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Chronic Care

John Goodman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:41:26 +0000

John Goodman is the president of the National Center for Policy Analysis. By some estimates, more than half of US health care spending is for patients with chronic conditions. As I have previously reported, this money is spent very wastefully. Care is often delivered in discrete, disjointed and disconnected ways. The most efficient form of therapy [...]

Almost One in Five People are Managing Significant Health Care Dollars

John Goodman — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:18:30 +0000

John Goodman is the president of the National Center for Policy Alalysis This is from the National Center for Health Statistics: In 2007, 17.3% of persons under 65 years of age with private health insurance were enrolled in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP), 4.5% were enrolled in consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs), and 14.8% were in a family [...]

Yeah. PHRs. We want ‘em.

jennifergorman — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:27:16 +0000

This post is cross-posted from Jennifer McCabe’s blog “Health Managment Rx” Observations obtained during the course of the study suggest that issues of health and technology literacy, accessibility, privacy, autonomy, quality and accuracy, age, and social support within households and families are all variables relevant to the adoption and use of PCHRs. Broadly, researchers detected: A general [...]

How Would You Like to be in Medicaid?

John Goodman — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:03:02 +0000

Under health reform plans being considered in Congress (including Sen. Kennedy’s) millions of people will be added to the Medicaid rolls - many losing private coverage in the process. This is from the Merritt Hawkins and Associates study, previously reported on here and in the Dallas Morning News: In Dallas and Philadelphia, only 8% of cardiologists [...]

A New Spin on “Meaningful Use” Definitions - What is a “Meaningful User?”

jennifergorman — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:06:02 +0000

This post is cross-posted from Jennifer McCabe’s blog’s Health Management RX. A formal definition of “meaningful use” of electronic health records is in the works and should be released in the not-too-distant future, Charles Friedman, deputy national coordinator of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said at a health IT conference. Meaningful use [...]

FYI | Where Health Care is Really, Really Expensive

John Goodman — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:53:02 +0000

John Goodman is the president of the National Center for Policy Analysis McAllen, Texas….. is one of the most expensive health-care markets in the country. Only Miami - which has much higher labor and living costs - spends more per person on health care. In 2006, Medicare spent fifteen thousand dollars per enrollee here, almost twice [...]

McAllen Texas: A Less Exciting Explanation

Jaan Sidorov — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:40:46 +0000

Readers may recall McAllen Texas was the topic of an essay in The New Yorker magazine by the impressive surgeon-essayist and Democratic advisor Atul Gawande. The McAllen ‘hospital referral region’ has the dubious distinction of being identified by the Dartmouth Atlas as close to the top nationwide for the amount of total fee-for-service Medicare dollars [...]

Don’t Give Up on The Personal Health Record

Mark Scrimshire — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:38:14 +0000

This is an extract and re-post from Mark Scrimshire’s blog: ekive.blogspot.com In the prelude to the recent Health2.0 conference held in Boston, e-Patient Dave’s experience in importing his medical claims records to Google Health got picked up by the Boston Globe. This has sparked a fascinating debate. You need to read Dave’s post. At the recent Web [...]

American Public Understands PHR, eHealth Privacy Risks

jennifergorman — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:43:25 +0000

This post has been cross-posted from Jen McCabe’s blog Health Management Rx Six in 10 Americans don’t believe that their medical records or personal information will remain confidential if they are stored and made accessible online, according to a recent survey on health-related issues conducted by NPR, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard School of Public Health. More [...]

Health Alert - The Republican Health Plan

John Goodman — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:15:00 +0000

John Goodman is the President of the National Center for Policy Analysis The biggest mistake Hillary Clinton made 15 years ago was not endorsing Bob Dole’s health bill, which had more than 40 Republican co-sponsors. The Dole bill would have given her 70% to 80% of everything she wanted anyway, to say nothing of creating a [...]