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RAND Europe: Exploring business models for the implementation of value-creating and sustainable eHealth systems in Europe
Northwest Regional Telehealth: The Crossroads of Telehealth, Electronic Health Records and Health Information Exchange
Canadian Family Physician: New study looks at wheter computer use in patient-physician encounters influence patient satisfaction?
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Lessons from Telehealth Pioneers
by Kevin Roche on Friday, February 15, 2013
Telemedicine or telehealth has the potential to bring quality health care resources to patients in an efficient manner, but like many health care innovations, has gotten off to a slower start that many predicted. A Commonwealth Fund report on remote patient monitoring describes lessons from early adopters.
Tags: Telemedicine
Deloitte on mHealth
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, January 29, 2013
What is mHealth? And what impact will it have on health care? A new Deloitte Center for Health Solutions report attempts to provide answers and suggests that mHealth is transforming health care for the good. We’ll see.
Tags: Mobile, Telemedicine
2012 Potpourri XXIX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, October 5, 2012
Our first Potpourri in a while is as diverse and flamboyant as the fall colors, including items on the effectiveness of telemonitoring, the history of health “reform” in the United States, mortality and Medicaid eligibility expansions, continued issues with cost affecting access in Massachusetts and methods to help control imaging use.
Tags: Care Management, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Medicare, Telemedicine
Virtual Physician Consults
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, July 19, 2012
The British Medical Informations and Decision Making Journal carries research comparing traditional and virtual consulations. Patient satisfaction is equivalent across the two methods and doctors are also accepting of virtual visits.
2012 Potpourri XX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, June 15, 2012
Our Potpourri resumes, with information on consumer trust of insurers and providers, consumer use of online health information, price transparency in health care, imaging rates in integrated health care systems and effectiveness of telephonic depression therapy.
Tags: Care Management, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, HIT, Physicians, Telemedicine
2012 Potpourri XV
by Kevin Roche on Friday, April 27, 2012
Another tremendous edition of our Potpourri, featuring accountable care organization results, waste in our health system, self-referral costs, calculating hospital readmission rates and the benefits, if any, of telemonitoring frail seniors.
Tags: ACO, Care Management, Disease Management, Health Care Costs, Hospital Readmissions, Medicare, Physicians, Regulation, Telemedicine
2012 Potpourri XI
by Kevin Roche on Friday, March 30, 2012
Welcome to another Potpourri of health information, focusing on workers’ comp medical prices, cost-sharing on asthma meds, the Medicare Advantage program, doctors’ experience of quality improvement programs, a review of the last 60 years in health economics and the value of teledermatology.
Tags: Care Management, Consumers, Drugs, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Medicare, Physicians, Telemedicine, Workplace
2012 Potpourri VII
by Kevin Roche on Friday, February 24, 2012
Our latest Potpourri, a week late and we apologize, covers virtual coaching, the integration of drug and medical benefit management, how doctors chose to handle their own end-of-life care, Medicaid and ER visits, and malpractice and orthopedics.
Tags: Drugs, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Costs, HIT, Hospital, Malpractice, Medicaid, Physicians, Telemedicine, Wellness and Prevention
2012 Potpourri III
by Kevin Roche on Friday, January 20, 2012
Winter is getting long and tedious by now, but our Potpourri offers a welcome respite, with refreshing tidbits on hospital uncompensated care, teledermatology, Medicaid controls of antipsychotic use, Medicare cuts to osteoporosis testing payments, the relationship between primary care access and mortality risk, and where the United States will find cost-savings.
Tags: Drugs, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Hospital, Medicaid, Medicare, Telemedicine
2011 Potpourri XXXXIX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, December 23, 2011
Our penultimate Potpourri delivers the quality you are accustomed to (for good or bad), including presents of health information on the Medicare physician payment method, telemonitoring results in the UK, the effect of eprescribing on fill rates, issues relating to use of health information technology in the home, the effect of social network on health behavior and whether imaging results actually influence decision-making or outcomes. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Tags: Consumers, Drugs, HIT, HomeCare, Medicare, Physicians, Telemedicine, Wellness and Prevention
2011 Potpourri XXXXIII
by Kevin Roche on Friday, November 4, 2011
Winter nears but our Potpourri will distract you from the cold breezes, providing compelling nuggets on prostate screening recommendations, consumer use of technology for health, insurer medical cost trends, what to do about Medicare’s physician payments, heart failure hospitalization and mortality rates and rates of non-filling of new prescriptions.
