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Tailoring Diabetes Quality Measures for Diverse Patient PopulationsAn expert in diabetes care discusses tailoring diabetes quality measures to different types of patient populations.
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How a Collaborative Approach to Health-at-Home Care Creates ValueBy customizing collaborative models of at-home care to the health needs of the community and the business needs of key stakeholders, organizations can develop an innovative model that achieves mutual goals while strengthening health outcomes, access, and satisfaction.
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Profits of Publicly Traded Health Plans Surge Amid Requests for Higher RatesAmid struggling providers, furloughs of essential workers, years of premium increases and record high earnings, for-profit health plans should consider options for directly helping their networks.
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Developing Winning Supplemental Benefits PackagesFacing a variety of financial pressures, health plans need to take a measured approach to identify supplemental benefit strategies that facilitate their success.
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Drug Discount Programs Poised to Change with New Tech, Pharma Execs Survey FindsIt is somewhat mind-boggling in 2024 that more than one-third of pharma organizations still rely on manual entry of data into Excel spreadsheets to track duplicate discounts that can cost millions of dollars a year in lost revenue
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Common Challenges in Health Systems of Great Britain and the United States Offer Valuable Learning OpportunitiesThe National Health Service provides some lessons — both good and bad — around models of coverage expansion.
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Could the Pandemic Put an End to Medical Overtreatment?COVID-19 pandemic may present an opportunity to hit a reset button on American healthcare that could winnow out unnecessary, wasteful services and prescriptions.
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Streamlining Medicare Advantage Enrollment is Key for Health Plans to Thrive During SurgeAs soon as next year, enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans are expected to exceed 50% of the entire Medicare eligible population. For the first time ever, the majority of Medicare beneficiaries will receive health benefits delivered by a private health plan, rather than through traditional, fee-for-service Medicare.
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Adapting EHRs for the 21st CenturyThere is a great deal of speculation, and apprehension, in the healthcare industry about the 21st Century Cures Act and what it will mean for EHRs and the clinicians who use them.
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Headaches Behind the Eyes – Triggers, Treatments and How to Prevent ThemAcross the world, almost everyone has experienced a bad headache and knows the unpleasant symptoms that can come with it. Many have also faced migraines, which can cause dizziness, nausea and stomach pain - as well as impacting your vision.
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Advancing Care Coordination, Equity and AI Integration | Predictions for 2025A prediction for 2025 from Laura Kohlhagen, M.D., MBA, chief medical officer, of Altera Digital Health.
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CDC’s Proposed Opioid Prescribing Guideline: Does it Fall Short on Drug Testing?Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shared a draft update to its Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids. The proposed revision comes as the nation’s overdose death rate reaches an all-time high, fueled largely by the economic and psychological strains and lack of healthcare access caused by COVID-19.
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Healthcare Needs Tech Workers — But Tech Workers Also Need the Healthcare IndustryPandemic-triggered changes in the healthcare industry have required hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities to scale up their technology operations, resulting in high demand for tech experts.
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Tackling LGBTQ+ Bias in HealthcareThe chief medical officer for Grand Rounds Health and Doctor on Demand says the healthcare industry needs to be committed to creating equitable and inclusive environments.
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Don’t Panic. Or Don’t Get Your Hopes Up. The FTC’s Proposed Rule Banning Non-competes May or May Not Go Into EffectEven if the Federal Trade Commission were to ban noncompetes, legal challenges to block the ban are nearly certain.
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Bringing Real World Evidence into the Care SettingReal-world evidence (RWE) has the potential to be a transformative tool for healthcare providers to enhance the care they deliver to patients.
