Healthcare DIVE June 12, 2017
Ana Mulero

Sectors across the U.S. healthcare industry as well as the presidential administration have been “reinventing healthcare,” Anthem President and CEO Joseph Swedish said last week at the America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Institute & Expo 2017. There is consensus that three main issues should be tackled with healthcare’s transformation — affordability, access and care quality.

Research has shown that providing better care at a lower cost is “truly an achievable goal,” Swedish said. Exactly how that goal can be achieved through transforming the several areas within healthcare that are currently undergoing major changes remains unclear.

Swedish outlined the strategy his company, the second largest payer in the country, is using to make its vision of a transformed health...

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