HIT Consultant

APRIL 7, 2022

What You Should Know: – Forge Health , a White Plains, NY-based behavioral healthcare provider with a proven, national-payer-validated ability to drive clinical outcomes that span all areas of health, today announced an $11M growth funding round led by HC9 Ventures. Recent Growth & Milestones.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 31, 2024

Central to this transformation is the acknowledgment and integration of social determinants of health (SDOH). Factors such as living conditions, economic stability, education, and accessibility to healthcare significantly impact health outcomes. Studies suggest that SDOH accounts for 80-90% of these outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2022

No doubt, rural healthcare currently is facing many challenges, such as lack of bed availability – even as COVID-19 decreases. You suggest it's a priority for healthcare provider organization CIOs to get the data required to ensure sustainable quality in medical transports. And how can they do that?

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Stand-alone programs provide the transparency and analytics necessary to hold program vendors accountable and drive genuine results. Conifer VBC is uniquely positioned as a partner to employers and unions, risk-bearing healthcare providers and health plans. About Mary Bacaj, Ph.D.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. Click here to access all the features.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

– Most Common Procedure Codes: In 2023, procedure code H0020, which covers methadone administration and/or services, accounted for 20.6% This code accounted for 11.9% Gender-wise, males accounted for 56.9% Gender-wise, males accounted for 56.9% of total allowed costs for opioid abuse and dependence.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

– This trend underscores the growing need for accessible specialty care, especially in regions facing healthcare provider shortages. Specialty Care Deserts Drive VSO Demand The national shortage of healthcare providers has created “specialty care deserts,” particularly in rural areas.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

1 return on investment The bottom line It is unlikely that healthcare premiums will come down anytime soon. Conifer VBC is uniquely positioned as a partner to employers and unions, risk-bearing healthcare providers and health plans.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 3, 2023

It is no coincidence that the intensifying interest in SDOH over the past five years has paralleled the growing interest among providers and payers in value-based care (VBC) models. The ultimate aim of VBC is to improve patient outcomes while lowering healthcare costs. Understanding and accounting for the impact of SDOH are keys.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 31, 2023

According to the National Library of Medicine, patient engagement involves developing and fostering a collaborative patient-provider relationship to actively engage healthcare consumers in their decisions. the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA) to protect patient privacy and confidentiality.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2023

They work closely with the individual to enhance their health literacy and guide them through the healthcare system and its benefits. This connection fosters accountability and support for the employee’s everyday needs.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Michael Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value-Based Care, Edifecs While the need to address social determinants of health (SDOH) is definitely not new, 2023 marks the first year SDOH is codified into national and statewide value-based payment program mandates.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 15, 2024

These algorithms account for background noise, medical terminology, and speaker variations, ensuring high accuracy. This capability extends to generating comprehensive clinical notes in formats like SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan), which providers can review and edit, to ensure accuracy. .

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Challenges in Medical Data Management The healthcare sector contains an abundance of confidential information related to patients, medical procedures, treatments, and population health. Regularly communicate with healthcare providers even after the completion of the project and product release.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Collaboration aims to drive coordinated care and improve quality while reducing costs NS-EEH will strengthen its clinically integrated network (CIN) by incorporating Lumeris’ population health data platform into its value-based care strategy.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Unlocking data silos using Federated Computing (FC) has the potential to achieve a positive impact across the healthcare industry, ranging from clinical care quality improvement and accreditation to population health management, precision public health and equitable drug development.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Resolving Barriers to Care As healthcare organizations prioritize to deliver equitable, patient-centric care they must consider the full spectrum of a patient’s condition, including non-clinical factors and socioeconomic characteristics that influence their ability to access, receive and adhere to care.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2023

The High Cost of Poor Behavioral Healthcare A recent study indicates 10% of patients account for 70% of the nation’s costs and that more than half of these patients have a diagnosed mental health disorder. It’s a question that has significant implications for quality of care as well as cost.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Since the beginning of healthcare’s digital revolution, organizations have been striving to achieve the Triple Aim of healthcare: better outcomes, lower costs, and improved patient experiences. Meeting heightened expectations in a hybrid health IT landscape. Firstly, patient satisfaction is a hard concept to quantify.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2023

Both providers and health plans can use generative AI to assist customer support agents and enhance patient/member support and self-service. Customer experience is critical Contact centers are key to delivering a superior customer experience (CX) – the kind of experience that influence loyalty to healthcare providers and health plans.

