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Medicaid Plans Need to Prioritize Maternal, Infant TelehealthAs payer and provider organizations look to improve health outcomes around the far-reaching impacts of the pandemic, they must consider the unique needs of some of our most vulnerable populations, such as new and expecting mothers and their infants.
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Enterprise Imaging: A Necessity – Not a Luxury – for Hospitals & Health SystemsEnterprise imaging platforms would enable organizations to consistently and optimally capture, index, manage, store, distribute, view, exchange and analyze all clinical imaging and multimedia content, enhancing patients’ electronic health records.
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FDA Updates for the Week of March 20, 2023FDA approvals this week include: novel treatment for invasive candidiasis, an accelerated approval to Zynyz for Merkel cell carcinoma, the high-concentration Humira biosimilar Hyrimoz, and extension of Evkeeza’s indication to include young children. The agency also issued two complete responses this week: for Incyte’s extended-release Jakafi and for AbbVie’s Parkinson’s therapy.
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Digital Transformation is the Revolutionary Change Healthcare NeedsDue to one of the most challenging global crises in living memory and one that presented an acute challenge for the medical community, healthcare providers find themselves operating within an uncertain landscape. They are still managing the fallout of COVID-19 while also planning for the future.
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Precision Medicine vs Trial and Error: Why Pharmacogenomics is Increasingly RelevantPharmacogenomics looks at how genetic influences affect an individual’s response to therapeutic medications.
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Closing the Gap With Virtual Care Services: Reimagining the Delivery of HealthcareThe delivery of care model needs to scale across the community settings while servicing the unique needs of each patient.
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Drugmakers Look to Quell COVID-19 Cytokine StormsThe FDA rejected Humanigen’s application for an emergency use authorization, but the race is on to develop an effective therapy for the cytokine storms that affect patients with COVID-19.
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Digital Patient Engagement: Helping Uninsured Americans Gain Access to CareIdentifying the right payer before a healthcare service is provided and billing on time, reduces costs, prevents bad debt and maximizes reimbursements and revenue.
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Acute Hospital-at-Home Holds Promise for Hospitals Facing Staffing ShortagesOrganizations setting up hospital-at-home programs need to be aware of the associated risks and mitigation best practices.
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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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Collaborating to Support Better Outcomes Through Value-Based CareEngaging with payers in collaborative arrangements is critical for achieving quality outcomes at lower cost, while ensuring financial health for providers during good times and bad.
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Why Timing Matters When It Comes to PBM ContractingPlan sponsors should begin evaluation of PBM performance at least a year before the contract expires, say lawyers with expertise in PBM contracting.
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Health Plans Are Managing More Data Than Ever Before. How to Ensure It’s Usable.Health plans need to consider regulations and keep healthcare data secure to take full advantage of its enormous potential to broaden and reshape timely, effective delivery of care.
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The Future of the Growing Medication Adherence MarketPatients with chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease often require emergency attention and hospitalization due to non-adherence, resulting in higher treatment costs.
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Clinical Decision Support Can Help Identify Common Drugs Linked with Increased Arrhythmia and Sudden Death RiskResearch has linked many drugs to QT prolongation and decision support tools could alert clinicians to the risk and guide prescribing decisions to safer alternatives.
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Pharma: Striding Towards the Digital-only Reality with AIAs industries across the board move towards a digital-only world, pharma companies must account for the different technologies that are transforming the R&D process.
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Why Timing Matters When It Comes to PBM ContractingPlan sponsors should begin evaluation of PBM performance at least a year before the contract expires, say lawyers with expertise in PBM contracting.
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Value-Based Decision-Making in Metastatic Breast CancerIn this Managed Healthcare Executive® KCast, Ian Krop, M.D., Ph.D., oncologist and associate professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and Debra Patt, M.D., Ph.D., MBA, executive vice president at Texas Oncology in Austin, provide key insights into the value-based care model for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (mBC). This article summarizes the highlights of the discussion.
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How to Recognize, Capitalize on the Benefits of Price Transparency in HealthcareHospital leaders who have historically viewed price transparency as potentially disastrous can tap into these three tips to leave that mindset behind and capitalize on the opportunities that price transparency provides.
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Accelerating Value-Based Care Transformation Today and Post COVID-19One year into the COVID-19 pandemic and healthcare leaders are taking a hard look at all operations – especially innovative reimbursement models that best meet the needs of their business, providers and patients. No doubt these leaders are finally paying closer attention to value-based care.
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Exploring the Critical First Step in Adding and Paying CBOs in Value-based ContractsThe transition from treating patients at a provider’s site to delivering care in the home and community requires two things: an ability to incorporate social determinants of health into the care coordination process and the inclusion of value-based care and community-based organizations as compensated care delivery partners in VBC networks.
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COVID-19 Has Changed Cancer Care — For the BetterThe pandemic has led to the adoption of telehealth and greater access to care through apps.
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Long-Acting Injectable PrEP Therapy for HIVTypes of patients who will likely benefit from long-acting injectable PrEP therapies in the HIV treatment pipeline.
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How to Avoid Squandering Data Resources for APP ReportingDoes your transition to Alternate Payment Model Performance Pathways (APP) quality reporting have your ACO scrambling for data? No surprise.
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The Hospital Room: Preventing Nurse Burnout with In-Room TechnologyThis opinion piece contributed by Draper voices today's digital platforms can help eliminate the administrative burden on nurses.
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Combatting the Clinician Shortage Through Robotic Process AutomationAs the clinician shortage continues, leaning on technology to streamline inefficiencies is essential.
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Supercharge Your Star Rating Improvement Efforts Using Machine LearningOptimizing your Star Rating program with machine learning technology.
