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Managed Care September 2004 Sherrie Dulworth	CAM Offerings Really Can Enhance Quality of Care for Some Patients People flock to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services whether insurers cover them or not. When does it make economic and medical sense to offer them?
Managed Care August 2005 Martin Sipkoff	Steadily, Plans Increase Coverage of Unorthodox Medical Therapies Studies indicate that complementary and alternative medicine may save on drug costs.
Information Today April 28, 2011	NIH Launches New Resource on Complementary and Alternative Medicine This new resource seeks to provide health care providers with the tools necessary to learn about the various CAM practices and products.
Managed Care April 2000 Karen L. Trespacz, J.D.	League of Their Own: What Makes a Winning IPA? In a familiar cartoon, a professor writes long, learned equations on a blackboard. To connect the profundities on either end, he writes in the middle, "Then a miracle occurs." IPAs, done well, are the miracles that connect the ends of health care.
Health March 15, 2009 Katy Koontz	Four Things You Didn't Know About Natural Medicine If natural medicine still sounds too alternative for you, here are four things that may help mainstream the concept for you.
Managed Care February 2002 Alan M. Muney	Evidence-Based Medicine Needs To Be Promoted More Vigorously This means using a carrot-and-stick approach with physicians. Those who respect the evidence should be rewarded; others should face penalties...
Managed Care July 2001 Maureen Glabman	Provider Shortage Puts HMOs In Bind Increasing demand for physicians and physician extenders is starting to strain the system. To a large extent, this is unexpected bitter fruit of managed care's labor...
Managed Care June 2001 Frank Diamond	HMO/Physician Strain Creates Invisible Costs Perhaps goodwill is too much to ask for. However, peaceful coexistence can certainly help all players reach their mutual goal -- a smooth relationship that helps to get the job done...
Managed Care August 2001	Four Views of Managed Care Ethics The evolution of managed care has posed ethical problems for physicians, plan administrators, and even patients. Four ethicists find that questions are many, while satisfactory answers are in short supply...
Reason June 2003 Chris Mooney	Quacks and Flacks The pitfalls of seeking a scientific foundation for alternative medicine
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 Jennifer Ringler	The Adherence Fight: A TKO? Why does the match against medicines compliance always seem to end in an easy knockout?
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.
BusinessWeek June 23, 2011 Drew Armstrong	The Simplest Rx: Check on Your Patient Doctors and insurers cut costs by sharing information.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2011 Jerry Coamey	Engage the Physician! New research shows that gauging the mind of the clinician is crucial to timely uptake of the new diagnostic tools offered by the genomic revolution
Managed Care December 2000 Maureen Glabman	Downstream Without a Paddle State legislatures that tackle medical group insolvencies have come up with strategies that sometimes shift accountability to HMOs...
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2014 William Looney	The Call to Community: A Conversation with Dr. David Nash Population health is the foundation for much of what is truly new in US health reform. For big Pharma, it represents yet another escalation in expectations.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Al Topin	Less Selling, More Time What can happen when pharmaceutical reps focus on the physician-patient conversation?
Managed Care January 2004 Arthur Preston Smith	HMOs Would Be Wise To Investigate Alternative Ways To Improve Health Human beings are not machines, and modern medicine needs to move beyond the repair shop mentality. Could nontraditional services help?
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2014 Ben Comer	Take as Directed: From Force to Finesse in Promoting Adherence Healthcare players tout patient education and engagement as the keys to better drug adherence rates. Patients agree, as long as that translates to convenient and affordable access to therapy.
Managed Care September 1999 Ed Rabinowitz	Is There a Doctor in the House? The per-visit cost of a house call is high, but used judiciously, this practice can lower overall medical costs -- not to mention provide better care.
AskMen.com Jon Skindzier	The Everyman Dream Health Plan This article lays out a dream health care plan that has been composed of the best individual elements from different systems around the world. However, not all of it may be practical.
Managed Care March 2008 Kathryn J. Alexander	Health Plans Embrace Retail Clinics Convenient care clinics, as they like to be called, are spreading quickly because members and plans like them
CIO December 15, 2009 Kim S. Nash	Data Sharing That Benefits Customers At Children's Hospital Boston, sharing more data, securely, promises healthier, more satisfied patients.
BusinessWeek September 9, 2010 Caroline Winter	A High-End Handler for Deep-Pocketed Patients A startup links the seriously ill with global experts on their malady
BusinessWeek November 12, 2009 Catherine Arnst	10 Ways to Cut Health-Care Costs Right Now Employers and hospitals don't have to wait for Congress to address inefficiencies and waste.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Robert N. Charette	Dying for Data A comprehensive system of electronic medical records promises to save lives and cut health care costs -- but how do you build one? The many technical, social, and political issues are also formidable.
