Contributors
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The Kids Are Not Alright: Why Pediatricians Need to Take Action to Prevent Medicaid Unwinding
Pediatricians and anyone who works with children should proactively reach out to their patients with resources and information about how to maintain coverage. Ask them to make sure their contact information is updated in state databases. Tell them to expect and respond to any communication from the state about their enrollment status.
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Innovations in Dementia Care: Exploring the Role of Medical Devices and Medications
Dementia patients require a balanced blend of supportive devices, effective medications such as cholinesterase inhibitors and holistic understanding to truly enjoy the best possible quality of life.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Colon Cancer Screening: Health Empowerment for the Whole Family
While we’re catching a high-risk population through preventive screenings, we are also identifying an entirely separate high-risk population: children of the patients that were just screened and found to have high risk polyps such as greater than 1 cm or with certain advanced characteristics.
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MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence
Prediction is Power: The Truth About What is AI, Really
Do some people simply think the A in AI stands for Automation? Most likely the confusion is due to a lack of understanding of what AI truly is, combined with a strong desire to use the term for marketing purposes.
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MedCity Influencers, Devices & Diagnostics
A More Predictive and Preventive Cardiothoracic Imaging Interpretation Model to Avoid Delayed Diagnoses
The current imaging interpretation model undoubtedly has reached its breaking point due to increasing volumes and fewer radiologists. The time is now to solve this systemic imaging interpretation issue.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer
Corporate Head of Benefits – The Most Powerful Position in Healthcare for 60% of Americans
Employer-sponsored health insurance now costs approximately $12,000 per plan member per year. Accordingly, for many employers, healthcare and health insurance are the second largest company expense after payroll. The Head of Benefits is in charge of this expense and is in the best position to use it for positive change.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Micro-Credentials Could Begin To Resolve the Nursing Shortage in as Little as One Month
A micro-credential/apprenticeship program can be a game changer for health-care organizations and employees alike. Health-care organizations, by putting non-traditional candidates on the payroll, are getting help faster and investing in the future.
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Opinion: We Need To Expand How We Think About Home-Based Health Care. SNF at Home Is a Step in the Right Direction
Patients no longer need to be tied to traditional care delivery models to receive exceptional care. Providers, payers and policymakers must continue working together to expand home-based health care and meet the preferences and needs of our aging population.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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MedCity Influencers, BioPharma
Fine-Tuning, Prompt Engineering are Keys to Delivering Real Generative AI Solutions to Commercial Pharma Operations Today
Generative AI further enhances the value of prompt engineering by synthesizing important insights from various interactions, including text, images, compliant transcripts, and call notes. By automating this process, generative AI quickly transforms on-the-ground insights into robust analytics.
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Maintaining the Right To Work as Independent Nursing Professionals Is a Fight for Equality
Staffing agencies are convincing hospitals that it is dangerous to hire nurses like me, telling them that us independent nurses are not equipped to provide quality patient care, and that hiring independent nurses could open the door for legal ramifications.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
4 New Femtech Innovations Demystifying and Normalizing Menstruation
FemTech is at the forefront of providing effective solutions to menstrual challenges, and the efforts to normalize and destigmatize menstruation are paving the way for the democratization of women’s healthcare.
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MedCity Influencers, Payers, Physicians
Cancer Moonshot: Would It Even Be Possible in Today’s Fee-For-Service World?
CMS’ Enhancing Oncology Model and Cancer Moonshot are the forcing functions to achieve value-based care in oncology. In the spirit of working together to improve lives, this is a MUST for physicians to consider–before they get left behind.
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Patient Engagement Is Key to the Success of Value-Based Care Programs
While greater operational efficiency and cost control are essential to the success of VBC initiatives, so too is patient engagement. Care coordination and care management are far more difficult – and far less likely to achieve optimal outcomes – without patients who are fully engaged with their providers.
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Personalized Nutrition: Tomorrow’s Approach to Nutrition
In the future, research in personalized nutrition needs to focus on understanding the role of nutrition throughout the entire lifespan and address diet-related conditions through comprehensive interventions that go beyond simply choosing healthy foods.
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Now More Than Ever, Biopharma Must Embrace Boldness to Ride Out the Economic Storm
During my 25 years in oncologic drug discovery, development and commercialization, I have seen how economic cycles can skew priorities and slow progress – but we cannot let that happen.
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Emergency Dialysis: A Crutch for Fee-For-Service Healthcare
Physicians often diagnose patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) too late in the process, when dialysis is the only option left. This isn’t negligence on the part of physicians — it’s simply a consequence of a fee-for-service (FFS) healthcare model that works against patients’ financial well-being and deemphasizes preventative care.
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Employer Health Plans Hold the Key To Reducing Healthcare Costs
The major healthcare players have no incentive to bring costs down. Insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other healthcare interests profit by charging higher and higher rates. However, one entity has the scale and incentive to meaningfully lower costs: employer health plans.