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Hellman & Friedman and Bain Capital Acquires athenahealth for $17B

HIT Consultant

athenahealth partners with more than 140,000 ambulatory care providers, throughout all 50 states and across more than 120 specialties, to accelerate the pace of healthcare innovation and support the delivery of leading clinical and financial outcomes. athenahealth Market Footprint.

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Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care

NASHP

In addition to a range of metrics related to promoting prevention and reducing utilization related to ambulatory care-sensitive conditions, ICSP measures have included advanced care planning, evidence of physician order for life-sustaining treatment (POLST), effective care transitions, and assessment and management of chronic pain.

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Changing Your Healthcare Mindset with Rhone D’Errico | E. 63

Vie Healthcare

So, this was a staffing company that staffed providers, so physicians, NPs and PAs in emergency departments, hospital medicine, ambulatory care across the United States. I was traveling, I was doing a lot of performance improvement work, a lot of what you talk about on your podcast.

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Healthcare Strategy with Cole Lyons | E.109

Vie Healthcare

One thing I had been educated in is process improvement for hospitals, but not for ambulatory care systems. And so when I started seeing a lot of the work being done there and how we could improve things, I got really excited in that. And so I was really thrilled as my first real career in healthcare to get started there.

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

NASHP

In addition, it is important to build in measurement at the start and to think of state efforts as iterative — moving to tackle new priorities as performance improves. Health Care Access in Rural Areas: Evidence that Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions in the United States May Increase with the Level Of Rurality.”