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Guest Post: Is It Too Late To Avoid The Flu?
By Paula Spencer Scott, Caring.com Senior Editor The 2012-13 flu season is shaping up to be one of the worst in years. If you or your loved ones haven’t succumbed yet, these steps can help you stay...
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Physician Information From The Patient’s Care Manager
Long gone are the days where a small practice can afford to have an onsite case manager. Aggressive cost cutting, defensive medicine, and other pressures continue to pull at the budget for running a...
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PHM Is The New Black Post At CCA Blog With Diabetes Examples
This is a partial copy (teaser) of a guest blog I did on the Care Continuum Alliance blog earlier this week. ********************** With all the talk about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and...
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Why We Need Whole Patient Adherence Programs
While prescription adherence continues to be a $290B+ problem, we still address the problem in a drug by drug approach due to silos within our healthcare value chain. For example: Generic drugs (about...
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Less Than 1/3rd Of Health Insurers Very Confident In Their Big Data Value To...
With all the discussions these days on Big Data and how to use information to create insights and wisdom, I was really shocked when I looked back at this PWC survey from 2011. In it, less than 1/3rd...
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59% Of MDs Want To Know About Employer Care Mgmt Efforts
I just came across this survey data from January of 2010 where the Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH) did a survey of physicians. I found it really interesting. Let me pull out a few points with...
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2013 PBMI Presentation On Pharmacy Need To Shift To Value Focus
Today, I’m giving my presentation at the PBMI conference in Las Vegas. This year, I choose to focus on the idea of shifting from fee-for-service to value-based contracting. People talk about this...
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Why It’s So Hard To Improve Consumer Engagement In Healthcare?
I spend a lot of my personal and professional time trying to figure out how to better engage consumers in healthcare. If you can’t engage them, you can’t improve outcomes. Never mind the fact that...
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What’s Your #Moment4Change?
I’ve being doing a lot of work lately on how to tackle the obesity problem in the US. This has been great personally as it has forced me to look at lots of research to understand all the tools out...
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How The CVS Program Will Change The Employer – Employee Contract
Have you heard that CVS Caremark is requiring employees to go get biometrics and going to take action on it? OMG! I’m not sure I understand why people are all upset. Let’s look at the facts: 57% of...
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Why CVS Caremark Asking For Your Weight Is Good For You
I continue to annoyed by all the fear-mongering in the industry around what CVS Caremark is “doing to their employees”. What about focusing on how they are helping their employees to get better? (If...
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How Walgreens Became One Of The More Innovative Healthcare Companies
While we are generally a society focused on innovation from start-ups (and now all the incubators like Rock Health), there are a few big companies that are able to innovate while growing. That’s not...
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The Role Of Healthcare Technology Curator
When I worked as an IT consultant, you had two clear choices – an enterprise system (e.g., SAP) or a best-of-breed (BOB) strategy. People liked the simplicity of an enterprise system, but you may have...
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Pharmacy Non-Adherence Infographic
While I’ve moved most of the infographics I find to my Pinterest account, I wanted to capture and share this one from Stephen Wilkin’s blog since it hits so many of the points that I try to make with...
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More CDHPs Are Coming – Is That A Good Thing?
I think we all see it coming. It’s a tidal wave of responsibility being pushed from the employer to us the individual. On paper, this seems like a great thing since 75%+ of healthcare costs are...
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CarePass, Another Aetna Innovation – What’s Your Healthy?
Have you seen the new “What’s Your Healthy?” campaign? Here’s a few shots. BTW – My healthy is keeping up with my kids in sports and moving down a belt notch. As many of you know, I consider Walgreens...
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Did You Know? Chronic Kidney Disease (#CKD) From The National Kidney Foundation
I was reading a document from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) the other day. Some of the facts jumped out at me. I thought I’d share them. 83,000 people are on the waiting list for a kidney...
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Walgreens Clinic Rebranding Is More Than A Name Change
As I talked about in my post about Walgreens and innovation, Walgreens has renamed their TakeCare Clinics to Healthcare Clinics at some locations. This is more than just a meaningless name change....
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Blue Button And United Healthcare – Disappointing
Ever since I interviewed the CEO of Humetrix about iBlueButton, I’ve been excited about the prospects for using Blue Button myself. Now that I’ve moved to Charlotte, I figured I would download my data...
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10 Healthcare Projects I’d Like To Solve
I always tend to see the glass half full so when I see a problem then I often want to rush in and try to fix it. With that said, here are 10 things that I’ve thought about that I’d like to fix or see...
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