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Roxanna Guilford-Blake

Roxanna Guilford-Blake, award-winning writer with expertise in health, healthcare and the business of healthcare, makes complex concepts clear. Recent topics include healthcare law, HIPAA, Stark, cardiovascular health, value-based care, clinical trials, Alzheimer's disease, precision medicine and behavioral health. Guilford-Blake has been a full-time professional writer for more than 20 years. As a journalist, she learned to write a good, tight story; she's been published in Cardiovascular Business News, the Christian Science Monitor, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, BioWorld and several HealthLeaders Media and CCH publications. As a director of strategic communications, she used that expertise to help clients tell compelling stories and engage their audiences, crafting blog posts, white papers, articles, webcopy and other materials for clients. Commercial clients include McKinsey & Co., WCG and Health2 Resources.

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Mitigating the Coming Provider Shortage

Health care isn't immune to the laws of supply and demand, and that could pose a problem for patients, provider…

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Value vs. Volume: Where Does Your Emergency Department Fall?

Pay-for-performance in health care and other value-based approaches can solve many of the challenges facing emergency…

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How Diversity in Health Care Can Improve Care and Control Costs

When your employees visit the doctor, chances are they encounter an array of skilled care team members representing…

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Can Value-Based Pharmacy Services Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes?

As an employer, you're facing unsustainable increases in the costs of prescription drugs. It's a problem that needs solving.…

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Streamlining Health Care: Losing Waste, Gaining Value

Streamlining health care cannot come soon enough. Too much money is spent or wasted on unnecessary tests and treatments for…

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The Benefits of Value-Based Care — and How It Changes the Game

Do you ever wonder why you've been hearing so much about the benefits of value-based care lately? It's not really new; it…

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How Wearables in Health Care Support Value-Based Care Adoption

The conversation about wearables in health care is no longer limited to activity trackers. Consumers and health care…

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Upskilling Heath Care Workers in a Value-Based Care Model

As value-based approaches to care have gained traction, health care staffing has become more efficient. In the last few…

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Breaking Down 3 Myths About Value-Based Care

How much do you know about value-based care? Even informed people sometimes carry health care misconceptions about…

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Value-Based Care Tech, Part 2: Patient Interfaces

Without patient engagement and the right technology, value-based care will stall. With engagement and the right technology,…

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How Value-Based Care Promotes Preventive Care

As an employer, you have a choice: You can focus on sickness management, or you can focus on prevention. The…

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3 Metrics Your Value-Based Care Provider Is Striving to Improve

Do. Or do not. There is no try. Yoda's advice may be a little black and white, but it gets to the heart of why value-based…

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