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Family Medicine: Physician Satisfaction with Chronic Care Processes: A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Guided Care
PewResearchCenter: Understanding the participatory news consumer – How internet and cell phone users have turned news into a social experience
Canadian Family Physician: New study looks at wheter computer use in patient-physician encounters influence patient satisfaction?
Commonwealth Fund: Paying the Price: How Health Insurance Premiums Are Eating Up Middle-Class Incomes
Canopy Financial: Average HSA account balances increase for first time since 2008
Health Affairs: High-Deductible Health Insurance Plans: Efforts To Sharpen A Blunt Instrument
Health Affairs: Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Deloitte puts out an Issue Brief touting the mobile personal health record as a key to reducing costs, primarily by better chronic condition management. There are a lot of barriers from vision to reality.
Tags: Consumers, Medical Care, Wireless
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, August 7, 2010
Summer begins to wane, but not our Potpourris. Another one full of useful data, including health insurance costs for 2011, a new telehealth joint venture, use of kiosks in physician offices, prostate cancer screening, health care use cutbacks, teledermatology and sharing of physician notes with patients.
Tags: Consumers, Health Care Costs, Health Insurance, Monitoring, Physicians, Telemedicine, Wellness and Prevention
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, July 20, 2010
A key premise of the consumer-directed health movement and a number of other health reform concepts is that patients can understand health information and choices and make good decisions. An AHRQ report gives reason to question that notion.
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, July 8, 2010
Preventive measures can help patients delay or prevent illness or can lead to early detection and usually better outcomes. Unfortunately many patients fail to take even the most basic preventive steps. A new study suggests just how difficult it is to change that behavior.
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, June 8, 2010
One theory for improving the health care system is to rely on more-informed and engaged consumers to help improve decision-making about treatment options. A recent Health Affairs article suggests there is a long way to go on this goal.
Tags: Consumers, Health Care Costs, Medical Care
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Boston College researchers have examined the expected remaining lifetime health costs for an average person at various ages and linked that expected spending to health status, finding that healthy people will actually end up spending more.
Tags: Consumers, Health Care Costs
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, May 22, 2010
Yet another in our long series of weekend catchup on miscellaneous health care items that we missed in earlier commentaries, including telemedicine, smoking bans, engagement in wellness efforts, the cost of high-risk pools, telemedicine and getting results in health improvement programs.
Tags: Consumers, Health Care Reform, HIT, Telemedicine, Wellness and Prevention
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The California HealthCare Foundation surveys consumers to ascertain attitudes toward health information technology. The results suggest that there is a high level of interest in using HIT but that few people either have access to core applications or have taken advantage of what is available.
by Kevin Roche on Friday, May 14, 2010
The California HealthCare Foundation put out a study on consumers’ and providers’ use of smartphones in regard to health care. The study has a number of useful statistics and identifies potential trends.
Tags: Consumers, Telemedicine
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, April 17, 2010
More exotic gleamings from the world of health care, including self-directed care, telemedicine, point-of-care diagnostics, HCA, doctor-patient interactions and socio-economic factors in health outcomes.
Tags: Care Management, Consumers, Diagnostics, Health Care Quality, Physicians, Telemedicine
by Kevin Roche on Friday, April 16, 2010
MetLife publishes its annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends, revealing that employers are concerned with cost control and employee retention and workers value their benefits and are particularly concerned about retirement.
Tags: Consumers, Health Insurance, Workplace
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, April 3, 2010
This week’s collection includes obesity, clinical trials results, how hospitals make money from physicians, strategic implications of reform, what reform is likely to do to young people’s insurance premiums and patents on genes. Enjoy!
Tags: Consumers, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Hospital, Physicians
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, April 1, 2010
What is the link, if any, between socio-economic status, health behaviors and health status? Researchers have theorized and pondered whether there is correlation or causation and in which direction. A new study from England provides some additional thoughts on the topic.
