July 2009 - Posts

Economic Tarpits (and 5 Ways to Avoid Them)

Mammoths are grazing, sabre-tooth cats are hunting.  But the ground they walk on is warm and kinda sticky.  Who will escape the tarpits of the 2009 economy?  Here are factors that matter: Sector.  I like whatever is badly broken

Disease Management: Failure to Engage

Disease Management (DM) has a simple problem.  It doesn’t work very well. The recent disease management demonstration projects for Medicare (widely reported in the New England Journal of Medicine) were uniformly disappointing – with low enrollment