I previously used the example of Chronic Kidney Disease to highlight how good data and IT is essential to constructing and running any successful disease management program. In this post, I am going to describe the rationale for and the
In medical school, doctors learn how to take care of patients one at a time. But, we are not taught how to care for populations. The latter is important, because many patients can fall between the cracks of care without
Quality measures have been around for a long time. Before the move towards global payment, most contracts in the “Pay for Performance” era included both ambulatory and hospital-based quality measures. As provider organizations and ACOs transition to global payment, quality