The Brave New World of Oncology ACO’s Inverted Incentives & Inverted IT System Requirements January 15, 2013 Wes Chapman & Steve Maker Are your oncology IT systems rated for Inverted Flight? Reality came crashing in yesterday: 106 new accountable care [...]
Read morePalliative Medicine and Patient Involvement:The Heart of Patient-Centric Care
Palliative Medicine and Patient Involvement:The Heart of Patient-Centric Care By Wes Chapman, Mike Choukas, Charles Hutchinson PhD, and Steve Maker November, 2012 Preface This is the final white paper on treatment issues in a series addressing quality improvement and patient focus in healthcare, specifically [...]
Read moreTransitioning to Value Based Oncology: Strategies to Survive & Thrive
I spoke last week at the 2012 Cancer Center Business Summit. Click on the link for the PowerPoint Slides given at the Summit: Cancer Business Summit v6. All the Best, Wes [...]
Read moreOpportunities in Healthcare M&A – a Structural and Data Driven Revolution
Opportunities in Healthcare M&A The FTC and the Alphabet Soup Antidote - An Information Driven Structural Revolution October 15, 2012 Wes Chapman My friend Pete is a senior player in a major regional academic medical center, and a terrific raconteur. He was hilarious in [...]
Read morePatient Reported Outcomes – Choosing Appropriate Metrics from a Still-Evolving Toolset
Patient Reported Outcomes Choosing Appropriate Metrics from a Still-Evolving Toolset By Wes Chapman, Mike Choukas, Charles Hutchinson PhD, Steve Maker, Mario Martinez Purpose This paper defines a set of criteria for choosing Patient Reported Outcome metrics for use in oncology, and lists five PROs [...]
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