Contributors
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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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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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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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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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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
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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.
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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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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.