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Reproductive Privacy Rights: Changes Coming for Healthcare OrganizationsThe Office of Civil Rights published a proposed rule that could have healthcare organizations evaluating their practices surrounding, and interactions with, reproductive healthcare information.
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Profits of Publicly Traded Health Plans Surge Amid Requests for Higher RatesAmid struggling providers, furloughs of essential workers, years of premium increases and record high earnings, for-profit health plans should consider options for directly helping their networks.
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Dismantling Stigmas: How to Stop the Blame Game and Get Patients the Care they NeedThere is a bias in this country against people whose medical condition is perceived to be “their fault”– in other words, the result of their own lifestyle choices. To combat stigma and its harmful effects, there needs to be broader understanding, even among medical professionals.
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FDA Approves First RSV Vaccine for Pregnant Women to Protect InfantsMonday’s action followed by one month the agency’s approval of another first — a monoclonal antibody immunization for newborns — against respiratory syncytial virus, the leading cause of infant hospitalizations in the United States
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Healthcare Trends to Watch in 2023Healthcare will continue its evolution toward value-based reimbursement models in 2023 as provider organizations, commercial payers and government programs seek more ways to improve health outcomes while reducing costs.
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Health Plan CIOs: Essential Elements for SuccessThe technology infrastructure of many health plans today could be described as costly, fragmented and siloed. Rather than focusing on the customer experience, growth and transformation, these plans are responding reactively to business needs and market shifts.
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Joe Biden Wants to Cure Cancer. Here’s Where to StartDeposing the ‘Emperor of All Maladies’ will take a diverse toolkit, not a single moonshot.
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Expanding the Use of CGP in Screening and SurgeryClosing out his discussion on CGP, David Gandara, MD, looks toward future opportunities for CGP in screening patients before or after surgery.
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Why 50/50 Gender Representation Matters in HealthcareWhen women are underrepresented in healthcare — half of our world’s population becomes at-risk.
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What Payers Need to Know As Retail Pharmacies Move Into Primary CareHealthcare beyond the doors of the doctor’s office has the potential to offer more care to more people. But payers need to think about how to ensure that care is consistent. Regardless of the setting, care decisions must be based on evidence-based content and supported with strong patient education.
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Advancing Healthcare Innovation through AI AdoptionLeading health providers are implementing AI to improve patient and staff safety and quality, allowing them to accomplish their technological innovation goals for better use of resources, with higher satisfaction.
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HIPAA Compliance in the Age of COVID-19Now is the time for compliance officers to get a better grasp on compliance and continuity across the organization.
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Maximizing Impact Through Strategic Research Investments That Address Unmet NeedsPatient organizations should focus on how they can be the most effective by leveraging their strengths to uncover new research opportunities.
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3 Ways to Reach Your Care Coordination and Communication GoalsIn this second part of a two-part article series, Curtis Gattis, CEO and co-founder of LeadingReach, discusses how healthcare organizations participating in risk-based contracting or value-based financial and care delivery models are currently facing major challenges with integrating, managing and tracking care coordination and communication capabilities within provider networks.
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Why Social Determinants of Health Are a Critical Factor for Preventing Member Risk Escalation in the Value-Based Care EquationMedicaid managed care organization (MCOs) may be better equipped to address social determinants of health (SDOH) and health equity than payers who use fee-for-service models because SDOH are central to many requirements for MCOs, including those pertaining to population health management, health equity and care coordination.
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Increasing Access to Effective Therapies for Atopic DermatitisCurrent strategies used to evaluate the performance of therapies used to treat atopic dermatitis and guide formulary decisions, and recommendations to help patients receive access to effective therapies.
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The Explosion in Genetic Testing — and How To Manage ItPayers must be early adopters of managing genetic testing through DEX Z-Codes, combined with science-based policies and policy adherence and claims editing technology.
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7 Skills Healthcare Executives Need to SucceedThe COVID-19 pandemic has tested every healthcare executive’s ability to adjust — and adjust again. From mid-March through summer and now early fall, the ups and downs of the outbreak have occurred at a furious, unpredictable cadence.
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Keys to Effective Remote Patient Monitoring in the COVID-19 PandemicHealth organizations that had RPM solutions in place pre-pandemic have been more successful at scaling up than organizations that were starting from scratch during the pandemic.
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Now More Than Ever We Should Take Advantage of the Transformational Benefits of AI and ML in HealthcareArtificial intelligence and machine learning can take on simple tasks in healthcare so people can focus on collaboration and work on a higher cognitive level.
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Government Agencies Using AI to Detect Healthcare FraudHere’s what you need to know and do considering the DOJ’s and HHS’s drastically expanded use of digital tools to investigate and prosecute those who work in the field of healthcare, including innocent practices and providers.
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Health Plan CIOs: Essential Elements for SuccessThe technology infrastructure of many health plans today could be described as costly, fragmented and siloed. Rather than focusing on the customer experience, growth and transformation, these plans are responding reactively to business needs and market shifts.
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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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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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Contract Management in a Value-Based Care EnvironmentFor operational efficiency, value-based initiatives need a scalable digital infrastructure that can handle multiple reimbursement models, including fee for service.
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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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Enhancing Provider-Patient Relationships to Reverse Chronic DiseaseThe existing approach to chronic disease management is ill-suited to address the dynamic and diverse factors at play with chronic illness, argue the authors. Increase patient engagement and tailoring care to address root causes can create a large value-add, they say.
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Opinion: A Biden win, a Republican Senate and a slim Democratic majority in the House: That’s a recipe for compromise.With the 2020 election season nearly behind us, conventional wisdom is that we will have divided government: a Democratic president, a Republican Senate and a razor-thin Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. That combination is a recipe for compromise on President-elect Joe Biden’s healthcare priorities; namely, the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic and adjustments to the ACA.
