Imagine the future when you go to your doctor to be treated for some sort of ailment. After collecting and entering key data into an app, she’s presented with a clinical diagnosis and optimal course of treatment, including the correct medications. While she’s there to talk “human-to-human” to the patient, it’s a predictive model and…
Humans have been interested in artificial intelligence for as long as you or I can remember. If you’re a science fiction fan you’ll have seen it in both good (i.e. Star Trek’s Lt. Commander Data and Star Wars’ C3P0) and bad forms (i.e. The Terminator or Hal 9000 from 2001 – A Space Odyssey) since the 1980s. Suffice to say, we’re still…
One day you wake up with a pain in your side that persists. You want to be seen by a medical professional, but you don’t want to go through the hassle of making an appointment and schlepping to your doctor. Most large healthcare organizations now allow you to make an appointment with a physician and…
Medicare Advantage insurers that miss enrolling dual-eligibles are missing an opportunity, said Change Healthcare, which has introduced a combination of artificial intelligence and behavioral science to identify candidates. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Enrolling individuals dually-eligible for Medicare and Medicaid is good business for insurers who are already in the Medicare Advantage space. While this population…
High quality health plan customer service is critical for payers who want to create meaningful, positive beneficiary interactions. Customer service plays several important roles for health plans. In addition to the stand-alone goal of leaving members with a satisfactory experience, the quality of customer relations is included in NCQA’s HEDIS measures, one of the most…
The state of value-based reimbursement efforts has been uncertain. Many healthcare organizations are indeed pursuing newer strategies to replace traditional fee-for-service care while reducing costs and improving quality, but progress has often been halting. Still, experts from Cedars-Sinai, CVS Health, Blue Cross NC and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care say they’re quite optimistic for the future…