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Hoarding Patient Data is a Lousy Business Strategy: 7 Reasons Why
Conclusion The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting – away from competing based on misguided attempts to lock-in patients and providers – and toward competing based on providing care that’s high quality, low cost, and a superior patient experience. Sometimes conventional wisdom goes stale…or was never wise in the first place. Vince Kuraitis, JD/MBA (@VinceKuraitis) is an independent healthcare consultant with over 30 years’ experience across 150+ healthcare organizations.  Leslie Kelly Hall (@lesliekellyhall) is a nationally recognized leader in patient engagement advocating for patients in health IT and beyond.
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Data Patients Tech health information exchange HealthIT HIE HIPAA hoarding Information Blocking interop Interoperability patient engagement patient loyalty primary care referral leakage strategy value-based care Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 15th 2018
This study suggests that exocrine glands can be induced from pluripotent stem cells for organ replacement regenerative therapy. Replacement of Aged Microglia Partially Reverses Cognitive Decline in Mice https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/10/replacement-of-aged-microglia-partially-reverses-cognitive-decline-in-mice/ Researchers here report on a compelling demonstration that shows the degree to which dysfunctional microglia contribute to age-related neurodegeneration. The scientists use a pharmacological approach to greatly deplete the microglial population and then allow it to recover naturally. The...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 14, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Is Crowdfunding The Grim Future of Health Insurance?
A growing number of people, mostly Americans, is forced to use crowdfunding sites to ask for money to cover medical expenses. While in many cases, the option is a potential source of hope binding people together for a good cause that would otherwise be lost due to financial reasons, the phenomenon also shows the desperate state of a healthcare system where victims of terrible illnesses have to “commodify” themselves on online donation forums. Should it stay that way? Should we fear for a dark future of health insurance in some parts of the world? The patchwork called crowdfunding Kickstarter, GoFundMe, Indiegogo, Crowd...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 13, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Insurance Healthcare Design Social media in Healthcare crowdfunding digital health digital health insurance ethics future health data medical medical expenses Source Type: blogs

New Open Enrollment Period for Medicare Advantage
This is the second in an ongoing series of informative Medicare posts courtesy of MedicareFAQ. You will see a ton of what are basically ads pushing Medicare Advantage plans. Few balance the pros and cons because they are saying that these plans offer more coverage. I'd suggest reading this article closely before deciding which type of Medicare is right for your parents, your spouse, or you. You will then be able to make an educated decision. - Carol 2019 starts a new enrollment period for Medicare Beneficiaries that are currently using Medicare Advantage plans, Open Enrollment Period. This new enrollment period...
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 5, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Quite Simply: UNACCEPTABLE
Last week, my mom stunned me with bad news: A young woman named Tiffany Costa died. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002 and died two weeks ago from stage II breast cancer at just 29 years old. She was metastatic for many years. Tiffany’s extended family members are dear friends of my mom. I came to “meet” Tiffany because of an email my mom forwarded to me. She was being treated with Doxil. There was (and it would appear there still IS) a shortage of Doxil and she was trying to raise money to have the drugs brought into this country from Europe. The cost was exorbitant. I remember reading the email and I reca...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Mandated Queries of the Florida Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: Early Experiences from a Cancer Center-based Outpatient Palliative Medicine Clinic
This article describes our e xperiences in the first month of experience with the new law, although we plan to examine queries for a total of three months before closing this QI project.For the purpose of this QI project, we have documented patients ’ demographics, including each patient’s age, gender and limited identifying information, such as patient names and identification numbers; this data will be de-identified for any statistical analysis planned in the future. We also recorded patients’ main diagnosis and pain symptoms, the numbe r of prescribers listed by the PDMP as well as the dose of the patient’s opio...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 14, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: kollas opioids pdmp quality improvement The profession Source Type: blogs

The Rocky Road from the Military to the VA
While serving in the military, few think about what comes next. What happens if you are injured and the physical, mental, emotional damage does not go away? Who is tasked to make you “whole” again through health care and compensation? It is a process with which most civilians, and many service members and their families have little familiarity. It is cumbersome, and starts when the individual is still in the service, with a transition program and virtually no follow up by the military. For the last twenty years, the Department of Labor (DOL) Veterans Employment and Training Services (VETS) has provided grants to the Na...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

