Gerotechnology for Older Adults With Cardiovascular Diseases: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

A Krishnaswami, C Beavers, MP Dorsch… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - jacc.org
The growing population of older adults (age≥ 65 years) is expected to lead to higher rates
of cardiovascular disease. The expansion of digital health (encompassing telehealth …

The impact of Medicare's alternative payment models on the value of care

JM Liao, AS Navathe, RM Werner - Annual review of public …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Over the past decade, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have led the
nationwide shift toward value-based payment. A major strategy for achieving this goal has …

Early performance of accountable care organizations in Medicare

JM McWilliams, LA Hatfield, ME Chernew… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Background In the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), accountable care
organizations (ACOs) have financial incentives to lower spending and improve quality. We …

Changes in health care spending and quality 4 years into global payment

Z Song, S Rose, DG Safran, BE Landon… - … England Journal of …, 2014 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Spending and quality under global budgets remain unknown beyond 2 years.
We evaluated spending and quality measures during the first 4 years of the Blue Cross Blue …

Health-care expenditure and health policy in the USA versus other high-spending OECD countries

L Lorenzoni, A Belloni, F Sassi - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
The USA has exceptional levels of health-care expenditure, but growth has slowed
dramatically in recent years, amidst major efforts to close the coverage gap with other …

Association between Medicare accountable care organization implementation and spending among clinically vulnerable beneficiaries

CH Colla, VA Lewis, LS Kao, AJ O'Malley… - JAMA internal …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Accountable care contracts hold physician groups financially responsible for the
quality and cost of health care delivered to patients. Focusing on clinically vulnerable …

First national survey of ACOs finds that physicians are playing strong leadership and ownership roles

CH Colla, VA Lewis, SM Shortell, ES Fisher - Health Affairs, 2014 - healthaffairs.org
The extent to which physicians lead, own, and govern accountable care organizations
(ACOs) is unknown. However, physicians' involvement in ACOs will influence how clinicians …

Neighborhood socioeconomic status and primary health care: usual points of access and temporal trends in a major US urban area

M Hussein, AV Diez Roux, RI Field - Journal of Urban Health, 2016 - Springer
Neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES), an overall marker of neighborhood conditions,
may determine residents' access to health care, independently of their own individual …

Biases introduced by filtering electronic health records for patients with “complete data”

GM Weber, WG Adams, EV Bernstam… - Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Objective One promise of nationwide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) is the
availability of data for large-scale clinical research studies. However, because the same …

Promoting health equity and eliminating disparities through performance measurement and payment

AC Anderson, E O'Rourke, MH Chin, NA Ponce… - Health …, 2018 - healthaffairs.org
Current approaches to health care quality have failed to reduce health care disparities.
Despite dramatic increases in the use of quality measurement and associated payment …