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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
The use of EMRs in the patient-centered medical home can reduce diagnostic error and improve coordination, communication, and continuity of care.



Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Rising healthcare costs have produced calls for reduced physician payments, caps on vendors’ profits, and changes to how we pay for medical school.



Friday, July 30th, 2010
Healthcare reform will fail without reduced costs, realigned incentives, integrated care, and a focus on primary care and preventive medicine.



Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Even with the passage of healthcare reform, we still have an expensive, inefficient, uncoordinated, more complex healthcare delivery system.



Thursday, July 1st, 2010
US healthcare ranks poorly against the systems in other developed countries in terms of cost efficiency and outcomes. How can we realign payment and utilization incentives to reward high-quality, patient-centered care?



Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
If current physician-centric healthcare reform efforts don’t reduce costs, improve value, eliminate defensive medicine, or produce a better payment model, maybe it’s time to shift focus and responsibility from physicians to patients.





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Jeff Kaplan, MD, MS
Jeffrey Gene Kaplan, MD, MS is a practicing pediatrician who, for over thirty years, has helped develop community health centers and health plans--always in the interest of managing care well and fairly. After residency at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and 3 years in the National Health Services Corp, U.S. Public Health Service, he returned to Syracuse as chief physician executive for HSA/HSMC for 16 years. He continued as both a physician and physician executive since then, when in 2002 he returned to the "sanity of medical practice" where, as he says, he is 'no longer confused as to who he represents.'

Dr. Kaplan comes to this blog after a successful six years with Managed Care Interface (pub., Medicom International) to continue addressing inequities created by our broken health care system.
Reforming Healthcare & Managed Care
Jeff Kaplan, MD, MS
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