Tags: Chronic Disease, Disease Management, Drugs, Health Care Costs, Health Insurance, HIT, Hospital, Medicare, Physicians, Telemedicine, Wellness and Prevention
2011 Potpourri XXXXI
by Kevin Roche on Friday, October 21, 2011
Another Potpourri, with tidbits on the Medicare Star program results for 2012, pain management, blood pressure management, Massachusetts’ physicians’ views on work and health care, online error reporting and the FDA and CMS parallel medical device review process.
Tags: Care Management, Devices, FDA, Health Insurance, Malpractice, Medical Care, Medicare, Physicians, Telemedicine
2011 Potpourri XXXIX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, October 7, 2011
October already!! Our 39th Potpourri of the year has many autumnal pleasures including selections on CMS’ Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, a proposed guidance for FDA to use for mHealth regulation, end-of-life care discussions, CMS’ multi-payer database award, expected 2012 medical trend, and delivery of unnecessary care by doctors.
Tags: Care Management, Comparative Effectiveness, End-of-Life Care, FDA, Health Insurance, HIT, medical home, Medicare, Physicians, Telemedicine
2011 Potpourri XXVII
by Kevin Roche on Friday, July 15, 2011
A mid-summer’s evening (or weekend) Potpourri, but no heated discussion here, just soothing nuggets of knowledge, including use and misuse of PCI, how to measure blood pressure, CMS and telemedicine, preventing falls, copying and pasting EHR notes, and physicians attitude to work and compensation.
Tags: EHRs, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Medical Care, Medicare, Physicians, Telemedicine
2011 Potpourri XXVI
by Kevin Roche on Friday, July 1, 2011
Fireworks galore for the Fourth of July Potpourri, including dynamite excerpts on the effects of parent caregiving on caregivers’ financial status; health insurance exchanges; physician compensation; provider performance data gathering and use; hospital market concentration; use of HIT in nursing homes and teen use of health websites.
Tags: Consumers, Elder Care, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, HIT, Hospital, Meaningful Use, Pay For Performance, Physicians, Telemedicine
2011 Potpourri XXI
by Kevin Roche on Friday, May 27, 2011
Our Memorial Day Potpourri, celebrating health information such as the growth of high-deductible plans, physician starting salaries, benefit design for high-cost conditions, why emergency room physicians order tests, the use of telehealth for heart failure patients and sources of physician pay.
Tags: Care Management, Chronic Disease, Health Care Costs, Health Insurance, Malpractice, Physicians, Telemedicine
Telehealth in the ICU
by Kevin Roche on Monday, May 23, 2011
An article in JAMA discusses research on the use of remote monitoring teams in intensive care units, finding significant benefits in consistency and quality of care and likely lower costs.
2011 Potpourri XIX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, May 6, 2011
Another edition of the Potpourri focuses on CMS and telemedicine, informal caregiver stress, wellness program results, emergency room visits, happiness and suicide, and sources for consumer health information.
Tags: Consumers, Elder Care, Physicians, Telemedicine, Wellness and Prevention
2011 Potpourri XV
by Kevin Roche on Friday, April 8, 2011
Our Masters week Potpourri masterfully covers such items as EHR satisfaction, ICU telemedicine, effects of concierge care on Medicare, failure to fill prescriptions, percent of household spending on health care by seniors, and drug rep visits to physicians.
Tags: Drugs, EHRs, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, HIT, Medicare, Physicians, Telemedicine
A Fool’s Potpourri XIV
by Kevin Roche on Friday, April 1, 2011
Every few years April 1st falls on a Friday, allowing us to put out our Potpourri on that day. As you might anticipate, one of our items this week is bogus, and it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out which one.
Tags: Care Management, Drugs, Health Insurance, Physicians, Telemedicine
Veterans Health Administration Telemedicine Projects
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, March 29, 2011
A review article of high quality studies on the VHA’s telemedicine initiatives suggests that those interventions had positive health outcomes and may also lower overall health care utilization and cost.
