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- By Tory Wolff
United’s OptumCare promises a lot of value for health plans. An integrated system supported by Optum technology should be able to deliver consistent, analytically sophisticated care. Its ambulatory-…
- By Marc Herant
GWAS, Regeneron and Geisinger, and liver disease
Genome wide association studies (GWAS) look at broad populations for gene variants associated with a particular phenotype. Often, like in Type II diabe…
- By Tory Wolff
Last month, word got out that Verily is in talks with health plans to “jointly bid” on care management contracts. Medicaid populations might be a reasonable surmised as the target given that (1) manag…
- By Tory Wolff
Last December, UPMC announced plans to spend $2B on three new specialty hospitals in downtown Pittsburgh. Each will abut an existing UPMC hospital currently serving as system center of excellence for …
- By Tory Wolff
35%+ of consumers who purchased on Amazon over a 30-day period say they would be “open” to health insurance created by Amazon according to a new survey (see Becker’s headline and the LendEdu study des…
- By Marc Herant
A-fib in heart failure – time to be aggressive
Over the last 15 years, there has been a growing body of evidence for the effectiveness of catheter ablation to treat atrial fibrillation (a-fib), a cond…
- By Tory Wolff
Amazon has many puzzled about its plans for healthcare. Arguably, Amazon is just as puzzled, but is – in effect -- running a massive Delphi process to sort out the plan. Amazon is, after all, the Brea…