Value

08 Jul

Posted at 12:32h in Direct Practice, For Employers, Innovation, Irony, Medical Home, Value by
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CPT Codes Set of health care procedure codes based on the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology Established in 1978 to provide a standardized coding system for describing specific items and services provided in delivering health care. Daniel Palestrant comes right back from his opening salvo of last...

13 Apr

Posted at 20:26h in Conferences, For Employers, Health 2.0, Innovation, Quality, Transparency, Value by
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I am in Washington DC to participate in the 6th Annual World Health Care Congress. It is a power packed meeting with tons of interesting speakers, presentations, announcements from many of the thought leaders throughout the industry. The demographics of this conference are certainly older,...

06 Apr

Posted at 12:01h in Episode of Care, For Employers, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Innovation, Leadership, Medical Home, Quality, Value, X PRIZE by
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Realization (rē'ə-lĭ-zā'shən) The act of realizing or the condition of being realized. The result of realizing. Today, I am meeting with the X PRIZE Foundation at our 2nd Health Advisor Summit meeting in Washington, DC. We have gathered a small subset of health care thought leaders, innovators, providers,...

25 Mar

Posted at 00:01h in EHR, For Employers, Industry, Innovation, Quality, Value by
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Pitiful (pĭt'ĭ-fəl) adj. Inspiring or deserving pity. Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy. There have been several interesting reports that have recently been published regarding the adoption and use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) by our health care system. The articles provide an interesting...

06 Mar

Posted at 19:56h in For Employers, Health Finance, Innovation, Quality, Rational Choice, Value by
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Microcapitation (mī‘kro kăp’ĭ-tā‘sh en) n. A health care delivery mechanism wherein a service provider contracts with an administrator to provide health care services on a per capita basis. A financing mechanism wherein a service provider assumes financial risk, is compensated at a fixed per capita...

06 Mar

Posted at 18:13h in Consumerism, For Employers, Transparency, Value, Vitality by
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Vitality (vī-tăl'ĭ-tē) The capacity to live, grow, or develop. Physical or intellectual vigor; energy. The characteristic, principle, or force that distinguishes living things from nonliving things. I am finding it hard to use financial analogies these days to explain health care concepts given recent events. It’s...