Tags: Government, Telemedicine
Boomers and Health Technology
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, February 2, 2011
The newly aging boomer generation is posited to be more receptive to use of a multiplicity of technologies in health care, with the end goal of being more responsible for their health and health care. A new report explores opportunities which arise as boomers age.
Tags: Consumers, Elder Care, HIT, Telemedicine
Home Care and TeleCommunications
by Kevin Roche on Monday, January 31, 2011
An outstanding Rand report describes the potential for home care technologies, barriers to their use and changes needed to overcome those barriers. The report paints a compelling picture of how greater care at home can benefit patients and the health system.
Tags: Chronic Disease, Elder Care, Health Care Costs, HomeCare, Telemedicine
2011 Potpourri V
by Kevin Roche on Friday, January 28, 2011
On we go, wading through piles of research to arm you with the most relevant snatches of data, this week featuring geographic variation in the quality of drug prescribing; use of Facebook communities for health purposes; physicians’ hourly wages; medication adherence programs; surgical safety improvement; and using survey data to assess patient satisfaction.
Tags: Consumers, Drugs, Malpractice, Medical Care, Pay For Performance, Physicians, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri XLIII
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, December 11, 2010
The snow is raging here in Minneapolis, but nothing stops the delivery of our Potpourri, which includes discussion of paybacks on EHRs, the fate of dialysis patients, use of telecommunciations to aid drug adherence, cost savings from select pharmacy networks and hospital readmissions.
Tags: Chronic Disease, HIT, Hospital, Medicare, Pharmaceutical, Telemedicine
TeleCare in the ICU
by Kevin Roche on Monday, December 6, 2010
New research from the New England Healthcare Institute examines use of telemonitoring of ICU patients and finds that it produces good outcomes and could create substantial cost savings in the state of Massachusetts alone.
Tags: Care Management, Hospital, Telemedicine
Communications Technology and Weight Loss
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, December 2, 2010
An article in Telemedicine and eHealth reviewed a number of technology based or assisted weight management programs to determine if they appeared effective and what the characteristics were of successful programs.
Tags: Care Management, Telemedicine
Does Telemonitoring of Health Failure Improve Outcomes?
by Kevin Roche on Monday, November 22, 2010
New research reported in the NEJM finds that telemonitoring of recently discharged heart failure patients did not result in better outcomes than did usual care, but characteristics of the study and analysis mean that the results should not be over-interpreted.
Telecare for Arthritis
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, November 11, 2010
Studies continue to show the value of telecommunications technology in lowering the cost of managing chronic disease while improving outcomes. A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine reports on telephonic support for self-management of osteoarthritis.
Tags: Care Management, Consumers, Telemedicine
Home Is Where the Care Is
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, October 28, 2010
The complexity and rate of change in health care sometimes makes spotting major trends difficult. One appears to be growth of home-based diagnostic and therapeutic care. An article in the New England Journal of Medicine discusses drivers for this trend.
Tags: Care Management, Consumers, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, HomeCare, Telemedicine
Physician Use of Email
by Kevin Roche on Friday, October 15, 2010
A recent survey and study examine physicians’ use of email to interact with their patients, finding very low rates of use, due to reimbursement and other concerns, as well as limited technical access. Expanded use could help reduce costs.
Tags: Physicians, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri XXXVII
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, October 9, 2010
The regular weekend lineup of health care news, including doctors trying to limit nurse anesthetists’ practices; text messaging for teenager dermatitis patients; Hewitt’s cost projections for 2011; physicians and the internet; how to calculate MLRs and use of incentive pay for physicians.
Tags: Health Care Quality, Health Insurance, Physicians, Regulation, Telemedicine
Can Online Care Reduce Other Visits
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Enthusiasm abounds regarding new forms of physician encounters, such as phone, email and video visits. A pilot study from the Mayo Clinic suggests that such visits may reduce in-person encounters and save money.
Tags: Consumers, Physicians, Telemedicine
Telephone Care Management Support
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, September 29, 2010
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine gives heart to supporters of telephone-based care management programs. Largely because of reduced hospitalizations, patients in the intervention arm had lower monthly medical costs, for a modest price.
