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Why Bundled Payments Are a Way Bigger Deal Than You Realize
By J.K. WALL The Obama administration proposed this month that the federal Medicare program make one bundled payment for each joint replacement surgery performed in Indianapolis, Evansville, South Bend and 72 other metro areas. This is the most significant...
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Wed, Jul 22 2015 9:28 AM
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Avoid ICD-10! Yes You Can!
By JACOB REIDER, MD Lots of news/talk about ICD-10 these days. Most organizations are spending time and money training care providers on it. Software developers are busy implementing it – often by changing diagnosis selection search menus from ICD...
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Thu, Jul 23 2015 2:34 PM
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THCB
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THCB
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ICD-10
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Jacob Reider
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ICD-9
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SNOMED-CT
The Feminization of Health Care
By AMY COMPTON-PHILLIPS, MD Historically, health care providers and health care leaders have been selected for and nurtured traits that are traditionally seen as “masculine” – traits such as heroism, independence, and competition. Yet it is clear that...
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Tue, Jul 07 2015 5:05 AM
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THCB
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THCB
(Even) More Disruption, Please !!
By KYLE ARMBESTER There are two questions I hear all the time from digital health care entrepreneurs: 1) How can I gain initial market traction? 2) How do I grow my client base? Health care is an incredibly tough market to sell into. Even if you have...
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Wed, Jul 08 2015 5:58 AM
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THCB
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THCB
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digital health
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Accelerator
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Startup
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Entrepreneur
What the Atlanta HIV Data Tells Us About Public Health in America
By MAITHRI VANGALA “The night I found out, I slept one and a half hours,” recalls D, a 29-year-old black gay man. He’s talking about being diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. “Even though I work in public health and tell people daily that...
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Fri, Jul 10 2015 11:54 AM
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THCB
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THCB
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CDC
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HIV
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AIDSVu
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Atlanta
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Maithri Vangala
Bungled Payments
By PAUL KECKLEY The proposal involves a five-year bundled payment model across 75 geographic areas whereby hospitals would be eligible for a bonus if their costs and outcomes were optimal or be penalized if not based on results 90 days post-discharge...
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Mon, Jul 13 2015 10:07 AM
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THCB
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THCB
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CMS
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Paul Keckley
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Burwell
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bundled payments
Physician Accountability Gets a Big Push Forward
By STEVE FINDLAY Doctors are human. Their talents and skills differ. They make mistakes. And as with every other area of human endeavor: some doctors are really good; some are pretty bad; most are average. If you are over age 50, you’ve likely met an...
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Wed, Jul 15 2015 3:20 PM
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THCB
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THCB
How Is Health Reform Impacting Insurance Switching Patterns?
By IYUE SUNG Americans typically don’t switch health insurance, and that has not changed much with healthcare reform. Despite controversy with the converse scenario – the ability to keep the same insurance – and the introduction of health insurance marketplaces...
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Fri, Jul 17 2015 7:14 AM
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Limelight Health raises $3m to automate insurance quotes
By MATTHEW HOLT A while back Michael Lujan, who was one of the originals working at Covered California, came to see me at the Health 2.0 office. He and his colleagues realized that the workflow for small business health insurance quotations between the...
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Mon, Jul 20 2015 5:00 AM
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THCB
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THCB
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Health 2.0
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Matthew Holt
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ACA
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Limelight Health
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brokers
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insurance quotes
Quantifying the Art of Medicine
By BRIAN C. QUINN Historically, placebos have been defined as a sugar pill or inert substance used as a control variable in experimental studies. Placebo effects were considered a nuisance. Researchers and clinicians have paid little attention to the...
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Wed, Jul 01 2015 3:12 PM
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THCB
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THCB
Designing With Data Across Devices
By MATTHEW HOLT If flying an airplane without cockpit instruments is equivalent to having no data about healthcare delivery, then flying an airplane with an overwhelmingly complex cockpit data environment is probably just as dangerous. In this compelling...
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Sat, Jul 04 2015 6:30 AM
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THCB
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THCB
Of PCPs and THC
By ROB LAMBERTS, MD The drug test came back abnormal. There was THC present. I walked back to Mrs. Johnson and raised my eyebrows. “What’s wrong?” she asked, not used to whatever kind of look I was giving her. “Uh, you forgot to...
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Wed, Jul 29 2015 7:24 AM
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THCB
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THCB
Xerox is extending to consumers & communities
By MATTHEW HOLT I’m steadily getting all those interviews I did 3+ months ago at HIMSS up onto THCB. (For those of you not paying attention we had a bunch of tech issues at THCB needing a big change and had to forswear videos for a while. But we’re...
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Thu, Jul 30 2015 11:36 PM
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THCB
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THCB
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Matthew Holt
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Tech
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Remote visit
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Healthspot
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Xerox
Calendar: Powering Medical Research With Data: The Research Analytics Adoption Model
By HEALTH CATALYST TODAY JULY 22/ 1 PM EST Analytics are becoming imperative to researchers in recruiting patients into studies, making breakthrough discoveries, as well as monitoring the clinical implementation of these discoveries. This webinar will...
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Wed, Jul 22 2015 7:46 AM
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THCB
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Death By Meeting
By JEFF GOLDSMITH It comes as no news flash that the baby boomers in health care leadership are starting to retire. I believe the generational transition in health care managers will bring profound changes. Specifically, it will bring a marked quickening...
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Sun, Jul 26 2015 12:03 PM
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THCB
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THCB
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Jeff Goldsmith
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cyberslacking
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