Value-based care (VBC) models (which I’ve previously discussed) focus on reducing cost and improving health outcomes for defined “episodes” of care, with the expected cost of these episodes determined based on health needs and…
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Robert Connely, Global Industry Market Leader for Healthcare at Pega
The healthcare industry is at a crossroads, grappling with the dual challenges of declining health quality metrics and skyrocketing care costs. The reality is that…
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The following is a guest article by Ashay Thakur, VP of Data Strategy at Cedar Gate Technologies
The traditional fee-for-service (FFS) payment model has dominated the healthcare industry’s payment systems for decades. Unfortunately, this focus…
Rahul Sharma, CEO of HSBlox
The famous quote “What gets measured, gets managed” is often incorrectly attributed to business guru Peter Drucker. Although Drucker may not believe that maxim entirely, when it comes to value-based…
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When Kaiser Permanente CEO Greg Adams thinks about the tall task of advancing value-based care throughout the country, he harkens back to an idea often mentioned by his organization’s founder — Henry Kaiser, the…
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There are many emerging value-based care models in healthcare that are shifting the definition of what professionals have understood it to be. Equality Health is one example of a VBC success story to tell…
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Wider adoption of value-based care (VBC) would be a boon to our healthcare system by lowering costs and improving outcomes for all three “Ps”: patients, providers and payers.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
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In this engaging interview with Ritesh Patel, a veteran in the digital health space, we dive deep into the evolution of healthcare technology.Ritesh shares his insights from witnessing the early days of digital health…
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and Herself Health, a primary care company for women over 65, have shifted their payment structure from a fee-for-service arrangement to a value-based arrangement, the companies recently…
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Dr. Summerpal Kahlon, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Edifecs
Forty years ago, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, HIV researchers and physicians discovered that simply treating the symptoms of the disease was not enough to…
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