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Rescuing Value-Based Healthcare Through Better Data

(5/28, Charles Hobson, Michael Pine, Christopher Tompkins, Health Affairs Forefront) comments “...A primary challenge in finally achieving high value healthcare in the US is discovering how to harness the comprehensive and nuanced data generated in the provision of care, which is available in each patient’s EHR, to support systemic care redesign to achieve better outcomes at lower cost. Adding that key ingredient could be transformative. The system currently used to extract data from EHRs in the US, ICD-10-CM, does not adequately capture clinical detail and nuance. Gaps, limitations, and errors in describing healthcare today lead directly to our inability to accurately measure both the outcomes resulting from the care provided and the cost of that care.” Full

Trump's 340B Request Could Further Convolute Existing Program Issues

(5/27, Gabrielle Wanneh, Inside Health Policy) reports “...[Richard Frank, director of the Center on Health Policy at the Brookings Institution,] says the president’s executive order does not propose any reform that would fix the 340B program’s core issues. ‘It’s this incredibly messy, complicated program right now and if you think the problem is basically that 340B is being used to buy all sorts of drugs for circumstances where it really isn’t aimed at helping safety net organizations survive, this doesn’t do anything about that,’ Frank told IDP.” Subscription Required

Could EU Collective Procurement Counter US Most Favored Nation Policy?

(5/28, Francesca Bruce, Pink Sheet) reports “...Joint procurement, if used by member states to respond to potential pricing and access challenges caused by a US most favored nations pricing policy, would cause more uncertainty for pharmaceutical companies, warn industry representatives.” Subscription Required