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Jay Deady

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Opinion: Providers must lead the price transparency push

While insurance companies and employers are deploying more pricing tools, healthcare providers are in a unique position to lead the price transparency revolution.


Robert Oscar

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How Hypertargeting Patient Communication Lowers Drug Costs

Why lowering drug costs can start with machine learning and better patient interaction.


Kenneth Maxik

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Five pharmacy regulations health execs must keep on their radars in 2017

Here are five critical regulations that executives can begin to prepare for today.


By William Maples, MD

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Five ways effective teams transform healthcare

Effective teams transform patient and caregiver experience by building trust and meeting goals. Here are five ways how.


Eric W. Dethlefs

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Opinion: Captive insurance models foster high-value care

Captives can serve as focal points for the captive owners’ collective efforts to promote safer healthcare environments and improved patient outcomes.


Rohan Kulkarni

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Interoperability remains huge hindrance to improved care quality

High customer satisfaction has been linked with stronger loyalty, sales, and profits. So why hasn’t the healthcare industry caught on?



Michael S. Adelberg

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Regulators react to debate over narrow networks

New regulations will check the drive to narrow networks, just as the business case for forming them grows more compelling.


Kevin Ronneberg, MD

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What Does Simple and Affordable Healthcare Look Like?

Patient experience should take a front seat at healthcare organizations, but what does that entail?


H. Stacy Nicholson, MD, MPH

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Technology innovation drives better outcomes in pediatrics

A look at some of the technology advances at one hospital, and across the country, that are changing the way pediatric cancer patients are treated.


Wayne Oxenham

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How social factors are driving precision medicine

Precision medicine isn’t just about genomics anymore. With the field moving forward as the next step in population health management, environmental, social and lifestyle factors that live outside the medical system are increasingly important to target treatments and engage patients. That means health plans also need innovative technology solutions to capture, store and integrate this crucial information.


Tom Kornfield

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Opinion: 4 ways to improve ACA risk-adjustment model

The ACA risk-adjustment model applies to plans sold in the individual and small group commercial market, including plans sold through exchange marketplaces. Here are four main limitations.


April Todd

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Opinion: 4 ways to improve ACA risk-adjustment model

The ACA risk-adjustment model applies to plans sold in the individual and small group commercial market, including plans sold through exchange marketplaces. Here are four main limitations.


Adam Nelson

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Who should own healthcare apps?

There are more than 165,000 health- and wellness-related apps for iOS, but overall engagement remains low outside the top 10. To best benefit users, who should be responsible for health and wellness apps-employers, healthcare insurers or individual consumers? It depends.


Yuhgo Yamaguchi

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Three changes that could help exchange plans thrive

Making these three changes to health insurance exchange plan offerings could attract more consumers and increase the likelihood of success.


Ralph Burns

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Integrating IoT devices into healthcare

Integrating IoT devices within healthcare systems allows professionals and individuals to have access to new health-related data used for informed, personalized healthcare applications and situations.


Anthony V. Coletta, MD, MBA

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Opinion: Leading change through value-based care

Tandigm Health’s first-year results highlight meaningful outcomes.


Mark Jahn

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Nine best practices in healthcare IT project management

Healthcare organizations must have sound IT project management practices in place to sensibly manage both human and financial resources. Here are nine best practices to follow.


Anand Shroff

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How Technology Helps Healthcare Organizations be Successful in Value-Based Care

Measuring success in the value-based care era requires establishing a baseline and implementing new technology tools.


Drew Schiller

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Leveraging data integration to manage chronic conditions

Is digital health integration the missing link in understanding chronic diseases and what should physicians be asking to ensure the data they want to receive is captured effectively?


Jeffrey Jaymont

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Launching a provider-sponsored health plan: 5 things to know

As health systems and physician groups marshal resources to launch their own plans, they must consider whether they have the necessary building blocks to successfully make the leap, how integrated a model they will pursue and whether they will build, buy or partner strategy.


Laura McLaughlin

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Launching a provider-sponsored health plan: 5 things to know

As health systems and physician groups marshal resources to launch their own plans, they must consider whether they have the necessary building blocks to successfully make the leap, how integrated a model they will pursue and whether they will build, buy or partner strategy.


Kiran Yadalla

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Who should own healthcare apps?

There are more than 165,000 health- and wellness-related apps for iOS, but overall engagement remains low outside the top 10. To best benefit users, who should be responsible for health and wellness apps-employers, healthcare insurers or individual consumers? It depends.


Maria Resurreccion

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Who should own healthcare apps?

There are more than 165,000 health- and wellness-related apps for iOS, but overall engagement remains low outside the top 10. To best benefit users, who should be responsible for health and wellness apps-employers, healthcare insurers or individual consumers? It depends.


Erin Johanek, PharmD

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High Hopes for Inclisiran. Will the Third Time be the Charm for PCSK9 Inhibition?

The two PCSK9 inhibitors have fallen far short of expectations. Inclisiran, which works by RNA inference, only needs to be injected twice a year. 


Alan Pitt, MD

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Health execs, IT leaders, docs differ on telehealth drivers

Despite different drivers among healthcare leaders, telehealth is gaining momentum. Still, key barriers need to be addressed.


Dennis Schmuland, MD, FAAFP

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Three Reasons AI is ‘Wildly Different’ than Other Healthcare Technologies

Artificial intelligence is about to do what we hoped to see technology do in the last decade for the health industry: Empower organizations and clinicians to improve the health, outcomes, and experience of care for more people in less time and at lower cost.


Monica Majors

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How to Engage Different Generations with Their Healthcare Benefits

Five generations make up the nation’s current workforce and differences exist in each one. Here’s a multi-faceted approach employers can take to engage a multi-generational workforce in their healthcare benefits.


Erin Johanek, PharmD, RPh

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The Latest in the Hepatitis B Drug Pipeline

Why cost and treatment length are some of the biggest concerns for drug manufacturers.


Bob Kronemyer

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What Healthcare Executives Can Do to Curtail Rising COPD Costs

Healthcare organizations should focus on these things to improve health management of COPD patients and reduce costs.

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