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Care Planning

Don’t pave the cow paths: The challenge of re-conceptualizing health care processes

There is a popular adage for information technology professionals: “Don’t pave the cow paths.” I recently worked with a client from Texas, and they were

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Dr. Ward May 19, 2012 1 Comment
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Trinity Health and BCBSM sign contract to invest in infrastructure for clinical integration and population management

Trinity Health – Michigan and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) recently announced that they signed a three and a half year agreement under which

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Dr. Ward May 11, 2012 No Comments
ACO Culture

Reports of the death of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in the U.S. may have been exaggerated: The ongoing case of Mammography

Guidelines for the use of mammograms to screen for breast cancer have been the topic of one of the fiercest and longest-running debates in medicine.

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Dr. Ward August 13, 2011 No Comments
Behavior Change

Google engineering too slow? Facebook too invested in the wrong data model to adapt? Are you kidding me?

Few things in my work life are better than finding mind-blowing information from other industries and figuring out the implications for healthcare. I recently read

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Dr. Ward July 30, 2011 No Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Klar 4: Why is it important for CMS to Share Claims Data with ACOs?

Ron Klar, MD, MPH is a health care consultant with a long history of involvement in federal health care policy and health plan innovation. He

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Dr. Ward July 25, 2011 No Comments

Dr. Ward’s Slides from AMGA ACO Learning Collaborative, Chicago, July 14, 2011

Presentation entitled “Developing the Economic Model for Success” from day 2 of the American Medical Group Association’s Accountable Care Organization Learning Collaborative, at the Swissotel

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Dr. Ward July 14, 2011 No Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Klar 2: The great attribution debates: Include specialists or not? Plurality or majority? Retrospective or prospective? Derived or declared?

Ron Klar, MD, MPH is a health care consultant with a long history of involvement in federal health care policy and health plan innovation.  He

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Dr. Ward July 2, 2011 2 Comments

Possible one year delay to Stage 2 Meaningful Use?

According to an article in Healthcare IT News, an advisory panel that is shaping measures for the next stage of meaningful use has suggested delaying

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Dr. Ward May 5, 2011 No Comments
Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)

Notes and Thoughts re new ONC leader Farzad Mostashari and Senators Daschle and Bennett at Bipartisan Policy Center

Today I attended a webcast sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization “committed to the art of principled compromise.” The webcast featured Farzad Mostashari, MD,

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Dr. Ward April 26, 2011 No Comments
ACO Structure & Governance

Why many clinical leaders prefer Registries to EHRs: Actively Structured Information

I went to the huge HIMSS’11 convention in Las Vegas a few weeks ago.  When visiting the bewildering number of vendor booths, I focused on

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Dr. Ward March 8, 2011 2 Comments
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