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A Learning Health Care Community: Integrating Research and Practice at ScaleThis article presents a case study of how stakeholders in one state came together to integrate practice and research that is a step beyond a learning health care system.
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Patient Perspectives on Technology-Based Approaches to Social Needs ScreeningPatients are essential stakeholders in designing systems to capture social needs. The authors present key findings from patient interviews regarding social needs screening through technology-based modalities.
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Assessment of Variation in Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring Among Commercially Insured PatientsAmbulatory cardiac monitors’ clinical and economic outcomes vary; one long-term continuous monitor brand showed greater arrhythmia diagnosis, fewer retests and cardiovascular events, and lower health care resource use and costs.
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Final Words: Aligning Innovation, Guidelines, and AccessPanelists expressed cautious optimism about high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML) treatment, emphasizing the need for ongoing research, personalized therapy based on molecular profiling, and strengthened collaboration between community and academic centers to improve patient outcomes, while recognizing that education and sharing best practices are key to advancing targeted therapies and achieving long-term cures.
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Assessing the Impact of Transplant Case Management on Clinical OutcomesThis article examines the effect of a transplant case management program on clinical outcomes following transplant surgery.
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Contributor: Modern Medicine Meets House Calls—Caring for the Patient With Diabetes in 2020Physicians agree that telehealth leads to better and more consistent patient care for patients and their families and provides many more touchpoints for patients with diabetes—all of which should continue after the pandemic in order to provide these patients with the best care going forward.
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What Value Do Teaching Hospitals Provide Commercial Beneficiaries When in an ACO?Accountable care organizations (ACOs) with a major teaching hospital were associated with lower mortality, lower inpatient spending, lower emergency department utilization, and higher overall outpatient spending.
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People Experiencing Homelessness in Miami: Insurance Enrollment Rates, Hypertension TrendsPeople experiencing homelessness face significant barriers to health care access, leading to higher rates of hypertension even among those with health insurance.
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Value-Based Payment, the Safety Net, and Rethinking RiskSafety-net providers can benefit from demonstrations of condition-specific and defined-scope-of-practice alternative payment models that account for the nonfinancial as well as financial risks that providers face.
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Contributor: How to Remedy Low Health Literacy and Amplify SDOH Programs at ScaleRyan Bosch, MD, FACP, founder and president of Socially Determined, outlines steps for improving health literacy.
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Behavior-Based Diabetes Management: Impact on Care, Hospitalizations, and CostsThe Diabetes Care Rewards program offers a business case for health plans to promote engagement through use of contingent incentives, thus improving health outcomes and lowering costs.
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Proactively Protecting Mental and Physical Health During Peak Allergy Season With Gary Falcetano, PA-C, AE-CGary Falcetano, PA-C, AE-C, explains that proactively managing seasonal allergies can significantly decrease the overall inflammatory burden, thereby improving both physical symptoms and potentially mitigating neuroinflammation's impact on mental well-being.
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Measuring Continuity of Care for Diabetes: Which Visits to Include?This study examined how inclusion of different provider specialties affected Continuity of Care Index values, year-to-year stability, and association with emergency department visits.
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Collaborative Care Implementation: Lessons LearnedThe authors drafted a “Shared Values of Collaborative Care” document with fundamental principles to make better group decisions in implementing collaborative care.
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Association Between Screening for Suspected COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes of Patients Revisiting the Emergency DepartmentPatients who revisit the emergency department shortly after discharge are at high risk for complications and death, exacerbated by COVID-19 screening workload. Detection efforts impact outcomes.
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Managed Care COVID-19 Outcomes in a Population Health ProgramData from 38,193 patients showed that managed care patients have COVID-19 risk factors similar to those of the general population and that a population health program decreased mortality.
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Falls, Balance Issues Signal Higher ICANS Risk in NHLAdverse physical functions were indicative of reduced survival and increased risk of immune effector cell–associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) previously treated with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.
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Transition-to-Dialysis Planning, Health Care Use, and Mortality in End-Stage Renal DiseaseA planned transition to dialysis was associated with improved outcomes and lower mortality. These findings may inform care coordination policies for end-stage renal disease.
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Promising Advances, Key Gaps in Psoriatic Arthritis ResearchRebecca Haberman, MD, of NYU Langone Health, highlights precision medicine and potential prevention strategies, two areas of promising psoriatic arthritis research.
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Health Outcomes Under Full-Risk Medicare Advantage vs Traditional MedicarePhysician groups under 2-sided risk–based Medicare Advantage provide care associated with higher quality and efficiency compared with care by these same groups under fee-for-service Medicare.
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Contributor: Opportunities for Provider Engagement, Intervention, and Coordination Highlighted in CVS Health StudyAs providers strive to deliver seamless, collaborative, and deeply engaging care, advances focused on treating the whole health of a person, wherever they are in their care journey, will be necessary as the health care system continues to evolve to meet the needs of patients and providers alike.
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Insurer Costs of COVID-19 by Disease Severity and DurationPayer costs for COVID-19 ranged from a mean of $505 for asymptomatic cases to $126,094 for severe cases with post–COVID-19 condition.
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Inpatient-Outpatient Shared Electronic Health Records: Telemedicine and Laboratory Follow-up After Hospital DischargeUsing a seamlessly shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with greater rates of postdischarge follow-up delivered through telemedicine or laboratory monitoring and without an in-person office visit.
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Continuously Updated Forecasting of SARS-CoV-2 in a Regional Health SystemThis study presents a methodology for forecasting demand of COVID-19 on health resources in an integrated health system.
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Risk Factors for Financial Toxicity in Health CareRisk factors for financial toxicity in a nationally representative survey included involuntary unemployment, transient loss of health insurance, and high-deductible health plans.
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Contemporary Care Patterns in the Management of Small Renal MassesAn investigation of management patterns after initial radiographic diagnosis of small renal masses showed that early urologist referral was associated with guideline-concordant care.
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Medicare APMs at a CrossroadsTo be sustainable and successful, Medicare alternative payment models (APMs) have to attract and retain high and low performers. That requires a different approach to pricing and evaluation.
