Coaching Technology While the landmark health reform laws enacted in 2009 (HITECH Act) and 2010...
Health Plan Shopping Tools Must Keep Evolving
The New Normal The functionality of Healthcare.gov and the state insurance exchanges has improved...
Current Applications of Risk Identification and Stratification in Provider-led Care Management
A Shift in Responsibility What has changed in the last 2 or 3 years is that now providers are...
Payers Accelerating the Move Towards Value-Based Reimbursement
Chilmark Bight Recently, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced plans to accelerate the...
Valued-Based Payments Leading to Value-Based Supplier Pricing?
Costs & Value Healthcare organizations (HCOs) are undergoing strategic shifts as they move...
The Unraveling of Alere
Future Plans Early last week, Optum announced that it would buy Alere’s health management business...
Care Coordination: A Dynamic, Rapidly Evolving Domain Deserving of Coverage
Coordination Concept Effective and efficient care coordination across a community is quickly...
#WWBR Week of September 29, 2014
Doctors Find Barriers to Sharing Digital Medical Records Julie Creswell for The New York Times "A...
#WWBR Week of September 22, 2014
In this week's WWBR, lots on pricing transparency and payment reform in the health system, and...