Population Health
With many specialists becoming de facto primary care physicians, experts say they should emulate payers' pop health management techniques to control costs.
Speakers at the upcoming Pop Health Forum will share insights about engaging patients, both on-site and virtually.
Researchers used a national hospital database and evaluated almost 23 million adult hospital admissions in 162 hospitals across 44 states.
Proposal was published this week in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, a journal for the American College of Emergency Physicians or ACEP.
Five new clinics opened in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens; per earnings call CVS Health will expand chronic disease services beyond diabetes.
A hospital in Trinity, Texas closed on August 1, and another in Crockett, Texas on July 1.
Included in the efforts are testing for deadly drug-resistant bacteria and a new lab devoted to DNA sequencing of tuberculosis bacteria.
Cutting down on negative physician bias towards obesity could yield better treatment, patient outcomes.
Only about 20 percent of health outcomes are determined by clinical care, yet it accounts for the majority of healthcare investments, report says.
Wolf, who most recently worked for Chartis, spent 10 years as chief operating officer of Kaiser Permanente's Federation, where he focused on care delivery, data governance, population health management and more.