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Bob Pyke Jr.,RN,CPNP
"Better Health Technologies, LLC" wrote:
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> E-Care Management News October 23, 2000
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> THE CURE IS IN HAND: BRINGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO PATIENT
> CARE
>
> Josh Fisher and Rosemary Wang of W.R. Hambrecht have issued a
> comprehensive 78 page report examining the wireless handheld market
> for physicians
> <http://www.wrhambrecht.com/research/coverage/ehealth/ir.html>.
>
> Here are a few highlights:
>
> ** With less than 1% of U.S. physicians using handheld devices for
> transactional purposes today, we believe there are exceptional
> opportunities for companies developing handheld applications for
> the healthcare market.
> ** We believe wireless handheld devices, which fit seamlessly into
> a physician’s workflow, will not only involve physicians but get
> them addicted to Internet technologies.
> ** Already, approximately 15% of physicians are using handheld
> devices for reference uses (i.e., storing phone numbers and looking
> up drug information)....
> ** By 2004, we project that 20% of U.S. physicians will be using
> handheld devices for transactions, generating over $2 billion in
> sales for handheld companies.
> ** Which is the bigger opportunity -— reducing administrative
> costs or clinical costs? Both are big opportunities, but the
> bigger opportunity, which is more difficult to quantify, is on the
> clinical side.
> ** Is there a “killer handheld app” for physicians? We think
> charge capture, with its strong ROI proposition, and e-prescribing,
> with its multiple revenue streams, are the two best applications
> out today. In the future, the “killer app” will likely be a
> handheld device that can perform all applications.
>
> ADDITIONAL READINGS
>
> Editorial -- Electronic Prescribing and Monitoring Are Needed to
> Improve Drug Use
> http://archinte.ama-assn.org/issues/v160n18/ffull/ied00003.html
>
> Analyses of Allscripts, Inc. (MDRX), a publicly traded company
> developing wireless handheld solutions for physicians (cut and
> paste broken links):
>
> http://www.witsoundview.com/research/reports_company.jsp?Company=Al
> lscripts%2C+Inc.&Ticker=MDRX
>
> http://www.fbr.com/v/Gateway/1,5377,L3YvU3VwcG9ydENvbnRlbnQvUERGcy9
> CcmllZnNSZXBvcnRzMDE5MDMwMDAucGRm,00.asp
>
> http://www.fbr.com/v/Gateway/1,5377,L3YvU3VwcG9ydENvbnRlbnQvUERGcy9
> CcmllZnNSZXBvcnRzMDE3NjMwMDAucGRm,00.asp
>
> http://www.theinternetanalyst.com/individual/000204sections/zeroin
> .html?token=mX1fsl2ekQpWo0a5en3piIye5ResW57srSCXen665NLy0T95SSW5olA
> sp9e2naRsuURKv9AC250
>
> http://www.wrhambrecht.com/research/coverage/ehealth/mdrx.html
>
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> BABY BOOMERS STRUGGLING TO CARE FOR AGING PARENTS
>
> Family Circle and Kaiser Family Foundation have issued an excellent
> report entitled “National Survey on Health Care and other Elder
> Care Issues” <http://www.kff.org/content/2000/20000925a/>. The
> survey was designed to examine the experiences of adults in the
> course of caring for an aging parent.
>
> Some interesting findings (among respondents with a parent age 65
> and older):
>
> ** 33% of respondents reported that their parent lives more than
> 100 miles away
> ** 40% could not identify their parent’s doctor or health care
> provider
> ** 43% say they know next to nothing or nothing at all about
> health insurance to help their parent with information
> ** 25% reported their parent requires some kind of help to take
> care or himself/herself
> ** 26% have helped or given advice about making decisions about
> medical care
> ** Over a third (38%) say their parent is in fair or poor health
>
> When asked “How concerned are you that your parent is not getting
> medical care she/he needs?”, 21% answered “very” or “somewhat
> concerned”.
>
> When asked “How concerned are you about your parent’s safety?”, 47%
> answered “very” or “somewhat concerned”.
>
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> UPCOMING CONFERENCES
>
> HEALTH INTERNET CONGRESS & INAUGURAL E-CARE FORUM
>
> The Center for Business Innovation is sponsoring two conferences in
> San Jose, CA <www.tcbi.org>.
>
> The first is the Health Internet Congress, December 11-12, 2000.
> This conference will focus on financing, partnering and value
> creation for e-health companies. Attendees will include leading
> financiers, innovative e-health companies, hospital
> executives/clinicians, managed care executives/clinicians and
> pharmaceutical/biotech executives. Keynote speaker is Peter
> Boland, President, Boland Healthcare.
>
> The Inaugural E-Care Forum, December 13, 2000 is an intensive
> one-day program that delves into e-care, the use of Internet-based
> applications to optimize the delivery of care. It features
> practical and timely case studies from leading-edge hospitals,
> health systems and managed care organizations. Keynote speaker is
> Allen Hinkle MD, Corporate Medical, Blue Cross Blue Shield of New
> Hampshire.
