By Gusty Tuesday, 17 June 2014 Good Health and How Racial Stereotypes can Isolate Women Experiencing Infertility . Elvonda The article Infertility, Endured Through a Prism of Race from the New York times brings to light an issue that has gotten less attention ...
By Gusty Monday, 16 June 2014 Chronic Heart Failure Heart Failure readmissions Rehospitalization Good Health and The Evidence Supporting Heart Failure Care Management. Elvonda "Yawn!" In the earliest days of the national trade association "disease management" meetings, the Population Health Blog...
By Gusty Thursday, 12 June 2014 Annals Internal Medicine Electronic Records Medical Home NCQA Patient Centered Medical Home PCMH Good Health and The Patient Centered Medical Home PCMH Gets On Base with Increased Quality in the Real World. Elvonda Getting to first base Advocates for the Patient Centered Medical Home will probably like what they see in the lead research article in the J...
By Gusty Wednesday, 11 June 2014 Diabetes diabetes mellitus insulin JAMA Metformin Propensity Matching sulfonylureas 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...
By Gusty Monday, 9 June 2014 Blade Runner decision support Health Information Technology HIT IBM Watson Turing Test Watson Good Health and The Turing Test Falls: Implications for Health Care Decision Support. Elvonda In the futuristic movie Blade Runner , Detective Rick Deckard's (played by Harrison Ford) skill at "retiring" renegade roboti...
By Gusty Thursday, 5 June 2014 Big Data New England Journal of Medicine Propensity Matching Good Health and More Big Insights on Big Data. Elvonda Given the data, what are her chances of getting breast cancer? Unable to sate its big appetite for big data insights, the Population Health ...
By Gusty Wednesday, 4 June 2014 healthcare reform healthcare.gov ObamaCare Open Enrollment Good Health and Looking Ahead to the Second Enrollment Wave of Obamacare This Fall. Elvonda Big or small? The latest just-published edition of Health Affairs has a sobering reminder written by Tricia Brooks (" Open Enrollment,...