Tags: Care Management, Chronic Disease, Health Care Costs, Telemedicine
Telemedicine for Hypertension
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Telemedicine is being applied to many diseases and conditions and telemonitoring is spreading as a core component of self-management of health and a method to ensure greater continuity of care. A survey of studies on telemonitoring for hypertension finds improved outcomes.
Tags: Care Management, Telemedicine
Virtual Hospital Wards
by Kevin Roche on Friday, September 3, 2010
A Commonwealth Foundation Brief describes a “virtual ward” model developed in Great Britain to minimize hospitalizations for chronic disease patients. Early results are encouraging and similar models are being tried in the United States.
Tags: Chronic Disease, Hospital, Medical Care, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri XXX
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, August 21, 2010
Another selection of medical delights, including a telemedicine study that didn’t show improved outcomes, a telemedicine study that demonstrated the value of teleaudiology, end-of-life care, physician quality measurement, hospital quality measurement, and telemedicine for CHF patients.
Tags: Health Care Quality, Hospital, Medical Care, Physicians, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri XXIX
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, August 14, 2010
Another Saturday, another Potpourri, featuring the acquisition of a hospital medical necessity company, Americans’ online health usage, analysis of prescriptions, California workers’ compensation, home monitoring of elderly parents, remote psychiatric evaluations and telemedicine to treat depression.
Tags: Care Management, Drugs, Elder Care, HIT, HomeCare, Medicare, Monitoring, Telemedicine, Workers Compensation
2010 Potpourri XXVIII
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
FDA/FCC Meeting On Wireless Health Devices
by Kevin Roche on Friday, August 6, 2010
Wireless or mobile communication technologies are enjoying a rapid spread in health care. Two of the primary federal agencies which might impact the development and spread of these technologies are the FCC and the FDA, which have agreed to work together in regulating them.
Tags: Devices, Regulation, Telemedicine, Wireless
2010 Potpourri XXVI
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, July 24, 2010
More midsummer musings, covering possible replacements for AWP, the effect of Part D on heart failure drug use, the VA’s telehealth programs, venture capital activity, self-management of high blood pressure, and of course, more problems with health insurance costs in Massachusetts.
Tags: Drugs, Financings, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Telemedicine
Telemedicine and Cancer Care
by Kevin Roche on Friday, July 16, 2010
A study reported in JAMA examines the use of telemedicine techniques to improve the management of pain and depression in cancer patients.
Tags: Care Management, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri XXIII
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, June 26, 2010
Once more into the breach with the Saturday health care roundup, including medication adherence, monitoring patients’ health status in their homes, Massachusetts’ reform update and insurance costs, hospitals’ economic contribution, hospital cost shifting and consumers’ views on use of health IT.
Tags: Drugs, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, HIT, HomeCare, Hospital, Monitoring, Telemedicine
The FDA and Mobile Health
by Kevin Roche on Friday, June 25, 2010
An FDA lawyer posts an excellent summary of potential issues in regard to FDA’s regulation of mobile health devices and services. He suggests that industry adopt a proactive approach of proposing sensible regulations and guidance to FDA.
Tags: FDA, Mobile, Regulation, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri XXII
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, June 19, 2010
Another weekend bonanza of health care items, including health insurance premium increases, genetic testing, remote patient monitoring, eye drug coverage by Medicare, emergency room use under the reform law and paying people to take their medicine.
Tags: Drugs, FDA, Health Insurance, Medical Care, Personalized Medicine, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri XXI
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, June 12, 2010
Another potpourri of health care items, including telemedicine, mergers and acquisitions, unnecessary medical care, Massachusetts struggle with health insurance rates and health costs, e-visits, and a different suggestion for reforming the system.
Tags: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, HIT, M&A, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri XX
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, June 5, 2010
More health care nuggets for the weekend, including personalized medicine, health reform, health insurance premiums, telemedicine, and community health centers.
Tags: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, HIT, Medicaid, Medical Care, Personalized Medicine, Telemedicine
Healthcare IT News
by Vita Advisors on Friday, June 4, 2010
A recent study finds that remote online visits with dermatologists achieved equivalent clinical outcomes for acne patients.
Tags: Telemedicine
Virtual Physician Visits
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, June 3, 2010
One emerging trend in health care is a patient’s ability to interact electronically with physicians, including by video-conference, from a variety of locations. A study suggests that both physicians and patients find these video visits to be acceptable.
