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Weekly News Roundup: June 18, 2019

Big changes are in store for MSSP ACOs with the Pathways to Success final rule poised to take affect soon. In this week's news roundup: strategies to help ACOs boost savings; why changes to MSSP may be the beginning of an important cultural shift; a new study finds that MSSP ACOs do not improve savings or quality; and how downside risk will impact participation in Pathways to Success.

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Weekly News Roundup: June 14, 2019

Population health is the phrase of the week. In this week's roundup: a lesson from precision medicine that helps inform healthcare leaders on improving population health; three ways healthcare professionals can use social media to improve population health; an introduction to a data- and analytics-first approach to population health management; and how academic medical centers can boost population health management.

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Weekly News Roundup: June 7, 2019

A health system's board of trustees plays a critical role in decision-making and governance but often lacks oversight. In this week's news roundup: six guidelines for engaging the board in quality and safety; AHA study shows that hospital boards see low turnover but lack diversity and succession planning; an assessment tool allows health system boards to track their performance; and, why all hospital boards deserve greater scrutiny

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Weekly News Roundup: May 31, 2019

Healthcare payer models are changing rapidly. This week's roundup features new and emerging healthcare payment models: the top five financial opportunities for payers; healthcare experts weigh in on the five new CMS Primary Care payment models; why some healthcare executives are calling for Stark Law reform; and what payment looks like in social determinants of health programs.

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Weekly News Roundup: May 24, 2019

With the right evidence, analytics, and methods, providers and improvement teams can transform healthcare, improving the quality of patient care and the bottom line. This week's news roundup focuses on healthcare quality improvement projects: top examples, battling prolonged lengths of stay with data, closing care gaps with technology, and streamlining data for health plan quality reporting.

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Weekly News Roundup: May 17, 2019

This week's news roundup is all about ACOs: the past, present, and future of ACOs and CINs; why some provider groups want to make the next generation of ACOs permanent; the reason some ACOs stay in the MSSP; and why half of ACOs are likely to exit MSSP due to new downside risk requirements.

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Weekly News Roundup: May 10, 2019

This week’s news roundup focuses on improvement opportunities and digital solutions for payers: how healthcare analytics is helping payers thrive with increased financial risk; trends in healthcare payments; how health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers are falling short when it comes to medication access for autoimmune diseases; why communication is key for out-of-pocket patient costs; and more.

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Weekly News Roundup: May 3, 2019

Patient safety is always an important and timely topic. In this week's news roundup: a CMS proposed rule to strengthen oversight of accrediting organizations; using event reporting and predictive analytics to make patients safer; EHRs as the cause of treatment delays and safety and communication issues between patients and providers; and, using data to improve quality and patient safety.

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Weekly News Roundup: April 26, 2019

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently released a proposed rule to implement provisions in the 21st Century Cures Act and proivdes for a public comment period that ends June 3. This week's news roundup focuses on the the ONC's proposed rule: information blocking practices defined and explained, industry concerns about the proposed interoperability rules, and the push for use of open APIs.

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Weekly News Roundup: April 19, 2019

Physician burnout has been linked to an increase in medical errors, lower quality of care, and reduced work satisfaction. This week's news roundup focuses on physician burnout, the top burdens facing physicians today, interventions that are helping, and how the digitization of healthcare has exacerbated the problem.

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Weekly News Roundup: April 12, 2019

Employer-provided health insurance continues to be a hot topic-and a problem-for both providers and consumers. This week's news roundup examines the issue, including why employers provide health insurance in the first place, why Europeans don't get huge medical bills, how some employers are choosing their employees' doctors, and how data will help shape the future of employer insurance.

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Weekly News Roundup: April 5, 2019

This week's news roundup is all about data and the life science industry: why extended real-world data is the industry's number one asset, why pharma R&D needs to adopt a data science mindset, how the cloud can transform pharma, and, on the flip side, why the industry is resistant to embrace cloud technology. Lastly, the Novartis CEO who wanted to bring tech into pharma now explains why it's so hard.

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Weekly News Roundup: March 29,2019

  How are 2019 Predictions Holding Up? As the first quarter comes to a close, we’re taking a look how predictions for 2019 are holding up so far. This week, our news roundup examines population health trends to watch, healthcare predictions for 2019 to question, hospital revenue cycle trends, and how trends in appointment-based-businesses will affect healthcare this year. Population Health Trends to Watch, Trends to Question in 2019 healthcare organizations cannot afford to ignore consumers in 2019, as a number of major trends shape the …

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Weekly News Roundup: March 22, 2019

Alongside widespread efforts to improve healthcare quality, safety, and interoperability, the demand for electronic health information exchanges (HIEs) is increasing. This week’s news roundup features news about HIEs, including the case for combining HIE data with an analytics platform, how HIEs can enable public health reporting when EHRs fall short, how they can help remedy long emergency stays, why mental health providers oppose behavioral health EHR requirements, and the great conundrum of data liquidity in healthcare.

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Weekly News Roundup: March 15, 2019

The healthcare industry employs more Americans than any other industry, and, in 2018, created one in every seven new jobs. This week’s news roundup is all about healthcare jobs-the fast paced of growth, why CIOs went from back-office operators to mission-critical innovators, how medical writers can help speed outcomes improvement, and how to turn data analysts into one of the industry’s most in-demand professionals-data scientists.

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Weekly News Roundup: March 8, 2019

Faced with challenges, such as mergers and acquisitions, legal mandates, and changing patient populations, many health systems struggle to maintain patient satisfaction. This week's news roundup features patient satisfaction: how mergers and acquisitions may harm patient satisfaction, and ways to increase it, from talking about costs to leveraging technology.

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