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Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 Ben Comer	An IOU to Big Pharma Regarding EHR It's a work in progress among electronic health records providers to offer a clear bridge between pharma and physicians.
Managed Care August 2006 Neil Versel	A Conversation with Molly Coye, MD, MPH: Building the Paperless Health Care System After years and years of talk, a community of health plans, governments, and providers is getting serious about the beneficial exchange of health care data.
Insurance & Technology August 6, 2010 Nathan Golia	WellPoint Providing Financing for Health IT WellPoint hopes that favorable interest rates on loans and other financial incentives will ease adoption of technology among rural hospitals and other providers.
HBS Working Knowledge March 26, 2014 Dina Gerdeman	How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity Electronic health records are sweeping through the medical field, but some doctors report a disturbing side effect. Instead of becoming more efficient, some practices are becoming less so. Robert Huckman's research explains why.
Managed Care May 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Will Pay for Performance Programs Introduce a New Set of Problems? Paying incentives to physicians to practice evidence-based medicine appears to be an idea whose time has come. Such programs -- even if successful -- may create a new set of problems.
Managed Care September 2005	Doc Buy-In Needed For EHR Push The government's $75-million, 10-year project to put every American's vital information on electronic health records faces a hurdle long known to health plan officials -- the possible lack of physician buy-in.
Insurance & Technology November 21, 2005 Maria Woehr	Transforming Healthcare As the healthcare and operational benefits of electronic medical records become increasingly clear - and pressure from consumers, providers and the government builds - insurers will be forced to invest in this technology.
Insurance & Technology July 10, 2008 Nathan Conz	Highmark Funds EHR Adoption Having recognized the quality of care improvement opportunities certain technologies can bring to provider offices, Highmark established a program that will provide financial assistance to member physicians who implement electronic health records or e-prescribing technology.
Managed Care August 2006	Put Away That Carrot and Stick Researchers interviewed practice managers about how financial incentives are implemented in physician practices and the attitudes and perceptions they had toward P4P programs.
Bio-IT World Dec 2006/Jan 2007 John Mestler	e-Harmony: EDC and e-Health Records Bringing bio-pharmaceutical requirements to the table with government eHealth designers in the US, EU, and around the world is the beginning of the necessary fusion of electronic health records and electronic data capture.
Managed Care May 2007 Lola Butcher	Massive Databases Under Construction Insurers and employers are busily compiling databases to control costs and improve care, but physicians are laying claim to the data.
Managed Care January 2005 Alice G. Gosfield	P4P: Transitional at Best Pay-for-performance (P4P) programs promise a fair shake for provider and insurance plan, but a former chairman of the National Committee for Quality Assurance sees many design flaws to overcome.
Bio-IT World Dec 2005/Jan 2006 Mark D. Uehling	Convergence of EHR and EDC The hypothesized convergence of applications and databases for drug development, clinical trials, hospitals, and physicians is both closer and more distant.
Managed Care August 2002 Joyce Ochs	Managed Care's Use of Web Not Just for Marketing Anymore Virtually all MCOs today have Web sites as a matter of course. The challenge is to have a site useful enough to make people come back, while the operating challenge is to transfer selected company functions entirely or partially to the Internet to increase efficiency and reduce expenses.
Insurance & Technology May 3, 2006 Maria Woehr	Building a Foundation Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is helping to lay out a blueprint for the Michigan Health Information Network, which is charting a plan for establishing a statewide electronic health records system.
American Family Physician November 15, 2005 Sarah J. Evans	Newsletter AAFP Survey Shows Increased Use of EHR Systems by FPs... AHRQ Launches New Health Care Program... AAFP Asks Members to Join Title VII Campaign... AHRQ Rewards Over $22.3 Million for Health Information Technology... etc.
Managed Care October 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Just How Will CDHC Change Your Job? Medical directors are charged with many of the tasks that could help members make the most of consumer-directed health plans.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2013 Ben Comer	Share of Screen: Prioritizing Electronic Health Records Are electronic health records a viable channel for engagement?
Insurance & Technology October 5, 2006 Katherine Burger	Art of the Possible By tracking emerging technology developments, Humana's SVP and CIO Bruce Goodman is able to identify real-world applications that make the health insurer an easy-to-work-with partner.
Managed Care June 2007	Which Insurer is Best at Paying Docs? Prompt and accurate payment by insurers is important to physicians. Here are the best and the worst insurers at paying.
American Family Physician December 15, 2003	Newsletter CDC reports current influenza season could be more severe than usual... AAFP partners with nine companies to provide affordable EHR systems... Annual report shows continued improvement in overall health in the United States... etc.
