Contributors
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Generative AI: Revolutionizing Pharmaceutical Industry and Driving Precision Medicine With Innovation, Equity and Ethics
With conscious and ethical use of Generative AI we can forge a future that is empathetic, innovative and can meet all our needs at the right time and place.
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Breaking Through Gridlock in the Mental Health Care System
For the gridlock in mental healthcare to be resolved, 100% of mental healthcare providers must practice measurement-based care, utilizing validated rating scales to monitor and measure longitudinal outcomes for every patient. And payers then must offer reimbursement that appropriately rewards providers for delivering high-quality, effective care, and incentivize proactive mental health management.
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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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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
How Femtech Is Filling Historical Gaps in the Postpartum Space
Postpartum Depression has been a recognized — but stigmatized — possibility during the so-called “fourth trimester of pregnancy” for generations. However, it is now being firmly addressed through femtech innovations.
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Medicare Advantage is Here To Stay
For the past 30 years, even with the various headwinds over time, consistent winners in MA have adapted and adjusted to new standards required for success. Now is no different. Short-term headwinds are just that – short-term.
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Data-Driven Diversity: Using Granular Insights to Design More Inclusive Trials
The healthcare industry is sitting on a wealth of data gathered from electronic health records, commercial pharmacies, health systems and payers, and health tech companies. So much that it makes up one-third of the world’s data. Pharmaceutical companies need to tap into this type of data to build inclusive clinical trials,
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How care orchestration technology improves the perioperative care process
It is no longer a question of whether we should use automation for care orchestration. The technology for intelligent automation of care coordination is available now and can help providers reduce costs, generate revenue, and overcome understaffing.
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Meaningful Hospital Price Transparency Requires Actual Prices, Not Estimates
Only actual hospital prices, displayed as dollars and cents, not estimates, formulas, or algorithms, protect patients from outrageous bills and hold hospitals accountable for overcharges, errors, and fraud. Accepting CMS’ or other substitutes instead of actual prices undermines broader efforts to make hospital price transparency a reality for American patients and healthcare consumers.
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MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
How Health Tech is Squashing AI Biases and Leveling the Playing Field in Healthcare
By making large amounts of diverse data widely available, healthcare institutions can feel confident about the evaluation, creation, and validation of algorithms as they’re transitioned from ideation to use.
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The Gigification of Healthcare
By leveraging technology and strategies used within the gig economy—and even tapping into the talent pool of gig workers themselves—healthcare organizations can address staffing shortages, retain and motivate more workers, and ultimately deliver better patient care.
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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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An Ounce of Prevention Isn’t Enough To Treat Obesity
If we want to support people with obesity, the weight loss debate must stop conflating obesity prevention with obesity treatment. Instead, we should focus on the tools that best solve the needs of people where they are – just as we would for cancer or diabetes – by making the most effective treatments possible available.
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Orphan Drug Development Is Next for Tech to Tackle
Drug developers need policies and technological infrastructure to execute on their goal of being patient-focused. At a minimum, this means a compliant way to engage patients and truly hear their voices; at its most effective, patient engagement also meets patients where they are – whenever and wherever that may be.
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3 Ways to Use an Engineering Mindset to Optimize Patient Access Workflows
In a day of vast innovation, expansion, and acquisitions, an engineering mindset can bring a unique and effective approach to thinking across the system, evaluating the current and future state, standardizing on best practices, and considering upstream and downstream workflows.
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Delivering Precision Care to Manage Neurodegenerative Diseases
Precision medicine for neurodegenerative conditions has the potential to radically change the way patients are treated and managed over time. As an industry, we must continue to expand our thinking and push the boundaries of science, technology, and data analytics to capture precision medicine opportunities in broader areas of unmet medical needs.
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Integrating Workers’ Comp and Medical Benefits Makes So Much Sense
The current dual-system model is inefficient, wasteful, and inconvenient. There is a clear need to integrate workers’ comp and medical benefits programs to cut down on costs and alleviate the hassle of dealing with separate care silos. It’s possible, and its time has come.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer
How Hospitals Can Meet New Requirements for Workplace Violence Prevention
When violence in general—including gun violence—goes unchecked in any hospital setting, the physical and psychological impact can be severe, lasting and even devastating. Beyond injuries and tragic loss of life, the fallout from unchecked violence creates worker anxiety, loss of productivity and workdays, and significant legal and reputational losses.
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5 Foundational Capabilities Needed for Implementing a Value-Based Care Program
Apprehension among practices and providers is understandable, given the complexity and variance of VBC contracts. However, instead of feeling overwhelmed and burdened by VBC, practices can slowly embrace these concepts by leveraging the many tools they already have in place or that exist in the healthcare ecosystem.
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
Taming the Healthcare Data Beast: Conquering Complexity for Better Care
By following these foundational data best practices, healthcare organizations will harness the power of their data to provide superior patient care while safeguarding patient privacy and compliance.
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
Data Access and Equity: How Secure Engagement Data Sharing Makes for Healthier Patients
The fusion of clinical and engagement data can revolutionize the way we understand and treat patients. By optimizing data collection and synthesis, securely sharing data, and ensuring equitable access, we can make significant strides towards delivering more personalized, effective, and patient-centered care.