Value-Based Medicine

DENVER — Self-discovery is the first step in tackling risk factors that lead to burnout, according to a speaker at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.

For the nation’s struggling primary care system, help is on the way. This may sound too good to be true, but it’s for real.

The delivery of health care today is inundated with buzzwords. Terms, such as value-based care, precision medicine, population health management and risk-based contracting, now reflect something more than their original meanings.

The U.S. health care system is in turmoil. Increasing costs, loss of margins, inflation, supply and staff shortages and burnout are among the challenges.

According to interview responses published in Kidney Medicine, patients with kidney failure who have experienced several forms of treatment shared three common themes when defining health.

The delivery of health care is in turmoil. Uncertainty about how to provide the health care patients desire at an affordable price has led to efforts to disrupt the status quo.

A new voluntary oncology payment model the Biden administration announced earlier this summer has been met with support, as well as concerns, from several cancer organizations.

Value-based care offers a pathway to solutions when treatments do not always work, according to a presenter at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

U.S. health care spending exceeds $4 trillion. Operating within the complex health care system are models tasked with reducing cost and maintaining or improving quality and outcomes.

FORT WORTH, Texas— In this video from the American Nephrology Nurses Association Annual Symposium, incoming president Angela Kurosaka, DNP, RN, CNN, CCM, NEA-BC, talks about important goals for the organization.