Will the biggest disruption in health care be an Internet-based health care industry? We already know that more consumers get answers to their health care questions on a daily basis from the Internet than from their doctors. But do we think that online tools will evolve enough to allow consumers to organize and make sense [...]
Archive for the 'Market Rewards/Reimbursement Issues' Category
What Will Be the Biggest Disruption in Health Care?
August 28, 2007Judging Web Site Quality: Combining Objective Tools & Collaborative Filtering
May 30, 2007In response to a column in The New York Times last week (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/fashion/24Cyber.html), I wrote the following letter to the editor (for which they apparently aren’t publishing any letters):
Regarding “Visits to Doctors Who Are Not in, Ever” (May 24), democratization of information has made health content widely available—some would describe this a blessing and others [...]
MyHealth, Circa 2007: Consumer Needs and Market Responses in eHealth
February 6, 2007We held a public webcast on this topic today. Susannah Fox, Associate Director of the Pew Internet Project, not only shared valuable insights but also some of Pew’s as-yet-unpublished data. The presentations and the audio recording from both of our presentations will be available on our Web site in the near future.
We had nearly 100 unique [...]
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 [...]
