People Post: Staff Changes And Job Openings In Health Philanthropy
Carmen Anderson has been promoted to director of equity and social justice with the Heinz Endowments. The position is within its Children, Youth, and Families program, where she previously was a senior program officer. Before she joined the endowments in 2000, Anderson was the executive director of Healthy Start Inc., a federal public health initiative to reduce infant mortality in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Allegheny County.
Suzanne Brundage has been chosen as the United Hospital Fund’s (UHF’s) inaugural Patricia S. Levinson Fellow. The fellowship aims to advance the UHF’s efforts to improve health care for vulne...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 18, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Lee-Lee Prina Tags: GrantWatch Alaska Children Colorado health equity Health Philanthropy Kansas New York City Patient Safety States Source Type: blogs
Telehealth: Cost Saver or Cost Driver?
Over 1 million virtual doctor visits were reported in 2015. Telehealth companies have long asserted that increased access to physicians via video or phone conferencing saves money by reducing office visits and Emergency Department care. But a new study calls this cost savings into question. Increased convenience can increase utilization, which may improve access, but not reduce costs.
The study has some obvious limitations. First of all, it followed patients who used one particular telehealth service for one specific cluster of disease (“respiratory illness”) and narrowed the cost measure to spending on that co...
Source: Better Health - April 7, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Dr. Val Jones Tags: Opinion Costs DocTalker eDocAmerica Health Insurance HSA Outpatient Medicine Telehealth Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Direct Primary Care: Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Gold
https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/hbdew055-david-e-williams-interviews-dr-jeffrey-gold.mp3
When we think of insurance, it’s usually for things that are rare and expensive. You never want to use your car insurance, fire insurance, or disability insurance and you don’t use file a claim for routine things like changing the oil, buying a fire extinguisher or missing a day of work with a sore back. Insurance works best when it spreads big risks over a large pool of people.
But healthcare is different, and health insurance covers even small, routine things like primary care physician visits. Direct prim...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 6, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Entrepreneurs Physicians Podcast direct primary care Source Type: blogs
Should Doctors Think?
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD
It has been suggested that to improve quality in healthcare we must reduce variability in how diseases are diagnosed and treated.
It has been inferred that clinical outcomes would improve exponentially if doctors would only follow established guidelines instead of their own whims.
I take that to mean if doctors didn’t think for themselves so much, the health of our nation would be better. I take that to mean that we may be overqualified for the simple work of delivering “evidence based care”.
That is the fantasy of the non-clinician creators of our new medical world order.
Doctors spend al...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Project ECHO: Misplaced Skepticism Should Not Overtake Its Promise
In a recent Health Affairs Blog post titled “Project ECHO: Enthusiasm Overtakes Evidence,” Christopher Langston questions the value of investing in Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a technology-enabled collaborative learning model originally developed by Sanjeev Arora, a physician at the University of New Mexico, to train primary care clinicians in rural communities to treat patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.
Over the past few years, an increasing number of philanthropic organizations (the New York State Health Foundation, GE Foundation, Greater Rochester Health Foundation, He...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 24, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: José Pagán, Elisa Fisher, Michael Hasselberg and Yeates Conwell Tags: Costs and Spending Featured GrantWatch Health IT Health Professionals Organization and Delivery Quality Project ECHO Source Type: blogs
Concierge Cardiology: podcast interview with Wayne Lipton
https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/hbdew0052-david-e-williams-interviews-concierge-choice-physicians-ceo-wayne-lipton.mp3
Wayne Lipton runs Concierge Choice Physicians, which converts traditional physician offices to “hybrid”concierge practices that provide new options for patients and increase physician income. While we typically hear about concierge practices in primary care, the model is expanding to other specialties.
In this podcast interview, Wayne and I discuss the hybrid concierge model for cardiology:
(0:11) What is a typical cardiologist’s practice like these days and how has it chang...
