Male infertility is a growing concern affecting millions of people worldwide. According to recent trends, male infertility accounts for 40–50% of infertility cases and affects roughly 7% of all...
When doctors have 2,000 to 3,000 patients on their patient panels, prioritization in care coordination efforts can be challenging. To Stephen Friedhoff, MD, senior vice president of health care...
Care coordination is essential for patients with chronic diseases whose treatment plans require provider input from multiple specialties.
Treatment for diabetes—one of the most expensive chronic...
Many healthcare organizations are moving to adopt data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) tools, but when it comes to more advanced computing and analytics technologies like machine learning...
Philanthropic efforts can provide a needed boost to disadvantaged communities, but payers that want to offer this kind of support to lessen social determinants of health barriers should be wary of...
You can’t do value-based contracting alone. That is one of the biggest lessons learned from Scott Anders, MD, MBA, FAAGP, CPE, chief medical officer of value-based care and ambulatory quality at...
Technology-centered solutions, lack of payer alignment, and competition over data are barriers to digital health advancement in health insurance.
Peter Long, executive vice president of strategy and...
Payers, providers, and life sciences industry leaders will face a variety of pressures in 2023, particularly financially, and they should be alert to their current condition and to opportunities for...
Although primary care clinics offer numerous beneficial healthcare services to patients, they often fall short of delivering effective gender-affirming care (GAC), which requires empathy, trust, and...
For generations, the LGBTQ+ community has faced discrimination in the healthcare system. Seniors in the LGBTQ+ community, in particular, have faced a lifetime of inequity and many now enter some of the...
Although roughly 80,000 babies are born each year through in vitro fertilization (IVF), behind every successful birth could be numerous heartbreaks and complications, such as emotional and...
The growing popularity of third-party health apps is justified: they allow patients to take charge of everything from chronic disease management to menstrual cycles.
“These apps hold a lot of...
Jails can provide opportunities to diagnose and treat individuals for HIV. However, supporting care coordination for formerly incarcerated individuals upon reentry into the community can be difficult...
Specialty pharmacy team members such as pharmacists and nurses can extend their patient care role by providing additional support to patients with chronic diseases and advocating for better...
Specialty pharmacy team members such as pharmacists and nurses have the opportunity to extend their patient care role by providing additional support to patients with chronic diseases and...
Partnership in the healthcare industry can be fraught due to competing interests and competition within segments of the industry, but when a healthcare organization creates internal industry...
Delivering high-quality, value-based care is a strategic goal for most US healthcare organizations, though the means to the end varies. For one senior-focused primary care provider, in-home care...
There are four major challenges that organizations face when they try to implement global capitation model, Michael Weiss, MD, vice president of population health for Children’s Hospital of...
Privia Quality Network is one of the top earners of the Medicare Shared Savings Program, the federal government’s largest running accountable care organization (ACO) program. Across its four...
In 2019, a group of payers, providers, and other healthcare stakeholders converged to reimagine advanced primary care in the state of California through value-based care collaboration.
The California...
