Population health management, according to conventional wisdom, is typically an endeavor carried out with a big extensive patient encounter. Collect a whole lot of information about a patient and then attack all problems found simultaneously. This might be suboptimal. It’s fairly unlikely, if you think about it, that a patient will be able to tackle […]

Do we as an industry typically know what matters to our patients and how their lives affect their health and their health affects their lives? If we do, then three good things happen: patients feel better and their outcomes are better, provider experience goes up, and health organizations do better—readmits go down and margins go […]

As a broad stroke, value-based arrangements produce better patient outcomes than fee for service. Health care businesses, like all other businesses, are rational actors when it comes to the economics of their business models. So when it comes to value-based care, the business case for moving forward needs to be clear and present. My interest […]

Twenty thousand to 40,000 people die in this country every year because they were misdiagnosed. And more than 70% of treatment plans are suboptimal. This is no surprise, really. By 2020, medical knowledge is predicted to double every 73 days. For any condition that a physician or a department doesn’t see a whole lot of, […]

Today I speak with Stacey L. Worthy, Esq, a partner over at DCBA Law & Policy. She’s a former executive director of the Alliance for the Adoption of Innovations in Medicine (Aimed Alliance) that aimed, among other things, to curtail non–evidence-based medication switching and insurance processes designed to make it difficult for patients to get […]