Otis Brawley: Praise for the ACA Till the Ideal Comes Along
October 15th 2020The Johns Hopkins professor and new MHE editorial advisory board member lauds the effects of the Affordable Care Act but holds out for a program that “gets every human being the healthcare that every human being deserves,” in this second part of a four-part series.
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In this week's episode of Tuning Into The C-Suite, MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with Kate Ryder, CEO of Maven, which is the world’s largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health. In this discussion, they talked about the role of telemedicine in pregnancy care, how it impacts the prenatal model and how it will influence the patient journey post-coronavirus pandemic.
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Flu Shots Are More Important Than Ever for People with Diabetes, ASCVD
October 14th 2020Flu increases the risk of heart attack, especially among people with diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). COVID-19 and the possibility of co-infection makes getting vaccinated against the flu particularly important this year.
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Opinion: The Time is Now for Change of Health, Racial Disparities
October 14th 2020Darnell Dent, principal of Dent Advisory Services and a member of the Managed Healthcare Executive® Editorial Advisory Board, discusses health disparities for people of color - specifically Blacks and Latinos - and how COVID-19 has highlighted our failure at the intersection of public health, healthcare and social justice.
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SGLT2 Inhibitors Vying for Heart, Renal Indications
October 14th 2020Sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors have already remade the diabetes drug market. Now competition for new cardiac and renal indications is heating up among three of the main drugs in the class: Janssen’s Invokana (canagliflozin), AstraZeneca’s Farxiga (dapagliflozin), and Eli Lilly/Boehringer-Ingelheim’s Jardiance (empagliflozin).
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Otis Brawley’s Split Screen: Racism, Lack of Caring — But Hope in the Response
October 13th 2020Some “don’t give a damn about their fellow man.” But in this first of four-part video series, the Johns Hopkins professor, former chief medical and scientific officer of the American Cancer Society, and MHE Editorial Advisory Board member is encouraged by diversity among protestors and the broadening of the efforts to tackle disparities of all kinds. “I think this is a long-term effort.”
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CAQH Announces Development of National Directory of FHIR Endpoints
October 12th 2020Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare, Inc.'s solution will facilitate how health plans, Medicaid agencies and third-party apps find and share technology connections to provide consumers greater access to their healthcare data.
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How the Pandemic Has Shifted the Benefits Conversation
October 9th 2020The benefits space is changing and there is currently a shift to “enviable benefits” - ones that go beyond traditional health and retirement coverage. Many companies, especially those still doing well during the economic downturn, have ramped up benefits communication about existing support programs such as telemedicine, financial well-being and childcare.
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New England Journal of Medicine Editor in Chief: 'Throw the Bums Out'
October 9th 2020In an interview with Axios about the first political editorial in the journal's history, Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin says it is not an endorsement of Joe Biden but sends the message to "simply throw the bums out" and not vote for Donald Trump.
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In this week’s episode of Tuning Into the C-Suite, MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with Denise Basow, president and CEO of Clinical Effectiveness at Wolters Kluwer. Briana and Basow discussed the importance of uniting prescribers and pharmacists at the point of care and how this form of care can create more efficient and effective operations within health systems.
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