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| Community Care
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Elaine Zablocki
| | | If you help patients and members address challenges in their basic life needs, they will better attend to their healthcare and avoid costly events
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| EMR update
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David Bennett
| | | Smaller companies might offer innovation with a lower price tag, but they might not be able to achieve proper certification for incentives
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| Cooperatives tough to launch
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Julie Miller
| | | While co-ops do provide good care and the right incentives, they still face market pressures that have historically destroyed them
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| Employers uneasy about reform
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Tracey Walker
| | | Sensitive to market pressures, 67% of employers prefer a phased approach to reform and 68% believe the current tax treatment of coverage should not be changed
| | | Reform legislation troubles insurers
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Jill Wechsler
| | | Democrats back insurance market changes, coverage mandates and a public plan option. House leaders generally ignored Republican protests.
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| Public plan dominates discussion
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Jill Wechsler
| | | The public plan could be a co-op, or it could be placed under a trigger mechanism that would kick in if the private market doesn't live up to expectations
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| Provider organizations must prepare for reform
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Kerry Shannon
| | | Proactive organizations will begin a painful transition to emerge as larger, fuller enterprises with concentrated authority designed around very different roles and responsibilities than what they have today
| | | Patient feedback programs lower healthcare costs
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Stanley Wulf, MD
| | | If these programs are executed correctly, they can educate patients about their medications, provide physicians with information about the effectiveness of drugs and facilitate communication
| | | Comparative effectiveness needs reimbursement reform
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Scott Huennekens
| | | Straying from the popular opinion of the industry, a handful of medical device manufactures have aligned with Obama's proposed investment in comparative effectiveness research.
| | | ICD-10 preparation must begin now
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Angela Boynton
| | | The United Kingdom implemented ICD-10 as far back as 1995, making the United States one of the last major global economies to begin the implementation process.
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