Precision Medicine and Sharing Medical Data in Real Time: Opportunities and Barriers
August 14th 2018Facilitating real-time data sharing while protecting individual privacy, reducing the risk of data misuse, and enhancing public trust becomes critical as precision medicine moves forward.
Medicare Advantage Enrollees’ Use of Nursing Homes: Trends and Nursing Home Characteristics
August 13th 2018The share of Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries in the nursing home (NH) population has been steadily rising, while MA plans appear to be increasingly concentrating beneficiaries in select NHs with better performance on quality measures.
Evaluating HCV Screening, Linkage to Care, and Treatment Across Insurers
August 10th 2018An optimized hepatitis C virus screening and linkage-to-care process reduces the number of patients lost to follow-up and improves linkage to care for Medicare, Medicaid, and commercially insured patients.