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A new study has exciting findings about costs and hospital admissions for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries participating in certain food delivery programs.

Apple brings health records to the iPhone. Find out what it means for EHR interoperability and patient engagement.

Drug makers and payers have these challenges to implement outcomes-based contracts, but here are three steps that can be taken as a transition toward these payment arrangements.

Employers’ most commonly offered digital health benefits address health issues that employees rarely report as top health goals, according to a new report.

For all health plans, increasing complexity requires rethinking the presentation of options to members. Choice design, stepped information reveal, high quality, and timely communication, are keys to providing members a helpful and trustworthy healthcare GPS.

FDA approved a new treatment for non-small cell lung cancer, as well as drugs to treat chronic immune thrombocytopenia and a rare form of childhood rickets.

A new program shows promise for improving patient medication adherence. Find out how it works.

A call center-based social support role may be a valuable addition to the evolving healthcare workforce, according to a new study.

Oncology experts shed light on progress of genetic testing and targeted therapies in lung cancer.

Hospitals who have deployed a smartphone-based communications platform, surveyed by Spyglass Consulting Group identified five forward-looking opportunities to expand their existing deployments.

Here are five strategies managed care organizations and healthcare providers can use to support chronic patients and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of chronic care.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects women differently than men. Here are some of the biggest variations.

CEO of a Pennsylvania-based oncology group shares how participating in a new value-based model is changing the care approach.

A new CAQH CORE report has the inside information to streamline the exchange of value-based payment information.

FDA is permitting marketing of the first medical device that uses artificial intelligence to detect greater than a mild level of the eye disease diabetic retinopathy.

FDA approved a new indication for Exparel Bupivacaine Liposome injectable suspension (Exparel, Pacira) for use as a nerve block to produce post-surgical regional analgesia following shoulder surgery in adults.

A new survey from PNC Healthcare sheds important light on patient-centered care among various age groups, especially millennials.

How Humana is successfully improving care for members in two cities.

Here are three innovative structures in pricing models to address the high-cost of curative therapies.

A new study looks at how U.S. healthcare spending compares to 10 other high-income countries. Here are three of the biggest areas in which U.S. spending is higher.

Here's how one federally qualified health center in southcentral Pennsylvania is tackling the opioid crisis in its community.

HealthKonnect, a subsidiary of Chinese insurer Ping An Insurance Group developed a personal health-risk prediction model that has the ability to predict at individual patient level future healthcare risks measured by total medical costs. Here’s how.

Attending the AMCP Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy Annual Meeting in Boston April 23 to April 26? Here are our top session recommendations.

A study from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute has shocking findings about certain blood pressure medications and mortality outcomes.

After US Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH, urged more Americans to carry naloxone to reverse opioid overdoses, organizations and medical experts praised the decision.

A new Private Exchange Research Council study shows why decision support and educational tools are necessary to help employees navigate the choice in benefits.

Healthcare systems stand to lose $6 million if burned out physicians choose to resign or work elsewhere. Here are some ways to curb burnout and its associated costs.