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B Hesselgrave

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PubMed2001

Polypharmacy.

In today's managed healthcare environment two issues are at the forefront of concern: patient safety and patient confidentiality. Both of these share a common element in their relationship with medical and pharmaceutical health data. Patient safety depends upon access to this information, and yet ironically, medical and pharmaceutical records are now more difficult to access. This article looks at a case study of patients in Appalachia and how various issues influence patient safety, information that is needed and how to use these resources to reduce medical risk, especially in pharmaceutical therapies of the elderly.

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PubMed1996

Drug lores.

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Risk management. Betting on good information.

Eating potato salad left out in the sun, flying a kite in a rainstorm, sticking a fork in a light socket--we don't need an actuarial table to know that these and many other actions are downright life-threatening. Most of us grow up learning these basic lessons and think of them as common sense, not as a measure of risk. But what about having a heart attack? Contracting a fatal disease? Experiencing unusual side effects from medicine? These risks aren't so obvious. But in each situation, information is available that can identify the chances of any one of us experiencing a stroke or food poisoning. In fact, conclusions about the incidence and potential health risks are key in the daily business decisions of healthcare. Just knowing the gambles, however, is not what risk in healthcare is all about. Instead, it is about the potential costs of those risks to health planners footing the bill.

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Medicaid. Can IT help administer HEDIS?

Stopping the revolving door of care for Medicaid recipients is the first step in providing quality-based services regardless of an individual's income level or insurance carrier. But before these changes can be measured, managed care officials must confront some of the problems inherent to Medicaid, such as: unregulated and unrecorded migration of plan enrollees; data collection from disparate sources; and the availability of few information system resources.

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Dialing for diagnosis.

From healthcare to self-care, technology is moving to a level where members have more information and more responsibility in areas relating to their health and well-being. In this article Barbara Hesselgrave explains how healthcare call centers, using data collection resources, can assist members with non-emergency medical matters over the telephone and lower the cost of doctor and emergency room visits.

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