Managed Care June 2004 Tony Berberabe	Welcome to the Brave, New (Electronic) World, Doctor WellPoint is providing free handheld or even desktop computers in an effort toward minimizing medication errors. Will docs finally abandon pen and pad?
Managed Care July 2001 Harry L. Leider	HMOs Need To Share Gains of DM Programs Physicians are more likely to buy in if they see better outcomes -- and financial rewards that go with them...
CIO September 23, 2010 Neil Versel	Healthcare IT: How Reform Is Giving CIOs A More Strategic Role in Delivering Patient Care Electronic health records aren't enough. Healthcare CIOs need to apply technology to coordinating patient care and measuring quality.
Managed Care July 2005 Stanley Hochberg	Insurers Can No Longer Afford Not To Share Some Data Pay-for-performance programs imply improved patient care, but are frustrated by fragmented data collection and reporting systems.
Insurance & Technology December 13, 2006 Anthony O'Donnell	New World Record Built on the CareEngine technology platform developed by Aetna subsidiary ActiveHealth Management, PHR gives members online access to personal health information.
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Insurance & Technology April 4, 2007 Anthony O'Donnell	Insurers Are Making Business More Personal Insurers such as Humana and WellPoint pursue an ideal of customer intimacy with highly personalized documents and phone communications.
Managed Care September 2004 Tony Berberabe	Can Physician and Health Plan Get Together Over Guidelines? Physicians are not the only problem. Health plans too often view guidelines as rigid routines rather than flexible aids to good practice.
Managed Care November 2000 Bob Carlson	E-Health's Greener Pastures The trend is unmistakable: Physician executives are leaving their high-pressure, high-paying jobs at health plans, and are starting from scratch in the nascent e-health industry. The lure? A chance to leave their mark on something...
Managed Care June 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Re-Emergence of the Primary Care Physician A new model of care developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians places primary care physicians back at the center of care delivery.
Managed Care December 2002 Patrick Mullen	Placing Faith in Technology To Improve Members' Choices Not many companies' organizational charts list a 'chief innovation officer.' At Humana, it brings visibility to a high-tech strategy for reducing care fragmentation.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Brian Orelli	One Healthy Partnership Health insurer Humana and CVS Caremark's MinuteClinic are expanding their relationship, in what looks like a healthy deal for both sides.
Managed Care October 2007 John Carroll	Early Tiered Networks Encounter Many Obstacles From dodgy data to uncooperative doctors, difficulties confront health plans that are trying to stratify providers by cost and quality.
The Motley Fool May 7, 2010 Ryan McBride	Athenahealth Paying Dearly to Take on Larger Rivals Athena has been ramping up efforts to raise its profile among doctors, the target audience for its Internet-enabled billing and electronic health records services. Yet the company has been criticized for the relatively high price of the push.
Managed Care April 2006 Tony Berberabe	Insurers Rely on Providers To Screen for Depression With access only to claims data, health plans strive to promote the importance of depression screening to their providers.
CIO April 1, 2006 Michael Fitzgerald	The Business Case for Paperless Medicine A strong argument can now be made that doctors in small and midsize practices should invest in electronic health records. Here's how to get your physicians on board.
Insurance & Technology November 14, 2007 Karen Ignagni	Technology, Innovation Enable Health Insurers To Address Challenges The health insurance industry will continue to innovate and provide new tools to improve the quality of care and contain costs while working with government leaders to ensure Americans have greater access to affordable coverage.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005	Crusader for Clearer E-Info Entrepreneur Jonathan S. Bush -- yes he's related -- discusses how Web-based medical records can become a workable reality
Insurance & Technology September 16, 2005 Katherine Burger	Educating Consumers A truly technology-enabled offering, the idea behind consumer-directed healthcare is that everyone benefits when consumers have more information.
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Managed Care November 2005 Frank Diamond	Physicians and Plans Can Get Along Hill Physicians Medical Group, one of the largest IPAs in the country, has learned to deliver what managed care plans want
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Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006	Unraveling the eSource Industry-wide standards for electronic patient data have long felt like buried treasure. Companies today are getting closer - by way of a tangled map.
Managed Care February 2007	Quality is Important, But Productivity Rules Despite a rise in the use of quality incentives to determine physician compensation, productivity remains the predominant determinant.
Managed Care August 2001	In Calif., Bonuses Based on Quality, Not Cost Savings Blue Cross of California has decided to move away from the traditional managed care incentive of rewarding physicians for controlling medical costs, and instead will implement a program in which physicians receive bonuses for quality of care and patient satisfaction...