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Hospitals and corporate entities such as insurance companies and venture capital firms now own nearly half of U.S. physician practices.
Daniel Tsai previously served as the Assistant Secretary for MassHealth and Medicaid Director.
The numbers indicate the severity of the pandemic is waning, both in terms of virus transmission and hospitals' financial health.
Insurers say they are out millions in payments promised under the Affordable Care Act.
Aligned incentives, integration and shared risk are what's needed in healthcare, say CEOs.
While the EHR documents what has been done, automating lets physicians and the care team know what to do going forward.
The ultimate goal for healthcare should be a comprehensive digital record on an open platform.
Knowing how doctors work, seeing "how their brains worked" helped inform new app.
The settlement is the "first and largest in the country secured by a state attorney general against a pharmacy benefit manager," Ohio AG says.
Both primary care and specialist medicine are facing potentially severe shortfalls over the next decade and a half.