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Cultivating an Early Warning System in Healthcare Quality Through Bi-Directional Patient-Physician Engagement 

HIT Consultant

From a big-picture perspective, bi-directional data exchange allows providers to aggregate patient data for short-term learning while still accounting for long-term longitudinal studies.

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Fixing The Hospital-To-Home Health Care Transition

Home Health Care

A study of SOAR’s results within a pilot program in Pennsylvania was recently published in the Journal for Healthcare Quality. “On It also takes into account patient preferences and patient needs before care is transitioned. As the U.S. population begins to skew older, care coordination woes will exacerbate.

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The Common Denominators of Sustainability in Healthcare: Measurement and Transparency

HIT Consultant

Michael Byczkowski, Global VP, Head of Healthcare Industry at SAP. The global healthcare industry accounts for roughly 5% of greenhouse gas emissions. carbon emissions emerge from healthcare. In the United States, the number is even higher : roughly 8.5% Do no harm. There are reasons for this.

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Professional Development: The Overlooked Solution to Nurse Burnout & Turnover

HIT Consultant

Despite having relatively good health overall, American seniors account for one in four doctors’ visits , and many are currently living with chronic health conditions (31% with at least one; 18% with six or more).

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Value-Based Care Needs to Measure What Matters to Patients         

NCQA

By Brett Kay, Director, Healthcare Quality Strategy, Strategic Customer Group, J&J Innovative Medicine Although there are many ways to measure the quality of care patients receive, not many focus on what patients want and need from the healthcare system, beyond a clinical outcome.

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The Imperative to Stay the Course on Value-Based Transformation

HIT Consultant

Rationing or pricing people out of the market in ways that degrade employee health and productivity only shifts costs to other economic and social accounts. The alternative is to rethink how we organize and operate to make better use of our limited healthcare resources. These are the underpinnings of value-based care.

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Quantifying the Medicare Advantage advantage

Healthcare Leadership Council

Former Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz, president and CEO of the Better Medicare Alliance (of which the Healthcare Leadership Council is a member) said “this study adds to the growing body of evidence showing the ability of Medicare Advantage to align incentives to better manage the care for a high-need population with multiple chronic conditions.”