I’ve been an advocate of FileMaker Pro as a rapid-application software development system. FileMaker allows a developer or savvy end-user to get database applications up and running in a relatively short amount of time. Much of my development involves automating…
Interesting article over at The New Old Age blog on the NY Times site which describes a process of cashing out of an existing life-insurance policy to fund long-term care. This process seems to be a bit like a reverse…
As Leeba Lessin (CareMore President) stated ”Primary care has become a specialty referring mechanism, not care driven.” Said differently, our flawed reimbursement model has effectively turned primary care physicians (PCP) into “milk in the back of the store” — i.e., a…
Interesting discussion , “Risks” loom for health exchange technology about the software development for the Colorado Health Information Exchange by a group from the University of Colorado called Health Policy Solutions. Colorado’s health exchange is supposed to debut in just six…
NPR’s Planet Money Team have a segment about Steven Brill who wrote the recent March 4, 2013 Time Magazine article about the lack of transparency in hospital billing. “Obamacare will increase the risk for insurance companies, and therefore will increase…
Getting Real About Fixing Health Care Found this post from Doc Searles from back in 2009. NY Times: Oregon Study Shows Benefits, and Price for Newly Insured Researchers say Oregon’s lottery system for granting health insurance has made it the…
Article in the Times: Down the Insurance Rabbit Hole. May the justices please meet my sister-in-law. On Feb. 8, she was a healthy 32-year-old, who was seven and a half months pregnant with her first baby. On Feb. 9, she…
From Healthcare Payer News, Up to 10,000 Medicare patients with chronic conditions will be able to get most of the care they need at home under a new demonstration project developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The…
Tech for Home Healthcare 