Good Health and Stanford authors: Evolutionary Pressures on the Electronic Health Record - "Deimplementing the EHR could actively enhance care in many clinical scenarios". Elvonda

A brief post.  In this new JAMA article by Stanford authors: Evolutionary Pressures on the Electronic Health Record http://jama.jamanetwork....

Good Health and Ioannidis et al.: What Happens When Underperforming Big Ideas in Research [such as Healthcare IT Exceptionalism] Become Entrenched?. Elvonda

Some years ago, John P. A. Ioannidis, MD wrote this piece: " Why Most Published Research Findings Are False ", John P. A. Ioannidi...

Good Health and President Obama Writes About Health Care Reform in JAMA. Elvonda

All aboard! In a first for the Journal of the American Medical Association (" JAMA "), President Obama has authored a Special Com...

Good Health and JAMA LAYS AN EGG. Elvonda

JAMA LAYS AN EGG  Three months ago I took JAMA to task over a Viewpoint opinion piece about conflict of interest. The authors proposed danc...

Good Health and JAMA JUMPS THE SHARK. Elvonda

JAMA JUMPS THE SHARK Medical journals are supposed to promote professional values � scientific, social, and ethical. Quality matters, in eac...

Good Health and 2016 is the Breakout Year for mHealth: Savings vs. Value. Elvonda

In this post, the Population Health Blog predicts how and why mHealth will be covered by more commercial health insurers in 2016, and why th...

Good Health and The Limits of Financial Incentives for Docs. Elvonda

"It is written: Man shall not live by bread alone." Luke 4:4 No matter what you think of the source of that quote, the idea that t...

Good Health and "Fusing" Randomized Clinical Trials and Big Data: Another Value Proposition for Population Health?. Elvonda

Randomized controlled trials are the crown jewel of clinical research.  By allocating patients to one of two or more treatment protocols (o...

Good Health and Health Care Cost Insights and Capitation for the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH). Elvonda

The Population Health Blog finally caught up with the Oct 22/29 "Price, Cost and Competition" issue of JAMA .  One of the more int...

Good Health and Is One DIet Program Better Than Another for Weight Loss?. Elvonda

As a doctor , the Population Health Blog was often asked by overnourished patients to help find a "best" diet.  Its advice to simp...

Good Health and Of Risk Stratification, Health System Variation and "Stupid" Decision-Making. Elvonda

A fly in the ointment Years ago, a middle-aged Population Health Blog patient came in for a routine follow-up appointment.  Since his last v...

Good Health and Care Management: What a Bargain. Elvonda

They did it again! Sound familiar? Patients' intake into the program was initiated with a face-to face meeting with a nurse care manager...

Good Health and Professional Physician Organizations: A Continuing Necessary Ingredient for Ongoing Health Reform. Elvonda

This JAMA article on "Professional Organizations' Role in Supporting Physicians to Improve Value in Health Care"  reminds rea...

Good Health and Insulin for Persons Already on Metformin: A Population Health Perspective. Elvonda

As most population health providers know, diabetes guidelines tend to focus on shorter-term or "intermediate" outcomes, such as av...

Good Health and Perspectives on Exercise for Elders. Elvonda

Despite its busy travel schedule, the Population Health Blog had a chance to check out " Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for E...

Good Health and Big Data, Definitions and Population Health. Elvonda

What's the likelihood of diabetes? Utter the term " big data " at any ACO, care management or managed care meeting, and one of...

Good Health and Medical Marijuana and Population Health. Elvonda

Many population health providers may deal with the chronic conditions of HIV, Alzheimer disease, multiple sclerosis cancer, epilepsy, inflam...