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NCCN Guideline Adherence Lowers Total Cost of Care for Cancer Patients

June 7, 2022 - Adherence to National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines during treatment correlates to lower total costs of care (TCOC) for breast and colon cancer patients, according to findings presented at ASCO 2022 by CVS Health. The NCCN’s clinical guidelines aim to enhance the safety of cancer treatments by incorporating the latest...

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Machine Learning May Help Predict Opioid Overdoses in Medicaid Patients

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have developed and validated a machine-learning (ML) model that can accurately predict opioid overdose risk in Medicaid beneficiaries in Pennsylvania and Arizona, indicating that the model...

CMS Announces Winner of Artificial Intelligence Challenge

by Jessica Kent

CMS has announced ClosedLoop.ai as the winner and Geisinger as the runner-up in its Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge, a multi-stage competition that began in 2019. The AI Health...

How an ACO, FQHC Model Leveraged Social Determinants of Health

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Community Care Cooperative’s (C3’s) unique accountable care organization (ACO) model enables population health management to overcome the social determinants of health needs of their...

Artificial Intelligence Identifies High-Risk COVID-19 Patients

by Jessica Kent

Medical Home Network, an organization serving patients in the Chicago area, is using artificial intelligence to identify individuals who have a heightened vulnerability to severe complications from...

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