Expanding Access To Affordable Care Through Urgent Care

As the number of urgent care clinics around the country continues to grow, their role in helping communities access care perpetually evolves. Jackie McDevitt, PA-C, lead advanced practitioner at Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care, explains how urgent care clinics help patients navigate the healthcare system and utilize appropriate care at a lower cost.

Unifying the Healthcare Industry Around Surprise Billing Procedures

As stakeholders strive to prepare for surprise billing regulation compliance—building off of interoperability progress—one thing is clear: payers and providers alike will need to find a common approach. Erin Weber, director of the Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) at the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH), shared how the healthcare industry can standardize its approach to surprise billing.

Improving Interoperability, Intraoperability Nationwide Through FHIR Data Standard Implementation

As healthcare systems move toward greater interoperability, they have leveraged various strategies including cloud-based technology implementation and stakeholder partnerships. Nevertheless, they continue to confront barriers in their efforts. Kristian Feterik, medical director of interoperability and clinical associate professor of medicine at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), explains how widespread adoption of FHIR would advance the healthcare industry's interoperability--and intraoperability--goals as well as how cloud-based technologies factor into this effort.

Managing Today’s Top Medical Device Security Challenges

Medical device security vulnerabilities have the potential to impact patient safety and serve as an open door to hackers. Elizabeth Butwin Mann, Americas Life Sciences and Health Cybersecurity Leader at EY, explains what makes medical devices so susceptible to security vulnerabilities, and what healthcare organizations can do to mitigate risk.

Introducing Virtual-First Health Plan Models to Lower Costs, Boost Access

Virtual-first health plans have the potential to improve quality of care, patient experience, and access to care, but they can present complications as they involve typically-siloed technologies and care teams. Donna O'Shea, MD, national chief medical officer and vice president of population health and value-based care at UnitedHealthcare, dives into the benefits of virtual-first health plans and how payers can effectively implement virtual-first models.

Pursuing Access, Affordability, Simplicity During Medicare Open Enrollment

Each year during Medicare open enrollment season, payers face both challenges and opportunities as they seek to address beneficiaries' individual needs and provide the best assistance to enrollees. Christopher Ciano, president of Aetna Medicare, divulges the key aims that payers should keep at the center of their strategies around Medicare open enrollment season and how Aetna tackles each of these goals.

Using The Provider-Sponsored Plan Model To Pursue Value-Based Care

Provider-sponsored health plans have a capacity for strong provider engagement and health plan-provider alignment. Robert Gluckman, MD, chief medical officer of Providence Health Plan, shares the ways in which the provider-sponsored health plan model can further value-based care goals.

Using Virtual Care, Digital Solutions to Address PTSD in Veterans

Veterans who have PTSD may struggle to access care due to a variety of barriers. David Shulkin, MD, the former, ninth secretary for VA, explains how the VA has leveraged digital solutions historically and what barriers remain between veterans and PTSD treatment.

Assessing Provider Strategies for Population Health, Predictive Analytics

Population health data is essential to the forward movement of value-based care. But what is the status of providers' population health strategies? Emily Sokol, director of research at Xtelligent Healthcare Media, shares the results of a recent Insights report and explains how predictive analytics capabilities play a role in the future of both population health and value-based care.
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Enabling Providers To Take On More Risk, Scale Value-Based Contracts

In order to move more decisively toward a value-based care system, the healthcare industry will need to scale its value-based care efforts. But it is hard enough transitioning a single provider from fee-for-service into value-based contracts, much less all of a payer’s provider partners. Troy Smith, vice president of cost of care and value programs at Blue Cross NC, explains how Blue Cross NC overcame providers’ value-based care challenges and scaled its value-based contracts across multiple lines of business.