Contributors
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The “M” Word: Confronting the Critical Gap in Women’s Health Care
We need to create a care model that doesn’t treat menopause as some separate gray area of women’s health where doctors are unequipped and patients are left to their own devices to figure it out.
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The Importance of Early Bariatric Patient Engagement
Engaging with patients in the early stages of their bariatric journey allows providers to ultimately understand and support their patient’s unique motivational, emotional, and intellectual drivers. Providers can use these drivers to help empower positive health outcomes.
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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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Celebrating Teamwork and Its Impact on Healthcare Excellence
Celebrating teamwork is essential for acknowledging its profound impact on healthcare excellence. It is a powerful catalyst that fosters patient-centered care, optimizes resource utilization, nurtures professional growth, and strengthens the healthcare system.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer, Payers
What We Can Learn From Health Systems Around the World
I am a practicing UK general practitioner and in this article, I take a magnifying glass to quality indicators including access, affordability, healthcare inequalities and population health, staffing and equipment, and patient and provider experience to discuss how we can shape up.
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3 Trends Impacting How Patients Pay For Healthcare
In 2022, per Gallup, 38 percent of Americans (a record high) deferred healthcare because of cost. To tackle the issue of patients scaling back care because of cost concerns, we need solutions that address care costs from multiple angles. Here are three trends that should inform the development of such solutions.
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3 Steps Drug Manufacturers Can Take To Mitigate Revenue Loss From Drug Rebate Noncompliance
Drug manufacturers can’t wave a magic wand and streamline government drug discount programs. Nonetheless, there are actions manufacturers can take to mitigate the impact of noncompliant rebates
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Prescribing Change for the Impact Pharmacists Can Make in Healthcare
Even as value-based care finds its footing and expands further, team-based approaches to care delivery incorporating pharmacists as crucial connections are already bearing results—helping provider organizations achieve 5-star CMS ratings for medication adherence, driving down costs, and driving up the quality of life for patients.
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From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Using Technology to Transform Specialty Medication Access and Affordability
We need a streamlined approach where stakeholders can perform all critical tasks — from enrollment and patient consent to prior authorization, from real-time benefit checks to financial assistance — on a central platform powered by a business rules engine, automated workflows, and real-time analytics.
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The New Normal in Healthcare Marketing
AI can index company narratives relative to strategy, opportunities, and threats, and create benchmarks to watch over time related to sentiment, intensity, and impressions. Ultimately these can be tied back to ROI and stakeholder value that move past typical marketing performance metrics or traditional brand metrics.
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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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How My Brother’s Death Changed The Way I Think About Mental Health Care
As clinical psychologists, we talk about therapy as the gold standard. I’m not saying it isn’t, but if only a minority of people are getting it, we need to broaden our perspective.
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Hospital Downtime Planning: The Right Strategy & Technology to Ensure Uninterrupted Patient Care
It’s never a question of whether a hospital will experience downtime — it’s a matter of when. Adopting the right downtime technology means hospitals can cut costs, reduce stress on staff and mitigate risk of cyberattack by automatically encrypting data to HIPAA standards.
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MedCity Influencers, BioPharma
Clinical Trials Have A Data Problem. Here’s How The Industry Can Solve It.
To maximize the digital clinical trial opportunity, it is imperative to establish a solid foundation of data collection and management best practices and capitalize on the advancements in data management technologies.
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MedCity Influencers, Devices & Diagnostics
Medical Devices Are Evolving Toward Specialized Solutions
Medical devices have existed in some form for centuries, resulting in thousands of innovative implementations […]
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The Urgent Care Crisis of Low Reimbursement: A Looming Threat to Accessible Healthcare
I invite insurance companies to engage in meaningful dialogue with urgent care providers to understand the challenges they face and explore fair reimbursement models that reflect the value they bring to patients.
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MedCity Influencers, Devices & Diagnostics
To Optimize Health Outcomes, Home Medical Devices Must Operate Within Disease Management Programs
Rich multimedia content, chatbots and human interaction all play important roles in helping new health technologies become part of a patient’s lifestyle.
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MedCity Influencers, BioPharma
The New Opportunity to Help Rare Disease Patients
In 2020, 46.9% of all novel drugs approved by the FDA were for rare diseases, as compared to 23.5% in 2012. Investment is expected to continue trending upward, with estimates suggesting that global spending on rare disease therapies will reach $260 billion by the end of 2025.
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MedCity Influencers, BioPharma
Closing the Oral Drug Gap
Patients are driving the push away from needles, and there are a number of novel approaches attempting to solve the difficult task of transforming biologics into orally administered treatments.
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Prioritize Prevention in State Opioid Settlement Plans
While communities should tailor their opioid settlement spending strategies to their local needs, we should embrace basic, population-focused prevention strategies. Prevention efforts can turn the tide of addiction for decades to come. And they are where we’ll get the biggest bang for our buck.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
