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Chronic Disease Patients’ Use of the Internet
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, May 27, 2010
There is a lot of buzz about how the internet will affect health care and ultimately health. Research, including surveys, help keep us grounded with facts. As part of the research base, the Pew Research Center released a survey on chronic disease patients’ use of the internet.
Tags: Chronic Disease, HIT
2010 Potpourri III
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, January 23, 2010
Healthy health care snacks–concierge medicine, personalized medicine, health care hiring, electronic medical records, Medicaid, disease management–all for your reading pleasure on the weekend.
Tags: Care Management, Chronic Disease, Disease Management, HIT, Medical Care, Personalized Medicine, Physician Practice Models, Physicians
Disease Management Works If You Give It Time.
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, January 14, 2010
Skepticism has increased regarding the ability of disease management programs to create cost savings. A new white paper indicates that if the analysis is conducted over a multi-year period, savings are more likely to be found.
mobihealthnews
by Vita Advisors on Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Wireless remote monitoring technology developer MedApps announced partnership with Meridian Health to monitor recently discharged from acute care settings with CHF
Tags: Chronic Disease, Disease Management, Monitoring, Wireless
Remote Monitoring of Heart Failure Patients
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The Journal of the American College of Cardiology published a meta-analysis of usual care for heart failure patients versus regular telephone follow-up or remote electronic monitoring, finding that the latter approaches reduced hospitalizations and death.
Medicaid Recipients With Chronic Disease
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The Center for Health Care Strategies release an updated report on Medicaid enrollees with chronic disease, reaffirming how a relatively few patients account for well over half the total program spending.
Tags: Chronic Disease, Government, Medicaid, Medical Care
Use of Mobile Health Tools for Chronic Illness
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The California HealthCare Foundation releases a report on Participatory Health, which provides an introduction to the potential of online and mobile technologies in management of chronic illness.
Tags: Care Management, Chronic Disease, Devices, Medical Care, Telemedicine
Measuring Prevention’s Cost Savings
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, September 8, 2009
A new Health Affairs article suggests a different method to measure cost savings from disease prevention and management efforts.
Tags: Care Management, Chronic Disease, Medical Care, Wellness and Prevention
Hypertension Treatment Status
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, September 1, 2009
There are excellent hypertension treatments available but many Americans don’t know they have the condition and aren’t being treated.
Do We Really Need Another Reminder About the Problems With Government Health Programs?
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, August 25, 2009
USA Today published an article on the federal end-stage renal disease program. The problems are typical of most government health programs.
Tags: Care Management, Chronic Disease, Government
Another Approach to Managing Chronic Disease
by Kevin Roche on Friday, August 14, 2009
Because chronic disease accounts for a large percentage of total health spending, approaches to managing those diseases are constantly being developed and modified.
Obesity, Obesity
by Kevin Roche on Monday, August 3, 2009
A new study shows increasing amounts of US health care spending are caused by obesity.
Tags: Chronic Disease, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Wellness and Prevention
More on Prevention’s Cost Savings
by Kevin Roche on Sunday, June 14, 2009
The Wall Street Journal article summarized some research results regarding the potential cost savings of prevention and wellness efforts, particularly for persons with chronic diseases. The overall conclusion is that not much money is likely to be saved by such methods, primarily because the cost of these programs when applied to a large population tends to outweigh the health care cost savings which eventually accrue.
Tags: Chronic Disease, Consumers, Disease Management, Medical Care, Wellness and Prevention
The Value of Care Management
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, May 21, 2009
A recent article in The American Journal of Managed Care (volume 15, page 295, May 2009), described findings from a comparison within the Kaiser Permanente system of patients with diabetes who were subject to a care management program and those who were not.
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