June 27th 2025
Smartphone-based home screening significantly boosts chronic kidney disease (CKD) diagnosis and follow-up care, enhancing patient engagement and treatment outcomes.
Healthcare Price Transparency Report Card Finds States Have Much Work to Do
July 8th 2015Despite efforts by states to introduce legislation to make healthcare pricing information more accessible for consumers, most states still receive an F grade, according to the third annual Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws.
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CMS, AMA Work Together to Ease ICD-10 Transition, Provide Additional Flexibility
July 7th 2015CMS has released additional guidance allowing for flexibility in claims auditing and quality reporting during the transition to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision and is working with the American Medical Association to educate providers.
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High Deductibles, Narrow Networks Will Help Hold Down Medical Cost Trend in 2016
June 16th 2015Although the introduction of new specialty drugs and increased investments into personal health data security, moderating forces will keep healthcare spending growth in check in 2016, according to a report from PwC's Health Research Institute.
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Dr Mostashari's Aledade Raises $30 Million to Advance Value-Based Care
June 15th 2015Aledade, founded by Farzard Mostashari, MD, announced on Monday that it had raised $30 million to support its mission of partnering with independent primary care physicians to create accountable care organizations and further fuel the company's growth.
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New AMA Policies Promote Integrated Care, Improve Healthcare Data Transparency
June 15th 2015A new policy emerged from the annual meeting of the American Medical Association that calls for increased access to and coverage of integrated medical and behavioral healthcare services for patients.
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Automated Intelligent Engagement Using a Virtual Health Assistant
June 3rd 2015Advanced technology is now available to not only monitor patients at home but also to incorporate a myriad of data sources into intelligent engagement platforms. The Virtual Health Assistant will become the brain of the Intelligent Engagement Plecosystem
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Task Force Offers Recommendations for EHR Challenges
May 29th 2015Despite fast adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) over the past 5 years, many clinicians have voiced concerns about the unintended clinical consequences of EHR use, such as reduced time for patient-clinician interactions, burdensome data entry tasks for front-line clinicians, and interoperability troubles.
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Smart Packaging: A Component of Your Adherence Strategy
May 27th 2015Packaging by itself is an adherence technology and will revolutionize data collection on adherence, but the future will find this technology part of the greater plecosystem using a virtual health assistant as the "air traffic controller.
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Insurers Lag in Providing Member-Friendly Mobile Apps
May 18th 2015One of the reasons may be that health plans primarily have access to retrospective information rather than real-time information, unlike providers, and they also have to consider other factors such as a member's health indicators, plan, deductible, and family structure.
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