Tags: Consumers, Health Care Costs
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, March 31, 2010
As people live longer, and as there are more families with both spouses working, more employees are having concerns about managing the care of an ill parent. A MetLife study examines some of the issues.
Tags: Consumers, Medical Care
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, March 11, 2010
Physicians control almost all the utilization and spending in health care. Patients often ask or even demand some health services, which they often don’t need or which are not appropriate for the patient. Research looks at how physicians can persuade patients they don’t need a service or product.
Tags: Consumers, Medical Care, Physicians
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, February 13, 2010
One more Saturday….morning. And another potpourri of health care news. This one includes health information technology, consumer directed health plans, guidelines, support group functioning, end-of-life care and telemedicine.
Tags: Consumer Directed Health, Consumers, End-of-Life Care, HIT, Pay For Performance, Telemedicine
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, October 27, 2009
A Harris poll looks at Americans’ attitudes toward mobile healthcare and finds that those who use health care the most are also the most disengaged from these new technologies.
Tags: Consumers, HIT, Medical Care, Telemedicine
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Society for Participatory Medicine is starting a journal focused on shared decision making and other aspects of patient engagement in their medical care.
by Kevin Roche on Friday, October 16, 2009
Brookings forsees a health system which is organized around consumers’ management of their own care, with extensive use of mobile and telehealth technologies, and reimbursement and incentives to encourage widespread adoption of this consumer-centered approach.
Tags: Consumer Directed Health, Consumers, Medical Care, Telemedicine
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, October 14, 2009
AHRQ has released a survey of consumer attitudes about electronic health records and health IT. The people in these focus groups were less enthusiastic about the subject than many experts are.
by Kevin Roche on Friday, October 9, 2009
Several geneticists examine DTC genotyping and recommend some improvements.
Tags: Consumers, Genomics, Medical Care, Personalized Medicine
by Kevin Roche on Monday, September 21, 2009
New research reveals complex aspects of patients’ decision-making, depending on how information is presented.
Tags: Consumer Directed Health, Consumers, Medical Care, Patients
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Patients are increasingly involved in the management of their own health.
Tags: Care Management, Consumers, Medical Care, Patients
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, August 6, 2009
Patients are responsible for an increasing share of their medical expenses, which has increased provider bad debt and collection expense. In response, providers are asking to be paid at the time of service.
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Research and experience continues to confirm the value, in both cost savings and patient satisfaction, of extensive patient involvement in important health decisions.
Tags: Care Management, Consumer Directed Health, Consumers, Medical Care
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
by Kevin Roche on Monday, July 27, 2009
A new study provides more evidence on the effects of high deductible health coverage.
by Kevin Roche on Monday, July 27, 2009
Any health reform needs to ensure that there are adequate incentives to motivate individuals to take responsibility for lifestyle decisions that affect health.
Tags: Consumer Directed Health, Consumers, Incentives, Wellness and Prevention
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Patient cost sharing reduces utilization, but appears to limit use of appropriate as well as inappropriate care.
Tags: Consumers, Government, Health Care Costs, Incentives
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, July 2, 2009
A recent Kaiser Foundation data note looks at attitudes on paying for health reform.
Tags: Consumers, Government, Health Care Reform
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Shared decision-making for preference-sensitive conditions has the potential to improve quality and control spending. States are exploring required use of the technique and it should be considered in federal reform efforts.
Tags: Care Management, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Health Insurance
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, June 18, 2009
Many unions and some disease advocacy groups are objecting to the wellness and prevention provisions proposed in some health reform measures. In a USA Today article, the difficulties of our “system” once again point out the impediments to improvement.
Tags: Consumers, Health Insurance, Incentives, Wellness and Prevention
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
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, June 11, 2009
Illumina has announced that for $48,000 a consumer can have their entire DNA sequenced
Tags: Consumers, Genomics, Medical Care, Personalized Medicine
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