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Health Care Resource Utilization Among Patients With T2D and Cardiovascular-, Heart Failure–, or Renal-Related HospitalizationsAmong patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), concurrent cardiovascular-, heart failure–, or renal-related hospitalization presents significant disease burden leading to poor quality of life.
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Healthcare Reform and Patient-Centered Diabetes CareAmitabh Chandra, PhD, says health reform affects patient-centered diabetes care through two different interventions.
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Impact of Expanded Carrier Screening on Health Care UtilizationThis study shows little evidence of harms or increased health care utilization for people receiving negative (normal) results of expanded carrier screening through genome sequencing.
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Reconsidering the Economic Value of Multiple Sclerosis TherapiesAvailability of multiple sclerosis (MS) therapies provides substantial value to the currently healthy (who may contract MS in the future), particularly when treatment is fully covered by insurance.
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How to Create Successful Alternative Payment Models in OncologyBy identifying ways to improve cancer care and then designing alternative payment models (APMs) to overcome current payment barriers, APMs can enable oncology practices to deliver better care to patients and save money for payers in a way that is financially sustainable for the practices.
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A Novel Pharmaceutical-ACO Collaboration: the Merck/Heritage Provider Network Open Innovation ChallengeAccountable care is forcing providers to develop new capacities and strategies for managing cost and quality trends. Prospectively managing the health of populations requires shifting the focus of care delivery from episodic interventions to continuous population management. As a result, accountable care organizations (ACOs) are dedicating considerable focus to developing the infrastructure and tools needed to help patients manage their chronic conditions. This is a significant departure from traditional care-delivery models and will require provider organizations to develop new partnerships and embrace new methods.
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Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain in a Community-Based Healthcare SystemThis study identified populations with non-cancer chronic pain to determine which patients may be more likely to receive an opioid prescription in an outpatient setting.
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Efficiency and Its Measurement: What Practitioners Need to KnowStakeholders in US healthcare are increasingly seeking to measure and improve efficiency. This article describes an efficiency concept and some practical measurement challenges.
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Riding the Wave Through Chemo: Cancer Journey Leads to chemoWave App for Reporting PROs"It is time for patients to have more control over what is prescribed to them and technologies like chemoWave are giving them that power." A cancer diagnosis leads to chemoWave, an app for recording patient-reported outcomes.
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Adherence Patterns 1 Year After Initiation of SGLT2 Inhibitors: Results of a National Cohort StudyThis article describes the trajectory of adherence patterns among users of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors. The authors found that baseline factors were unable to predict the adherence trajectory groups.
