Interviews
Dr Jason Mitchell: How Freestanding EDs Can Be Utilized in Shift to Value-Based Care
May 22nd 2019Jason Mitchell, MD, chief medical and clinical transformation officer, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, discusses how freestanding emergency departments can be utilized in the move toward value-based care.
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Barry Russo: Alliances Between Practices Are Invaluable to the Future of Cancer Care
May 19th 2019Alliances are going to help community oncology participate in things that, as individual practices, they don‘t have the opportunity to do, said Barry Russo, chief executive officer of The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.
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Dr Ray Page Details Using Triage Pathways and Scaling Them Across Multiple Practices
May 10th 2019Triage pathways can transform practices and save practices and CMS money by keeping people out of the emergency department and hospital, said Ray Page, DO, PhD, president and director of research at The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.
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Barry Russo Explains How Artificial Intelligence Programs Can Simplify Cancer Care
May 3rd 2019An artificial intelligence system can digest what would take a person 29 hours to read in about 30 seconds, so everything is right in front of providers at the point of care, says Barry Russo, chief executive officer of The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.
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Dr Stephen Grubbs on the Refresh of ASCO's PCOP Model
May 2nd 2019Stephen Grubbs, MD, vice president of clinical affairs at the American Society of Clinical Oncology, explains what stakeholders can expect from the new updates to the Patient-Centered Oncology Payment (PCOP) model, as well as some key differences between PCOP and the Oncology Care Model.
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Dr Blase Polite on the State of the OCM
May 1st 2019Blase Polite, MD, associate professor of medicine and the executive director for accountable care at the University of Chicago, discusses why he chose to focus on the state of the Oncology Care Model at the April 25 meeting of the Institute for Value-Based Medicine.
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Barry Russo Discusses How CMS and HHS Regulatory Changes Are Affecting Practices
April 21st 2019With all the regulatory changes that CMS and HHS are rolling out, community oncology practices are facing significant changes in how they take care of patients, said Barry Russo, chief executive officer of The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.
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Dr Ray Page Details How Physicians Currently Use Data at the Point of Care
April 19th 2019Using oncology care pathways and treatment pathways has helped practices use evidence-based data to facilitate them to be sure they are using the right drug for the right patient at the right time, said Ray Page, DO, PhD, president and director of research at The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.
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Barry Russo on How Community Oncology Practices Can Work Together and Learn From Each Other
April 11th 2019Community oncology practices need to come together as much as possible in order to respond to changes in the market, have a common voice, and to share best practices and learn from each other, said Barry Russo, chief executive officer of The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.
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