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Contributor: Improving Health Care Through Psychological Safety

As health care leaders, it’s our responsibility to know the importance of psychological safety and actively promote an environment that supports emotional and mental well-being, no matter one’s position or background, notes Carolyn Tandy of Humana.

Association Between Interhospital Care Fragmentation, Readmission Diagnosis, and Outcomes

In this analysis of the National Readmissions Database, the authors investigated the association between interhospital fragmentation of care, reason for readmission, and patient outcomes.

Service Line Care Delivery Model for COVID-19 Patient-Centric Care

The authors provide steps hospitals can take to align their care delivery model to effectively meet the demands of a public health crisis such as the current pandemic.

Evolving Knowledge of the Unmet Needs in Dry Eye Disease

Association of Wound Healing With Quality and Continuity of Care and Sociodemographic Characteristics

Based on the analysis of electronic health records from 480 clinics, we found that better care quality and continuity are associated with better-than-expected wound healing performance.

Why Failing Faster Is the Key to Accelerating Drug Discovery

Understanding Physicians’ Work via Text Analytics on EHR Inbox Messages

This study leverages text analytics to identify work themes managed by primary care physicians in their electronic health record (EHR) inbox messages and inform managers on workflow redesign.

Pharmaceutical Care Services for Patients With Diabetes: A Systematic Scoping Review

Major databases were systematically searched for articles reporting on pharmaceutical care services for patients with diabetes, and 86 pharmaceutical care services were qualitatively synthesized.

Scaling Early Palliative Care in Value-Based Community Oncology: A Technology-Enabled Approach

Characterizing Obesity in a Large Health Care Delivery System.

The prevalence of obesity in the Sutter Health system between 2015 and 2020 was 35%. Differences by race/ethnicity, health insurance, smoking status, and comorbidities were examined.

PBM Fees Put the “GER” in Danger for Specialty Pharmacies

Service Utilization by High-Need, High-Cost Patients Following Emergency Department Visits

This article provides insights into patterns of health care use following emergency department visits by high-need, high-cost patients with different types of California Medicaid primary care providers.

Projected US Savings From Biosimilars, 2021-2025

Projected savings from biosimilars from 2021 to 2025 were $38.4 billion vs conditions as of quarter 4 of 2020 and were driven by new biosimilar entry. Savings were $124.5 billion under an upper-bound scenario.

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Autoimmune Disease Prevalence in US Claims/EHR Data

This analysis uses claims and electronic health records from 2021 to examine racial and ethnic variations in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases in the United States.

Disparities in Physician Access for Rheumatology, Dermatology, and Gastroenterology: A Systematic Review

This article presents a systematic review of US health care disparities in physician specialist access across rheumatology, dermatology, and gastroenterology and a call to action.

A Multistakeholder Effort in Pennsylvania to Improve the Accuracy of Reporting Fatal Drug Overdoses

The authors describe a novel training program for death certifiers in Pennsylvania, which has been designed to specifically focus on some of the main challenges in the death certification process and resulted in a useful model that can potentially be adopted by other states or municipalities.

Policy Changes Are Needed to Further Reduce Perioperative Opioid Use

Efforts to close existing policy gaps and misaligned payment practices in current opioid management practices can promote greater utilization of multimodal opioid-sparing pain management options.

Opioid Safety Initiative Associated With Decreased Emergency Department Opioid Prescribing

A scalable health system–wide emergency physician education and feedback initiative was associated with decreased opioid prescribing, in excess of background temporal decline.

The Essential Role of Population Health During and Beyond COVID-19

The authors detail how population health management enables health systems to promote public health, strengthen health system resiliency, and support financial recovery during and beyond coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Process Reengineering and Patient-Centered Approach Strengthen Efficiency in Specialized Care

Improving efficiency is complex and requires a multimodal approach. Health information systems, patient feedback, and multidisciplinary teams are components that can improve clinical processes.

Despite Concerns Over Extrapolation, Bevacizumab Biosimilars Are Widely Used in mCRC

A review article investigating the use of bevacizumab biosimilars found that despite lingering concerns about their usage for extrapolated indications, bevacizumab biosimilars are regularly used in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) even though clinical tests only evaluate them in patients with lung cancer.

Contributor: Improving Seniors’ Health and Outcomes With a Value-Based Care Team Approach

A value-based care team approach can be utilized to adequately treat patients’ medical problems, particularly by addressing the social, economic, and environmental challenges they’re facing in their everyday lives.

A Health Economic Evaluation of Digital Digestive Care Management

Chronic gastrointestinal disorders are common and costly for employers. Use of a digital digestive care program was associated with reduced health care spending.

Refining a Diagnostic Code List to Investigate Low-Acuity Utilization by Veterans

The authors updated a diagnosis list to identify low-acuity emergency department visits by veterans and applied it to examine trends and predictors of veterans’ low-acuity utilization.

Contributor: Technology, Supplemental Services in MA Can Help Improve Participant Health

Social determinants of health present many health-related challenges for Medicare Advantage (MA) plan members, something these plans are looking to overcome by diversifying their service offerings.

Contributor: Giving Clinicians Top-line Data to Help Manage Chronic Conditions

To accurately understand the progression or control of a condition, physicians require ready access to key indicators relevant to that illness. The industry should do a better job of making them available.

Advances in Ovarian Cancer: Using Genomics and Optimizing Maintenance Therapy

Intersection of Complexity and High Utilization Among Health Center Patients Aged 18 to 64 Years

This paper utilizes latent class analysis to identify subgroups of complex conditions and of super-utilizers among health center patients to inform clinically tailored efforts.

Evaluating Smoking Cessation Service at an Emergency Department Clinical Observation Unit

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a smoking cessation service in a group of patients admitted to a short-stay unit in the emergency department.

Contributor: Using Technology to Streamline Enrollment Into Available Medicare Subsidy Programs

Medicare Advantage plans can drive significant, sustainable, and scalable improvements to health outcomes; reduce cost; and boost retention and top-line revenue by enrolling beneficiaries into the comprehensive set of state and federal low-income programs available to them.