"It's the economy, stupid!" is an aphorism coined by James Carvill during Bill Clinton's 1992 U.S. presidential campaign to keep workers focused on a key message. It has since been adapted countless ...

Well-designed EHRs enable clinicians to monitor and care for patients with long-term conditions, increase the continuity of services, facilitate collaboration between providers and support patient ...

The CMS ACCESS model shifts healthcare to continuous, outcome-driven care—making care management platforms essential ...

For decades, chronic disease management in Medicare has been hampered by a fee-for-service payment system that rewards volume and activity rather than true clinical improvement. This model created ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

New England Journal of Medicine: Catalyst validates Cadence’s model as a scalable standard of care for management of chronic disease Peer-reviewed case study with Providence offers an in-depth look at ...

Health systems interested in preserving their operating margins will need to be proactive in addressing a growing minority population responsible for an outsized share of care utilization: patients | ...

Chronic disease remains one of the most urgent challenges in U.S. health care with nearly every senior living with one or more chronic conditions. It accounts for the vast majority of Medicare ...

The current kidney care model—focused on late-stage disease and in-center hemodialysis—is unsustainable, because of costs, environmental burden, poor outcomes, and reduced quality of life.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is testing an outcome-aligned payment approach designed to give ...

Almost one-third of U.S. counties have experienced an overall decline in local brick-and-mortar pharmacies—impacting medication access for over 91 million people and making it harder for them to ...

Whereas all healthcare providers play a part in addressing chronic disease, primary care focuses mainly on preventing and managing these serious health issues. In the months leading up to the 2024 ...