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ACO Strategy

3 steps for executing an effective consumer-driven physician strategy

To meet post-pandemic expectations of consumers, healthcare providers need a strategy for consumer-focused care processes, supported by consumer-friendly provider networks and enabling technology.

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Dr. Ward December 1, 2020 No Comments
COVID-19

No, COVID statistics don’t look bad because the US does too much testing or because hospitals are attributing too many deaths to COVID

As I mentioned before, although I enjoy a good wager, my maximum bet is normally $1. Last week, my brother-in-law, the owner, operator and namesake

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Dr. Ward October 19, 2020 2 Comments
COVID-19

University of Illinois is using campus-level COVID model, mandatory frequent saliva testing, an army of contact tracers and dynamic policy to keep the campus safe

In a recent article in Nature, the COVID19 response for the University of Illinois at Urbana campus was detailed. Although a spike in cases reported

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Dr. Ward September 15, 2020 No Comments
Agent-based Models

Introducing the Harm Index Minimization Strategy for COVID-19 pandemic response: Better than Flatten the Curve, Crush the Curve and Hammer and Dance strategies

In my last post, I described three helpful analogies — Forest Fire, Genie in the Bottle, and Trucker in the Mountains — that make it

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Dr. Ward September 2, 2020 5 Comments
COVID-19

A helpful analogy: Driving an 18-wheeler on a steep grade road from the top of Covid Susceptibility Mountain down to the Valley of Herd Immunity.

I recently had the opportunity to lead a series of discussions with leaders of government and health care organizations working to develop a COVID-19 pandemic

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Dr. Ward August 8, 2020 No Comments
Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols

Henry Ford observational study that shows 66% in-hospital mortality reduction from hydroxychloroquine seems to be guilty of “heroic propensity score” problem

During the 1990s, I served as the director of the Center for Clinical Effectiveness at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.  I was lucky

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Dr. Ward August 7, 2020 No Comments
Care Analytic News Reprint - Thought Leaders Corner - R Ward - 2020-07
Uncategorized

Assigning responsibility for Identity and Access Management – Care Analytic News

Source – Reprint from CareAnalyticNews.com, published by Health Policy Publishing, LLC.

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Dr. Ward July 21, 2020 No Comments
Care Planning

EMR event log study shows 6 hrs of use per day, but implicitly belittles the clinician’s cognitive effort and the EMR’s support

In a recent paper in the Annals of Family Medicine by Brian Arndt and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, the authors described the results

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Dr. Ward October 4, 2017 No Comments
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

If repealing Obamacare is off the table, can we turn attention to improving it through cost-effective clinical protocols?

Paul Krugman recently wrote an article in the New York Times posing the question: if repealing Obamacare is off the table (for now), should people

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Dr. Ward August 7, 2017 No Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Hospital Value-based Purchasing program 1% incentive is like homeopathic medicine — too diluted to actually work

In the June 15, 2017 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Andrew Ryan and colleagues from the University of Michigan published an evaluation

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Dr. Ward June 24, 2017 No Comments
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