Briana Contreras

Articles by Briana Contreras

Eric Hunter, president and CEO of CareOregon, and editorial advisory board member of Managed Healthcare Executive, talks with MHE about the “combination” underway between CareOrgeon and SCAN Health and how it's a good thing amid the concerns it would make CareOregon less responsive to local needs. Hunter also talks about how the combination will affect how they manage pharmacy benefits, and what else is on their radar in healthcare.

CEO of Vivante Health, Bill Snyder, shares how an integrated or "full-stack" digital health system can benefit patient care all around, amid safety concerns about digital health and the security of sensitive health information. Snyder also introduces Vivante's digestive health platform and how it's associated with the organization's digital health innovations. For example, they've invested in looking at disparate data sets and using AI and machine learning to leverage pattern recognition and recognize specific patient needs.

This month's episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite features Erica Jain, CEO & co-founder of digital health company, Healthie. In this discussion, Jain shared some of the challenges or things to avoid when creating a digital health startup, based on her journey with starting Healthie in 2016. She also addressed some best practices and tools that can help those working toward a digital health startup.

Cate Lockhart, executive director of the Biologics and Biosimilars Collective Intelligence Consortium, shared results yesterday of a survey that look at biosimilars on the pharmacy benefit side of coverage versus medical benefit. The survey also shared how payers and those on the pharmaceutical side are anticipating the introduction of Adalimumab (Humira®), as well as what to look for in the future of the biosimilar pipeline.

Today at Asembia 2023 Specialty Pharmacy Summit in Las Vegas, Alexander Pham, VP of Client Services & Strategy at Clearway Health, talked about their collaboration with safety net hospital, OU Health, alongside the Chief Administrative Officer of OU Health, Jigar Thakkar. In this interview, Pham talked about how the Clearway and OU Health partnership helped build a specialty pharmacy program, alleviate financial burden, and more.

In a recent study, researchers investigated the ongoing argument of what causes cognitive deficits in obstructive sleep apnoea patients, the apneoa itself or associated comorbidities. Researchers compared cognitive performance in a group of 27 middle-aged male patients — ranging from 35 to 70 years-old — with untreated OSA and no comorbidities, to 7 healthy matched patients without OSA