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Technical Information

Definitions of Podcasting and RSS from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29


Google Reader Information

http://www.google.com/reader/things/intro

 

My Yahoo RSS Reader Information

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To download iTunes:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/


Managed Care Resources

Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy

www.amcp.org

 

America's Health Insurance Plans

www.ahip.org

 

National Committee for Quality Assurance

www.ncqa.org


According to the Institute of Medicine, a report called Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare, “analyzes the promise and risks of instituting a pay-for-performance program within Medicare to encourage a more effective health care system. Although focused on Medicare, this report also has significant implications for payers and purchasers in the private sector.

Download Report

 

Ian Morrison and guest speaker, Tom Williams, recommend an article by Meredith Rosenthal, et al, “Pay for Performance in Commercial HMOs” that was recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine. An abstract of the article is available here

 

Pay 4 Performance White Paper

 

For more information, visit the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy at:
http://www.amcp.org/data/legislative/analysis/partD_pricing.pdf

or
http://www.acmp.org


To read the proposed legislation, click on:

http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/110/HR4asintroduced.pdf

 















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