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Duke-Margolis Framework Outlines Policy Solutions for Improving Real-World Data Infrastructure in US Healthcare

(7/29, Katie McCool, The Evidence Base) reports “...To build a more responsive, patient-centered system, policies must facilitate real-time evidence generation, align payment models, and support scalable infrastructure. The report calls for sustained investment and agency guidance to harmonize regulatory expectations and enable broader participation, including from smaller health technology companies.” Full

Arbital Health Lands $31M to Build out Infrastructure Layer for Value-Based Risk Contracting

(7/29, Heather Landi, Fierce Healthcare) reports “...‘We have a two-pronged solution. The first is the data analytics part. How do we level the playing field of that data asymmetry that exists between payers and providers? It's a relatively complex process of being able to ingest the data, clean the data, track and measure how those data match up to the right contract terms within these value-based care contracts, which themselves are pretty complex,’ [Arbital Heatlh’s Brian Overstreet] said. ‘The second part is having the right analytics component to it, which is all driven by actuaries. You need to have the actuarial lens to understand: How is a contract supposed to be performing? How is it doing relative to benchmark? How is it doing relative to expectation?’” Full