Kevin Roche – Page 588 – Healthy Skeptic

Apr 01 2013

State Variation in Spending

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Continuing the great interest in explaining the geographic variation in health care spending, the National Center for Policy Analysis issues a report finding that there is variation but it may…

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Mar 29 2013

prem costs

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Here is what should really scare people about the California individual premium increases mentioned in the earlier headline; the basic trend reported by Milliman is 9%, that means health care costs all on their own have really accelerated.

Mar 29 2013

iins

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The group running the California health insurance exchange says individual premiums will go up an average of at least 14% next year. Yep, reform sure is going to make insurance cost less.

Mar 29 2013

The International Federal of Health Plans Price Report

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The International Federation of Health Plans releases its latest comparison of prices for various services around the world, revealing as expected, that the US has the highest prices by far.

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Mar 28 2013

pwc

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PriceWaterHouseCooper has released a report on Pharma and Life Sciences deal activity for the fourth quarter of 2012.

Mar 28 2013

erx

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Alerts provided by e-prescribing systems usually come too late to be of use to physicians and they come too frequently, overwhelming doctors with irrelevant information, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, primarily because their input is too late in the prescribing workflow.

Mar 28 2013

Society of Actuaries Weighs in on Rising Health Care Costs Under Reform

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There has a been a flurry of similar reports recently, but none should have more credibility than the one from the Society of Actuaries stating that yes, claim costs and…

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Mar 27 2013

onemed

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One Medical, a concierge practice, has raised an additional $30 million in venture funding, for a total of $76 million. Seems like the concierge concept is doing pretty well.

Mar 27 2013

omada

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Startup Omada Health has raised $4.7 million to help fund its online diabetes prevention and management product, which seems like a lot when similar efforts have been pretty unsuccessful.

Mar 27 2013

Health Reform Chaos?

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Managers, owners and investors in health care businesses should probably be preparing for a fair amount of chaos toward the end of this year and in 2014. The full implementation…

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Mar 27 2013

res

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The strategy of reducing medical residents’ shift hours appears to have backfired, according to research in the JAMA Internal Medicine. Patient safety may be compromised and residents appear to be learning less.

Mar 27 2013

read

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A new algorithm may do a better job of predicting which patients might be readmitted to the hospital. It was developed at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and uses 7 factors to direct attention toward the most at-risk patients.

Mar 26 2013

trans

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An article in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that it is very difficult to get prices for a common procedure from hospitals and that stated prices vary widely.

Mar 26 2013

ehr

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Top EHR vendors for meaningful use include Epic, Allscripts, Cerner, eClinical, NextGen and GE. The top five vendors have over 50% of the market, but there are over 350 vendors with at least one customer in the meaningful use database.

Mar 26 2013

paperwork

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According to the American Action Forum the reform law has imposed over 100 million hours and $30 billion of cost just in paperwork, and its only getting started!!