Emerging Technologies, Tools & Thoughts
Potential CMS changes to Medicare formulary design03 Apr 2019
Today at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) 2019 Annual Conference, I attended a session titled “Medicare Formulary Updates... Continue Reading
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An industry on the brink of exponential change: Health in 204003 Apr 2019
While we don’t know with precision what the future of health might look like two decades out, we can look... Continue Reading
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How we’ll invent the future, by Bill Gates19 Mar 2019
We asked Gates to choose this year’s list of inventions that will change the world for the better. I was... Continue Reading
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Harvard Business Review: A Big Step Toward Giving Patients Control Over Their Health Care Data19 Mar 2019
The seeds of a consumer-driven health care revolution, one that could turn the U.S. health care system on its head,... Continue Reading
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Why AI-Enabled EHRs & Telemedicine is Transforming Behavioral Health19 Mar 2019
Behavioral healthcare is on the precipice of an exciting new frontier. While the sector has been slow to adopt major... Continue Reading
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Consumerism will force healthcare’s hand on interoperability, Forrester finds at HIMSS1919 Mar 2019
The research firm’s big takeaway from Orlando this past month: Newly empowered patients and the proliferation of data they bring... Continue Reading
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Can Optimized EHR Data Help Healthcare Combat the Opioid Epidemic?19 Mar 2019
While the debate on how to combat the infiltration and abuse of illegal narcotics in the U.S. languished for decades,... Continue Reading
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Senate’s drug price hearing: 6 takeaways06 Mar 2019
Seven pharmaceutical executives, representing $140 billion in U.S. revenue, testified before the Senate Finance Committee Feb. 26. During the high-stakes... Continue Reading
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Making sense of the recent CMS and ONC proposed rules to improve healthcare data exchange06 Mar 2019
Last Monday, just as many of us were traveling to HIMSS, HHS released two long-awaited pieces of policy that could... Continue Reading
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An Artful Deal? Critics Question Administration’s Prescription Drug Negotiation Tools for Medicare Advantage06 Mar 2019
This article addresses the high-level challenges of tackling drug pricing policy related to prices that seniors and government programs pay,... Continue Reading
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