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Advancing health equity: How Optum Rx is overcoming challenges

Thought leaders discuss the intentional vigilance needed to overcome obstacles impeding better access to healthcare for all.

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Enhance system security with cloud-native imaging solutions

Learn about the in-depth security capabilities of cloud-native imaging.

What’s changing the PBM industry?

Learn from Optum Rx thought leaders how access, affordability and transparency have become imperatives for pharmacy benefit management.

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Empowering clients with choice and transparency

Helping make prescription drugs more affordable for plan sponsors and the members we serve is a universal focus.

 

 

Data and analytics

All data and analytics insights

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Reconcile your RWD expectations to maximize your investment

Understand how routine clinical practice impacts information captured in real-world data (RWD).

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Increasing potential of genomic data

Hear from experts in this Endpoints News webinar on the increasing importance of clinicogenomic data, including diverse phenotypic and genotypic profiles.

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Maximize Your Real-World Data Strategy

Optum Life Sciences leaders break down common missteps when using RWD and how to create practical strategies to overcome them. Watch the video from STAT Summit.

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What if providers’ clinical data were research-ready?

Providers collect data about patients every day. But what should they be considering — and doing — to put their clinical data to good use?

 

 

Finances and payments

All finances and payments insights

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Digital claim payments can save you money

Discover 4 ways health plans can save money today, and in the future, by engaging with a digital claim payment partner.

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Enhancing fraud investigations with AI

Learn how AI is changing the fraud case review process.

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The connection between money and health

The connection between money and health runs deeper than just costs — your employees rely on your benefits strategy for overall wellness.

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Boost efficiency with payment optimization

Learn how payment delivery optimization can improve the healthcare financial cycle and bridge the gap between payers and providers.

 

 

Mental health

All mental health insights

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Support state Medicaid goals members

Find out how a person-centered approach can help.

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Supporting the unique needs of firefighters

When the Minnesota Fire Service needed emotional well-being support for their firefighters, Optum stepped in to help.

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Addressing the Root Causes of Mental Health Disparities

Discover steps and strategies to reduce disparities among vulnerable populations and remove barriers for more equitable mental health care.

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Mental health: Optum addresses the great information divide

Explore the challenges and opportunities in using mental health data to understand prevalence, risk, impact and treatment in patients, members and communities.

 

 

Patient and member engagement

All patient and member engagement insights

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Teaming up with task force movement

Learn how Optum Serve is helping to advance the health and well-being of Veterans and spouses in the trucking and cybersecurity workforce.

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Gratitude for heroism

Optum Serve is proud to recognize female Service Members and Veterans.

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Telephone lifestyle coaching for veterans

Optum Serve can help Veterans achieve health and wellness goals. Promote well-being, prevent illness and reduce the burden of chronic conditions.

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Supporting Veteran truckers

Learn how Optum Serve supports Veterans through a whole-health approach to work and life.

 

 

Pharmacy care and management

All pharmacy care and management insights

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Defining the future of alternate-site infusion pharmacy care

Optum tackles the many issues infusion pharmacy care faces as it serves vulnerable patients with acute needs and complex conditions.

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Delivering a deeper connection to infusion care

Our infusion care ecosystem is based on a commitment to clinical innovation and providing consistent, convenient and compassionate care.

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Specialty Pharmacy 101

Specialty pharmacies deliver high-touch services to help patients stay adherent to treatment plans and live healthier lives.

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New hope for neurological conditions

Learn how a holistic model enhances multiple sclerosis care.

 

 

Technology and automations

All technology and automation insights

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A case study on Excel Medical Center

Using digital integration to ease administrative burdens can help you spend more time with patients and deliver positive patient outcomes.

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Volume 1: Better financial health and improved operations

Read the white paper for strategies on controlling fixed costs, efficiency and organizational flexibility.

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Spend more time with members

See how prospective assessment programs can reduce administrative burden. Physicians spend less time on paperwork, so they can focus on what matters most: member care.

