Managed Care Cast

Discussing the integration of data from wearable technology into the electronic health record and utilizing telemedicine as a way to promote greater collaboration between the patient and their physician and health system with Jagmeet P. Singh, MD, PhD, FACC, deputy editor of JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, and Fred Bove, MD, MACC, editor-in-chief of Cardiology magazine.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

In healthcare, digital care and telemedicine efforts are mostly viewed as an add-on to US healthcare, but that mindset should be flipped, argued Sean Duffy, CEO of Omada Health, in a piece written for The New England Journal of Medicine, titled “In-Person Healthcare as Option B.”

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

In a new letter published in the February issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, Martin Makary, MD, a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University, and his coauthors assessed price markup variation by hospital and by oncology specialty to better understand the financial hardships patients can face when charges for the same service vary widely across hospitals.

The United States healthcare system is about to undergo some changes. The proposed cross-sector merger between CVS Health and Aetna created some waves and it was followed by an even bigger surprise: the partnership between Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway to create a new healthcare company.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

There has been some good news regarding cancer: a decline in the death rate and in new cancer diagnoses for men. However, the latest findings also highlight what still needs to be worked on, according to Otis W. Brawley, MD, MACP, FASCO, FACE, chief medical and scientific officer for the American Cancer Society.

As health information technology (IT) tools are continually being introduced into the healthcare sphere, organizations are utilizing these tools to optimize care coordination, patient experience, and patient outcomes. Today, 2 organizations join us; 1 uses a 2-way text messaging platform to support patients and increase medication adherence, and the other is teaming up with a pharmaceutical company to develop health IT solutions in order to enhance precision medicine in oncology.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

The introduction of biosimilars to the US market has led to an unprecedented amount of uncertainty as stakeholders try to understand the implications of their arrival. In the following Peer Exchange discussion from The Center for Biosimilars®, held in September 2017, industry experts discuss regulation, policy, and litigation issues in the world of biosimilars.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

More and more, practices around the country are switching from paper-based systems to electronic health records (EHRs). EHRs are increasingly becoming a crucial tool in healthcare, improving communication and facilitating care coordination. However, with these benefits also come challenges and unintended consequences. Jacob Reider, MD, CEO of Alliance for Better Health, dicusses the benefits of EHRs, their consequences, and working toward a time when interoperability becomes a reality nationwide.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Healthcare could be improved if policy makers, leaders, and administrators thought more about the role of medical professionalism and the intrinsic motivations of physicians, said Richard J. Baron, MD, MACP, president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation, during an interview with Patricia Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weigns In.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

In this interview, recorded at the end of the first day of PCOC®, Torrie Fields, senior program manager at Blue Shield of California, and Michael Kolodziej, MD, of ADVI Health, discuss the move to value-based care in oncology, what practices need to do to be successful, and the role of team-based care.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Overuse of medical services has been a costly issue in US healthcare for decades. Now in its fifth year, the Choosing Wisely initiative from ABIM Foundation seeks to increase conversations between physicians and patients to help them make wise decisions about appropriate care and reduce the use of low-value services.

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, and Patricia Salber, MD, MBA, discuss the idea of a single-payer system and misconceptions about the concept, and what individual states are doing.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast.

Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, MPH, of Catalyst for Payment Reform, and Patricia Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weighs In, discuss payment reform in the healthcare industry, including quality measurements and accountable care organizations.