“In June, 2008, I was asked by the California Healthcare Foundation to investigate the chronic conditions that might benefit from patient-centered health information technology applications in employed populations.
I assumed that we would likely target the 5% of the population that accounts for 50% of health care costs – the so-called “high concentration (of expenditures)” patients. Conditions accounting for these costs include mood disorders, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, and hypertension. High-concentration patients have several of these at the same time.”
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Ted Eytan, MD, 1 October 2009
