Welcome to the Blogosphere! Voice on Population Health
The Care Continuum Alliance announces a timely new blog: Voice on Population Health. Tracey Moorhead, President and CEO of the Care Continuum Alliance, writes today’s inaugural post. She persuasively notes the increasing importance of the full continuum of population health interventions – wellness, prevention and other approaches to improving health, reducing disease risk and raising productivity. Bob […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - January 11, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Health Policy/Reform population health Source Type: blogs
Holiday Shopping Guide Edition of the Health Wonk Review
Check out the best of health care policy punditry on the Wright on Health blog. Brad Wright hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review.
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Source: e-CareManagement - December 8, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Blog Carnivals Health Policy/Reform Source Type: blogs
Getting An Epic Opinion Off My Chest
We need to be far more explicit in asking a subtle but critical question What are acceptable bases of competition in health care? My sense is that the distinctions here are not well understood and often go undiscussed, so I’ll quickly get to the point: It’s OK for care providers to compete on the bases […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - December 1, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Source Type: blogs
Leavitt ACO Report: Overstating or Understating Accountable Care Activity?
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have been likened to a unicorn — a fantastic creature that is vested with mythical powers. But no one has actually seen one. a camel — a horse designed by a committee, one that already has its nose in the tent With this background, you can begin to appreciate the difficulty of […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - November 30, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Health Policy/Reform accountable care ACO Source Type: blogs
The EHR|HIE Interoperability Workgroup — Potentially Earth-Shattering
Yesterday’s announcement of “Standard Health Data Connectivity Specifications” by the EHR|HIE Interoperability Workgroup (EHR|HIE WG) is potentially earth-shattering. My mom would not know what I mean by “Standard Health Data Connectivity Specifications,” so I’ll try to write this in plain English. Who Are These Guys? The EHR|HIE Interoperability Workgroup The workgroup consists of HIEs (Health Information […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - November 9, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) ACO app EHR HIE platform Source Type: blogs
Employers Perceive that Health Plans Add Value to ACOs
A just released study from Aon Hewitt and Polakoff Boland — 2011 Employer Driven Accountable Care Organizations Survey Report — examines employer attitudes toward ACOs. The report provides useful insights into an area that hasn’t yet received much attention. A couple tables in particular caught my attention. (click on the graphic to view a larger version) Key findings in […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - September 29, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Collaborative Care Management Networks accountable care ACO employers health plans hospitals Source Type: blogs
HealthCamp Oregon, Oct 22 — Hope to See You There!
. . . by Nate DiNiro HealthCamp Oregon is organizing 2 events during the 3rd week of October in Portland, Oregon. The events will focus on Healthcare, Health IT, the ePatient & Participatory Medicine movement and all-things Healthcare Transformation! The first event, a panel that will focus on the impact of […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - September 28, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Guest Posts Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) eHealth HealthCamp Source Type: blogs
Six Quick First Impressions of the CMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative (BPCII)
This afternoon CMS announced the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative (BPCII). For details, start reading here. Here are six quick first impressions: 1. It’s very creative and innovative. CMS has demonstrated out-of-the-box thinking and leaves a lot of room for applicants to propose their own approaches. Expect to have to read the materials 2-3 […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - August 24, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination ACO bundled payments CMS Source Type: blogs
The Practice of Medicine: from Marcus Welby to ???
by Jaan Sidorov MD, MHSA, FACP and Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA Physicians face great uncertainty. According to a survey conducted by The Physicians Foundation, the great majority of physicians (89%) believe the traditional model of independent private practice is either “on shaky ground” or “is a dinosaur soon to go extinct.” In the face of […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - August 22, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Collaborative Care Management Networks 100 Year Shift hospital payers physician physician alignment physician group primary care Source Type: blogs
Heatwave Edition of Health Wonk Review
Check out the latest Health Wonk Review written by Julie Ferguson at the Workers’ Comp Insider blog. Cool down and review summaries of the best writings of the healthcare blogosphere. Thanks, Julie!
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Source: e-CareManagement - July 21, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Blog Carnivals Miscellaneous Source Type: blogs
Physician-Hospital Relationships: The Hospital Morphs from Revenue Center to Cost Center
by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and Jaan Sidorov MD, MHSA, FACP In our introductory posting of this series, we noted that economic incentives previously aligning doctor-hospital interests were changing. This creates the potential for The 100 Year Shift – physicians awakening to possibilities for stronger partnerships with payers than with hospitals. In this post, we […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - July 19, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Collaborative Care Management Networks accountable care ACO health reform hospital physician Source Type: blogs
Will Health Plans Continue to Buy Up Hospitals?
I doubt it. IMHO, the recent acquisition by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of West Penn Allegheny Health System (WPAHS) for $475 M is unique to local market conditions. It was done as a last resort and should not be taken as a signal that health plans are starting a hospital buying binge. Why are hospitals […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - July 18, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Health Policy/Reform acquisition hospital Source Type: blogs
Platform Wars!
Click here or on the graphic to download a copy of my July 11 presentation from this year’s Healthcare Unbound conference.
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Source: e-CareManagement - July 13, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) conference Healthcare Unbound platform Source Type: blogs
Google+ Shines the Light on the Value of Data Portability
It’s understandable that a healthcare delivery system would have a mindset and business objective to keep referrals within its network of care providers. Businesses have a right and an obligation to try to hang on to their customers. It’s a different issue whether closed or walled garden HIT is an acceptable means toward that end. […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - July 10, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) ACO data portability Google Source Type: blogs
Payment Transformation: From Volume to Value
by Jaan Sidorov MD, MHSA, FACP and Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA In our introductory posting, we suggested that a huge shift is underway in the health care industry. Decades of hospital-physician cooperation are not only eroding, we suggest this trend could accelerate. Instead of a natural clinical and economic affinity with hospitals, we foresee the […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - July 7, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Collaborative Care Management Networks accountable care ACO health reform payment reform Source Type: blogs
