I attended a fascinating Health Affairs (www.healthaffairs.org) briefing on “A Rapid-Learning Health System” this past Friday, January 26 here in Washington. The project was led by Lynn Etheridge and Health Affairs and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (www.rwjf.org), Kaiser Permanente (www.kp.org), and the US Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (www.ahrq.gov).
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Archive for January, 2007
Applying “Rapid Learning” to Behavior Change Science to Transform Health Care
January 28, 2007Next-Generation Consumer Portals
January 12, 2007With Revolution Health launching its new consumer portal, a newspaper reporter called me earlier this week to ask what I thought about new efforts such as this….
It’s clear to me that—even though they generally don’t express it this way—consumers are clamoring for information therapy (Ix). And just to be clear, Ix is not simply a [...]
Making the Case for Information Therapy (Ix): Recognition, Reimbursement, and Research
January 9, 2007Since research* suggests that 50% to 80% of everything that a patient hears in the doctor’s office has been completely forgotten by the time he or she gets home, it remains remarkable to me that payers don’t require an Ix after-visit summary as a condition for reimbursing clinical encounters.
For reasons such as this, the inherent [...]
Are PHRs the next disruptive force in health care?
January 5, 2007The Center for Information Therapy (IxCenter) holds periodic public webinars in addition to our monthly IxInsights webinars for IxAction Alliance members. Typically, we get 20-40 participants for these sessions. Yesterday, we sent out a notice about a webinar we’re holding on January 23 on “Personal Health Records (PHRs) and Information Therapy: Transforming Health Care.“ Less than 24 [...]
Patient-Centered Health Information Technology in the New Congress
January 3, 2007With the 110th Congress about to get underway, it’s exciting to think about the possibilities for patient-centered health information technology (HIT) legislation. Last fall, Congressman Patrick Kennedy introduced a bill (HR 6289) that would create incentives for using personal health records (PHRs). Unlike much of the HIT legislation out there, it really focuses on consumer’s personalized [...]
