Lalan Wilfong, MD, senior vice president at Thyme Care, highlights the substantial advantages of patient navigation in enhancing patient outcomes and the need for balancing cost and performance when ...

Lower Patient Ratings of Physician Communication Are Associated With Unmet Need for Symptom Management in Patients With Lung and Colorectal Cancer Less than 10% of patients enrolled in clinical trials ...

Emergency departments (EDs) in the US treat large numbers of people with opioid use disorder (OUD), but most health systems do not equip EDs to provide OUD care. CA Bridge has supported the ...

Patient navigation programs are designed to promote access to timely cancer diagnosis and care by addressing barriers to cancer care, such as challenges with health literacy, language barriers ...

Mike Fazio, director of value-based care at Navista, Cardinal Health, discusses a trending topic at the 2025 Community Oncology Conference: optimizing oncology care with technology. In today’s ...

Three models that received Health Care Innovation Awards from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) aimed to reduce the cost and use of health care services and improve the quality of ...

Patient navigation in cancer care is a patient-centred strategy designed to guide individuals through the complex landscape of screening, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship and palliative services.

Ford co-leads the Southeastern Consortium for Lung Cancer Screening (SC3) – a multi-state study that uses a patient navigation model to help people in underserved communities overcome barriers to lung ...

Clinician-led engagement outperforms non-clinical call-center models, with “nurse ambassador” programs enabling escalation, ...

Less than 10% of patients enrolled in clinical trials are minorities. The patient navigation model has been used to improve access to medical care but has not been evaluated as a tool to increase the ...