>
> 2nd ANNUAL DMAA DISEASE MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FORUM
>
> The 2nd Annual Disease Management Leadership Forum will be held
> November 12-15, 2000 in Baltimore, Maryland
> <http://www.dmaa.org/2000conf.html>. This premiere event is
> sponsored by the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA).
>
> HIMSS TELEHEALTH 2000 CONFERENCE
>
> The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) will host
> its first Telehealth 2000 Conference, October 31st-November 3rd, in
> Los Angeles at the Century Plaza Hotel. A link to conference
> information appears on the HIMSS home page at
> <http://www.himss.org>. The conference will focus on:
> ** Strategic considerations for developing a telehealth program
> ** Practical applications for using telehealth to enhance patient
> care
> ** Best practices and tools to implement high-quality and
> cost-effective telehealth programs
>
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> MEDTRONIC VISION 2010 – “PROVIDING LIFELONG SOLUTIONS FOR PEOPLE
> WITH CHRONIC DISEASE”
>
> Medtronic’s Vision 2010 strategy proscribes a compelling new role
> for the medical device company: “Medtronic is the world’s leading
> medical technology company, providing lifelong solutions for people
> with chronic disease.”
>
> “21st Century Healthcare: The Patient Revolution” was presented by
> Medtronic CEO Bill George as a keynote address at the recent
> Windows on Healthcare conference in Las Vegas. Listen to the
> Webcast and view the Powerpoint presentation at
> <http://play.rbn.com/vdat/vdat/demand/livearchive/vdat001003b.ra>
> (Real Player required). Read about Medtronic’s Vision 2010 at
> <http://www.medtronic.com/corporate/jan11_00.html>.
>
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> NCQA RELEASES “STATE OF MANAGED CARE QUALITY 2000” REPORT
>
> NCQA has released its 4th annual State of Managed Care Quality
> report
> <http://www.ncqa.org/Pages/Communications/News/somcrel00.htm>.
>
> The good news: Overall, reporting plans made significant
> improvement in 1999, showing gains on all clinical quality measures
> NCQA tracked. The measure showing the most consistent and dramatic
> improvement over time is Beta Blocker Treatment after a Heart
> Attack. The percentage of patients discharged from a hospital
> after surviving a heart attack and who received a prescription for
> beta blockers has risen from 62% in 1996 to 85% in 1999.
>
> There’s still much room for improvement. Many other measures show
> only marginal improvements over time, and regional variations are
> significant.
>
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> REPORT IDENTIFIES 3 MAJOR FORCES DRIVING PHARMACEUTICAL COSTS
>
> The BlueCross BlueShield Association has issued a 106 page report
> entitled “Prescription Drug Costs: Federal Regulation of the
> Industry” <http://bcbshealthissues.com/special/rxdrug/>. The
> report examines the Association’s views of three of the most
> important forces driving prescription drug costs.
> 1) Direct-to-consumer advertising
> 2) The flow of new technology to market
> 3) Intellectual property protection, including special treatment
> granted to the pharmaceutical industry.
>
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> DEFINED CONTRIBUTION IN A NUTSHELL
>
> The Center for Studying Health System Change has published an issue
> brief entitled “Are Defined Contributions A New Direction for
> Employer-Sponsored Coverage”
> <http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/273/>. The more-than-casual
> reader can peruse an insightful transcript of a recent conference
> on this topic (click the link on the right).
>
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> RED HERRING ASSESSES E-HEALTH
>
> The October 2000 issue of Red Herring magazine contains a series of
> articles on Health Care and the Net
> <http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue83/mag-healthnet-83.html>.
>
> A particularly relevant set of articles describes “Three Promising
> Clinical Applications”:
> 1) PDAs for drug research and prescriptions
> 2) In-hospital wireless monitoring
> 3) Remote monitoring of chronic illnesses
>
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> BIOTECHNOLOGY’S IMPACT ON DISEASES OF THE ELDERLY: A WHITE PAPER
>
> The Biotechnology Industry Organization has developed a useful 103
> page report. “Biotechnology's Impact on Diseases of the Elderly: A
> White Paper” <http://www.bio.org/news.html> describes the costs of
> eight age-related illnesses in human and economic terms. It also
> examines some of the biotech medicines on the market and in
> development to treat the diseases and details their impact on
> patients’ quality of life and health-care expenditures.
>
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> PERSONALIZED MEDICINE FOR ASTHMA
>
> As reported in the British Medical Journal
> <http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7263/724>, researchers have
> discovered subtle differences in the DNA of people with asthma
> which help to predict which patients will benefit most from a
> certain drug before they take it.
>
> It is the first example, researchers said, of personalised drug
> treatment, made possible by the sequencing of the human genome. In
> the future, the researchers said, they will be able to match
> individual patients to different medications, using their DNA as
> guidance to improve the drugs' effectiveness and eliminate harmful
> side effects. "Pharmacogenomics" is considered the most likely
> spin-off of decoding the human genome to have practical application
> in the near term.
>
> "This is a step toward personalised medicine," said Dr. Stephen
> Liggett. "The era of one drug fitting all is probably coming to an
> end soon."
>
> See also:
> http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_00/hlsb1002.htm
>
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> Disclosure – BHT clients referenced in this issue: Medtronic
> Neurological.
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