HIT Consultant

MAY 15, 2024

What You Should Know: – WakeMed Health & Hospitals and Regard today announced a 3-year enterprise agreement to deploy Regard’s AI clinical automation tool to the system’s 3 acute care hospitals by the end of 2024. ”

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Despite this, there are a number of methods skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and other health organizations can adopt to improve the transition from inpatient care to home for patients and their caregivers. That’s according to a report released Monday by United Hospital Fund (UHF), a New York-based health equity nonprofit.

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Sequence Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Hospital readmissions can be costly and challenging for both healthcare providers and patients. By providing timely follow-ups, addressing patient concerns, and offering support post-discharge, medical call centers play a vital role in bridging the gap between hospital care and recovery.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2024

– The lab is integral to GE HealthCare’s broader strategy to integrate AI across the care continuum, enhancing clinical decision-making, streamlining operations, and improving patient outcomes. This project seeks to improve maternal outcomes by enabling care teams to focus more on clinical decisions.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2022

What You Should Know: – Bamboo Health™ recently announced that HealthTeam Advantage (HTA), the business name of Care N’ Care Insurance Company of North Carolina, Inc., has integrated Bamboo Health’s Pings™ solution. For example, Pings will be integrated into HTA’s UM tool to automatically enable prior authorizations.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2024

As technology continues to advance and transform healthcare, the role of nurses is also evolving to include new responsibilities beyond patient care. With the increasing reliance on EHRs, telemedicine, and digital technology, hospitals face a growing risk of cyber threats.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Seven out of 10 seniors who reach the age of 65 are projected to need long-term care before the end of their lives—meaning approximately 24 million Americans will require long-term care by 2030. WellSky’s deep experience in post-acute care is a natural fit with Experience Care’s clinical and financial management capabilities.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 29, 2024

. – Together, the organizations are working towards a goal of improving health outcomes for patients across the state of Texas and ensuring a more connected care experience at every stage of the patient healthcare journey.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2021

For all of the advanced clinical technology hospitals across the country leverage to stay on the bleeding edge of innovative patient care, healthcare, as an industry, has been extremely slow to adapt when it comes to implementing modern technology to improve everyday processes—both inside and outside clinical settings.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Since its inception, digital health services began the transformation from traditional healthcare — a reactive, disease-focused model — to a proactive, holistic system that is now recognized as virtual care. This remarkable approach to care is digitally integrated, patient-centric and focused on personalized health and wellness.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2022

States face the processing of an unprecedented volume of Medicaid redeterminations and will have only 60 days’ advance notice to prepare for potentially the biggest health care transition since the Affordable Care Act. With the pandemic still having a significant impact, this could become a catastrophic situation.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 26, 2024

What You Should Know: – Prisma Health , South Carolina’s leading healthcare organization, has announced an expanded collaboration with Bamboo Health , the leader in Real-Time Care Intelligence™. By doing so, they can truly become an integrated extension of our care team, enabling us to deliver better outcomes and lower costs.”

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

What You Should Know: – Trualta , a family caregiver education and support platform, and PointClickCare , a cloud-based healthcare platform for long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers, have announced a new partnership to provide crucial support to families caring for loved ones after discharge. ” .

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As states navigate current fiscal constraints, state policymakers are focusing on helping older adults remain in home-and community-based settings for as long as possible while also potentially reducing costly hospital and nursing home services. Michigan created a health equity project to increase the use of HCBS.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

Illinois described using two dashboards to monitor performance: a population-specific dashboard that includes data on metrics such as care plan completion and care transitions and an internal-performance dashboard to examine differences in care and utilization by race, ethnicity, and region.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

That gives us a unique set of data and insights that is potentially ahead of what others in the industry can see about the transition of care, the move from facility- to home-based care, and the challenges that hospitals are running into working with home health providers. days in 2019 to over 7 days in 2022.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A proliferation of point solutions add value in terms of data collection, but many are tacked onto IT architectures and siloed, resulting in data gaps or cumbersome manual data processing and integration, preventing timely and nuanced data analysis. Tight and immediate data integration has become table stakes.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The adoption of electronic prior authorization transactions could take years, so let’s look for ways to foster better communications and transparency between providers and health plans to minimize care delays. Improve visibility : The patient hand-off from a hospital to a skilled nursing facility is complicated. About Russell Graney.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

People with serious and life-threatening health conditions experience care needs that drive costs, including hospital admissions , emergency department utilization , and nursing home care. Rhode Island is another state that has invested in coordinated care for complex populations enrolled in Medicaid. The state and U.S.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Successfully navigating this junction of mandated interoperability and alternative payment arrangements will influence the future use and outcomes of value-based care models. The important question remains: how should we best approach the pivotal task of integrating two critical healthcare transformations?

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CMS recognized that data sharing would increase access to high-quality, accountable specialty care and integration with primary care. Further, CMS will test a new mandatory acute episode payment model that improves acute care and care transitions while supporting the goals of longitudinal, accountable care.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

integrating?CHWs CHWs into evolving health care systems in key areas such as financing, education and training, certification , and state definitions, roles and scope of practice. The state has used Medicaid waivers, and state plan amendments to pay for these services, as well as other mechanisms like hospital budgets and grants.

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NASHP

MAY 17, 2022

In response to the growing recognition of the value of investing in strategies that better serve children in or at-risk of out-of-home placement, a number of federal initiatives have emerged, resulting in significant changes to child welfare and spurring renewed efforts to better integrate care across child-serving systems. [5]

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

All new models must also include patients from historically underserved populations and safety net providers, such as community health centers and disproportionate share hospitals. Strategic Objective 3: Support Care Innovations.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This map highlights state activity to integrate CHWs into evolving health care systems in key areas such as financing, education and training, certification, and state definitions, roles and scope of practice. Community health centers, nonprofits and hospitals serve as the major CHW employers in the state.

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NASHP

AUGUST 9, 2021

5] These suggested changes often target individuals, hospitals, providers, and the broader health care system. In Illinois , the MMRC notes that health care providers must, by state law, use the Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program to review patients’ past prescriptions and identify potential dependence and drug-seeking behavior.

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NASHP

JUNE 22, 2022

Shared Plan of Care. Care Coordination Workforce. Care Transitions. health plans, providers, families of CYSHCN) in using, adapting, and implementing the National Care Coordination Standards for CYSHCN to develop or improve care coordination systems. Engagement in new services or care transitions.

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Readiness Rounds

JULY 31, 2023

Patient communication boards play a pivotal role in enhancing both patient satisfaction and a hospital's HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) score and star rating. Do you ever question the effectiveness of your hospital's communication boards?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2024

From streamlining documentation processes to facilitating care coordination between SNFs and hospitals, AI holds promise in alleviating the burdens faced by healthcare professionals. Moreover, it fosters connections and interoperability, paving the way for smoother care transitions and reduced readmission rates.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

What You Should Know: – Interwell Health, a value-based kidney care management company, has unveiled Acumen Rounder, a nephrology rounding application that seamlessly integrates with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system. Modern Interface: Offers a user-friendly and intuitive design for an enhanced user experience.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Integrating diverse systems through standardized protocols, such as FHIR APIs mandated by the Cures Act Final Rule, is essential for ensuring that data is accessible and actionable for all. Miscommunication during care transitions is a leading cause of medical errors, with 80% of serious medical errors attributable to such breakdowns.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The Role of Care Navigation Programs Care navigation programs have demonstrated their ability to do this over the years, showing substantial reductions in costs like hospitalizations. This application of AI enables a scalable approach to proactive care at the population level, a cornerstone of VBC.

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