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Millennials Speak Up About Their Health Care Expectations

Hospital and health system leaders and their boards continue to wrestle with how to engage millennials (generally regarded as those born between 1981 and 1996) in managing their health. They’re not alone. Many payers, tech companies and others allied to the field also are trying to figure out what this generation wants from health care and how to retain millennials as customers. Two new surveys offer some interesting perspectives.

Fitbit Forms Its First Partnership with Medicaid Plan

In its first partnership with a Medicaid plan, Fitbit and WellCare of Georgia recently teamed up to provide Medicaid enrollees who have type 2 diabetes with a Fitbit device if they complete an annual diabetic retinal exam.

Strength of Partnerships to Determine Walgreens’ Future

Even as its chief rivals, CVS Health and Walmart, continue to grow through acquisitions and by increasingly adding in-store health services, Walgreens Boots Alliance’s future will be determined by the strength of its partnerships inside and outside health care.
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Congressional Leaders Unveil $1.4 Trillion Spending Bill for Fiscal Year 2020 with Key Health Care Priorities

Congressional leaders Dec. 16 unveiled a $1.4 trillion spending package for fiscal year (FY) 2020.
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The Value Initiative Members in Action: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center – Lebanon, N.H.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center partners with rural and community hospitals throughout New England to provide telehealth specialty care so patients can stay closer to home. D-H’s telehealth approach improves outcome, lowers costs and supplements clinical staffing in rural areas.

How equity impacts the patient experience

Hospitals and health systems are improving the patient experience by understanding implicit bias, preparing for sensitive conversations and addressing other factors that impact this part of the value equation.

Top takeaways from AHA Physician Leadership Circle in 2019

The AHA Physician Alliance regularly convenes senior physician executives for high-level conversations on the issues keeping them up at night. AHA Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., and AHA Physician Alliance Vice President Elisa Arespacochaga share highlights from 2019. Read more

Seven attributes of a successful facility manager

Experienced leaders offer advice on how to develop a successful career in health facilities management

AHA to CMS: Extend Comment Deadline for Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Rule

The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to extend for 60 days – until March 17 – the comment period for its Medicaid fiscal accountability proposed rule.