The development of a successful population health management (PHM) effort starts with the data and the data analysis, states Patricia Curran, principal in Buck Consultants’ National Clinical Practice. Curran describes the role of data and data analysis, the six critical PHM data areas, and the "influences"...
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Everyone is marketing to try and predict and of course in healthcare this is prevalent too and “why they market their ass off”. Tracking and snooping is part of marketing if you have not figured that out yet today. In the video below even ABC has finally come out to state how insurance tracks...
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Patrick Soon-Shiong M.D. is the Los Angeles billionaire investor who has scooped up the company. Overall the product is a good thing as far as the reminder system and keep folks on track. My only concerns is the privacy factors and the data that it creates for sale. In today’s world...
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I won’t miss these commercials so I suppose there’s more room for Viagra and Cialis spots for sale on the networks. One of the reasons for stopping the commercials is an attempt from Glaxo to clean up their public image, as their president states. Recently Glaxo has has their world of problems...
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20 or 30 years ago the pain killer drugs did not contain as high of a dose of Acetaminophen as they do today. Over the counter products like Tylenol will not be affected for now the FDA said so the higher doses in over the counter drugs will remain as is. Acetaminophen is a leading cause...
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This is a good article with some good hints and the title should have received a little attention here as the cost for either the 50 or 100mg of Viagra is the same so if the small dose works, then the pill slicer out and at $15 to $18.00 a pill, it’s still an expenditure. If one is losing hair...
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The concept of the pill bottle is good and can be helpful but the side of all of this are the profits that it creates for Health IT companies to sell your data. It is what it is. The Colbert Report did a funny video on the Glow Caps a while back too, funny. The Colbert Report Takes...
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This had to be an interesting court case and a new move that I have not heard of to have your office manager fill for the doctor. The office manager is also required to pay up with some restitution. If you want a day off, this is not the way to do this and better to find another doctor, as...
As stated in the title here, profits continue to rise on fewer members and this is nothing new as it has been happening all over with insurance carriers making record profits, helped along with their analytical algorithms to score and perhaps cherry pick who they want to cover. Like other carriers...
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Stater Brothers is a southern California Grocery Chain and also has pharmacies at some of their locations. According to the press release a patient needs to have a prescription from a doctor to get their diabetic medicine. In addition I put another clip from the release below that also discusses...
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Back in 2008 the state of California made their announcement and it is now alive and ready for use for MDs to check for those patients who may be seeing several MDs for drugs that tend to be abused. Online Prescription drug database coming to California In September of 2009 the State of California announced...
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