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May 03, 12 12:59PMOver the past decade, I’ve seen a number of studies asking people whom they trust among various health care stakeholders. Nurses, pharmacists, and doctors always come out at the top. Beyond...
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Apr 24, 12 11:56AMOne of the biggest concerns about ACOs has been their potential to enable market consolidation— that by uniting health care providers the ACO gains market clout and ability to charge higher pric es...
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Apr 11, 12 03:50PMI’m surprised and intrigued by Medicare’s announcement of 27 new Shared Savings model ACOs. Surprised I had been anticipating this announcement as a defining moment for Medicare’s th rust...
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Apr 05, 12 12:10PMOn the Perficient Health IT blog, Christel Kellogg writes: I am hearing that carriers are staying away from ACOs and are not planning on partnering. What have you heard? This is one of thos e...
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Mar 15, 12 12:16PMLast week I wrote about five key differences between formal ACOs (mainly care providers contracting with Medicare) and informal Accountable Care-Like (AC-Like) arrangements between care provider s...
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Mar 15, 12 09:59AMHead on over to Boston Health News to read the latest in health wonkery! Tinker Ready greets us with the St. Patrick’s Day Edition of the latest and best coming from the health care blogosphere. nbsp...
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Mar 13, 12 02:00PMLet’s look at the U.S. smartphone operating system (OS) market as an example. In 2007, Apple iOS and (Google) Android had a collective market share of 0%. Today they have a collective market sha re...
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Mar 09, 12 08:33AMA lot. AC-Like arrangements will be MUCH simpler to create and maintain. The health care market is moving toward accountable care. There are at least two broad paths forward: 1) Formal Accountable Car e...
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Mar 07, 12 05:02PMCompetition today in healthcare encourages care providers to hoard patient data. That’s inefficient, ineffective, and just plain wrong. But we’re seeing light at the end of the tunne l...
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Mar 02, 12 11:31AMImplications of a Shifting National HIE Architecture March 5, 2012 @ 1:00PM Eastern COURSE DESCRIPTION: A recent paper by Dr. Les Lenert published in the Journal of the American Medical Informa tics...
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