25 Jun 2018
In April of this year I presented at the University of Mississippi Center , School of Population Health. A description of that presentation is on LinkedIn:
SpaceX, Moonshots and Diabetes in Mississippi
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02 Feb 2018
I had a fascinating interview with David Nash, MD, Founding Dean of the College of Population Health at Jefferson. Our discussion included everything from Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH), Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), medical errors and unnecessary services, to value based care and of course population health. As David said, perhaps its time for Doctors to "Look in the Mi...
09 Oct 2017
You can now download all of the episodes of PopHealth Week on iTunes. Future episodes will be added as they are recorded. Please have a listen, subscribe and rate the show.
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05 Oct 2017
I recently the pleasure of participating in a Webinar with Joe Warbington of Qlik moderated by Mike Perkowski on
Visualizing population health: How geospatial and social determinant data informs preventive care
You can watch it here..
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10 Aug 2017
"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
Red Foxx
In population health we talk a lot about improving the health of those with chronic diseases, preventing other diseases and keeping the healthy people healthy, but what should population health's role be at the end of life? In the end, even if we are wildly successful at maintaining, impr...
06 Aug 2017
Lori Osatchy, MSS, LCSW, The Body Image Counseling Center
Discussing Body Image, Anorexia, Bulimia and a text messaging program
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Who's bio reads:
'I want to live in a world free from eating disorders and body hatred'.
Osachy, a nationally recognized authority in the treatment and preven...
10 Mar 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNi12MlKMM
Population Health continues to be a major buzzword around the healthcare industry. At the recent HiMSS 17 conference in Orlando the talk of population health was everywhere from the vendor booths to the presentations, but where does one turn to get more than just the IT focus of population health? Where can one get a sense of the breadth and...
04 Jan 2017
So where do we go with our healthcare system under the new administration? Will we move to Alternative Payment Models or will FFS continue? A recent study showed that bundled payments for orthopedic joint replacement appeared to be working at lowering costs while maintaining quality.
At the same time, it seems that Dr. Tom Price, the nominee for Secretary of HHS is not a fan of bundled p...
30 Dec 2016
This is the longer original piece with all the links and images that were the genesis for the Florida Times-Union commentary.
This past month I had the opportunity to participate during Humana's half-day Bold Goal launch conference in Jacksonville, Florida (the county seat is Jacksonville and there has been a consolidated government of Duval County since 1968, so some refer to the bro...
08 Dec 2016
This week we had Judson "Jud" Brewer, MD, PhD from Claritas Mind join us on PopHealth Week. I have recently gotten into Mindfulness and have used HeadSpace (which has been very good) daily for over a month. I'll discuss Headspace in another post. More recently I started Eat Right Now developed by Claritas Mind and have used it daily as well. Eat Right Now states it's "a program that util...