The Digital Doctor, 2016
One of the many lists forecasting what will happen in the New Year predicted that in 2016 many patients will begin consulting a Digital Doctor by using a health app for the first time. The article also predicted a big rise in the use of video visits and video...
Pioneer ACOs’ Successful Efforts
Recently the Boston Globe published the much-anticipated results of the independent actuarial accounting of the results of the first two years of the Pioneer ACOs program of CMMI.(Click here to read the whole article.) I find it impossible to read this without wanting...
Healthcare Innovation in Vermont
I am now involved in a small way with the Vermont Healthcare Innovation Project that is the latest of several efforts in Vermont to move away from healthcare that is fragmented, inefficient and expensive. Despite efforts to move toward value-based reimbursement and...
5 Years Later, ACA Is a Big Deal
Last month we passed a big milestone: the fifth anniversary of the ACA (Affordable Care Act). Barack Obama used 22 pens on March 23, 2010 to sign the most important piece of social legislation so far in this young century. If you have about seven minutes, you can hear...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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