By David Muoio, MobiHealth News | May 16, 2019 The pharmacy benefit manager will be vetting each of the tools featured within the new formulary for therapeutic value, usability, security, privacy and cost effectiveness. Express Scripts will be releasing a stand-alone formulary in 2020 that highlights vetted digital health tools [...]
By Piers Ford, MobiHealth News | May 15, 2019 Health insurance companies have struggled to keep pace with global digitisation, but if they are to compete with an advancing battalion of disruptors, they need to mobilise coherent digital strategies now. Industry disruption by digital players is a major threat to [...]
By Maureen Hennessey and Larry Blandford, Journal of Clinical Pathways | May 15, 2019 Dr Hennessey relates her past personal experience with cancer care delivery when her mother was receiving chemotherapy for lung cancer, where an issue with care access could have significantly altered her mother’s life span. This experience inspired [...]
By Spandan Mahapatra, Tate Consultancy Services, Fierce Healthcare | May 15, 2019 Historically, the healthcare industry has been slower to adopt new and emerging technologies—partially due to regulatory boundaries and legacy IT infrastructure. But as of late, the healthcare industry is rapidly becoming one of the most technologically advanced in [...]
By Marc Harrison, Harvard Business Review | May 15, 2019 Rural communities, often amid stunning and isolated landscapes, are a defining feature of much of the United States. But those same landscapes can make it difficult for people to access health care. Intermountain Healthcare is addressing the pressing needs of [...]
By Samyukta Mulling, John P. Pollak, Said Ibrahim, Harvard Business Review | May 14, 2019 Health systems do not systematically collect information on social determinants of health (SDH) — the conditions in which people are born, live, grow, and age — despite knowing that they have a big impact on individual and population [...]
