Press Releases

Research appearing in the annual health IT issue of The American Journal of Managed Care^® highlights the value of machine learning to predict who will use healthcare and how electronic health records cannot solve all problems.

Young adults, JDRF’s CEO, researchers discuss long-term impact of the current insulin affordability crisis in Perspectives on Insulin Pricing, a special issue of Evidence-Based Diabetes Management.™
 

Rising number, cost of drugs for rare disease therapies create new pressure on health plans, researchers report in the October issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®.

Health policy experts writing in the current issue of The American Journal of Managed Care^® illustrate efforts that are being tested or considered to improve care for elderly patients, veterans and others, as well as physician-led initiatives to improve stakeholder buy-in for value-based care.
 

A California law that limits the size of bills from out-of-network physicians for care delivered in hospitals appears to be protecting patients’ financial liability, but has shifted bargaining leverage in favor of insurance plans and had potential unintended consequences such as encouraging more consolidation among physician practice groups, according to a new RAND Corporation study published in The American Journal of Managed Care^®.

Capping patient assistance for specialty prescription drugs may lead to lower medication adherence, according to findings published in The American Journal of Managed Care^® (AJMC^®). In an accompanying editorial, AJMC®’s co-editor-in-chief calls for a “truce” between drug makers and payers so that cost does not prevent patients from accessing high-value therapies.  
 

Real-time fall detection using SafelyYou’s artificial intelligence-enabled video recording reduced the need for emergency services by a staggering 80% in dementia care facilities, according to research results published in The American Journal of Managed Care^®.