Promising Interventions to Prevent Liver Cancer in Idaho.

Introduction: The Idaho Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (ICCCP) collaborated with the Idaho Immunization Program (IIP) to plan and implement activities to increase knowledge and awareness of liver cancer prevention through tailored hepatitis B immunization messaging to the Idaho community and health care providers.

Purpose And Objectives: In this article, we report findings from an evaluation of these activities.

Interventions Approach: The two programs implemented liver cancer prevention activities between May 2017 and December 2017; strategies included a social media vaccination awareness campaign and health care provider education.

Assessing the value in transactions involving multi-provider networks.

When seeking to determine the financial value of a multi-provider network, hospital finance executives should address the following considerations: Revenue projections. Shared savings revenue risk. Distribution of profits.

Measuring the Effects of Screening Programs in Asymptomatic Employees: Detection of Hypertension Through Worksite Screenings.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of workplace screenings on identification, subsequent follow-up, and treatment of patients with undiagnosed hypertension.

Methods: Claims data and screening values for 31,281 individuals from 21 self-insured employer groups were combined with zip code-level information and analyzed using multilevel logit models.

Results: Up to 17.

Value-based physician compensation tackling the complexities.

Hospital and health system leaders should address six important questions before shifting to a quality-focused physician compensation plan: Does the shift to a value-based compensation model present opportunities beyond the addition of quality incentives? Should measures be universal or aligned with specific payer initiatives? How much of an incentive is enough? How should quality and cost-effectiveness be measured? How should performance on the measures be assessed? How will total and individual compensation be affected?

Distribution of chelonid fibropapillomatosis-associated herpesvirus variants in Florida: molecular genetic evidence for infection of turtles following recruitment to neritic developmental habitats.

Marine turtle fibropapillomatosis is associated with chelonid fibropapilloma-associated herpesvirus (C-FP-HV) and commonly affects juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in neritic (nearshore) habitats. Green turtles have a complex life history, characterized by shifts in trophic level as well as habitat during ontogeny. Thus, several hypotheses can be proposed for when turtles become infected with C-FP-HV.