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“Complexity is Profitable” in U.S. Healthcare – How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars

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health care administrative spend that could be freed up to, for example, cover more peoples’ health insurance or extend food benefits to bolster nutrition security and prevent physical wasting during cancer treatment for a person enrolled in Medicaid. It still does. The post “Complexity is Profitable” in U.S.

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Joe Kvedar is new president-elect of American Telemedicine Association

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Kvedar, vice president of connected health at Partners HealthCare and a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, has served as ATA president before – from 2004-2005 – and also served on its board for several years. Kvedar to be its next president. He'll start a year-long term in April 2020.

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Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

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The National Academy of Medicine is publishing nine reports addressing health stakeholder segments impacted and re-shaped by COVID-19 — for public health, quality and safety, health care payers, clinicians, research, patients-families-communities, health product manufacturers, digital health, and care systems.