Technology investments can boost patient safety, monitor trends

Few question the benefits of adopting a universal healthcare data exchange standard but achieving that goal will prove to be difficult.

Briana Contreras, an editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, had the pleasure of catching up with MHE Editorial Advisory Board Member, Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, who is a professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Luke Greenwalt, MBA, vice president and lead, IQVIA Market Access Center of Excellence, has joined the editorial advisory board of Managed Healthcare Executive.

In this month’s episode of the "What's On Your Mind podcast," Peter Wehrwein, managing editor of MHE connects with the now Chief Clinical Officer of OptumRx Integrated Pharmacies, David Calabrese. In this conversation, David touches on his transition in January as OptumRx’s former chief pharmacy officer and market president of health plans and PBMs to his new role as Chief Clinical Officer where he now focuses more on things such as specialty pharmacy to home delivery — with an overall goal of creating whole-patient care. Throughout the conversation, Calabrese also touched on the market’s hot topic of insulin prices and behavioral health services within the OptumRx community, among other topics.

Telehealth has become a permanent part of U.S. healthcare delivery, and states are taking steps to regulate it

Artificial intelligence gains foothold in the emergency room as a note-taking aid.