HPHC goes its way, thoughtfully
Lots of people are thinking about the form of payments between insurance companies and providers for health care services, but it is also important to think about how each such approach would be marketed as an insurance product to the population. The payment model that gets the most attention is capitated, or global payments, combined [...]
USMLE Genetics : Lac Operon Analogy
What is it and how does it work? One day, we (prokaryotes) realise that our normal food, rice/bread/wheat, (glucose) is no more!! And the only thing we can do now, is to eat delivered Hot Turkey (lactose) ! Now, the delivered Hot Turkey is outside our doorstep, but the thing is.. we are unable to [...]
A Potporri of News About Marketing & Social Media, Savings from Telephonic Disease Management and Methodologic Problems in the PCMH Pilot Evaluations
Today brings a grab bag of worthy news to the Disease Management Care Blog readers. Topics include social media, old fashioned telephonic disease management and the Patient Centered Medical Home. First off, did you know the population health/disease management company Healthways has a Facebook page devoted to its elder wellness program SilverSneakers? The Disease Management [...]
Special issue: Creating the winning organisation: managing transition as an impact of innovation
World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development 6(1/2) 2010 Fostering innovation: transition from chimps to hyena and lion type innovative enterprise Profiles of entrepreneurship and innovation: debate on business incubators in Brazil Developing and deploying your own rules of innovation Development of SMEs through clusters: a comparative study of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka [...]
An Important Health Affairs Article on Savings from Workplace Wellness Programs
None other than healthcare Obamacon rock star David Cutler has an article on the prestigious Health Affairs web site assertively titled “Workplace Wellness Programs Can Generate Savings.” Anyone interested in or in the business of worksite wellness should not only read it, they should email the link, twitter the link, download it and provide printed [...]