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GoMoHealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Ability to Foster Trust within Community-Based Organizations and Providers. By addressing both social and personal determinates of health, we are not only able to bridge the divide in population health, but we can also go a long way toward advancing health equity in some of our most vulnerable populations.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 16, 2024

There has to be a human element to digital health solutions to build and maintain trust with Medicaid populations. Telehealth services that incorporate personal interactions, such as virtual visits with healthcare providers, can offer the human connection that helps bridge this trust gap.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

The patient journey along the care map is now more important as a business matter to healthcare providers that are involved in value-based payment contracting (bundled payments and otherwise). As a result, healthcare providers are now more interested in workflow optimization, in care journey optimization.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 10, 2024

Published in The American Journal of Accountable Care , the research highlights the importance of patient-provider communication and patient activation in early detection and prevention of CKD, a leading cause of death in the United States.

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Cloud Blogs

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In the ever-evolving healthcare landscape, Microsoft is leading the development of advanced, responsible AI to revolutionize patient and provider experiences, improve population health and reduce healthcare industry costs. The time to lead the charge in revolutionizing healthcare is now.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Specifically, these SDoH stressors include access to healthy foods, living-wage employment, housing instability, crimes/violence and health literacy/access. Such factors account for about 80% of healthcare delivery and cost influences. But this level was up noticeably from nearly 0% before the pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The proposed bill – Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act – seeks to streamline the approval process, reduce administrative burdens for healthcare providers, and ensure patients receive timely access to necessary medical treatments. From a patient perspective, the reforms will reduce delays and improve access to care.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 1, 2025

Lawmakers have taken notice, with two senators filing what they call the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act that would mandate minimum cybersecurity standards for healthcare providers, health plans, clearinghouses, and business associates.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

By working with healthcare providers and payers to integrate NEMT benefits into existing programs and systems, we can provide high-quality transportation services to our most vulnerable populations.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

These expectations are increasingly extending toward healthcare providers. Accordingly, providers should embrace modern payment methods such as digital wallets, cards on file, and peer-to-peer payments to accommodate growing consumer preferences towards these payment approaches.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2023

The quality of these healthcare services is measured by patient outcomes that are based on metrics such as rate of hospital readmission, timeliness of care, and overall patient satisfaction. Population Health Management Tools Another health IT needs includes improvements to current population health management (PHM) tools on the market.

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NASHP

JULY 11, 2022

Although efforts to modernize and strengthen public health systems pre-date COVID-19, the pandemic revealed new urgency and opportunities for states to invest in public health infrastructure and craft new approaches advancing population health goals.

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Twistle

JULY 9, 2021

And, when expanded across service lines, can help build a data-driven strategy for improving overall population health. By leveraging these digital technologies and patients’ growing comfort with telehealth, health systems can achieve a significant competitive advantage. Greater Patient Accountability.

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Health Dialog

MARCH 22, 2016

A simple online search can instantly deliver answers to everyday health and chronic disease questions, and the use of social networking sites (such as Facebook) provide a platform for individuals to share how they cope with chronic conditions. If a provider cannot meet that need, they will find the information elsewhere.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 27, 2021

They are self-sufficient and reliable, keeping doctors and healthcare providers confident that they will listen to their instructions. Out of the four personas, this group is least likely to prioritize their healthcare, taking a more passive role when it comes to exercise or following the doctor’s orders.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The five strategic objectives for advancing this systemwide transformation include (1) Drive Accountable Care, (2) Advance Health Equity, (3) Support Innovation, (4) Address Affordability, and (5) Partner to Achieve System Transformation. Strategic Objective 1: Drive Accountable Care.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The map identifies state approaches for Medicaid reimbursement of CHW services and the chart provides details about other ways that states are supporting a CHW workforce. ACO Accountable Care Organizations. PH-MCO Physical Health Managed Care Organization. PHW Pandemic Health Worker. RAE Regional Accountable Entity.

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