New Innovations- New Methods, Medical Home, ACO's, Payment Reform
Old Models Will Change- New Ones Will Enter
What's Here?: A few years ago the Health Savings Account was the new health care innovation. A little later "retail clinics" made their way rather successfully to the marketplace. Now, tele-medicine, prospective payments, medical tourism, on-site clinics, and other new innovations are being created, tested, and tried. We'll post some information here to provide you with an overview of some of these new ideas, what's working, and what's not working to keep you updated on the new models and services being created to capitalize on the opportunities developing every day.
NEW The New Gold Rush: Prospectors are hoping to mine opportunities from the health care industry; PWC Health Research Institute; May, 2011 (76% of the Fortune 50 are in health care or have a health care division- it's a big industry. The key is knowing how it works) Posted 7-14-11
Fact or Fiction? Accountable Care Organizations; Center for Health Transformation; April, 2011 (An interesting view of the realities and challenges facing ACOs in the new health care world) Posted 4-9-11
Proposed Rules For Accountable Care Organizations; March, 2011; Department of Health and Human Services; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (The ACA spends 6 or 7 pages talking about Accountable Care Organizations- these are the proposed rules defining what they are- all 400+ pages. It's actually a good reference for understanding the context and intent of an ACO and what they hope to accomplish) Posted 4-4-11
Medical Tourism; Implications for Participants in the US Health Care System; MedPharma Partners LLC, MedTripInfo.com; October, 2007 (An overview of what Medical Tourism is- what it does- and the impact it could have on health care in this country- as we've seen, many times medical procedures are cheaper elsewhere) Posted 11-29-10
Accountable Care Organizations; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; July, 2010; (Describes what an Accountable Care Organization is and how it is supposed to work.) Posted 8-3-10
Deloitte Issue Brief: Social Networks In Health Care; Communication, Collaboration, and Insights; Deloitte Center for Health Solutions; July, 2010 (An overview of the impact Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking approaches are impacting health care) Posted 8-3-10
Sustaining the Medical Home- How Prometheus Payment Can Revitalize Primary Care; RWJ Foundation; (A more detailed look at the Prometheus Payment Model) Posted 5-13-10
Episode-Based Payment: Perspectives for Consideration; Deloitte Center for Health Solutions; (An interesting review of our current health care payment structure and what may be on the horizon in the future) Posted 4-26-10
Medical Home Demonstration Fact Sheet; January, 09; CMS (A look at all of the definitions and rules surrounding the Medical Home Demonstration project); Posted 3-4-10
Medical Tourism: Update and Implications; Deloitte Center for Health Solutions; November, 09 (An exploration into the growing concept of Medical Tourism) Posted 2-11-10
Retail Clinics; Updates and Implications; 2009; Deloitte Center for Health Solutions; (An industry update of the retail clinic market and outlook for the future; Posted 11-24-09)
How Technology Can Cut Red Tape. . .; June, 09; United HealthGroup's take (and recommendations with dollars attached) on how to improve the transactional processes in the health care system. They make sense- but will require a lot of restructuring of the system we have today.
