Case is quite a limitation that you cant get the full picture of what the physician is doing. In doing. In the commercial, private sector we might find a physician expending a great deal of resources in the office, but if you look at total cost of care they are actually quite efficient. The reason is, you reason is, you wont see that without the ability to integrate a combined data source. The healthcare cost, that is why we thought it was so important to contribute data as a multiplayer effort to bring transparency to the private sector market. And that is an interesting example and a couple of levels. Levels. It originally started as an effort to be a tracker and private sector cost trend data and utilization data. As was mentioned, once they got together in pairs started putting the data and they said, we could actually use this for transparency purposes, start to look at quality data. As some of you may know, that is an effort that has been announced and will be deployed. To sum up
I think this will move it forward. If youre a patient, you care about your metric. Its wonderful were monitoring if doctors give quit smoking advice to patients. Im not a smoker so it doesnt matter to me. What you want to know is i know somebody whos about to have heart valve surgery. They want to know which doctor in their city performs the most heart valve cities and how many patients are alive a year after that. The fact we cannot answer that for that patient today or tomorrow or even next year, like, thats the question we want to answer. Its not like, do your diabetics have their a1c under control . Im not a diabetic, but if im diabetic and its under control for me, i dont care if your other patients are, i care about me. Were a me culture but we have to make sure the data releases can be customizable so the person interested in their own health and their own situation can get some answers from it. Charlie, at the same time, patients are complaining all the time about high copays,
We were able to cut down readmission rate dramatically and our emergency room rate dramatically. The only thing that went up in our database was primary care visits. Once again, not necessarily perfection but i think as a Clinical Study it was shown to be effective. And once again the reimbursement and the savings bears out that case. We also initiated some relatively interesting demonstration projects. We identified our congestive Heart Failure patients who were having problems with frequent readmissions. We did something very simple. We put scales in their house that automatically sent their weights directly to the doctors Electronic Medical records. Not a very expensive proposition. As soon as it was greater than a one pound change in the patients they got a phone call to find out what had changed and whether or not they were being noncompliant with either medication or diet or what changes had occurred. And in patients who routinely would have four or five hospital admissions in a
The door was trying to smash down the door. We will have much more breaking news on that story, but first, Bowe Bergdahl describing the captivity and the conditions in which he was held. He is now charged with desertion. Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr is joining us now. It is an interesting read, and tell us more about what sergeant Bowe Bergdahl said. Well don, this came this evening along with a letter from the civilian defense attorney, a lengthy document where the attorney tries to make the case that bergdahl is already not guilty of the charges of which he is the army has presented him with and this is followed up from several pages from Bowe Bergdahl himself h, detailing brutality, and torture. And let me go through a few pieces of this. He says quote, i was kept on constant isolation for the five years with little understanding of time. I was told they was going to be be executed. He was chained to a bead, spreadeagle and blindfolded he said. He had at one point 8 to 12 open wo
Sped the plane up before slamming into a mountain with 149 innocent lives on board. What other secrets are in this newly discovered black box . And the National Lead. He says his boat was dead in the water and flipped three times, but he held on broken shoulder and all. The amazing story of a fisherman found after 66 days lost at sea. But some skeptics out there wonder if this is a fishtale. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin today with the world lead. Depending upon whom you ask in washington, d. C. Right now, this is either an offramp from a path to war or its the hov lane. One day after negotiators in switzerland announced a preliminary agreement between the u. S. And other major world powers with iran over its Nuclear Program, irans president vowed that iran can quote, cooperate with the world despite what many would say is a decadeslong track record of doing the exact opposite. Of course the country with perhaps the most to lose if it turns out that iran