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Incorporating Health IT Into Primary Care TransformationLongitudinal evaluation of an advanced primary care reform effort found some improvements in health information technology (IT) offerings and use as well as opportunities to improve future collaboration.
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Transitional Care Management Visits to Improve Coordination of CareInspira Care Connect, LLC, an accountable care organization, incorporated transitional care management services into its postdischarge follow-up process to prevent avoidable utilization of health care services and costs.
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Adopting Good Practices for High-Deductible Health Plans Can Help Employers Build Better Health BenefitsSurvey results demonstrate an opportunity to incorporate good practices for high-deductible health plans that can help enrollees maximize value and better navigate their benefits and treatment options.
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Understanding Suboptimal e-Consult Requests: Lessons From the VAUS Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clinicians’ perspectives on what constitutes a good e-consult and why suboptimal e-consult requests occur contain broadly applicable lessons for other health systems.
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Measuring Continuity of Care for Diabetes: Which Visits to Include?This study examined how inclusion of different provider specialties affected Continuity of Care Index values, year-to-year stability, and association with emergency department visits.
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An Analysis of Medicare Accountable Care Organization Expense ReportsThe authors of this study examined expense reports to understand how participants in Medicare’s Accountable Care Organization Investment Model spent to achieve program goals.
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Breaking Barriers: Partnerships to Improve Diabetic Eye Health in AlabamaThis article reviews barriers to diabetic eye health across Alabama and highlights a partnership with Genentech and the American Diabetes Association to address this issue.
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Hospital Performance in a Statewide Commercial Insurer Episode-Based Incentive ProgramSome hospitals were able to outperform others in a commercial insurer episode-based incentive program, but there was little evidence of global reductions in episode spending.
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Unfulfilled Home Health Referrals Lead to Higher Mortality Among Medicare Advantage MembersMedicare Advantage members referred to home health after acute hospitalization who did not receive home health services had higher mortality at 30, 90, and 180 days.
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Assessment of Structured Data Elements for Social Risk FactorsAn expert panel identified and assessed electronic health record and health information exchange structured data elements to support future development of social risk factor computable phenotyping.
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Patient Satisfaction With Letter-Based Communication of LCS Pulmonary Nodule ResultsPatients were satisfied with receiving their lung cancer screening (LCS) pulmonary nodule results via letter and considered the amount of information provided in the letter appropriate.
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A Cue-to-Action Pilot Project to Increase Screening MammographyA targeted cue-to-action campaign of outreach, education, and incentive can improve uptake of screening mammography.
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Adjusting Starting Points for Initial Price Offers: The Example of IbrutinibIbrutinib has been selected for Medicare price negotiation under the Inflation Reduction Act. The authors summarize the House Oversight Committee investigation to be considered by CMS during the price negotiation process.
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Access to Consultative Dermatologic Care via Physician-to-Physician Asynchronous Outpatient TeledermatologyDirect access of primary care physicians to dermatologists via asynchronous teledermatology improves a health system’s ability to increase patient access to dermatologic care.
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Prevention and Management of COVID-19 in Hemodialysis CentersThis article gives recommendations for individual hemodialysis centers worldwide to ensure the safety and effectiveness of patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis based on the experience of such a patient with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the Sichuan province of China.
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Impacts of Community-Based Care Program on Health Care Utilization and CostA community-based care management program in Rhode Island reduced hospitalizations and inpatient costs. There were stark differences across subgroups based on intensity of care.
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Screening for Health Literacy, Social Determinants, and Discrimination in Health PlansThis study provides insight on the experiences of patients of a national health plan with 2 structural determinants of health—health care discrimination and health literacy—and how those interact with social determinants of health and patient demographics.
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Breaking Barriers: Partnerships to Improve Diabetic Eye Health in AlabamaThis article reviews barriers to diabetic eye health across Alabama and highlights a partnership with Genentech and the American Diabetes Association to address this issue.
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Collaborative Care Implementation: Lessons LearnedThe authors drafted a “Shared Values of Collaborative Care” document with fundamental principles to make better group decisions in implementing collaborative care.
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Equity and AI Governance at Academic Medical CentersThis study identifies limited engagement with equity among academic medical centers as they develop governance processes for artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning and predictive technologies.
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Health Equity in the Era of Large Language ModelsThis article presents challenges and solutions regarding health care–focused large language models (LLMs) and summarizes key recommendations from major regulatory and governance bodies for LLM development, implementation, and maintenance.
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Emergency Department Risk Model: Timely Identification of Patients for Outpatient Care CoordinationThe authors created a machine learning–based model to identify patients with major depressive disorder in the primary care setting at high risk of frequent emergency department visits, enabling prioritization for a care coordination program.
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Contingency Management: Promises, Gaps, and Philosophical LimitationsThis editorial reviews the promises, gaps, and philosophical limitations of contingency management for pregnant people who use drugs.
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Reducing Readmissions in the Safety Net Through AI and AutomationArtificial intelligence (AI) and electronic health record–based automation tools helped a safety-net health system meet performance-based readmission metrics, thereby retaining critical funding while improving clinical and equity outcomes.
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The Role of AI in Delivering Personalized Nutrition for Patients With Cancer: Julia Logan, BSArtificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to deliver personalized nutrition; however, there is a need for professional oversight, emphasized Julia Logan, BS.
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Revisiting Conclusions on the Empiric Segmentation of High-risk PatientsThe authors provide feedback on generalizations made regarding interventions for high-risk populations in previous research.
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End-of-Life Values and Value-Based CareAn editorial in response to the editor in chief’s December 2021 letter discusses evidence supporting the cost-effectiveness of an innovative advance care planning initiative.
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Using Electronic Health Records and Claims Data to Identify High-risk Patients Likely to Benefit From Palliative CareDeep learning algorithms could improve palliative care by predicting mortality from electronic health records and claims data.
