Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Progress toward accountable care is halting. Jerry Shultz, president of Lightbeam Health, whose population health management platform helps risk-bearing organizations manage the cost and quality demands of value-based reimbursement, would like to see a wholesale effort to improve the care delivery system writ large.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

"The level of complexity in virtual health was high and prevented a consistent approach and consistent support; it has been a complex experience for patients. Click here to read the first feature, on AI and machine learning, and click here to read the second feature, on interoperability.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Importantly, these findings indicate that suicidality can occur independently of other mental health conditions, underscoring the need to approach suicidality as a condition, with a distinct program of care. Many primary care providers miss critical warning signs, particularly in patients who do not exhibit mental health symptoms.

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Geek Doctor

OCTOBER 6, 2021

trillion each year on health but less than 3% of that amount on public health and prevention. A 2020 Forbes report likewise pointed out that “From the late 1960s to the 2010s, the federal share of total health expenditure for public health dropped from 45 percent to 15 percent.” Consider the statistics: The U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 16, 2024

What You Should Know: – inVio Health Network and CVS Accountable Care Organization, a division of CVS Health , have announced a collaboration to participate in the new Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) REACH program. CVS Accountable Care contributes its extensive experience and resources.

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p3care

OCTOBER 30, 2020

It contains six measures that focus on population health. Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Depression and Follow-up Plan. ACO (Accountable Care Organization) Reporting. The performance category for the APP will be scored as follows upon the fixed set of quality measures. Quality Category: Weighs 50%.

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Health Dialog

JANUARY 10, 2017

Consider these facts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) regarding chronic disease: 7 out of 10 deaths among Americans each year are from chronic diseases. Treatment of chronic disease accounts for 86% of our nation’s healthcare costs. Heart disease and cancer account for more than 48% of all deaths each year.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

By one estimate, healthcare improvements accounted for one-third of the economic growth of developed nations over the last century. Achieving health equity presents an urgent challenge that demands attention from all stakeholders. However, actual medical care accounts for 20% or less of what affects population health.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2023

What Should Know: – UnitedHealthcare has announced the Surest™ health plan leads to more preventive care, improves satisfaction and lowers costs for members and employers. – Hundreds of employers with a combined workforce of more than 4.4 – Hundreds of employers with a combined workforce of more than 4.4

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Healthcare Success

JULY 31, 2023

It has application in value-based care, patient population health, accountable care organizations (ACOs), and health management organizations (HMOs). to prevent or improve chronic health conditions. Make healthcare accessible Access to care is a barrier for many rural and underserved populations.

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This is the final post in my three-part series on the successful implementation of Population Care Managers (PCMs) within Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and Patient Centered Medical Home settings. Please join the discussion and let us know how your health system has integrated population health management initiatives.

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Health Dialog

APRIL 1, 2020

Health Dialog is full of devoted employees committed to our mission of helping clients improve population health, reduce costs, and engage patients to make the best decisions about their health. What do you do at Health Dialog? What work did you do before joining Health Dialog?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Substance use/abuse, language barriers, and health literacy rank at the top of the list of SDoH factors that would be captured by one-half or more health systems this year — specifically, alcohol usage, tobacco usage, other controlled substance usage, English as a second language, and health literacy.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

As President of Value-Based Care (VBC) for Conifer Health Solutions, Mary Bacaj is responsible for leading the company’s business unit that delivers population health management and financial risk management services to more than 250 organizations. About Mary Bacaj, Ph.D.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The analysis underscores the urgent need for employers, payers, and providers to prioritize cardiovascular health in the workplace. The Impact of Cardiovascular Disease Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for nearly 20% of annual deaths.

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NCQA

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

NCQA seeks candidates who embody Phyllis’ passion for health care quality research and policy. Preventive care. Maternal health. Behavioral health. Health care disparities. Telehealth and health information technology. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Primary care. Patient-reported outcomes.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

billion active monthly accounts. Here’s what we-know-we know about health care, privacy, and security: briefly, • HIPAA covers patients’ PHI that is held by covered entities and shared with contracted business associates. Cyber-breaches are a new-normal in health care. . Cyber-breaches are a new-normal in health care.

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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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Health Dialog

JUNE 16, 2016

Food and Drug Administration aims to reduce the use of tobacco, which remains the leading cause of preventable chronic conditions and death in the United States. However, some argue this may be an opportunity for e-cigarette manufactures to invest in research about the potential benefits, such as chronic condition prevention.

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NASHP

APRIL 29, 2024

Hospital Global Budget Key Considerations The overall goal of hospital global budgets in the AHEAD Model is to incentivize hospitals to focus on population health and health equity, limit avoidable utilization, and control total cost of care by removing FFS incentives and providing financial stability.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Schedule appointments, screenings, preventive care and annual wellness visits. Sub-standard conditions among these domains are shown to perpetuate patient health disparities , contribute to their unmet resources, services and transportation needs and widen health inequities, especially affecting those with chronic health conditions.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

ACO Accountable Care Organizations. CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CHW Community Health Worker. CHA/P Community Health Aid/ Practitioner. PH-MCO Physical Health Managed Care Organization. PHW Pandemic Health Worker. RAE Regional Accountable Entity. Acronym Guide.

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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. In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

health care: “Wake up, public health!” ” I’ve pulled out a few of the data points that speak to me about population health, prevention and early diagnosis (or lack thereof), and alarm bells on women’s health — notably, young women and girls.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

What You Should Know: – Color , a San Francisco, CA-based health technology company committed to advancing public health, announced a $100 million Series E financing round at a valuation of $4.6 billion led by Kindred Ventures and by certain funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

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GoMoHealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

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. 3,000 noncompliant for variety of preventive care screenings or follow-up.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Research in recent years supports the assertion that good health is degraded through social inequities, such as economic stability, access to education and health care, and neighborhood. Such factors account for about 80% of healthcare delivery and cost influences.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

healthcare system has been moving towards value-based care (VBC) which encourages health providers to improve care quality by reimbursing them based on successful outcomes rather than individual medical services. The overarching goal of VBC is to improve the patient experience, improve population health, and reduce per capita health costs.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 16, 2024

The issue of health literacy Medicaid beneficiaries are more likely to be at the below basic or basic level of health literacy than those who receive insurance from an employer (60% vs. 37%). A good example is the difference between SMS and email for communicating and driving engagement.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

This creates a tremendous opportunity to apply the lens of health equity to the numerous strategic imperatives a healthcare delivery organization is already prioritizing.

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NASHP

JULY 11, 2022

The demands of the pandemic have made it clear that the public health system cannot work in a silo to do the foundational public health work of communicable disease prevention; maternal, child, and family health services; access to and linkage with clinical care; and preventing chronic disease and injury.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

The answer is, “not well across most population health, access, and mortality measures.” In the Weighing Down America study, the Milken Institute gauged that health conditions related to obesity and overweight totaled $428 billion. The report includes U.S. ” with its sister OECD countries.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Real-time ride monitoring helps reduce stress and anxiety for patients, prevents FWA, and ensures every ride has a digital record complete with geolocation at every step of the journey.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

This has prevented them from being embraced and adopted for patients’ use by the medical profession, which has seen a plethora of patients wear activity trackers generating data that has been questioned in peer-reviewed studies. Stroke accounts for 1 in 20 deaths in the U.S., according to the CDC.

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

Figure 1 displays a consolidated overview of the “Framework for Public Health-Health Care System Collaboration.” A precondition of sustaining these partnerships is sustained investment in state and local public health capacity.

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