The Skinny on The Narrow Bank
Dedicated readers may recall my havingreported here several years ago the suit filed by Colorado ’s Four Corner’s Credit Union against the Kansas City Fed — after the Fed refused it a Master Account on the grounds that it planned to cater to Colorado’s marijuana-related businesses. Until then the episode was almost unique, for the Fed had scarcely ever refused a Master Account to any pr operly licensed depository institution. Eventually the Fed and Four Corners reached a compromise, of sorts, with the Fed agreeing to grant the credit union an account so long as it promised not to do business with the very firms it ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 10, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 10th 2018
In conclusion, HSC ageing is characterised by reduced self-renewal, myeloid and platelet HSC skewing, and expanded clonal haematopoiesis that is considered a preleukaemic state. The underlying molecular mechanisms seem to be related to increased oxidative stress due to ROS accumulation and DNA damage, which are influenced by both cell- and cell non-autonomous mechanisms such as prolonged exposure to infections, inflammageing, immunosenescence, and age-related changes in the HSC niche. Thus, HSC ageing seems to be multifactorial and we are only beginning to connect all the dots. The Price of Progress or the Waste...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 9, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Healthy lifestyle can prevent diabetes (and even reverse it)
The rate of type 2 diabetes is increasing around the world. Type 2 diabetes is a major cause of vision loss and blindness, kidney failure requiring dialysis, heart attacks, strokes, amputations, infections and even early death. Over 80% of people with prediabetes (that is, high blood sugars with the high risk for developing full-blown diabetes) don’t know it. Heck, one in four people who have full-blown diabetes don’t know they have it! Research suggests that a healthy lifestyle can prevent diabetes from occurring in the first place and even reverse its progress. Can a healthy diet and lifestyle prevent diabetes? The D...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Diabetes Diet and Weight Loss Food as medicine Healthy Eating Prevention Source Type: blogs

Radiologists Have The Second Highest Rates of Misdiagnosis
Cancer is the most frequently misdiagnosed condition in imaging tests, with breast, lung, pancreatic, and ovarian cancer the most commonly misinterpreted cancers, according to a recent  reportfrom Coverys, a New Jersey-based medical insurance provider.“Errors in radiology are unfortunately common and can have a severe and potentially life-threatening effect on those patients who are impacted by mistakes like a missed, delayed, or incorrect diagnosis,” saidthe report ’s author and vice president of business analytics, Robert Hanscom.Coverys looked at over 10,600 closed liability claims between 2013 and 2017 to ident...
Source: radRounds - August 30, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

Prior Authorizations:  Will They Become Damocles Sword?
By NIRAN AL-AGBA Niran Al-Agba, MD, FAAP In July 2009, the family of Massachusetts teenager Yarushka Rivera went to their local Walgreens to pick up Topomax, an anti-seizure drug that had been keeping her epilepsy in check for years. Rivera had insurance coverage through MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid insurance program for low-income children, and never ran into obstacles obtaining this life-saving medication. But in July of 2009, she turned 19, and when, shortly after her birthday, her family went to pick up the medicine, the pharmacist told them they’d either have to shell out $399.99 to purchase Topomax out-of-poc...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 28, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients Physicians Insurance companies medical malpractice Medicine Pharmaceuitcals Prior Authorization Source Type: blogs

Rauner Veto Preserves Consumer Protections in Short-Term Plans, Improves ObamaCare ' s Risk Pools
Hours ago, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R)vetoedlegislation that would have subjected enrollees in short-term health insurance  plans to higher deductibles, higher administrative costs, higher premiums, and lost coverage. The vetoed bill would have blocked the consumer protections made available in that market bya final rule issued earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and would have (further) jeopardized ObamaCare ’s risk pools by forcing even more sick patients into those pools.Short-term plans are exempt from federal health insurance regulations, and as a result offerbroader access to...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 27, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs

Evidence-Based Prognostication
by Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair)We are prognosticating beings. It is how we survive. Many everyday decisions begin with an estimation of likely future outcomes. If my first clinic appointment is at 9:15am, and my drive from the hospital to the clinic usually takes 25 minutes, then I need to leave by 8:50am at the latest to give myself time to spare for bad traffic light timing, lack of a good parking spot or some other problem that may delay my arrival. I make my estimates, and go with the safest choice. I could go with my gut and my experience or I could use Waze, an app where I can select where I am leaving from, wher...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - August 27, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: hpmchat journal article prognosis research sinclair tweetchat twitter Source Type: blogs

As I ’ve always suspected, Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos
By MATTHEW HOLT Happy 15th birthday THCB! Yes, 15 years ago today this little blog opened for business and changed my life (and at least impacted a few others). Later this week we are going to celebrate and tell you a bit more about what the next 15 years (really?) of THCB might look like. But for now, I’m rerunning a few of my favorite pieces from the mid-2000s, the golden age of blogging. Today I present “Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos”, one of my favorites about the relationship between government and private sector originally published here on Jan7, 2005. And like the Medicare one from last we...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 12, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Matthew Holt OP-ED 15th Birthday Celebration Commumism Frappuchinos Source Type: blogs