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How Policy Changes Can Fix Market Distortions in Healthcare and Improve the Country’s Debt

Healthcare IT Today

This would create an incentive for payors to maintain patient satisfaction and invest in interventions that improve their health over the long run. Policymakers should do away with the MLR and introduce insurance mechanisms that extend payor risk over a longer time horizon beyond a single calendar year.

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

CIOs are constantly inundated with requests to purchase new technologies which will “save money, improve patient satisfaction and outcomes and decrease readmissions.” There remain many opportunities for technologies to assist in achieving true interoperability. Clinical trials. in the approval process of drugs.

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Health Provider News

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Nevada Medicaid must cover abortion services, judge rules Clark County health rankings improve, but physicians per capita still well below U.S.