At the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Total Store Expo (TSE) in Boston, Massachusetts, Anita Patel, PharmD, MS, vice president of Pharmacy Services Development at Walgreen Co., and Adam Chesler, PharmD, MBA, senior vice president of strategic initiatives at VillageMD, discussed the necessity of developing coordinated value-based care, as major issues that require…

While value-based payment models seem great in theory, research shows that many primary care providers aren’t partaking in these models. Over the last 14 years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as well as several states, have introduced value-based care models directed at primary care. The goal is to move away from the…

Value-Based Care payment models are based on a clear CMS goal: lower Total Cost of Care and its counterpart, Total Per Capita Cost. But neither TCoC nor TPCC gives you the information you need to target your cost efforts. How to start? Begin by evaluating what initiatives you need to do in the five key…

Gartner estimates “over 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms” by 2025. This shift from on-premise solutions to a cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, where software is accessed via a web browser, may seem concerning to healthcare organizations for several reasons, with the primary reason being a perceived loss of control. Organizations…