- Center on Health Equity and Access
- Clinical
- Health Care Cost
- Health Care Delivery
- Insurance
- Policy
- Technology
- Value-Based Care
An Expert's View on the Future of Healthcare
Dr David Blumenthal, president of The Commonwealth Fund, provides a glimpse into his prediction of healthcare in 2030.
DAVID BLUMENTHAL: It’s 2030. Scenarios like the following are routine.
1. Your mobile device chimes with an audible message. Sensors in your 85-year-old father’s apartment show that he hasn’t opened the fridge today and hasn’t taken his medicines. He’s breathing more rapidly and urinating less than normal. He has a fever and a cough, his blood sugar is high and blood oxygen low. Based on this data and his cloud-based health record, a computerized algorithm says there is a greater than 90% chance that he has bronchitis or pneumonia that is aggravating his diabetes and causing dehydration. If you approve, the software will call an ambulance, alert the emergency room, share this information with his primary-care physician, diabetologist and visiting nurse, and arrange for Uber to take you to the emergency room.
2. Your team won your weekly softball game last night, but that slide into second was a little rough. This morning, your ankle is sore and swollen. You log into your health system’s electronic patient portal and type in “swollen ankle.” It asks you a couple of questions and recommends an X-ray, while offering you the chance for a video consult with an ER physician. It also culls the list of orthopedists to whom your primary-care physician refers, and finds one who has an opening this morning, takes your insurance, and is recommended on MDQ, the local quality-ranking service. The portal also tells you that you have $2000 left on your deductible for this year, and that the expected cost of treating your ankle is $500-$5000, depending on whether it’s sprained or broken. There’s a less-expensive orthopedist on the list ($200-$1500) but she doesn’t have an opening until the day after tomorrow. You choose the more expensive option and limp off to your appointment.
Read Dr Blumenthal's complete opinion piece on the future of healthcare at The Wall Street Journal: http://on.wsj.com/1DwX3a3
Emily Goldberg Shares Insights as a Genetic Counselor for Breast Cancer Risk Screening
October 30th 2023On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Emily Goldberg, MS, CGC, a genetic counselor at JScreen, breaks down how genetic screening for breast cancer works and why it is so important to increase awareness and education around these screening tools available to patients who may be at risk for cancer.
Listen
Data on Delandistrogene Moxeparvovec Can Inform Future Gene Therapies
November 17th 2023The FDA approved delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl (Elevidys, Sarepta Therapeutics) in June to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy in ambulatory pediatric patients aged 4 through 5 who have a confirmed DMD gene mutation.
Read More
Examining Telehealth Uptake to Increase Equitable Care Access
January 26th 2023To mark the publication of The American Journal of Managed Care®’s 12th annual health IT issue, on this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Christopher M. Whaley, PhD, health care economist at the RAND Corporation, who focuses on health economics issues, including the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care delivery.
Listen
Model Accurately Predicts SCD Pain Scores Using Apple Watch Data
November 14th 2023Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) who wore an Apple Watch and reported daily pain scores could have their pain scores accurately predicted during hospital admission for vaso-occlusive crises and after discharge.
Read More
