Navigating the regulatory and ethical requirements of different medical data providers across many different countries, as well as safeguarding patient privacy, is a mammoth task that requires extra resources and expertise.
Despite the evidence of their positive impact, pharmacists today lack the ability to reliably bill for clinical services as healthcare providers. It is important that payers provision pharmacists, include them in networks, and enable reimbursement through traditional billing models.
Employees who enjoy their benefits are more inclined to stay with their company. A 2025 Marsh McLennan Agency report said 73% of employees would remain if plan options were better.
Uncertainty, benefits navigation, cost and innovation are some of the key challenges ahead for those in the employee health benefits space. Executives made these comments last week during the HLTH conference in Las Vegas.
Chief medical information officers are in a unique position to help their organizations fight the Covid-19 pandemic — from setting up IT systems to support Covid testing, care and vaccination to helping fight fast-spreading misinformation.
For providers and payers, a limited budget is the biggest hurdle to executing their data strategy, followed by disparate data sources and the quality of data available, according to a new survey that includes responses from 200 healthcare leaders.