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Leveraging Health Data and AI to Predict COVID-19 Hotspots
March 30th 2021Early on in the pandemic, Cotiviti developed a COVID-19 tracker map that accurately predicts where in the United States new COVID-19 outbreaks would occur. Nicole Neumarker, of Cotiviti, provides insight into what impact this technology could have in the future.
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Designing Multimedia Patient Education to Overcome COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
March 23rd 2021How can health care systems talk about the issue of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy with their patients? On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Pat Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weighs In, interviews the developer of interactive, people-centered, multimedia, educational programs for Wolters Kluwer Health.
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How Payers Can Use 4 Strategies to Ensure Opioid Use Disorder Care
March 16th 2021On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the chief medical officer for Virginia’s Medicaid program about 4 ways payers can make sure that those with opioid use disorder get the treatment they need; the strategies are outlined in the March issue of The American Journal of Managed Care.
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Addressing Health Care Access Gaps With Digital Solutions
March 9th 2021On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Sarah Carroll, MPH, director of the Center for Care Transformation at AVIA, discusses the challenges of implementing digital health in underserved populations and the potential of these solutions to better address health disparities in the United States.
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How the National Quality Forum Plans to Measure Telehealth Quality, Value
March 2nd 2021On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Sheri Winsper, the senior vice president for quality measurement at the National Quality Forum, to discuss how the forum plans to devise national telehealth quality metrics.
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Why US Communities of Color Carry Heaviest Burden of COVID-19
February 24th 2021On this edition of Managed Care Cast, we present a short excerpt from a January webinar titled “Color and COVID-19: The Virus’ Disproportionate Impact” hosted by the MJH Life Sciences™ COVID-19 Coalition about how the pandemic has had an unequal, devastating impact on communities of color.
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Spotlight on Clinical Specialties Kicks Off With COPD, SCLC, CAR T
February 17th 2021On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we highlight a new feature on AJMC.com, the website of The American Journal of Managed Care®, called Clinical Spotlight, where our editors provide a series of interviews with leading experts in certain specialties.
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Room for Collaboration Between Health Care and Education Systems
February 11th 2021The authors of a Commentary in the February 2021 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® discuss the opportunities for the health care and education systems to cooperate in value-based contracts to improve outcomes for students.
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ChristianaCare Innovates Diabetes Care for Patients With Poorly Controlled Disease
February 9th 2021On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with experts from ChristianaCare, which implemented a diabetes pilot program at 4 of its primary care sites in 2019 and saw its population of patients with well-controlled disease grow by 16%.
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Mental Health Dangers for the Front Lines During COVID-19
January 26th 2021On this episode, we speak with the coauthor of a paper looking at the mental health stressors facing first responders and health care workers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The paper found that a sizable number of these frontline workers are at risk for psychiatric illnesses at severity levels higher than other national disasters, including 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.
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Promoting Equitable Access to Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Crisis
January 19th 2021The authors of a Clinical research article in the January 2021 Health IT issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® discuss their findings and suggestions for making telehealth access more equitable for all.
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Examining the Shift to Value-Based Kidney Care Delivery in 2021
January 12th 2021On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the new chief financial officer of Strive Health, a value-based kidney care company that works with payers and providers to create an integrated care delivery system for chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). We discuss the changes coming to nephrology practices, as well as new ways of looking at the whole patient to halt the slide to irreversible ESRD.
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Advice for the Biden Administration About the Challenges in Health Care
December 8th 2020This episode of Managed Care Cast is a preview of an interview with Michael E. Chernew, PhD, and A. Mark Fendrick, MD, the co-editors-in-chief of The American Journal of Managed Care®, which appears in the December issue of the journal.
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