By leveraging several tailored communication methods, specialty pharmacies can improve patient engagement and outcomes using digital tools. Digital-driven tools, such as patient portals, mobile apps...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
When MetNetOne Health Solutions established roaming physician teams that would go from practice to practice to help address chronic disease management needs around two decades ago, it became apparent...
Like puzzle pieces coming together to form a picture, stakeholders from across the care continuum must come together to successfully enhance the cancer patient experience.
As a team, leaders from the...
As health systems grapple with an evolving pandemic, consumer empowerment through digital tools and diversifying the workforce to care for diverse communities are at the forefront of healthcare...
Strategic primary care investments—such as investing in sustainable EHR models and moving toward value-based care—can have an impact far beyond primary care services, according to Vivek...
In-home primary care differs from traditional home healthcare and it can play a unique role in ensuring quality of care and access to care at a low cost for patients, according to Chris Dodd, MD, chief...
As the national healthcare industry works to address social determinants of health, rideshare companies like Lyft and its medical offshoot Lyft Healthcare assert how they can fill not just...
The value-based care approach to chronic disease management relies on a committed clinical workforce, healthcare organizations have indicated.
Hayden Schmidt, assistant editorial researcher at...
The Medicare Advantage program has proven quite lucrative for commercial health plans over the years, but a federal agency is calling into question whether certain business practices are leading to...
The tides appear to be changing with regard to healthcare mergers and acquisitions in both federal courts and the court of public opinion.
Interoperability Holding Back Healthcare Digital...
With a legal battle looming with the Department of Justice and major provider associations shouting foul, Change Healthcare and UnitedHealth Group have extended the merger deadline to year's...
Google continues its push into healthcare, this time with applications of artificial intelligence to improve cardiovascular and maternal health.
Google AI Efforts to Focus on Heart, Maternal...
