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Designing a Better Peer-Support Experience for Patients, Caregivers, and SurvivorsThe process of building digital peer support experiences requires taking in feedback from users and their caregivers to address risk concerns, add new features and continuously improve the user experience.
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Virtual Reality: Looking to the Future of TelehealthThe rapidly evolving landscape of extended reality technologies has presented us with unique tools to enhance our virtual interactions and come closer to the therapeutic experience that is so important to successful delivery of effective and high-quality remote care.
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Why Adopting Tools That Support Virtualization of Care Is CriticalThe efficiency and ease of tools that support virtualization will set the stage for the future of cancer care.
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What is the Ultimate Destination of Virtual Care?Three differentiators that separate leaders from chasers in virtual health transformation.
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The Respiratory Panel Challenge Now Faced by Payers with the Ending of the PHELabs are justifying larger respiratory panels as simplifying a physician’s job in diagnosing via lab testing, but payers need to observe the multiplex testing trend.
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The Case for Delivering Whole-Person HealthcareSpending the extra time and effort to address a patient’s body, mind, and spirit is a good business practice for physicians. We need to achieve this in our own practices and at a systemic level – but how?
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Getting Real About Health EquityCMS and state officials are using payment incentives, data collection and program requirements to start edging the lofty ideals of health equity toward reality.
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What’s Next for the Biosimilars Market in the U.S.?Momentum is building for biosimialrs but robust coverage for lower-cost agents, including biosimilars, is needed.
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Opportunities for HIV PrEP in Population HealthThe benefits of addressing barriers and increasing access to HIV PrEP therapies to high-risk populations across the globe.
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From Sidelines Into the Game | Predictions for 2025A forecast for 2025 by Guy D’Andrea, MBA, executive director of Catalyst for Payment Reform.
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Can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Change Quality of Life for AD Patients?Cognitive behavioral therapy with exposure treatment might help but few people with AD receive any form of behavioral intervention, say Dorian Kern and colleagues from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
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Why Patient Registries Need to Make the Move From Tactical to Strategic Research InitiativesThe one-sided, research-oriented approach has to change so patients have ready access to dashboards with their disease histories and pre-visit documents tailored to the patient questions.
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It's Possible for Those Who Practice and Pay for Precision Oncology to Catch Up to Speed of InnovationThe fast-evolving field of precision medicine offers the promise of more effective treatments and better outcomes, and it’s time that we collaborate to keep outdated clinical and reimbursement practices from slowing it down.
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5 Tips for Health Plans to Improve Race and Ethnicity DataEquity is a central part of healthcare quality, but health plans often lack information on individual members’ race and ethnicity, making assessing and improving health outcomes challenging.
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Truth from the Patient Record: Payer-AI PartnershipsNatural language processing is an essential tool in value-based agreement, says an executive at a natural language processing company.
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Nonmedical Use of Prescription Stimulants: Risk Factors, Outcomes, and Risk-Reduction StrategiesContent of this article was sponsored by Arbor Pharmaceuticals, LLC. Copyright 2020. This Managed Healthcare Executive® publication provides key information regarding a review by Faraone, et al, which was originally published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.06.012). The authors of the original review are Stephen V. Faraone, PhD; Anthony L. Rostain, MD; C. Brendan Montano, MD; Oren Mason, MD; Kevin M. Antshel, PhD; Jeffrey H. Newcorn, MD. Please consult the full published review for complete information.
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Beyond the First Wave of Digital Pharmacy InnovationTapping the potential of digital pharmacy involves creating conditions that allow pharmacists to build trusting relationships with patients, tighter integration pharmacists into care plans and authentic patient engagement.
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Using the Healthcare Utility Model to Manage Pharmacy Cost for Patients and PayersCivicaScript, a generic medication manufacturer, is modeling itself as public utility. It launched its first product, abiraterone 250 mg tablets, late last year and is gearing up to make its own low-cost insulin.
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Tech Can’t Solve the Biggest Factor for Population Health Success: TrustThe more we rely on technology, the further away we get from focusing on and addressing one of the most critical components of care: Trust between the patient and doctor.
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The End of Continuous Medicaid Enrollment Is Near. Are States and Their Workers Ready?States need to prepare for the onslaught of work related to Medicaid enrollment and redeterminations with continuous enrollment scheduled to end on March 31.
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The “Risk” of Value-Based CareRisk adjustment is a central feature of value-based care, but it can be abused. Natural language processing can make the process efficient and steer it clear of fraud and other problems.
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3 Ways Transcription Helps Healthcare Providers Increase Their EfficiencyMedical professionals are often strapped for time and they experience immense pressure to stay on top of paperwork while simultaneously having to see and treat patients. Add late nights on call and long shifts to the equation, and one can begin to comprehend the high-stress nature of the job.
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Let’s Not Lose Sight of Patient Experience with Virtual CareStrategies are needed that take most, if not, all of the burden away from the patient so that RPM enhances their experience with their care. Both telehealth and RPM have those elements needed to improve the patient experience, including good communication between doctors and patients and improved patient engagement.
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Ozanimod Shows Sustained Efficacy in Long-term Study for Multiple Sclerosis TreatmentLong-term data from the phase 3 DAYBREAK trial affirmed sustained efficacy of ozanimod for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis, with a high amount of patients who were relapse-free at 6 years.
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How to Tame Increasing Healthcare Costs and Deal With Staffing ShortfallsHiring assistants that work virtually and outsourcing medical coding are two ways that providers can navigate through these times of increasing cost pressures and staffing shortages.
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LTACHs provide treatment for patients with more complicated and severe illnesses than SNFs doEnsuring that patients with serious conditions have access to LTACH care can help improve their outcomes. Discover the distinctions in patient conditions treated at LTACHs compared to SNFs
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Needed: A Prevention Strategy To Stop Amputations Among Minority Populations Living With Complex DiabetesLower limb amputations are devastating for people living with diabetes, particularly for Black Americans facing poor access to comprehensive care. A coordinated, data-driven national prevention strategy is the only way to curb this growing epidemic for all at-risk populations.
