The Population Health Blog

Years ago, I was contacted by a health plan about an elderly nursing home patient who had not been screened for osteoporosis. While brittle bones are a big problem in skilled nursing settings ,...

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The Disease Management Care Blog resurfaces momentarily to repost a "Ten Healthcare Predictions for 2019" post from LinkedIn.  The busy DMCB is CEO of The Care Centered Collaborative at the Pen...

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The Disease Management Care Blog's colleague, Otto Wolke, R.Ph., a former Vice President of a managed care pharmacy plan and industry leader, submitted the following post.    He speaks tru...

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ZDoggMD makes some good points, slips in a sly reference about one EHR provider and salutes another. Ten years that have passed since I wrote this article , and we still have a way to go.

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While there many maxims about the delivery of healthcare, the MedSolis  Chief Medical Officer PHB has discovered that three in particular stand out: 1) Many healthcare outcomes are more a fu...

http://diseasemanagementcareblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/countering-cruel-tutelage-ofhealthcare.html

While readers digest the reality of a Trump Presidency and Republican control of both houses of Congress, the Population Health Blog (PHB) has been trying to assess the "down ballot" implications...

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Do you care about baseball?  Do you fret about politics? Neither does the Population Health Blog. But that doesn't mean heading over to Brad Wright's Health Wonk Review: The Game 7 of Politics...

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Whatever Population Health Blog (PHB) readers may believe about the 1) the timing of FBI Director Comey's announcement about the discovery of a cache of Huma Abedin emails "that appear to be p...

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That's right, Paduda's Pre-election pundit ponderings is now present for your perusal and learning pleasure.   Enjoy!

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According to this BloombergTechnology report , "some" customers of health insurer Aetna will get a discount on Apple's smartwatch. In the meantime, Aetna's employees will get the watch at "no co...

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This is a post authored by the folks at ph360 . The Population Health Blog was intrigued by the innovative combination of personalized dietary wellness management, evidence-based medicine, consu...

http://diseasemanagementcareblog.blogspot.com/2016/08/when-diet-meets-technology.html

Check out this Health Wonk Review post by Healthcare Economist blogger Jason Shafrin .  There's something for everyone: health insurance, mental health, pharmaceuticals, regulations, privacy, ...

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The Population Health Blog had time to go back and review this New England Journal article on "return on investment" in healthcare It's abbreviated "ROI." In it, academic researchers David ...

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All aboard! In a first for the Journal of the American Medical Association ("JAMA"), President Obama has authored a Special Communication on "United States Health Care Reform ." As the Popu...

http://diseasemanagementcareblog.blogspot.com/2016/07/president-obama-writes-about-health.html

The Population Health Blog has been busy with building on the value proposition of IT-enabled care management , helping to plan a 2017 trade show agenda, training for a race , learning about cyb...

http://diseasemanagementcareblog.blogspot.com/2016/06/problem-based-wisdom-age-of-em.html

Practically nothing goes unexamined in the latest Health Wonk Review, which is hosted by the Health Affairs Blog .  Chris Fleming does a superb job of summarizing and linking the latest smart ...

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The latest Health Wonk Review is bustin' out and up at David Harlow's erudite HealthBlawg. Dance on over to the latest insights of the top health policy bloggers here . 

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Is the Population Health Blog due for a meal of humble pie? In this prior post , the PHB was "long" on Theranos' prospects.  Since that was written, Medicare has alleged that a company la...

http://diseasemanagementcareblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/pricing-product-and-audience-theranos.html

It's the 17th of May, which means it's Norway's Constitution Day.  Sort of like July 4th.  Which reminds the Population Health Blog..... If you are in D.C. in the coming weeks and have an i...

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"If elected, I'll....." Wright on Health pivots to an excellent "general election edition" of the Health Wonk Review.   After reading it, you'll be better informed than either Hillary o...

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"For 60 or 90 days of post-discharge care?" Writing in the April 26 issue of JAMA, Michael Jillinek of Lahey Health has some important advice for healthcare organization boards of directors...

http://diseasemanagementcareblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/governance-advice-for-hospital-boards.html

After all the buzz (for example ) around the coming launch of CMS' Comprehensive Primary Care "PLUS" program ,  the New England Journal of Medicine (or NEJM) just published a "special article...

http://diseasemanagementcareblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/medicares-comprehensive-primary-care.html

Peggy Salvatore of the Health System Ed blog has posted a Spring Edition of the Health Wonk Review.  This brainy compendium offers links to the latest health policy insights on topics that in...

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Readers interested in the $25 billion economics of peer-reviewed published research may have seen this article posted in the March 30 issue of The Wall Street Journal . Author Richard Aslin ...

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Welcome to the Health Wonk Review, a compendium of the latest insights from more than two dozen health policy blogs. Each HWR issue is hosted at a different participant's blog, with topics that ...

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