December 2019 | Volume 1
MOVING INTELLIGENT CHANGE FORWARD
INNOVATION DIGEST
As we hurtle toward the year’s end, I’ve been reading many articles predicting the future in healthcare. Not surprisingly, they portray "balance of power" scenarios and ongoing concerns with privacy, profit incentives tied to care delivery and the price of everything. I’m ever hopeful that if we can focus on the actual needs and motivations of patients, we can design better policy, care delivery and payment systems to support health. And, I agree that organizations that talk - and act - transparently and ethically will lead the way.
We Need to Look Beyond Drugs in Value Assessment
In the United States, we are engaged in the challenging but important conversation about how to assess the value of pharmaceuticals.
While efforts to improve the frameworks for drug value assessment are emerging, we are missing an important opportunity if we continue to focus all value assessment energy on just drugs.
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Employers Are Scaling Back Their Dependence On High-Deductible Health Plans
Everything old is new again. As open enrollment gets underway for next year’s job-based health insurance coverage, some employees are seeing traditional plans offered alongside or instead of the plans with sky-high deductibles that may have been their only choice in the past.
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CMS releases research-ready Medicaid and CHIP datasets
Researchers now will have access to Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program data from a national repository meant to identify and prevent fraud, waste and abuse. This is the first time that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released research-ready datasets from the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS), a joint effort by CMS and states to improve the quality of data for better oversight of the Medicaid and CHIP programs.
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Help Desk: Can your medical records become marketing? We investigate a reader’s suspicious ‘patient portal.’
There’s a saying among certain Silicon Valley billionaires that nobody cares about privacy. My inbox suggests quite the opposite.
In recent months, my email, Twitter feed and Washington Post “Help Desk” have been deluged with your questions and concerns about the secret life of our data. You’ve shared your outrage at how smart TVs and credit cards, web browsers and iPhone apps treat our lives like a product to be sold.
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Google Denies It’s Misusing Health Data as HHS Starts Inquiry
Google’s top health and cloud executives said the company isn’t misusing health data from one of the biggest U.S. health-care providers, pushing back against news reports that have triggered criticism from lawmakers and prompted a federal inquiry.
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Valued for their tech, Silicon Valley digital health companies rely heavily on armies of faraway coaches
Talk to investors about why they like Omada Health, and they point you first to its technology. The startup, they rave, deploys sleek devices to monitor patients with chronic medical conditions; it collects millions of data points on their behavior; and it uses machine learning and other artificial intelligence techniques to automate health reminders and to flag individuals who need more intervention.
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Top 10 Health Care Industry Predictions For The Year 2020
As we near the end of the year, it is again time to go to the crystal ball and issue predictions for what the year 2020 holds in store for health care. This year, I consulted three well-known Venice Beach astrologers, two reputed Chakra healers, and an old Ouija board to arrive at 10 predictions that have a 50/50 chance of being correct.
In all seriousness, here is how I see the dialog around our nation’s health care system evolving in 2020.
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