How can we reduce health care cost trends while improving access and quality? The answer is staring us in the face. Maybe we need a new app that tracks every […]

We sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Vice President of the U.S. and Canada Liz Guyton, CPA, to discuss big tech in health care, extinguishing physician burnout and HIMSS. […]

There is good evidence that waste is abundant in health care. Inefficient care delivery is one source of waste, where inefficiency is defined as variability in the way we care […]

Imagine I have two patients with diabetes. Person A has very mild disease and does well with a treatment plan of self-directed diet and exercise. Person B has more severe […]

When I was a young primary care physician, all I wanted was more time to spend with my patients. Each day felt rushed, prodded by the fee-for-service system that incentivized […]

Dealing with a pandemic this past year turned everything we thought we knew about life upside down, including health care. An already challenged industry was exposed for what it has […]

Some state Medicaid agencies leverage the enrollment process  to drive health plan improvement.  Within states that operate Medicaid managed care, there are typically high percentages of individuals newly enrolled in […]

“Primary care is the foundation to a high value, high functioning system that meets the needs of people and communities.” – Elizabeth Mitchell, president and CEO of the Purchaser Business […]

State budgets have been pushed to extremes driven in part by ballooning Medicaid costs and ballooning Medicaid rolls. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation:  “Early estimates indicate that states are […]

Current payment models are inadequate for the full scope of work in primary care. Last month, the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH) and the California Medical Association (CMA) addressed […]

Health economist Uwe Reinhardt famously declared in 2003 that if you want to address higher spending on health care in the U.S., then “it’s the prices, stupid.” Yet almost 20 […]

Kelli sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Global Chief Medical Officer Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, to look at what’s coming in 2021 and how 2020 still managed to shine […]