Martin Trussell is the author of The Health Plan Innovation Blog
I wrote recently about an innovative suite of health plans being offered by UnitedHealthcare that feature unique services to enhance the health and well-being of Spanish-speaking individuals. PlanBien incorporates linguistically and culturally relevant health information and customer service programs into its plan designs […]
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When I first conceived of writing about how health insurance plans were possibly using social media technologies like Facebook and Twitter to engage their members to seek better health, I was expecting to find more applications like the one at http://twitter.com/ss1.
Now diabetics can quickly add sugar and med entries via Twitter direct message […]
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Clearly the most innovative move made so far in this very young year by a health plan has to been the decision of the Hawaii Medical Service Association, the state#8217;s Blue Cross-Blue Shield licensee, to make the Internet version of the house call available to everyone in the state.
American Well, a Web service […]
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The World Health Care Blog welcomes Jaan Sidorov as a regular contributor. Dr. Sidorov writes the Disease Management Care Blog, where this piece 1st appeared.
Goodness gracious. If you think you have a good idea when it comes to solving the twin dilemmas of cost and a quality for chronic conditions, ‘tis […]
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Anyone interested in a new payment model for health care needs to keep
an eye on the High Value Health Care Project under way at Mayo Clinic.
Its goal: Support a new national model for high value care delivery.
Robert Nesse, MD, president and CEO, Franciscan Skemp Healthcare, Mayo Health System, reported on this important initiative […]
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You’re probably going to start hearing about “Deep Dive,” a huge randomized trial designed to compare an intensive patient-coaching program against a typical telephone-coaching effort.
Trial results, presented by David Wennberg, MD, MPH, president and COO, Health Dialog Analytic Solutions, indicate that more coaching contacts translate into fewer hospital stays, emergency room visits and […]
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Why 2034? It’s actually the date that my actuarial has indicated that my individual involvement in this discussion should no longer have any viability. In other words it’s the projected date of my passing, but, believe me, there will be tens of thousands of we boomers contributing to this discussion […]
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