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Health Care Spending and Hypertension: The Cost of High Blood Pressure
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is related to several major chronic diseases. Obesity and diabetes raise your chance of developing high blood pressure, which in turn makes you more likely to suffer from heart disease and [...]
Chronic Care Management: CMS Multiple Chronic Conditions Dashboard
Many new care models in both the public and private sector focus on people with chronic diseases, particularly conditions like diabetes, congestive heart failure, and hypertension. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Care Coordination/Home Telehealth (CCHT) pilot program [...]
Women’s Health Spending: Expenditures on Common Conditions for Young Women
One of the most talked-about aspects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is how it will affect women’s health care. The biggest After 2014, health plans will no longer be allowed to charge different premiums based [...]
Patient Engagement to Lower Health Costs and Improve Outcomes
It’s not uncommon for a patient to be confused or overwhelmed by a diagnosis or treatment plan. Complicated medical procedures or decisions can overwhelm patients to the point that they feel that they cannot, or should [...]
Payment Reform Models: Coordinated Primary Care for Employees
Coordinated primary care models have shown great potential to reduce health care costs while improving care, a goal that will become even more important after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage expansion provisions take full effect [...]
Electronic Health Records: Best Practices in Washington State Save Medicaid Money
Health information technology, care coordination, and cost containment have increasingly become entwined in health care policy. Medicare and Medicaid both have electronic health record (EHR) incentive programs to encourage physicians, hospitals, and other providers to use [...]
Opportunity for Health Plans to Improve Quality and Reduce Costs by Embracing Primary Care Medical Homes
Primary care delivery through patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) and other coordinated-care models have improved care and reduced costs. Health plans have a strategic opportunity to promote better care at a lower cost by embracing medical homes [...]
Suicide Prevention for Veterans: Suicide Prevention Efforts by the VHA
The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in recent months have delivered grim statistics on military and veteran suicides. In a report earlier this year, the VA announced veterans committed suicide [...]
Patenting Human DNA: SCOTUS Pharma and Biotech Case Preview
Patents form the basis of the pharma and biotech industry, also called the life sciences industry. They give companies an incentive to make large investments in risky drug development and innovations, which have the potential to be ineffective or to [...]
The Promise of Telehealth: Three Case Studies of Early Adopters
Much of the health information technology (HIT) today promotes patient communication to improve care and potentially lower costs. Some examples are interactive preventive health records (IPHR), e-prescribing, and electronic health records (EHR). Emerging telehealth technologies, however, [...]
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