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

MAY 15, 2024

This not only streamlines workflows but also enhances patient care, all without adding extra tasks for busy clinicians. How Regard Works to Benefit Patients and Providers Regard’s AI solution seamlessly integrates into the EHR, automatically reviewing a patient’s entire clinical data to identify crucial information.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 17, 2022

The exponential growth in health data from a variety of sources, such as electronic medical records and image databases, makes it difficult to integrate information for optimized decision-making that meets the highest possible standards of care. Staying flexible is the key to digital transformation.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2024

What You Should Know: – MatrixCare , a provider of technology solutions for post-acute care facilities, has announced a strategic partnership with Health Gorilla. Improved Care Coordination: Enhanced communication between providers across different care settings leads to smoother care transitions and improved overall patient outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This application of AI enables a scalable approach to proactive care at the population level, a cornerstone of VBC. AI’s Impact on Healthcare The potential benefits of integrating AI into healthcare are profound. This integrated approach is crucial for achieving the goals of VBC and delivering high-quality, cost-effective care.

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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

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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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The aim of the partnership was to enhance care transitions. One takeaway for home health providers is the importance of working with SNFs to further strengthen SNF-to-home transitions. A big part of the reason for this is poor preparation when it comes to care transitions, according to the report.

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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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HIT Consultant

JUNE 21, 2023

What You Should Know: Konica Minolta launches Konica Minolta Connected Care , a cloud-based workflow automation platform designed to streamline manual processes such as patient intake, care transitions and referral management across acute, post-acute and ambulatory care settings.

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NASHP

MARCH 1, 2024

rebalancing spending to improve access to home and community-based services, improving care transitions, or encouraging greater care coordination) Innovative oversight approaches for Medicare/Medicaid integrated models What’s In It for States?

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Streamlining Care and Empowering Providers WellSky envisions integrating AI tools into their solutions to automate repetitive tasks, freeing up valuable time for human interaction and personalized care.

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Cloud Blogs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Care management in healthcare involves a complex web of patient information, communication, and manual processes that without integration can hinder the delivery of efficient and coordinated care. Modern care management platforms facilitate seamless collaboration and information sharing among care teams.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2024

Improved patient care: Solutions that integrate with EHRs and existing systems allow for swift information sharing and coordinated action, resulting in faster response times and better clinical outcomes, which are particularly vital when a patient’s condition changes unexpectedly.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 21, 2023

naviHealth – now Care Transitions – is also owned by Optum. That’s where most of the conversations and negotiations have started for Integrated Home Care Services, according to CEO Chris Bradbury. Bradbury sees Integrated Home Care Services as an evolving company, but also one that gets the convener mission right.

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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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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

DECEMBER 21, 2023

If the merger is finalized, the two will then integrate their businesses together and will work on a combined strategy that will be put in place for 2025. From now until the potential merger, NAHC and NHPCO will be operating business as usual and will work as two separate entities.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Resources can be proactively allocated to ensure smooth care transitions for patients returning to the facility. inventor of rehab therapy’s first fully integrated, AI-powered EMR. Proactive Resource Allocation : By predicting patient readmission risk, AI empowers administrators to anticipate staffing needs.

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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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NCQA

JUNE 28, 2024

NCQA LTSS Distinction standards require MCOs t o identi fy individuals who might be susceptible to unplanned care transitions, which may entail reassessing the service plan. (S States must review person-centered service plans every 12 months for 90% of individuals continuously enrolled in their HCBS program.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2022

The shift to value-based care. Connecting training with outcomes serves patients and staff, but the shift to value-based care means attention to outcomes is imperative as home-based care transitions to rewarding providers for the quality of the care they deliver.

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With person-centered care as a key focus of HCBS, Hawaii is working on a community-based palliative care benefit for beneficiaries with serious illnesses through Hawaii ’s QUEST Integration Medicaid 1115 waiver. Housing and food security are two primary examples.

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Home Health Care

JULY 13, 2023

Grant Avenue has strategically cemented Fortis’ position as a high-integrity, experienced provider of choice for patients and families and as a partner of choice for our talented Fortis team,” Radics said in a statement. “I I am incredibly proud to join the company as it embarks on its next phase of growth and advancement.”

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Kaiser study found ordering durable medical equipment and transitioning patients to skilled nursing facilities often require approval from health plans. Integrate workflows: Case managers are spending 60% of their time obtaining authorizations so they can discharge patients to the next level of care. About Russell Graney.

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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

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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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2021

– Care transitions: Patients changing providers, either moving from an inpatient to an outpatient setting or switching care teams, should not face any care gaps due to information not being available from one care setting to the next. . What’s the fallout? We’ve outgrown the EHR. .

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Since 2014 (first under its “Dual Demo” demonstration and then later via D-SNP contracts), the state has enabled Medicaid MCOs to participate in value-based purchasing through its Integrated Care System Partnerships (ICSP) model. Enhance federal advance care planning requirements. The state and U.S.

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NASHP

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In July 2022, Maine launched the first phase of its new PCPlus initiative, which is an APM through MaineCare, Maine’s Medicaid program, that provides a higher per member per month (PMPM) rate for a whole-person care approach that includes services such as care coordination, health and oral screenings, and care transition.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The strategies have the following commonalities: The goals, outcomes, and strategies have integrated principles of equity and inclusivity, with a special focus on addressing the needs and priorities of underserved populations and communities.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Enquire is the most-mentioned vendor that doesn’t offer an EMR or staffing solution; they instead offer various products tailored to CRM, referral management, care transitions, and preauthorization. OnShift is mentioned because their scheduling, HR, and payroll offerings are integrated, thus simplifying back-office processes.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

CMS found that accountable care models, especially those that include total cost of care approaches, will need payment incentives to support the delivery of integrated, equitable person-centered care.

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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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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This home-based care is being provided across multiple care settings: certified home health, palliative care, personal care. That complexity defines the economics that we’re seeing play out – the flow of patients, the care transitions, and also the impact to providers out in the community.

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