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Bringing Behaviorial Health Into Primary Care Settings
BY MARTHA WHITECOTTON SPONSORED POST The integration of behavioral health into the primary care setting has resulted in a number of benefits. Traditionally, behavioral health and medical health operated separately, but in recent years, the integration...
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Mon, Oct 02 2017 9:59 AM
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I’m 35 Years Old And I’m Realizing My Life May Be About to End. And I’m Panicking, Just a Little.
By SCOTT RIDDLE It’s been a while since I put a piece of writing in the public domain, but suddenly I have a lot to get off my chest, well my colon actually. Just three weeks ago life was good. Correction. It was awesome. The newest edition to our family...
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Wed, Oct 04 2017 10:15 AM
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Moving the Needle to Diversify Health Tech
By SABAH PERVEZ AND ALYX STERNLICHT There is a dire need for the health tech workforce to keep pace with the changing racial makeup of the nation. According to the Pew Research Center study, from 1960 to 2010, the percentages of Americans identifying...
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Thu, Oct 12 2017 11:15 AM
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EHR-Driven Medical Error: The Unknown and the Unknowable
BY ROSS KOPPEL Politico’s Arthur Allen has written a useful report on recent findings about EHR-related errors. We must keep in mind, however, that almost all EHR-related errors are unknown, and often unknowable. Why? The most common errors involved with...
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Tue, Oct 17 2017 4:49 PM
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MedPAC Sinks Deeper Into the MACRA Tar Pit
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has done it again. At their October 4, 2017 meeting they agreed to repeal the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), an insanely complex and evidence-free pay-for-performance...
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Fri, Oct 20 2017 11:01 AM
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ACOs: An Act of Faith, Theory, Hope, or Evidence? What Do the Data Say?
By ROSS KOPPEL and STEVE SOUMERAI The recent Health Affairs Blog piece by Chernew and Barbey (October 17, 2017) provides a helpful theoretical summary of the various ways ACOs might achieve savings—even if modest or still latent. But their analysis of...
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Wed, Oct 25 2017 10:03 AM
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Is Obamacare Dead?
By STEVE FINDLAY “It’s dead. It’s gone. There’s no such thing as Obamacare anymore. It’s no longer – you shouldn’t even mention.” — President Donald J. Trump October 17, 2017 Not so fast, President Great-Again. First off, this is an obviously and...
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Fri, Oct 27 2017 8:40 AM
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Adapting Behavioral Health Integration to 21st Century Needs
BY MANUEL CASTRO SPONSORED POST At the start of my career, the standard of care for behavioral health integration was in-person, face-to-face interaction. As new ways to communicate have surfaced, the way we deliver care has also evolved. Today, both...
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Mon, Oct 02 2017 2:26 PM
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Carolinas Healthcare System
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Building Better Metrics: Immunizations and Asking the Right Question(s).
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD As policy experts cling to pay-for-performance (P4P) as an indicator of healthcare quality and shy away from fee-for-service, childhood immunization rates are being utilized as a benchmark. At first glance, vaccinating children on...
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Thu, Oct 05 2017 6:53 AM
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Six Assertions on Knowing the Unknowable Future of Healthcare
BY JOE FLOWER Some things never change. Joe Flower is one of those things. Pay attention. Joe was the keynote speaker at Health 2.0 Silicon Valley earlier this month. We’re excited to feature the text of his remarks as a post on the blog today....
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Fri, Oct 13 2017 8:54 AM
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5 Drivers of Healthcare’s Decentralized Future
By Indu Subaiya & Matthew Holt The contrast between the recent hurricanes in Texas and Florida is illustrative of the progress made in health IT in the past decade or so. In 2005, there were huge losses of patient data after Hurricane Katrina, because...
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Wed, Oct 18 2017 9:29 AM
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Price Transparency Tools Are Still Struggling. We Offer Advice
By PETER, BELL & FINDLAY The potential of price transparency tools to help consumers with high out-of-pocket medical expenses remains largely untapped, according to two recent studies published in Health Affairs and other recent research by Consumer...
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Mon, Oct 23 2017 10:32 AM
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Steve Findlay
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My 14 Year Old Cancer Patient May Be Addicted to Opioids. What Do I Do?
By JULIE KIM, MD I’m a pediatric oncologist, but cancer is not always the most serious problem my young patients face. Currently one of them, a 14-year-old boy, his mother, or both may be opioid addicts. I may be enabling their addiction. Tragically,...
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Wed, Oct 25 2017 1:43 PM
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Julie Kim
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To Achieve Its Goals, Population Health Needs More Specialists
By VIKRAM REDDY, MD I attended a Population Health conference this summer where a number of representatives from large health systems and physician organizations convened to discuss common challenges. Many of my healthcare colleagues assume that anything...
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Sat, Oct 28 2017 11:03 AM
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