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ANNAMARIA MACALUSO DAVIDSON, M.D., MDA Vice president, employee health medical operations, at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston I grew up in Houston. After graduating cum laude from Memorial High [...]

Dementia is one of the most common and dreaded conditions in the United States. According to the CDC, about 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, the most common dementia diagnosis [...]

FOLUSO AGBOOLA, MBBS, M.P.H. Foluso Agboola, MBBS, M.P.H., vice president of research, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) in Boston Raised in Nigeria, I earned my medical degree from [...]

When patients with cancer leave the hospital, they're usually overwhelmed with multiple items demanding their attention. Chief among them is filling their outpatient prescriptions, according to Nelly G. Adel, PharmD, [...]

JESSE M. EHRENFELD M.D., M.P.H., FASA, FAMIA, senior associate dean and director of Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Note: We asked all the winners to [...]

According to the CDC, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and Alzheimer's disease are currently among the most expensive health conditions in the United States. The price tags are simply staggering. [...]

Maternal mortality can be viewed as a rare event. The rate in the United States is roughly 20 maternal deaths per 100,000 births. Put another way, there are about 700 [...]

As a new decade begins, healthcare executives will continue to grapple with challenges of the past as well as new issues that emerge. We asked healthcare leaders to cite their [...]

New ways to win the war on cancer include novel methods of diagnosing and treating it. Here's a look at some developments in the pipeline as well as ones that [...]

The healthcare industry is slowly starting to implement the type of consumer engagement best practices that have been hallmarks in the retail, travel, and financial industries for years: listening to [...]

While employees' wages have remained mostly stagnant, family insurance premiums for employer health plans have increased 20% since 2011. Furthermore, more than 50% of individuals have a plan with a [...]

KATHERINE DI PALO PharmD, clinical program manager, Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, Montefiore Health System, Bronx, New York In a role she created, Di Palo, 32, has translated her experience as [...]

Diabetes is the most expensive chronic health condition in the United States. Medical expenses for people with diabetes cost approximately $9,600 more annually than individuals who don't have this disease, [...]

Employers have become frustrated with year-over-year healthcare cost increases that are three to four times the inflation rate while their employees realize poor health outcomes. Poor outcomes lead to high [...]

Over the past 15 years, payers, healthcare purchasers (e.g., Medicare, state governments, employers and individuals), professional associations and state and federal agencies have led many patient-centered medical home (PCMH) or [...]

The U.S. healthcare system spends far more per capita than the healthcare systems of other industrialized nations. Yet the U.S. is notorious for having some of the worst outcomes when [...]

COVID-19 wreaked havoc last year and seems destined to trample through 2021, causing illness, death and healthcare disruption. But cancer experts and clinicians fear a subtler, slow-motion effect of the [...]

Where people work, live and play can greatly affect their health and the quality of healthcare they receive. Research already has shown that these social determinants of health (SDOH) are [...]

When the COVID-19 pandemic spread to the U.S. last spring and the country went into lockdown, the utilization of healthcare services came to a screeching stop. Many experts are concerned [...]

The provenance of healthcare terminology is often difficult to pinpoint. Like success, jargon with staying power tends to have many parents. So it is with 'population health.' A Pubmed search [...]

Diabetes, especially Type 2 diabetes, has a split personality. It is one of the most common diseases in the United States; currently 1 in 10 Americans has Type 2 diabetes, [...]

The COVID-19 outbreak has claimed more than 100,000 American lives, but evidence shows the disease has cut an especially wide swath of serious illness and death through African American communities [...]

As the number of COVID-19 cases climbed and the death toll rose, healthcare organizations of all kinds and sizes took steps to combat the disease, keep their workers and the [...]

As the new year marches on, four trends that are helping to shape healthcare stand out. These include consolidation of payers and providers, a rise in consumerism, technological advances, and [...]

Although the ACA is still the law of the land, only bits and pieces of it remain intact as President Trump continued to take actions to dismantle it in 2018. [...]

The rapidly changing environment and new government mandates could dramatically impact the bottom line at healthcare organizations. That's why Dennis Eder, MBA, MA, cofounder and managing partner of Strategic Health [...]

EUAN ASHLEY MD, PhD, professor of medicine and genetics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, Stanford University Ashley joined Stanford's faculty in [...]

Genetic testing is playing a growing role in diagnosing and treating diseases, particularly when it comes to certain cancers and rheumatic conditions. An FDA decision in November 2017 to approve [...]

Industry experts expect significant changes to shake up the healthcare landscape in the next few years, which will affect both health insurers and providers. Many are the result of a [...]

The year 2020 will see both new opportunities and continued challenges in managed care pharmacy. Technologies will play a major role in enhancing administrative processes while treatments will continue to [...]

As the healthcare industry grapples with tumultuous times, organizations are eager for strategies and solutions that will stabilize their business, reduce administrative costs, and guide their shift toward a new [...]

Clinical researchers are making great strides in cancer treatment. Here's a look at some top treatment developments for cancers that plague men and women specifically, along with a new treatment [...]

UNRESOLVED QUESTIONS regarding the fate of the ACA and other policy issues are hitting managed care organizations (MCOs) hard as they attempt to plan for 2018. In late September, MCOs [...]

REDICTIVE ANALYTICS INVOLVES extracting information from data and using it to forecast the future based on existing patterns and associations. It has been used to optimize existing processes, better understand [...]

As rising pharmaceutical costs continue to challenge healthcare leaders, Managed Healthcare Executive conducted its second annual managed care pharmacy survey during the first quarter of 2017. More than 200 executives [...]

ERIC BECK DO, MPH, EMT-P, FACEP chief executive officer, Evolution Health, Dallas At 36 years old, Beck's career has spanned the care continuum, from moonlighting as a paramedic while putting [...]

NEARLY 86 MILLION AMERICANS have pre-diabetes and another 30 million have diabetes; roughly 1 million individuals are added to these figures each year, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). [...]

COVID-19 will continue to cast its long shadow on U.S. healthcare in 2022. But for population health, there is that silver lining people so often look for: innovations and adoption [...]

An oral health problem is often the body's canary in the coal mine. According to the Academy of General Dentistry, more than 90% of human diseases--everything from cancer to heart [...]

As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, the pharmaceutical industry continues to face uncertainty regarding the stability and quality of the drug supply chain. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) [...]

From home health monitoring devices to fitness tracking wearables, technology use in health care settings has significantly increased since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. (1) Because the pandemic necessitated [...]

When a nonadherent patient was admitted to the emergency department several times a month for several months, Kim Tran, PharmD, a pharmacist at the Community-University Health Care Center at University [...]

U.S. cities are home to 62.7% of the American population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This number is expected to grow to 87.4% by 2050, according to data and [...]

The number of independent pharmacies in the United States continues to slowly decline. In 2011 there were 23,106 independent pharmacies; by 2017 that number dipped to 21,909, according to NCPA [...]

Ten years from now, driverless cars might be the norm. Service hots might perform jobs that humans would prefer not to do. And what about cancer care? If a cure [...]

Ten years from now, driverless cars might be the norm. Service bots might perform jobs that humans would prefer not to do. And what about cancer care? If a cure [...]

The leading causes of death in women are heart disease (22.3%), cancer (21.6%), chronic lower respiratory diseases (6.0%), and stroke (6.0%), according to the latest data, based on the year [...]

WHILE EVERY NEW YEAR BRINGS change, with Donald Trump as the next president and a Republican majority in Congress, managed care will see more changes than usual in 2017--beginning with [...]