Healthcare Strategies

Value-Based Care: Implementing Global Capitation Models from a Provider Perspective

Global capitation models are the most high-risk form of advanced payment model that a health system could adopt, but they have proven advantageous for promoting alignment around value-based care. Michael Weiss, MD, vice president of population health for Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), shares how his health system moved toward global capitation and offers recommendations for other organizations hoping to do the same.

Value-Based Care: Applying, Evolving ACO Strategy for Shared Savings, Quality Improvements

The accountable care organizations (ACO) model is one of the greatest tools in the value-based care toolbox, with ACOs in the Medicare Shared Savings Program producing savings five years in a row. Sam Starbuck, VP and GM at Privia Quality Network, shares how physician engagement, patient access, and data transparency are all key to savings and quality improvements.

Value-Based Care: Unifying Competing Stakeholders to Collaborate on Advanced Primary Care

One of the key challenges in value-based care is achieving collaboration between healthcare stakeholders who would normal be in competition with each other. Crystal Eubanks, senior director of care redesign at the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH), shares how the California Quality Collaborative programs pursued effective collaboration on value-based care.

Value-Based Care: Integrating Behavioral Healthcare, Physical Care In a Value-Based Framework

From the patient’s perspective, physical and behavioral healthcare are already integrated in their wellness experience, but the healthcare industry has a long way to go in matching this reality in patients’ treatment journeys. Ewa Matuszewski, chief executive officer and co-founder of MedNetOne Health Solutions, explains how healthcare stakeholders can work toward a more integrated behavioral-physical healthcare experience within the value-based care framework.

Value-Based Care: Implementing Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Without Negative Biases

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are increasingly integral to value-based care models, which rely heavily on data and data analytics. However, these resources can also work against value-based care if they introduce or perpetuate negative biases. Marzyeh Ghassemi, a principal investigator at MIT’s Jameel Clinic, shares how to avoid negative biases in artificial intelligence and machine learning in the value-based care context.

Emphasizing Patient-Centered Care to Improve Cancer Treatment

Cancer treatment is full of challenges for patients and their families. A lack of patient-centered care can amplify these existing challenges and introduce new ones. André Dahinden, managing director at Accenture, shares how healthcare providers can make their oncology treatment processes more patient-centered in order to facilitate better patient experience and improve outcomes.

Identifying Health System CEOs’ Growth Priorities in 2022

To support business growth and promote the shift to patient-centric care, health system CEOs are implementing digital tools and diversifying their workforce. Jiban Khuntia, PhD, director of the University of Colorado, Denver's Health Administration Research Consortium, shares the results of a health system CEO survey highlighting these trends and discusses how they support the digital transformation journey in healthcare.

Protecting AI in Healthcare: Addressing Algorithmic Bias, Data Privacy, Security Concerns

Artificial intelligence has a variety of useful applications in healthcare. But algorithmic bias, along with data privacy and security concerns, have prompted significant ethical and legal concerns. Linda Malek, partner at Moses & Singer and chair of the firm’s healthcare, privacy, and cybersecurity practice group, discusses the risks associated with AI in healthcare.

Transforming Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention, Management With Blood Testing

Many unknowns surround Alzheimer’s Disease prevention and management, but blood testing might pave a way forward. Michael Racke, MD, Medical Director of Neurology at Quest Diagnostics, shares how a new type of diagnostic testing might help identify Alzheimer’s Disease early and change the healthcare system’s approach to the disease.

Measuring, Appreciating the Impact of Strategic Primary Care Investments

Investing in primary care services can be key to the success of organizations’ value-based care and health equity efforts. Vivek Garg, MD, chief medical officer for Humana’s Primary Care Organization, shares how organizations can invest strategically to support primary care, from investing in more sustainable EHRs to aligning around health equity.