What Parents of Athletes Should Know About Injuries and Abuse
By EMILY ANDERSON I’m not a parent. But I was once a gymnast. Now I teach at a medical school. As far as my own injuries, I consider myself lucky; I can walk through airport security without setting... Read More
Making Progress Toward Healthier Pharma Markets
By MICHAEL J. ALKIRE Pharmaceuticals play a major role in today’s population health era – they can prevent and cure disease, improve or maintain wellness and slow progression of existing condition... Read More
Health Savings Accounts: Are Lawmakers Being Target-ed or Amazon-ed?
By NIRAN AL AGBA, MD Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) allow individuals to use pre-tax dollars to pay for high deductibles and other uncovered medical expenses. Currently, individuals are ineligible for... Read More
Making Employee Wellbeing the Top Leadership Priority
By JIM PURCELL It starts with the CEO. Studies confirm that the single most important determinant of successful workplace wellbeing programs is the active, passionate, and persistent involvement of th... Read More
Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning For the Extremely Confused
By STEPHEN BORSTELMANN, MD Artificial Intelligence is at peak buzzword: it elicits either the euphoria of a technological paradise with anthropomorphic robots to tidy up after us, or fears of hostile ... Read More
The Future of Value-Based Care Relies Upon Providers: Taking the Reins on Alternative Payment Models
By CHUCK SAUNDERS and NEAL SHORE, MD 2017 was a pivotal year for the growth of value-based care. For many practices, this meant completing their first performance year as part of the Merit-Based Incen... Read More
Bad Medicine: Medicaid Managed Drug Plan Rollback
By DEVON HERRICK Many states have been looking for alternatives to reimbursing Medicaid providers piecemeal on a fee-for-service (FFS) basis. Increasingly they have been moving beneficiaries into Medi... Read More
A GIS-based Transport Network for Emergency Referral in Bangladesh
By FARASHA BASHIR Access to basic healthcare services is a cardinal human right, enshrined in the World Health Organization’s Constitution, which envisions the “highest attainable standard of heal... Read More