Jeffrey Rice, MD, JD, trained at Duke University as a radiologist, but while still in residency his career took an atypical turn. Rice got involved in the project of linking the Duke University Health System with an insurance company to put together a managed healthcare plan.
That experience caused Rice to become interested ways […]
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Just last week, I described the many developments that, together, may comprise a “tipping point” in the movement toward proactive health management (PHM) as a complement to and means of reducing the need, demand, and expenditures for sickness care. Today, two news stories have described further developments in the same direction.
In the U.K., […]
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The impending shortage of physicians, particularly primary care specialists such as family practitioners, internists, pediatricians and geriatricians, has been shouted about by medical professionals as well as health care gurus of many stripes. It has been used as a reason to criticize concierge practices, despite their affecting only about 1/1000th of all physicians […]
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In a story appearing Mar 3, it was reported that an idea that is roughly thirty years old in the US has reached Europe, at least to the extent that the UK is recognized as part of Europe despite its maintaining its own currency. This idea is that of the kind of […]
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I don’t know if you’ve noticed but as we move into 2008 there’s a glut of papers, reports and predictions about what is going to happen in health care. Some have such a definitive tone, it makes you wonder if any have read Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s, The Black Swan, which engenders in […]
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The concept of having a “chief experience officer” is starting to catch on in healthcare organizations (HCOs), witness the organizations such as the Cleveland Clinic that have adopted the idea. These “CEOs” do not usually sit at the same table or work in the same “C-Suite” as the chief executive officer, chief […]
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I just read what, if I recall correctly, is at least the third article on the subject of whether retail clinics are good or bad for hospitals published in the past year. (M.K. Scott “Retail Clinics – Friend or Foe of the Hospital? Part 1: The Opportunity for Hospitals to Win with […]
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