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Added by Marshall Maglothin on March 21, 2010 at 8:39am —
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We all hear about people with illnesses not being able to afford the care they need because they don't have
health insurance. And this is a terrible problem. But in the next few years we will be hit with an even bigger problem. Hundreds of thousands of people who have recently become uninsured.have been skipping wellness exams like mammograms, colonoscopies, etc. When these people later get seriously ill because…
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Added by Sam Norwich on March 11, 2010 at 2:59pm —
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Here's a graph showing the lack of basis of disruptive innovation in health care:

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Added by ippisl on March 4, 2010 at 10:56am —
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Oh boy – the
Tylenol recall of 2010 is beginning.
This time, it's more than voluntary - the FDA has sided against lobbyists for once and initiated a recall of multiple Tylenol products, along with other Johnson and…
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Added by GimsonY on January 21, 2010 at 12:06am —
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More than team building and management.
Collaboration is, to me, about the division of labor (as the word's etymology implies) that leads to cooperation toward a common goal. There are two models of collaboration and team-building that I believe speak to the spirit of consensual cooperation.
One is Christensen's model of consensus-driven cooperation*. From that view, the effectiveness of collaboration depends on how well one executes two factors. The first is to correctly iden
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Added by Demetrios Perdikis on January 14, 2010 at 8:30am —
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In Clayton Christensen's "Innovator's Prescription" he highlights a chart which shows a correlation between how treatable common diseases and conditions are versus how much current science understands the disease/condition.

Figure 2.4 Current map of common medical conditions from "Innovator's Prescription" by Clayton M. Christensen and how the Myelin Repair Foundation wants…
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Added by Justine Lam on November 18, 2009 at 9:00am —
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'StealthCare' providers are now developing international, virtual, systems of care, using technology, telecommunications, remote medical devices and software to create 24x7 care anywhere a cell phone or Internet can reach.
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Added by Ron Hammerle on September 24, 2009 at 9:02am —
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Source: Northern NY News / GouverneurTimes.com
Vaccinations for Seasonal Flu and Novel H1N1 Meet Provisions of the
State Child Wellness Law, Not Subject to Co-Payment, Co-Insurance or Annual Deductible
Governor David A. Paterson today announced that insurers must cover seasonal flu and novel H1N1 vaccinations for children who are aged 19 and younger and enrolled in comprehensive health plans. The policy is consistent with New York’s preventive and primary care provisions known as the C…
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Added by LucianoV on September 23, 2009 at 12:51am —
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A new urine test could help predict which drugs will be most effective for doctors' patients.
In trials, scientists showed that the test could predict how well men would respond to paracetamol.
The test analysis levels of different by-products of people's metabolism, which could ultimately allow GPs to work out which drugs suit which people. Well at least this wont cost too…
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Added by LucianoV on August 23, 2009 at 10:55pm —
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From live chat on 7/29/09:
"Your success at Southwest was in context of a single company with a compelling vision and culture. Health care with competing/conflicting interests is a different challenge. How can those entrenched silos be overcome to achieve high performance?"
Airlines actually have many of the same challenges that we find in healthcare -- fragmentation between pilots, flight attendants, mechanics and so on is similar to the fragmentation we find between doctors, nurses, therapis…
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Added by Jody Hoffer Gittell on August 5, 2009 at 12:56pm —
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Hello,
I thought I would let you know we recently released a HIPAA Survival Guide for Practitioners online. To access the guide, go to this website http://www.hipaasurvivalguide.com Also included on the website are the full text privacy regulations associated with the HITECH Act’s full text available and “clickable” at http://www.hipaasurvivalguide.com/hitech-act-text.html.
My wife and I decided to publish a guide for Practitioners that helps them understand the implications of the migration t…
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Added by Carlos Leyva on August 4, 2009 at 5:38pm —
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I am a big fan of Clay's (along with Gary Hamel, Christian Gronroos and Tom Peters - 3 other uber-gurus) and welcome this blog.
I am a consultant working in the healthcare field and have a passionate interest in innovation. Not just technology/pharma innovation but management innovation, engagement innovation, collaboration innovation and business model innovation...in fact any innovation that drives real improvement in healthcare.
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Added by David McBride on July 21, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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We've learned from the Institute of Medicine that fragmentation (lack of coordination) is a major culprit in the errors and waste that plague our healthcare system, but this problem does not seem to be getting sufficient attention in the current policy debates. In High Performance Healthcare, I show that relational coordination – coordinating work through relationships of shared goals, shared knowledge and mutual respect among care providers – can connect care providers with each other to produc…
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Added by Jody Hoffer Gittell on July 21, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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Added by Joseph Kim, MD, MPH on June 1, 2009 at 12:07pm —
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This article by Ives nicely describes the role of audiologists in distinguishing among major dizziness types. I especially like the author's integrating such reimbursement items as proper coding into the article's clinical context.
Discovering the Dizzy Patient
by Terri E. Ives, ScD, AuD, CCC-A, FAAA
The year 2009 brings a new billing code into the world of dizziness evaluation. At the end of October 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final 200…
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Added by Demetrios Perdikis on May 28, 2009 at 6:30am —
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In your article commentary, "We don't need more doctors" (CNN 5/13/09), you wrote:
"There IS a shortage of health care services being provided, but many of them are not best offered by a doctor. All parents know the experience of worrying whether their child has an ear infection -- treatment involves considerable pleading for a standby appointment at the doctor's office, followed by a long wait, a 30-second visit with the doctor, and then a trip to the pharmacy for another long wait.
Throw…
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Added by Divya Mohan Little on May 19, 2009 at 7:21am —
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Can building tribes be a catalyst for improving medical care value?
To Seth Godin our Tribes are what connect us to ideas that we find important.
What value we place on our medical care is determined by the stakeholders of our care. Stakeholders in our care are the individuals and groups of people organized as entities or otherwise who stand to benefit from our medical improvement or be somehow penalized by our medical deterioration.
Who are the stakeholders? There are direct st…
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Added by Demetrios Perdikis on May 18, 2009 at 7:00am —
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Added by Joseph Kim, MD, MPH on May 13, 2009 at 11:30am —
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In
The Innovator's Prescription, we estimated that facilitated networks -- business models in which customers exchange resources with one another -- comprise up to 40% of GDP. In comparison to the general economy, networks seem drastically underutilized in health care, despite the increasing ubiquity of telecommunications that has allowed providers and patients to connect in new ways. However, there are many innovative network models beginning to take shape.
We highlighted how patient ne…
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Added by Jason Hwang on May 1, 2009 at 8:30am —
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It is axiomatic that to most effectively treat a disease you must first establish a diagnosis. While good diagnosis is no guarantee of a great outcome, some form of poor diagnosis, whether incomplete or missed, makes a poor outcome virtually certain.
As such, diagnoses have long been considered the observable effects of a biological problem. This surface approach is the result of entrenched patient interviewing methods that consider a person’s history as a mere chronology of events rather than…
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Added by Demetrios Perdikis on April 26, 2009 at 8:19am —
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