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Kison Patel

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Four M&A Post-Deal Integration Hazards Health Execs Should Avoid

Plenty of M&A deals look great on paper but ultimately fall apart in the post-deal integration phase. Here are the biggest pitfalls healthcare executives and stakeholders on both sides of a deal need to consider when managing this critical phase of the process.


Mark Leenay, MD

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Three Strategies That Improve Access to Rural Healthcare

While healthcare is often taken for granted in urban communities, many rural populations struggle to access care. Here’s how one healthcare organization addresses rural impediments and their effects on health.


Caroline Carney, MD, MSc, FAPM, CPHQ

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Four Ways Health Execs Can Help Patients Recover from Addiction

Here are 4 key ways healthcare executives can leverage community resources to strengthen the availability of tools that support recovery from opioid addiction.


Stephanie Stephens, MA

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Four Ways to Engage Your Healthcare Providers

You have a highly trained, hardworking and fundamentally altruistic workforce. Don’t squander it.


Greer Myers

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Innovation Closes Care Gaps for Critically Ill Patients

Community-based palliative care in the patient’s home improves care quality as well as increases satisfaction with the healthcare experience.


Geoffrey Boyce

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Veteran Access to Mental Health Expands Under Telepsychiatry

According to research-backed statistics, telepsychiatry improves the behavioral health outlook for today’s veterans.


Harry Soza

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What You Don’t Know About Remote Patient Monitoring

Five surprising updates about one of healthcare’s top trends.


Lisa Henderson

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New Strategies for Outcomes-Based Contracting

Executives from diagnostics, payer, pharma, and patient care companies recently got together to share stakeholder insights on outcomes-based contracting.


Michelle Maskaly

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How the Specialty Pharmaceutical Market is Changing

How would you define a specialty pharmaceutical? Chances are, it’s different from the way another healthcare executive would define them.


Lee Horner

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Reduce Hospital Readmissions with Virtual Care Technology

As payers work to avoid costly readmissions, some organizations are experiencing great success by leveraging virtual care communication platforms.


Jennifer Gershman, PharmD, CPh

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Opdivo Gets FDA Nod as Adjuvant Therapy for Muscle-Invasive Urothelial Cancer

Tecentriq and Keytruda may also be eventually approved as adjuvant therapies.


Michael Kim

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Can Data Analytics Lower Hospital-Acquired Condition Incidence?

HACs continue to burden the healthcare system.


Casey Hoyt

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Study: Hospital-at-Home Program Benefits Severe COPD

Home non-invasive ventilation supports longer lives, fewer readmissions, and lower costs than other devices, based on findings of a KPMG study.


Melinda Henderson, MD, CMD, FAAHPM

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Why Community Health Workers Are Vital to Addressing SDoH

Tackling SDoH issues requires efforts beyond traditional healthcare roles.


Christine M. Clements

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Legal Considerations for Healthcare Organizations Exploring Value-Based Models

Coming up with the benchmarks for measuring and rewarding quality and efficiency and finding the right provider partner are only part of the battle. Don’t forget about compliance with state and federal requirements. 


Mark Miller

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Online Provider Reviews: 4 Things Health Execs Need to Know

Here are ways healthcare providers could improve online ratings and better connect with their customers.


Bill Lucia

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Top Medicaid Trends in 2019

As we look to the next year we can expect to see a few of these challenges settle, while others will continue to make headlines. Here are three things healthcare executives should watch.


Scott Vold

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Four Ways Healthcare Executives Can Reduce Patient Leakage

Four things healthcare executives need to know about patient leakage, and four ways they can fix it.


Stephanie Kovalick

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Top Six Healthcare Executive Challenges in 2019

To help ensure your healthcare organization doesn’t get left behind, we’ve assembled the top six challenges the industry will face in 2019.


Robert S. Oscar, RPh

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How Analytics Can Help Avoid Member Engagement Misfires

Learn how analytics can be leveraged to hyper-target members for health reminders.


Rachel Zimlich, RN

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Eight Ways Healthcare Orgs Can Improve Communication

Privacy laws, technology speed bumps, and regulatory red tape all add to the problem that is communication in healthcare. Find out how you can advance your communication game at every level.


Paul Roscoe

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Top 5 Ways Leading Health Systems Will Step Up Patient Experience in 2019

Next year will bring many changes to healthcare. Here’s how leading hospitals will stay ahead of the curve when it comes to increasing patient engagement.


Atul Pathiyal

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Five Provider Data Challenges for Groups

Maintaining provider data has been a longstanding challenge within the healthcare industry. CAQH identified five challenges among health plans and groups and a new solution.


Bill Frack

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Behavioral Healthcare Needs a NASA-Like Model

The behavioral healthcare delivery system is broken. Fixing it requires rapid, radical innovation that is supported and facilitated on a national level and includes both public and private innovation.


Matt Sabbatino

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Behavioral Healthcare Needs a NASA-Like Model

The behavioral healthcare delivery system is broken. Fixing it requires rapid, radical innovation that is supported and facilitated on a national level and includes both public and private innovation.


Norman Chenven, MD

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How to Successfully Transition to Value-Based Care

Implementing a value-based model requires much more than simply changing the payment methodology.


Jeffrey Gudin, MD

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Four Facts Healthcare Execs Should Know About the Drug Crisis

Here are certain facts that every executive responsible for managing populations at risk for prescription drug misuse should know as they make policy decisions affecting patient care and financial management.


Austin Gispanski

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Three Ways Health Execs Can Increase Star Ratings

The Five-Star Quality Rating System isn’t just a mechanism to improve the patient experience; it has also changed the industry from an insurer’s perspective. Here are three ways to buy into the CMS rating system as a means to continuous improvement.


Graham Hughes, MD

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Five Ways Digitization Will Impact Healthcare in 2019

As the industry continues to look for strength in scale and strategic push toward ever-increasing verticalization, large-scale industry mergers and acquisitions will continue to be the norm during 2019-this and other 2019 predictions based on the digitization of healthcare.


Tom White

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Why Provider Data Is Key to Effective Managed Care Coordination and Growth

Managed care organizations need to look at how they can better manage their provider data-or risk getting left behind in a pile of spreadsheets.

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