Tags: HIT, Physicians, Telemedicine
New Research on Telemedicine
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Telemedicine has been cited for its potential to improve access and lower costs for patients and providers. Several new articles discuss telemedicine use for various health needs.
Tags: HIT, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri XIX
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, May 29, 2010
Summer is starting and you are just laying around at the beach or the lake, eager to get a few missed health care tidbits. Here they are! Telemedicine, health reform, employer provided health insurance, computers providing health care and a nice merger.
Tags: aquisitions, Health Care Quality, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, HIT, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri XVIII
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
Telehealth, EHRs & HIEs
by Kevin Roche on Monday, May 17, 2010
One of the regional telehealth resource centers has published a white paper on the inter-relationship between the growth of telehealth, electronic medical records and health information exchanges, particularly as they affect rural areas.
Tags: HIT, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri XVII
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, May 15, 2010
Here we go again. The CBO now estimates that the health bill has a number of discretionary spending items in it which will likely add over $100 billion to the costs of the act. (CBO Letter) It is really interesting how a few weeks after the law is enacted, the government suddenly finds several new [...]
Tags: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medical Care, Telemedicine
Smartphones and Health Care
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
2010 Potpourri XVI
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, May 8, 2010
No mother’s day would be complete without some health care news to ruminate on. This week’s include psychiatric drugs, the cost of the SGR fix, home health care costs, telemedicine and using computers to aid in diagnosis.
Tags: Drugs, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, HIT, Medicare, Telemedicine
Online Physician Visits
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Traditional telemedicine has expanded in recent years to include a variety of methods for patients to interact with physicians in real and delayed time, including email, secure messaging, and video over the computer. A study examines the effect of these interactions on health spending.
Tags: Health Care Costs, Physicians, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri XIII
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
2010 Potpourri XII
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, April 10, 2010
The latest collection of health care tidbits, including telemedicine, physician attitudes, medication adherence, retail clinics, physician value to hospitals and CDHPs.
Tags: Consumer Directed Health, Drugs, Health Insurance, Hospital, Physicians, Telemedicine
Telepsychiatry
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, April 8, 2010
The California Health Foundation examines the use of telepsychiatry in the emergency room. In a second article Time explores its use for children and teens. Telepsychiatry is just one example of the rapid spread of even traditional telemedicine.
Tags: Telemedicine
FDA Denial of IPhone Application
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Many telehealth, ehealth, mhealth, etc. product companies have assumed that their products and services will move easily through the FDA or that they don’t even need to interact with the agency. Recent statements by agency personnel, and handling of certain filings, should be warning that dealing with FDA regulations is not that simple.
Tags: Regulation, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri X
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, March 20, 2010
More weekend reading, in case spring hasn’t arrived where you are, covering personalized medicine, the OIG’s unheeded recommendations, robot surgery, hospital costs, venture funding and telemedicine.
Tags: Financings, fraud and abuse, Hospital, Personalized Medicine, Telemedicine
National Broadband Plan and Health Care
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Communications and information technology has an increasingly critical role in health care and in the future vision of health care delivery and administration. The FCC has been tasked with facilitating the broadband infrastructure for these communication and information technology needs and has set forth its recommendations in the recently released National Broadband Plan.
Tags: Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri VII
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, February 27, 2010
The latest in our regular amalgamation of health care news items, including telehealth, how many people really die from not having health insurance, silent PPOs, progress in automating claims processing and more on individual insurance policy price hikes.
Tags: Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri V
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
Nursing and Telemedicine
by Kevin Roche on Friday, February 12, 2010
Two articles describe some of the challenges for nurses in the telemedicine environment. One describes the role nurses play when they are onsite with a patient and the physician is remote and the other discusses how nurses can convey a caring attitude when they are interacting remotely with the patient.
Tags: Medical Care, Telemedicine
Telemedicine and HIT In Developing Nations
by Kevin Roche on Monday, February 8, 2010
The current issue of Health Affairs has several articles focusing on the use of telemedicine and HIT to solve health problems in the developing world. The articles describe some success stories, challenges and opportunities for use of wireless and health information technologies to provide desperately needed improvement for persons in these areas.
