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Accountable care organizations (ACOs) face a learning curve before they start achieving savings. David Carmouche, MD, president of the Ochsner Health Network and executive director of the Ochsner Accountable Care Network, explains how the Ochsner ACO was able to find success and how other ACOs can get over the learning curve to achieve savings.

Following the release of the latest accountable care organization (ACO) participation numbers from the CMS, the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) authored its own take on the latest data around the Medicare Shared Savings Program, Medicare’s largest and most prominent value-based payment program serving 11 million patients.

Montefiore Health System will also be working with NeurologyLive™

From 2013 to 2017, the population of US patients prescribed treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) changed, becoming predominantly treatment-naïve and having received care in nonacademic centers.

Data is critical to all value-based care, said Jason Mitchell, MD, chief medical and clinical transformation officer, Presbyterian Healthcare Services.

You have to think beyond a patient's disease process and think about how they engage with the healthcare system, explained Jason Mitchell, MD, chief medical and clinical transformation officer, Presbyterian Healthcare Services.

One of the first things you need to do to ensure scalability and sustainability of social determinants of health (SDOH) initiatives is to really understand your population, explained Susan Mani, MD, vice president of Clinical Transformation and Ambulatory Quality at LifeBridge Health.

One of the most important things you can do to align healthcare strategies in the shift toward value-based care is to allow your clinicians to be part of that journey, explained Jason Mitchell, MD, chief medical and clinical transformation officer, Presbyterian Healthcare Services.

Susan Mani, MD, vice president of Clinical Transformation and Ambulatory Quality at LifeBridge Health, discusses barriers to understanding the return on investment of social determinants of health initiatives.

Looking at readmissions for congestive heart failure, we realized that the majority of our patients were being readmitted because of care coordination and social determinants of health, explained Susan Mani, MD, vice president of Clinical Transformation and Ambulatory Quality at LifeBridge Health.

If you wait for lagging outcomes, such as readmissions, it may be months before you realize if the initiative is working or not, explained Susan Mani, MD, vice president of Clinical Transformation and Ambulatory Quality at LifeBridge Health.

This study explores the causes of emotionally adverse patient experiences in cancer care and presents a taxonomy for analyzing free-text patient data.

A panel discussion during World Health Care Congress 2019 discussed the importance of quantifying and communicating the return on investment (ROI) for social determinants of health (SDOH) initiatives.

The authors determined whether Minnesota health systems responded to competitors’ publicly reported performance. Low performers fell further behind high performers, suggesting that reporting was not associated with quality competition.

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has welcomed 4 South Carolina hospitals to its system.

Between 2015 and 2017, drug spending increased by nearly 20% as drug shortages also increased, resulting in hospitals cutting staff and warning that patient safety is at risk.

In a national effort to improve healthcare and related social needs for the 1 in 5 Americans on Medicaid, 17 health systems have joined together to form the Medicaid Transformation Project.

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Since the formation of the nonprofit generic drug company in January, the company has grown to 7 health systems and has named its chief operating officer. Orignally announced as Project Rx, the company will now be named Civica Rx.

Is limiting or discontinuing opioid use in clinical care the answer to addressing the opioid epidemic?

Organizations are trying to think about how they can involve team-based care by incorporating individuals who have a certain skill set that can relieve the practicing clinician, physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant from some of the burden, explained Dennis P. Scanlon, PhD, professor, Health Policy and Administration, and director, Center for Health Care and Policy Research, Pennsylvania State University.

In June, Syapse—a company that works with health systems to implement precision medicine across its organizations—took the next step in leading the shift toward precision medicine by launching the Syapse Precision Medicine Council.

A new road map highlights how to overcome barriers to integrating person-centered care and evidence-based research at hospitals caring for vulnerable populations.

The purpose of Project Baseline is to map human health so we can convert from a reactive healthcare system to a proactive healthcare system, explained Adrian F. Hernandez, MD, MHS, vice dean, clinical research, Duke University School of Medicine

The endgame for both the health system and the payer is always the patient, so we try to focus on treating patients in the most cost-effective manner with the most clinically appropriate evidence-based approach, explained Ashley Pappas, PharmD, MHA, assistant director of pharmacy, University of North Carolina Hospitals.

The success of recommendations to improve screening often rests on the availability of efficacious therapies, coverage policies, and other factors that enable and justify screening.

Ninety-three percent of hospitals and health systems enable patients to access their health data, interact with health data, and obtain health services, according to a report from the American Hospital Association. In a nationwide poll from Ernst & Young, consumers and physicians indicated that they want more digital interaction in healthcare.

On Friday, a bipartisan group of governors unveiled a blueprint to reform the US health system in an effort to produce better health outcomes at a lower cost to governments, employers, and individuals. The plan focuses on aligning consumer and provider incentives, encouraging more competition and innovation, reforming insurance markets, expanding proven Medicaid innovations, and modernizing the state–federal relationsip.

On a humanitarian mission to Puerto Rico, Adam Sharp, MD, learned that to improve health, the essentials of food, housing, and water must be available and should be prioritized over medications, surgeries, and therapies.

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