Healthcare Strategies

Addressing Health Equity In Light of COVID-19: Policy, Data, Culture

As the nation emerges from the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare professionals can work to keep health equity as central to their strategies going forward. Sara Heath, managing editor at Xtelligent Healthcare Media, reviews how to define health equity, how the pandemic impacted the industrywide discussion around this topic, and how steps that organizations can take toward improving health equity.
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Empowering Nurse Practitioners to Negotiate with Payers, Take on Risk

Nurse practitioners are trained not to take risks in care delivery, but when it comes to starting their own practices they have to accept financial risk and prove their value. Lorraine Bock, co-founder of National Nurse Practitioner Entrepreneur Network (NNPEN), shares her experience starting her own practice as a nurse practitioner, the value that nurse practitioners add to the healthcare system, and how nurse practitioners can engage in value-based contracting.

Using the Power of Community-Based Paramedicine for Value-Based Care, SDOH

Community-based paramedics have a unique role in the local healthcare system. By going into individuals’ homes to provide healthcare support, they can gain insight into potential social determinants of health barriers that other healthcare providers may never see. Ken Peach, executive director of the Health Council of East Central Florida, shares how his organization is using community-based paramedicine to improve value-based care in Florida.

Tracking the Evolution of Remote Patient Monitoring, Projecting Its Future

Remote patient monitoring received a lot of attention when healthcare was forced homeward during the coronavirus pandemic out of necessity. But what does the future hold for these technologies? Are remote patient monitoring technologies worth keeping around and, if so, what is the next step in integrating them into the healthcare system at large, including incorporating them into evolving artificial intelligence strategies? Eric Wicklund, senior editor of mHealthIntelligence at Xtelligent Healthcare Media, leverages his extensive background covering mHealth technologies to project the road ahead for remote patient monitoring technologies.

Introducing Value-Based Care into Pediatric Primary Care Practices

Pediatric primary care practices often lack the bandwidth to implement value-based care solutions at the level that childrens' hospitals and health systems can achieve. What is the next step toward value-based care in this setting? Larry Epstein, chief executive officer of Pediatric Urology Associates, shares his perspective on the state of value-based care in pediatric primary care and how to make progress.

Preparing for the Post-COVID Future of Telehealth

As the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic subside in the US, how will providers leverage telehealth in the "new normal"? What challenges prevent providers from implementing telehealth effectively? Emily Sokol, director of research at Xtelligent Healthcare Media, shares the results of a recent Insights report on telehealth and the outlook on telehealth's future.
To access the report, visit our corporate website: https://www.xtelligentmedia.com/insights/telehealth-growth-and-development-telehealths-place-in-the-industry-beyond-the-pandemic

Situating Payer Interoperability Efforts Within The Changing Regulatory Landscape

Making progress on specific interoperability goals is a key aim for payers in 2021. But what is the overall vision for interoperability? And how does interoperability engage with the other major changes occurring in the industry? Danielle Lloyd, senior vice president of private market innovations and quality initiatives for Clinical Affairs at AHIP, returned to Healthcare Strategies to share her perspective on the overarching goals of interoperability in the payer industry.

Ensuring Payer Readiness for Immediate, Upcoming Interoperability Goals

The industrywide movement toward interoperability involves multiple steps and factors. As payers prepare to conform to CMS deadlines, how can they juggle all of these pieces without losing site of the big picture? In the first of our two-part conversation on the subject, Danielle Lloyd, senior vice president of private market innovations and quality initiatives for clinical affairs at AHIP, covers how payers can prepare for the immediate July 1 deadline and touches on next steps toward interoperability.

Assessing How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Influenced Senior Care

Seniors have been a particularly vulnerable population during the coronavirus pandemic, estimated to account for approximately eight in ten coronavirus-related deaths in the US. Providers experienced many challenges as they tried to serve this population during this uncertain time. Emily Sokol, director of research at Xtelligent Healthcare Media, shares the results of an Insights report on providers engaged in senior care, exploring how the pandemic impacted senior care--including access to care and technology use--and how it will shape senior care strategies in the future.
To access the report, visit our corporate website: https://www.xtelligentmedia.com/insights/senior-care-report

Integrating Pharmaceutical, Medical Benefits to Lower Drug Spending

Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) offer one method of delivering pharmaceutical benefits to members, but Highmark Inc. and payers like it have developed an alternative that they argue may boost member engagement and improve drug spending. Sarah Marche, senior vice president of Pharmacy Services at Highmark Inc, discusses how Highmark has implemented integrated pharmacy benefits and the outcomes that the payer saw as a result of greater drug price transparency.