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Physician Participation in Board of Directors: Transcending the Bottom Line

Two quotes:Healthcare corporate governance in actionOne is from Citizen Kane: "Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money... if what you want to do is make a lot of money." The other is from a...

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The Latest Health Wonk Review is Up!

Louise Norris of the Colorado Health Insurance Insider returns with another masterful compendium of wonky insights from the best and the brightest health policy blogs.  There's information here you...

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Physician Owned Private Practice Is Still Alive and Well: Here's Why

A death greatly exaggerated... The Population Health Blog recently broke bread with a Director at the Tucker Advisory Group.  TAG provides professional services to a host of health care entities,...

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The Latest Health Wonk Review Is Up!

Revolving doors at the FDA, anti-Obamacare lawsuits, meaningful use, shared savings, alleged corporate malfeasance, health insurer interest in your Fitbit data and the prognosis of private practice....

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The PHA Forum 2015. the Premier Population Health Meeting

If you have any interest in medical costs, outcomes and consumerism, you really should think about attending the Population Health Alliance Forum November 2-4 in Washington DC.Why?The PHA is an...

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Of Rising Risk and ACO Success in the Medicare Shared Savings Program:...

To each according to their need, from each according to their ability.While that famous (and paraphrased) adage was originally used to attack capitalism, it's also not a bad way to think about...

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Value Creation for Healthcare Apps - or - Avoiding the Mistakes of...

Meaningful Use is debatedAny health care provider who hasn't been sealed in a Faraday cage for the last five years is likely aware of "Meaningful Use 3" or "MU3." Briefly, thanks to the American...

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Why Become a Doctor?

Talk about good timing.This just-broadcast NPR Morning Edition segment spoke to the importance of "STEM" (i.e., Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) high school education. When the network's...

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Five Reasons to be Bullish About Theranos

Pushing backWhen the Population Health Blog watched Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes push back during a CNBC broadcast against a Wall Street Journal report about her diagnostics testing company, it began...

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Service Guarantees in Healthcare: Not So Easy

From time to time, the bad behavior of airlines will prompt the awarding of frequent-flyer mile credits or partial refunds to aggrieved customers.  Given that that industry has been used to portray...

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Smartphone Apps: Architecture Trumps Content

According to this The Wall Street Journal article, the prospect that "your doctor may soon prescribe you a smartphone app," has put us on the cusp of a new age of m-healthiness.   Regular Population...

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The Limits of Financial Incentives for Docs

"It is written: Man shall not live by bread alone."Luke 4:4No matter what you think of the source of that quote, the idea that there may be limits to "aligning incentives" has some merit. In healthcare...

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The Latest Health Wonk Review is Up!

Contrary to simplistic nostrums of the advocates for or the detractors against Obamacare, the truth is that health reform continues to be a messy tangle of science, policy and economics.  If you like...

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The Latest Health Wonk Review is Up!

The latest Health Wonk Review is available at the Workers Comp Insider.  This one is a holiday-laced compendium of health policy musings on everything from Obamacare to sleep deprived trainees. Enjoy!

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Three Health App Lessons from the James Bond Movie "Spectre" - Shaking and...

The Population Health Blog took time out of its busy schedule to check out the latest James Bond movie. While posting anything that refers to a months-old movie is inconsistent with standards of modern...

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2016 is the Breakout Year for mHealth: Savings vs. Value

In this post, the Population Health Blog predicts how and why mHealth will be covered by more commercial health insurers in 2016, and why the retail "over the counter" mHealth market outside of...

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The Latest Health Wonk Review is Up!

Hank Stern over at his InsureBlog naturally celebrates 11 years of blogging by hosting the latest Health Wonk Review, The Happy New Year Edition.  Check it out for the latest health policy insights...

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The Link Between Corporate Wellness Programs and Total Shareholder Return

While employer-sponsored wellness, health promotion and disease prevention programs have been linked to "human capital," talent recruitment and retention, improvements in employee morale, reductions in...

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Ten Questions Publicly Traded Company Boards Should Ask about Employee Wellness

The Board reviews a companyhealth promotion programAs follow-up to this post about the peer-reviewed evidence linking company-sponsored employee wellness programs and total shareholder return (TSR),...

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The Latest Health Wonk Review Is Up!

The 10th Anniversary Edition of the Health Wonk Review is now up at Joe Paduda's Managed Care Matters.  The review summarizes and links some of the better postings of health-policy bloggers, with...

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An Update on the Evidence of the Impact of the Patient Centered Medical Home...

In its work with a variety of payer and provider customers, the Population Health Blog has advised that primary care medical home planning is more "soup" than "soufflé," and that outcomes are more a...

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Bro-pulation Health

The Population Health Blog wishes a health insurer would be as clever as the marketeers behind the Geico "Flextacular" commercial while extolling the virtues of its population health program.  For...

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The Latest Health Wonk Review

Here we go again.  While money can't buy love, Steve Anderson over at Medicare Resources looks at money and healthcare reform, and a whole lot more!Enjoy!

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The Personalized Healthcare Ecosystem of the Future: Welcome to the Year 2030

Against your better judgment, you've just checked your contact lens-enabled news feed. You're annoyed, because President Meghan McCain has just used the Trump Doctrine to "fire" Medicare's lead...

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