Nursing Management September 2010 Richard Hader	The evidence that isn't... Interpreting research When patients seek a healthcare practitioner for services, they believe that the delivered care is based on proven science. But reality is far from patient perception. In fact, most care is still based on anecdote, not evidence.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2012 Al Topin	Doctors' Words No Longer Gospel In the digital age, physicians don't call the shots when it comes to healthcare guidance. Marketers must appeal to multiple sources in seeking ways to garner patient adherence and loyalty.
CIO September 27, 2013	How IT Can Produce Better Patient Care For Dr. Bob Laskowski, president and CEO of Christiana Care Health System, technology means empowering physicians and patients.
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2013 Al Topin	The Doctor-Patient Disconnect Doctor-patient conversations aren't always what we think; this basic interaction represents both a problem and an opportunity for today's drug marketers, says the author.
Managed Care January 2005	Cost of Coverage Forces Search For 'Alternatives' Among those turning to herbal remedies because of the cost of conventional medicine, 54% did so without either telling a conventional medical professional or disclosing use of complementary and alternative medicine during a medical visit.
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2013 William Looney	Pathways to Progress Cancer is increasingly understood as a collection of rare and mostly treatable conditions rather than the impregnable, monolith portrayed in popular culture. Industry experts review current and pending efforts to turn great science into good practice.
Managed Care December 2005 Ricardo Guggenheim	Putting EBM To Work (Easier Said Than Done) Through widespread implementation of evidence-based medicine, the United States has its best chance of erasing the variations in care that currently extract such huge costs -- both human and financial -- from the health care system.
Managed Care February 2002 Mick L. Diede & Richard Liliedahl	Getting on the Right Track Converging forces are an economic train wreck waiting to happen. Avoiding a disaster requires an understanding of the interconnection of health care's stakeholders and the global consequences of their actions...
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2005 Lena Chow	Docs of Shanghai They're short on status, pay, and respect, but China's young doctors hold keys to the world's fastest growing pharmaceutical market.
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 James Warren	Commentary: General Practitioners Need to Make More Money These doctors are grossly underpaid compared with specialists. A federal panel wants to reduce the discrepancy.
American Journal of Nursing April 2010 Mary Curry Narayan	Culture's Effects on Pain Assessment and Management When patients belong to a culture or speak a language that's different from that of their health care provider, the provider faces additional challenges in successfully assessing and managing the patients' pain.
American Family Physician July 1, 2000	Letters to the Editor On whether physicians should be 'Bending the Rules to Get a Medication'...
Managed Care July 2002 Michael D. Dalzell	Has Capitation Weathered the Storm? More difficult than ever to pull off, health care on a fixed, per-capita budget has gone out of style in a number of areas. But many things are cyclical - and this trend may be, too.
Search Engine Watch December 31, 2010 Dean Stephens	Health Gets Social in 2010 The role of social media in search results is influencing how health organizations attract and treat patients.
Managed Care May 2000	Physicians Fudge Insurance Forms To Help Patients A study confirms what has long been considered common but is rarely discussed: Physicians often lie about patients' conditions to gain or improve coverage for their treatment.
Managed Care March 2001	Docs Spend More Time, Not Less, With Patients Now Confounding conventional wisdom, researchers writing in the New England Journal of Medicine have found that the spread of managed care during the past decade has not reduced the amount of time spent with patients...
Managed Care April 2001 Michael S. Victoroff	Blame Science and Technology, Not HMOs, for Longer Office Visits Contrary to urban legend, the duration of primary care office visits has not shortened over the last decade. It has slightly lengthened, with HMO patients having longer visits than patients with other kinds of coverage...
BusinessWeek June 9, 2009 John Carey	Giving Patients the Data They Need A growing effort by doctors, insurers, and politicians helps people make better-informed medical decisions
Managed Care August 2001 Frank Diamond	Consumers Dare You to Just Say 'No' The backlash has helped push a Patients' Bill of Rights forward, challenging the very nature of cost containment. Ironically, enrollees may be shortchanged...
AskMen.com Jasper Anson	Alternative Cancer Treatments "Complimentary" therapies are forms of holistic healing that can improve a cancer patient's quality of life by focusing on their physical, spiritual and emotional needs.
American Family Physician April 1, 2002 Forrest Lang	Interviewing When Family Members Are Present The presence of family members at an office visit creates unique opportunities and challenges for the physician while interviewing the patient. The physician must address issues of confidentiality, privacy, and agency...
Managed Care November 1999 Michael D. Dalzell Senior Editor	HMOs, Physicians Discover They Really Need Each Other Some HMOs may be more willing than you think to help financially troubled medical groups survive. A willingness to cooperate is key.
Managed Care November 1999 John La Puma, M.D.	Expanding HMO Liability: Ethical, But Not the Point ...Many states are not waiting for the federal debate about expanding HMO liability to play out...
Managed Care June 2007 MargaretAnn Cross	What the Primary Care Physician Shortage Means for Health Plans Insurers fear rising costs and poorer outcomes if members are less able to get appointments with family physicians and general internists.