Bill Weeks

August 24, 2020

Early on a Saturday morning in January, Juan Lavista-Ferres, who leads Microsoft’s AI for Good research lab, penned an urgent email to his team. Although there were fewer than 2,000 cases worldwide of a yet-unnamed disease with little data available,…

October 23, 2015

By 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services wants 85 percent of traditional Medicare reimbursements to be based on quality or value, with 30 percent of payments reimbursed through alternative payment models like Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Toward that…

September 21, 2015

In health care, value accrues to patients, insurers, and society at large. We believe that patients’ perceptions of value are what really matter and that insurers and society derive more value when patients are served well. For example, a patient…