. TEDMED. Hospital impact - Healthcare Complexity: The elephant in the room.
Guest post by Dr. Marc D. Rothman A sobering article this summer in Archive of Internal Medicine highlighted yet another way in which, despite all the good intentions of high-tech folks like us and our reliance and devotion to our digital tools, some of the most basic differences between groups of people continue to predict who does well and who does not when it comes to health care for older people. As if income, insurance coverage, and race weren’t enough… enter ‘health literacy;’ the ability to read, understand, and utilize basic health-related information like prescription bottle labels and appointment slips. The authors looked at more than 3500 people over 65 years, tested their initial health literacy and followed them for 6 years. A quarter of the folks had inadequate health literacy, meaning they misread prescription bottles and appointment slips.
Though the study was well done and interesting, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me. Dr. Dr. Gwenn Is In: Twitter Meets Health 2.0 Boston and redefines the press corps. Health 2.0 meets Ix: The Rise of the Patient Voices. I have been following with real interest the notes and discussions about the Health 2.0/Ix conference that took place in Boston last week. I am not willing to get involved in this discussion because in some ways I think it missed the most important aspect of the conference. I did send a tweet showing my personal displeasure with the intermingling of the commercial presentations with the conversations about what we (we as collaborative) are doing to keep/nourish a highly productive and innovative hive.
I think the conference would benefit from separating the two. But this criticism does not, in any way, take away the fact that for the first time at a major health-related conference the patient voices were clearly at the center of all the conversations. Participatory Medicine was the meme of this conference. E-Patient Dave talks about Participatory Medicine “Thank You for reminding all of us that this is all about the patients! For sure I should have quoted e-Patient Dave when he said: 25 Excellent Social Media Sites for Your Health. Recently, Health 2.0 reported that 34 percent of Americans turn to social media for health research. Their information, based upon an iCrossing report, shows that consumers choose Wikipedia, online forums and message boards as their most favored resources for information. Additionally, while these users are looking for answers, they also seek support and interaction. Interaction is what makes social media a bit different than Web 2.0.
While Web 2.0 provides the tools for interaction between a user and a Web site, it may not provide the interaction required for a true “social” experience between the user and other users or site participants. For instance, teens and some adults who have disabilities and diseases such as cancer already use social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.com to connect with peers. Social media is not “top down” information with little to no interaction. The following sites are listed alphabetically under each category. Take Two Aspirin And Tweet Me In The Morning: How Twitter, Facebook, And Other Social Media Are Reshaping Health Care -- Hawn 28 (2): 361 -- Health Affairs. Abstract If you want a glimpse of what health care could look like a few years from now, consider “Hello Health,” the Brooklyn-based primary care practice that is fast becoming an emblem of modern medicine.
A paperless, concierge practice that eschews the limitations of insurance-based medicine, Hello Health is popular and successful, largely because of the powerful and cost-effective communication tools it employs: Web-based social media. Indeed, across the health care industry, from large hospital networks to patient support groups, new media tools like weblogs, instant messaging platforms, video chat, and social networks are reengineering the way doctors and patients interact. Patients and pioneering medical practices show it can be done. If you want to get a glimpse of what high-tech health care could look like one day in the U.S., say hello to “Hello Health.” Want to know more about your Hello Health doctor? In effect, Hello Health is operating as a kind of “concierge” practice. Dr. Metavante Emergency HealthManager - HealthVault. Meaningful EHR User. I predict that “meaningful EHR user” will become the most overused term in EHR and Healthcare IT adoption over the next year.
Since the term seems to be the cornerstone of receiving a part of the $20 billion EMR stimulus package, then I thought it might be a good idea to understand how HHS might define what a “meaningful EHR user” will need to do. Luckily Patricia King, a health care attorney in Illinois, posted the criteria for being a meaningful EHR user on NetDoc as follows. To be a “meaningful EHR user”, the physician must satisfy three criteria: The physician must use “certified EHR technology” in a meaningful manner, including electronic prescribing. The law calls for creation of a health information technology (HIT) Policy Committee, and an HIT Standards Committee. The HIT Policy Committee will focus on development of a nationwide health information infrastructure, while the HIT Standards Committee will recommend standards, implementation specifications and certification criteria. Another Bump on The Road To The Medical Home | BNET Healthcare Blog | BNET.
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