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- By Marc Herant
Disappointing interim results from two ACA experiments
Two papers reporting results from ACA experiments – the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Initiative in which primary practices were incentivized …
- By Tory Wolff
Summary
Livongo is marrying a cellular-enabled glucometer and a data cloud with patient engagement services to help manage sugar levels
Glucometer incumbents could match Livongo’s technology but will…
- By Marc Herant
It is a long-standing hypothesis shared by many providers that community-based interventions that improve primary care could lead to overall healthcare savings by preventing (or delaying) the occurren…
- By Marc Herant
Surgical volume and referral for surgery:
The impact of surgical volume on outcomes has been well documented, but is it top of mind with physicians referring patients to surgery? Readers of the Journa…
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
The recent World Medical Innovation Forum on Cancer convened by Partners Healthcare in Boston was attended by leaders in oncology from around the world including top: clinicians, bench scientists, pol…
- By Alex Brown
I have been conducting an informal test for the past year and a half. And while it has not been a full statistically-significant clinical trial with test and control groups, and “double blind” testin…
- By Marc Herant
RBRVS: an acronym we ought to think more about
RBRVS stands for the Resource Based Relative Value Scale, and codifies the time and effort involved for a comprehensive set of physician activities on wh…
- By Tory Wolff
Please see update at the end of the post.
With new two affiliations, Ochsner Health has solidified its clinically integrated network in the most populous parish (East Baton Rouge) and built a beachhea…