The Comprehensive Primary Care Plus program aims to help primary care practices coordinate care, offer preventive health services, engage patients in their own care and help those with serious or chronic illnesses set and work toward health goals.
My week-long adventure in D.C. started out with stories about personal health data at XX in Health on Sunday. I had the pleasure of spending the day with other women in healthcare, learning about their personal and professional challenges and getting ideas about how to overcome my own. The day was full of smart women […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The Obama Administration gave Oregon almost $2 billion to come up with its own system to coordinate care better. The idea is to get doctors, nurses, hospitals and other caregivers to work together -- and get paid well -- to keep people healthy and to get rid of wasteful, unnecessary care. The federal dollars will go to the providers who do a good job, so first the state had to figure out what constitutes good coordinated care.
It took awhile but the White House decided to take back the label Obamacare and put a positive spin on it. The administration’s next marketing campaign should be around PCORI. It doesn’t roll off the tongue, but the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute is the carrot to the individual mandate stick. The Institute is working […]
Different participants, from different worlds, with different perspectives. But a shared vision of what we at PCORI see as the theme that ties our work together: “research done differently.”