Primary care must leverage disruptive innovations to ensure that patients receive first-access, comprehensive, coordinated, continuous care that is woven into a seamlessly integrated system.
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Despite potential benefits, joint ventures between nephrologists and dialysis companies raise legal and ethical concerns because of participants’ conflicts of interest and lack of transparency.
In a survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council sponsored by Optum, respondents express enthusiasm for value-based care but have conflicting opinions about just how far along that path they should go.
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Patricia D. Franklin, David C. Ayers & Elise Berliner
Smartly designed patient-centered registries capture longitudinal data to augment EHRs and enhance quality improvement, policy, and research efforts.
The surgeon has a crucial role in defining value for patients in a population — and not just when that patient is in need of the surgeon’s knife.
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Adam L. Beckman, Laura Chmar, Travis Broome, Bob Kocher & Farzad Mostashari
A care and payment model that engages primary care physicians in an aligned model built on trust and value could result in better patient care at lower costs.
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J. Michael McWilliams, Laura A. Hatfield, Bruce E. Landon, Pasha Hamed & Michael Chernew
After 3 years of the MSSP, participation in shared-savings contracts by physician groups was associated with savings for Medicare that grew over the study period, whereas hospital-integrated ACOs did not produce savings (on average) during the same period.
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Samantha Tam, Derek A. Haas, Moran Amit, Michael E. Porter, Randal S. Weber & Ehab Y. Hanna
How multidisciplinary team meetings improve cancer care.
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Robert E. Mechanic & Robert Galvin
Without more private-sector leadership, U.S. health care will remain stuck in a fee-for-service system for the foreseeable future.
Case Study by
Marcia Peterson & Sarah Rolph
A state-run center of excellence uses benefit design to improve outcomes while controlling cost.
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