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Mike Serbinis, CEO of League; Pete Anevski, CEO of Progyny; John Erwin, CEO of Carenet Health; Mick Mazour, president of Carenet Health; BJ Schaknowski, CEO of symplr; Tanja Dowe, CEO of the Debiopharm Innovation Fund; Derek Streat, Co-founder and CEO of DexCare; and Kimberly O’Loughlin, CEO of Health Recovery Solutions, provide their thoughts on this year’s meeting, with value-based care, healthcare technology, hospital medicine, and the overall economy being the familiar strings.

The merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS), which adjusts clinician Medicare Part B payments for performance on quality, cost, improvement activities, and use of certified EHR technology for interoperability, along with EOM quality measurement systems for Medicare, should ideally be meaningful to physicians and patients and coordinated to magnify the quality signal. How do these novel methods compare, then, in terms of genuinely comprehending the standard of cancer care provided to Medicare beneficiaries?

Reducing unneeded lab work in the hospital setting is a monumental task. It is a kind of security blanket, and it is automated in many EMRs. For clinicians, seeing that lab values are stable can be a reassurance while waiting for treatment to take effect. And everyone has their story of the one patient for whom a change in routine daily labs prompted urgent intervention.

OBR covers this New York Times opinion piece; many doctors are jumping on the bandwagon to point out where the cause of burnout truly lies.

The Cancer Moonshot aims to enhance the lives of individuals and families dealing with and surviving cancer, lower the death rate from cancer by at least 50% over the following 25 years, and ultimately put an end to cancer as we currently know it. In order to mobilize the federal government, the President established the first-ever Cancer Cabinet last year. He urged people, healthcare professionals, and leaders from various sectors to step up and take action in five key priority areas: (1) close the screening gap; (2) comprehend and address environmental exposure; (3) lessen the impact of preventable cancers; (4) bring cutting-edge research through the pipeline to patients and communities; and (5) support patients and their care. Here is the list of 13 more initiatives to go along with the already-introduced 25 programs, policies, and resources to address these five priority areas.

Hospitals are seeing trends with which no one in hospital management has experience: inflation rates above 5%, higher staff shortages, increased staffing costs, supply chain challenges, and more. Hospitalists have a proven benefit in reducing length of stay, improving with nursing and allied health staff, and finding other ways to reduce cost and utilization.