Well . . . I'm back with my
internet show, "Talking Technology with
My new show deals with a new
and exciting technology that has the potential to help change health care as we
know it.
Recently, VOCEL released a new mobile phone application
called the, PILL
PHONE.
March 25, 2009
TOPIC: "PILL PHONE"
Please enjoy the show, and
please feel free to send me any suggestions and ideas for other shows.
What is an Unsharp Mask?
Definition: Despite the name, this is an edge-enhancing filter frequently used in teleradiology. It is created by first generating a low-pass filtered image, which is then subtracted from the original image. This effectively removes part of the background, leaving an image where contours are emphasized.
What is an Accountable Health Plan (AHP)?
Definition: AHPs can be IDSs, MCOs, Health Networks, partnerships or joint ventures between practitioners, providers or payers that would assume responsibility for delivering medical care and managing the funds required to pay for the services rendered.
Physicians and other providers would work for, contract with or own these health plans.
When an IDS or hospital group or IPA operates one or more health insurance benefit products, or a managed care organization acquires a large scale medical delivery component, it qualifies as an Accountable Health System or Accountable Health Plan.
What is an Integrated Delivery System (IDS) or Integrated Services Network (ISN)?
Definition: Many different, but similar, definitions exist for IDS. IDS, as an entity, does not have to abide by strict regulations, as does an HMO.
When an IDS offers a health plan, however, it must then abide by the requirements of the state and federal government for health plans, insurance companies or HMOs.
Without owning a health plan product, an IDS will usually abide by the regulations that govern its separate businesses, that is, regulations governing hospitals, clinics and physicians.
An IDS can be a financial or contractual arrangement between health providers (usually hospitals and doctors) to offer a comprehensive range of health care services through a separate legal entity operating, at least for these purposes, as a single health care delivery system.
IDS can be a network of organizations usually including hospitals and physician groups, that provides or arranges to provide a coordinated continuum of services to a defined population and is held both clinically and fiscally accountable for the outcomes of the populations served.
IDS can also be a healthcare provider organization which vertically integrates physician, hospital, and, usually, also health plan businesses in some manner in order to establish a full continuum of care, seamless of delivery of services and the ability to manage care under new reimbursement arrangements.
Also called delivery system, vertically integrated system, horizontally integrated system, health delivery network, accountable health plan, and other names.