Tags: HIT, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri IV
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, February 6, 2010
Yet another sampling of health care items, relating to personalized medicine, telemedicine, wellness, disease management and using health data for comparative effectiveness research.
Tags: Care Management, Comparative Effectiveness, Personalized Medicine, Telemedicine, Wellness and Prevention
Expanding Use of Traditional Telemedicine
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, January 21, 2010
An early use of telemedicine was bringing medical expertise to underserved areas. A new venture indicates that there continue to be significant opportunities for this aspect of the field, allowing basic health care to be delivered to people who lack any good access to care.
Tags: Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri 2
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, January 16, 2010
Another collection of health care tidbits, a little telemedicine, a little reform, a little on medical care, a little personalized medicine and a smidgen of physician happiness.
Tags: Health Care Reform, Personalized Medicine, Physicians, Telemedicine
2010 Potpourri I
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, January 9, 2010
The tort lawyer lobby errand boys in Congress just don’t know when to stop. Even after Senator Rockefeller got his hand slapped for questioning CBOs analysis of potential savings from tort reform, Congressman Bruce Baley decided to go back for more. And sure enough, CBO gave him an even more detailed justification of the savings [...]
Tags: Health Care Costs, Health Insurance, Malpractice, Medicare, Personalized Medicine, Telemedicine
Evaluating Telemedicine Research
by Kevin Roche on Friday, January 8, 2010
Telemedicine and its cousins are expanding rapidly, partly from a belief that these approaches can improve access and quality, while decreasing cost. An article in Telemedicine and e-Health sets out parameters for research to evaluate these claims.
Tags: Telemedicine
Potpourri VII
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, December 12, 2009
Mercer surveyed employers to ascertain their reaction to the proposed tax on high value insurance coverage. The majority said they would reduce benefits to avoid the tax. Seven percent said they would outright terminate insurance coverage. Of those saying they would reduce benefits, most would do so by raising deductibles and copays. Employers also narrowly [...]
Tags: Drugs, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medical Care, Pay For Performance, Telemedicine
Potpourri VI
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, December 5, 2009
Thanksgiving leftovers, but prepared in a savory fashion to provide tender tidbits of health care information, including dishes on reform, wireless technology, telemedicine, workers’ compensation and venture capital activity.
Tags: Telemedicine
Telephone Depression Intervention Helps After Cardiac Surgery
by Kevin Roche on Friday, November 27, 2009
A Pittsburgh study indicates that a telephone-based depression intervention following CABG surgery improves quality outcomes. Another example of relatively inexpensive method to improve care quality.
Tags: Medical Care, Telemedicine
Thanksgiving Potpourri
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, November 26, 2009
No turkeys here, just stuffing you will relish. Don’t cramvery much into your brain at once!
Tags: Drugs, Health Insurance, Telemedicine, Wellness and Prevention
Potpourri V
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, November 21, 2009
Another summary of miscellaneous health care items, including telemedicine and prevention and wellness.
Tags: Drugs, Telemedicine, Wellness and Prevention
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.
Net Neutrality and Health Care
by Kevin Roche on Friday, October 30, 2009
Net neutrality sounds good to some but a Brookings commentary indicates it may cause problems for health care users.
Tags: Government, HIT, Telemedicine
Harris Poll on Mobile Health Care
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
Weekend Potpourri
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, October 24, 2009
A miscellany of interesting items for your weekend browsing pleasure.
Tags: Care Management, Government, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Telemedicine
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
Brookings Paints New Health System
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
A Vote For Telemedicine
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, October 1, 2009
Telemedicine has enormous potential to positively affect quality, access and cost issues, but there are barriers that should be addressed as part of health system reform.
Tags: Medical Care, Telemedicine
Another Telehealth Advance
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
A research group has developed a cardiac monitoring necklace.
Tags: Devices, Telemedicine
UHG, Cisco Plan TeleHealth Venture
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, July 21, 2009
UnitedHealth Group and Cisco plan to create a large telemedicine venture.
Tags: Health Insurance, HIT, Telemedicine
Telemedicine Utility and Barriers
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, July 2, 2009
Experts are recommending greater use of telemedicine in stroke assessment and treatment. There are significant barriers, however, many imposed by government.
Tags: Care Management, Health Insurance, Medical Care, Telemedicine
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