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Christopher Jacobs, PhD

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How reducing pain of checking blood sugar lowers cost, improves outcomes

Here are 3 reasons why overcoming the “fingerstick” barrier will improve patient outcomes and contribute to reductions in healthcare costs.


Chacey R. Ford

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What health execs should watch: 2017 Supreme Court cases

Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court can have a huge impact on the healthcare industry. This year is no different.


Robert J. Dudzinski, PharmD

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Top 3 pharmacy challenges in 2017: Two-pronged solution

Here are three pharmacy challenges facing healthcare executives and a two-pronged solution to help solve them.


David Schmidt

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Why It’s Time to Rethink Healthcare Innovation

It’s obvious that the healthcare system is due for some major innovations, but are we looking for them in the right places?


Nicholas Hamm

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4 Facts About the State of Telehealth

The rules and regulations in telehealth you need to know.


John Figueroa

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How Outpatient Services Can Impact Mental Health

The steps health executives should take to improve mental healthcare.


Laura Jacobs

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Strategic planning amidst uncertainty: 10 considerations for health execs

Healthcare leaders are concerned about developing reliable strategies for the future. Is effective strategic and financial planning even possible with so many variables up in the air?


Erin Aas, MSN, ARNP

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Prepare providers for telemedicine: 3 critical training areas

To ensure providers are prepared for telemedicine practice, healthcare leaders must provide training in these areas.


Tony Ursitti

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Strategic planning amidst uncertainty: 10 considerations for health execs

Healthcare leaders are concerned about developing reliable strategies for the future. Is effective strategic and financial planning even possible with so many variables up in the air?


Mark Martin

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Inaccurate provider directories create barriers to care

Here are four ways that health plans can improve their internal processes for collecting provider data.


Dianne Wagner

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Inaccurate provider directories create barriers to care

Here are four ways that health plans can improve their internal processes for collecting provider data.


Diane Burfeindt

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Senior housing, healthcare partnership leads to savings, lower readmissions

Partnership between senior living provider and healthcare system improves population health.


Joshua D. Sclar, MD, MPH

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Five ways tech can help close healthcare gaps

It’s no surprise that gaps in the screening, monitoring, and management of chronic diseases abound, even in managed care settings. Here’s how technology can help.


Maureen Hennessey, PhD, CPCC

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Four steps managed care can take to promote antimicrobial stewardship

The call for antimicrobial stewardship is growing. Enact these steps to prevent a return to the pre-antibiotic era.


Jeremy Schafer, PharmD, MBA

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Will Americans Accept Longer Wait Time in Medicare For All?

The Medicare for All debate surrounds the 2020 election-but is it truly understood?


Michael L. Blau, Esq.

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Regulatory changes for community oncology: What health execs should know

One thing that is unlikely to change under the new Administration is the goal of reducing the cost of healthcare through various alternative payment initiatives. Here’s how that will affect oncology.


Joanna Craver DiBenedetto, BS, MNM

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Diabetes prevention programs avert, delay disease onset

Diabetes accounts for one out of every 10 American healthcare dollars spent, but new national programs are helping address this issue.


Lynda Rowe

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Three ways health execs can tap into the powerful patient influencer network

Here are 3 ways that technology can tap into the powerful network of non-clinical patient influencers who will ultimately impact a patient’s healthcare decisions and behavioral changes.


Tyson Thompson, PharmD

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Opinion: Substance use disorder privacy law limits both payers, prescribers

Two University of Massachusetts Medical School pharmacists make the case to reform or align 42 CFR Part 2 with HIPAA to better serve patients with substance use disorder.


Mark Ford

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Four ways health execs can help their organizations mitigate cyberattacks

Healthcare executives are starting to realize that preventing cyberattacks is not just a task for their IT departments and third-party security vendors.


Jeff Bird

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Four ways health execs can help their organizations mitigate cyberattacks

Healthcare executives are starting to realize that preventing cyberattacks is not just a task for their IT departments and third-party security vendors.


Cynthia Hundorfean

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Investing in the Future

Many of the challenges that face our industry in 2020 will require a fresh way of thinking.


Linda Wilson

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21st Century-Style Diabetes Disease Management: Coaches and Tech-Enabled

Several Blues plans have contracted with vendors that supply tech-enabled diabetes disease management and prevention programs. Sometimes the tech is combined with coaching - by a real, live human being.


Scott Schnuckle

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Two strategies to help consumers lower drug costs

HealthPartners aims to improve price information for consumers. Here’s how.


Robert Atlas

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Opinion: Five key takeaways from Trump's budget proposal

Trump’s proposal highlights the administration’s priorities and can give stakeholders insight into future policy change.


Timothy J Murphy

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Opinion: Five key takeaways from Trump's budget proposal

Trump’s proposal highlights the administration’s priorities and can give stakeholders insight into future policy change.


Paul Brient

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Three EHR challenges hindering value-based reimbursement

Here are 3 EHR-related challenges that are impeding the advancement of IT support for value-based reimbursements.


Clay Rhodes, BCPS, BCGP, PharmD, MBA

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Three reasons for nonadherence

Uncover the root causes of why patients become nonadherent and be better positioned to improve the lives of patients and reduce costs through improved health outcomes.


Theresa Hush

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6 Successful Strategies to Supercharge your ACO

The true key to achieving high savings, more patient volume, and better health outcomes is to effectively use clinical and cost data with physicians to create interventions that improve performance.


Terri Maxwell, PhD, APRN

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Five strategies to improve care for members with advanced disease

Here are five key strategies to improve care and outcomes for members with advanced illness.

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