Since practices tend to build more flexibility into APPs’ schedules, they can efficiently expand patients’ access to care while allowing physicians to focus on more complex patients. The post Addressing the Primary Care Crisis by Integrating Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) appeared first on MedCity News.
That is the title of a helpful article by Karnon and Haji Ali Afzali (Pharmacoeconomics 2014) with a subtitle A Review and Critique of the Costs and Benefits of DES. The paper starts by highlighting the 3 most common types of models: decision trees, Markovian cohort models, and individual level models. Decisions trees are useful…
On October 8, 2024, Vice President Harris has proposed to expand Medicare to provide home care to help families who are struggling with the costs of long-term care. If enacted, this would be the first major expansion of Medicare since the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 that added a prescription drug benefit to the program.
All healthcare entities storing or transferring patient health information needs to be aware of a proposed update to HIPAA tackling data encryption. Bryan Marlatt, chief regional officer at CyXcel The post Pivot: Discussing the Impact of a Proposed HIPAA Security Update appeared first on MedCity News.
By MIKE MAGEE “The technological leaps of the 1900s — microelectronics, antibiotics, chemotherapy, liquid-fueled rockets, Earth-observing satellites, lasers, LED lights, disease-resistant seeds and so forth — derived from science. But these technologies also spent years being improved, tweaked, recombined and modified to make them achieve the scale and impact necessary for innovations.” Jon Gertner, author of “The Idea…
David Oakley, AdventHealth’s chief digital officer, said AI could transform healthcare personalization — moving from broad population segments to individualized “segments of one.” In the future, providers could use connected data platforms to better understand patients’ clinical, social and emotional needs, which has potential to strengthen both trust and engagement, he stated. The post AI…
UnitedHealthcare launched UHC Store to sell discounted health services directly to members, but experts question whether consumers will embrace it. The post Reaction to UHC Store: People Aren’t Saying ‘I Love My Health Insurer — Let Me See What Else I Can Buy From Them’ appeared first on MedCity News.
As Congress weighs spending cuts and other changes to Medicaid, more than half (54%) of the public say they are worried significant reductions in federal Medicaid spending would negatively affect their family’s ability to obtain and afford health care, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. This includes about three in 10 (29%) who say…More
Too often, providers handle all military claims the same way — sending them to the VA and hoping for the best. But there are multiple payer types, and they function very differently. The post Not All Military Payers Are the Same — And That Matters More Than Ever appeared first on MedCity News.
The ability to reduce physician burnout is one of the most exciting things about AI, said CHAI CEO Brian Anderson. In his view, ambient listening AI could end up changing the healthcare delivery world in a similar way that the advent of the sewing machine changed the textile and fashion industry in the 1840s. The…