Health insurance companies and a healthcare provider may greatly benefit from systems integration. Healthcare payer and provider organizations have different goals but need to work together to generate efficiencies. How can we bridge the gap between the two parties?
Will Amazon–Berkshire Hathaway–JP Morgan and CVS-Aetna change the health care game? To one health care employer purchaser, these announcements feel a lot like Groundhog Day.
The CEO of Virginia Mason on facilitating and enhancing patient participation in care.
What might one of the largest mergers in history mean for the health care delivery system?
NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members say stronger incentives and better use of analytics could improve alignment.
Health care stakeholders are not aligned in important goals and in large part are not working together to achieve value-based care, according to the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council. They are waiting on government regulators to change the payment model — including, possibly, single-payer health care.
How health plans can take advantage of their position in the ecosystem to connect motivated consumers with their perfectly matching high-performing provider.
Payers need to break out of their insular way of thinking.
Big Data is essential to every significant healthcare undertaking. Read about the challenges, applications, and potential brilliant future for healthcare big data.
Payers’ broad scale of investment in value-based arrangements makes a compelling case for the importance of sustained efforts to identify effective value-based payment models.
Drug companies must join providers, payers, and patients in seeing themselves as stakeholders.
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