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Adventist West’s success through redesigning and automating UM

Discover how to leverage automation for centralized, exception-based utilization management.

 

 

Value-based care

All value-based care insights

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Slowing specialty pharmacy carve out stampede

Discover specialty medication management strategies to help you slow carve-out and stop member attrition.

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Analytics in payer-oncologist partnerships

See 4 ways that payers can help healthcare providers unlock the power of real-world data to drive quality and innovation in cancer care.

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How to implement patient-centered oncology care

Patient-focused care is becoming the highest aspiration in cancer care. Here’s what payers should know to embrace this beneficial approach.

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Cancer costs are rising — are you ready?

As experts forecast a steep climb in already-expensive oncology costs, payers must prepare for the big changes ahead.

 

 

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    The road to modernization: What’s next for your contact center?

    Today’s constituents and stakeholders expect to interact with state agencies quickly, effortlessly and through their preferred communication channel.

    How to push back on 3 key pharmacy headwinds

    Innovative formulary structures and clinical programs can help plan sponsors meet the challenge of expensive orphan, biologic and GLP-1 drugs.

    SDOH solutions: Improving population health outcomes

    See how to use technology to understand and implement effective health interventions.

    Reduce claim errors with front-end RCM solutions

    Cut down on claim mistakes by collecting accurate data and refining your workflows.

    Debunking revenue cycle myths: The path to financial health

    Discover how partnering with a managed services partner can help improve financial operations.

    Avoid surprises in pharmacy spend

    Old strategies and new challenges don’t mix. Future-proof your plan and get better predictability with new pricing models and risk management tools.

    Top 4 drug spend categories

    Many patients combined with expensive drugs leads to top spending classes.

    Get immediate savings on specialty drugs

    Specialty drug spend is a “top threat” to employer-provided benefits. Discover sustainable savings with your existing Optum Rx plan.

    Preparing your plan for the GLP-1 era

    After revolutionizing care for diabetes and weight loss, GLP-1 drugs are being eyed for more. Can we afford it?

    Building the PBM of the future

    The solutions plan sponsors need today to tackle the pharmacy challenges of tomorrow.

    Fighting breast cancer with early detection

    Early detection is critical to fighting breast cancer; advances in technology are helping.

    Help members access behavioral health care

    Guide members to quality, affordable behavioral health care.

    Healthier outcomes for moms and babies

    By using enterprise data to reach out to women earlier in pregnancy, one state is supporting moms and babies and creating healthier outcomes for both with help from Optum.

    Trends and perspectives for health plans

    Together, we are driving toward the same things for our healthcare system — better quality, lower cost and higher consumer and provider satisfaction.

    The heart behind the business

    People are at the heart of all we do at Optum. Meet the people behind the business at Optum and learn why they put you at the center of everything we do.

    What if pragmatic clinical trials were more practical

    Pragmatic trials look increasingly attractive to researchers, but they’re tough to execute. Learn how to simplify the process.

    Unlock clinical insights with NLP technology

    Learn about natural language processing (NLP) challenges and opportunities in the real-world data (RWD) space from Optum® NLP experts.

    Automation and workforce strategies in healthcare

    Get 6 key takeaways from a C-suite panel discussion.

    Preserving talent and enabling career growth insights

    The Optum Market Performance Partnership is designed to help health systems achieve strategic, operational outcomes while preserving talent.

    Innovation help healthcare workforce crisis

    Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and Optum leaders examine human-focused innovations for the health care workforce.

    Enterprise imaging cloud strategy webinar

    Learn about the differences between “cloud-based” and “cloud-native” image hosting.

    Path to techquity

    New research explores how to use technology to advance health equity.

    Supporting care for at-risk minors

    Learn about a lightweight, scalable foster-family placement system developed for one Northeastern state.

    Can automation cure workforce challenges

    Rethink how to support workers, while simplifying and improving care.