Good Health and Health Care Cost Inflation Returns. Elvonda

True, that.... Call it the return to the old normal. With the slow recovery of the U.S. economy, the advent of some blockbuster drugs and th...

Good Health and You Get What You Pay For in Cancer Care and Insurers Get What They Save With the Medical Home. Elvonda

The latest issue of Health Affairs is out and the Population Health Blog couldn't stay away.  Three interesting articles: The United S...

Good Health and Increasing Bad Press for Today's Healthcare Information Technology - Deserved and Overdue. Elvonda

Here are three candid, quite revealing articles about the distaste for today's health IT that appeared recently.  I will address each, T...

Good Health and Is the United States the Only Country Into "Patient Engagement?" (plus a definition). Elvonda

Patient engagement is there too! The answer is no.  Check out this paper in Health Affairs that defines patient engagement as ordinary peop...

Good Health and Think Bundled Payment is Inevitable? Think Again. Elvonda

Getting bundles of these is easy? This just published Health Affairs article finds some flies in the bundled payment ointment.  The summa...

Good Health and The Majority of Medicare Spending Variation Is Unexplained . Elvonda

From time to time, the Population Health Blog spouse finds that her husband is insufficiently attentive.  During a recent conversation about...

Good Health and Federal Agency Chief Rebuts Findings That Show EHR May Lead to Increased Diagnostic Imaging. Elvonda

Just one day after the Health Affairs article that showed an association between physicians' Electronic Health Record (EHR) use and inc...