Source: Health Business Blog - January 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Entrepreneurs Physicians Podcast cardiology concierge choice physicians concierge medicine Source Type: blogs
Project ECHO: Enthusiasm Overtakes Evidence
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a popular model for improving patient outcomes through provider education, which has grown rapidly since its initial success in the treatment of Hepatitis C. Recently, the U.S. Senate passed the ECHO Act, calling for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to examine the model and implicitly to spread it through existing programming. Unfortunately, the evidence of the benefits of ECHO appear to be far more limited than is generally understood and we are in substantial danger of making public policy decisions without adequate clinical results, much less cost-e...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 3, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Christopher Langston Tags: Featured Health Professionals hepatitis C Physicians Primary Care Project ECHO Source Type: blogs
The Top 10 Health Affairs Articles Of 2016
Here they are! The 10 most-read Health Affairs articles of 2016. It’s no surprise that, like the journal, this list covers a lot of territory.
Coming in at number one is a July 2016 article by Ashley C. Bradford and W. David Bradford examining the relationship between state medical marijuana laws and prescription drug use under Medicare Part D. Next up is Ge Bai and Gerard F. Anderson’s study identifying key characteristics of the most profitable hospitals in the United States.
From there, the list ranges across topics as varied as childhood immunization, retail clinics, and physician quality reporting. And of course, ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Health Affairs Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured HATop10 Health Affairs journal Source Type: blogs
A Funder Collaborative To Integrate Oral Health Into Primary Care Sets The Bar
My experience with collaboration among foundations to achieve a particular goal has varied widely in my dozen years at the REACH Healthcare Foundation. While some collaborations have just resulted in stronger personal relationships with funder colleagues, other collaborative endeavors have reminded me of childhood experiences at camp where we would be urged to run through the woods on a “snipe hunt” in search of an elusive, and imaginary, bird, only to come up empty-handed and a little wiser.
A recent collaboration in which I was involved, however, set the bar in terms of exceeding expectations and resulting in a lasti...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Brenda Sharpe Tags: Featured GrantWatch Health Professionals Organization and Delivery Public Health Oral Health Source Type: blogs
CMS Issues Final Rule on CY 2017 Physician Fee Schedule
Conclusion
The CY 2017 PFS final rule is the latest showing of the Administration-wide strategy to create a health care system that results in better care, smarter spending, and a healthier population.
Related StoriesOpen Payments Having an Adverse Effect on Physician-Rep RelationshipsCMS Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Evaluation ReleasedCMS Releases MA and Part D Landscape Information for 2017 (Source: Policy and Medicine)
Source: Policy and Medicine - November 2, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
What ’s New and In the Queue for Academic Medicine
What’s New: A Preview of the November Issue
The November issue of Academic Medicine is now available! Read the entire issue online at academicmedicine.org or on your iPad using the Academic Medicine for iPad app. Highlights from the issue include:
Holistic Review in Medical School Admissions and Selection: A Strategic, Mission-Driven Response to Shifting Societal Needs
Conrad and colleagues argue that holistic review is a strategic, mission-driven, evidence-based process that recognizes diversity as critical to excellence, offers a flexible framework for selecting future physicians, and facilitates achieving in...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 1, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Issue Preview addiction medicine admissions holistic review medical students primary care residents selection Source Type: blogs
Whose Hospitals Are They, Anyway? - Steward to Sell Off, but Continue Operating All Its Hospitals
This looks like the latest trend in thefinancialization of and diffusion of accountability for health care organizations. The case involves good ol 'Steward Health Care, which was the subject of quite a fewHealth Care Renewal posts back in the day.Background - Caritas Christi Bought by Cerberus Capital Management, Became Steward Health Care[Cerberus, the three headed dog,per William Blake]Steward is what used to beCaritas Christi Health Care System, formerly a Catholic, non-profit health care system in Massachusetts. In 2010, Caritas Christi was purchased by Cerberus Capital Management, aprivate equity, aka lev...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 29, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Cerberus financialization hospital systems private equity Steward Health Care Source Type: blogs
