My colleague Tom Morrison, Founder of Navinet, shared an interesting analysis with me the other day pertaining to physician compliance to demonstrate meaningful use. In essence, he noted that about 41% of phase I criteria will have heavy reliance on patient behaviors, including medication adherence, adherence to care plan, trips to testing facilities and others. …
Last week, I posted a brief, general overview of how the health reform bill offers connected health providers a great opportunity to move our concept mainstream. Following on that theme, I’m going to spend some time talking about the value of connected health as a tool for population health management. One of the goals of …
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as “Obamacare” was an amazing triumph, whatever your political persuasion. Most folks have absorbed the idea that this legislation will require that most citizens of the U.S. carry health insurance. What is hidden in the crevices of this voluminous piece of legislation are a significant number of …
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The latest from my friend (and font of wisdom) Susannah Fox, is a piece about Internet use amongst the chronically ill. It compliments data from e-patients.net showing that the phenomenon of patients using the Internet as a tool to become proactive with their care skews to younger and healthier individuals. Fox’s recent report notes that of …
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Over the years, I’ve had fun posting various musings about Connected Health and related topics. I’ve guest blogged for The Health Care Blog, Healthcare IT News, Information Week, and Science Progress to name a few. I’ve also contributed to the Center for Connected Health’s discussion page from time to time as I have this month …
