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For the second year, Anthony D. Slonim, MD, DrPH, is in the running for Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders. Recently, he discussed what it means to be a physician leader, the industry’s move to population health, and more.

As Americans as asked to pay a greater portion of their healthcare expenditures, new insurance design models are being implemented, such as value-based insurance design, to combat issues like nonadherence.

Robert W. Dubois, MD, PhD, of National Pharmaceutical Council, will discuss care pathways, how they are created, their implementation in US healthcare, and more, on January 28, 1-2 pm ET, during a tweetchat.

The digital health panel at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference analyzed how the industry can move from collecting data to turning it into actionable and useful information.

Placing greater focus on patient experience can build trust between consumers and healthcare organizations, which important for the effectiveness of the healthcare system, said Ashish K. Jha, MD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

An infographic that looks at 3 factors impacting diabetes care, based on the keynote speech from Patient-Centered Diabetes Care 2015 from Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD, of Joslin Diabetes Center.

Bundled payments may be part of the future in healthcare’s move to value-based care, but this payment scheme runs into the challenge of penalizing providers for factors that are beyond their control, explained Joshua T. Cohen, PhD, research associate professor of medicine at Tufts Medical Center.

During the last month of 2015, The American Journal of Managed Care asked readers to choose what they thought was the top healthcare story from the year. Options included overall themes from the year and specific events.