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Future Of Wound Care: Home Health Providers Step Up To Meet Rising Demand

Home Health Care

Health care systems are focused on providing cost-effective, high-quality care that reduces hospitalizations and prevents complications, Anderson explained. Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED), one of the nations largest home health providers, also has seen increased demand for more sophisticated wound care.

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Unleashing the Power of Protocols in Critical Care

HIT Consultant

Tammi Jantzen, Co-founder, Astarte Medical Protocol Driven Care Often proclaimed as the most effective method of reducing costs for hospitals, standardization is said to promote quality patient care at a cost-effective price. billion in additional healthcare spending per year.

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Despite Current Concerns, AI in Healthcare Has A Long History

HIT Consultant

It was developed in 1972 and widely adopted in clinical practice in the 1980s and 1990s. His research has leveraged microsystems, improvement science and high-reliability to better understand the intersection between the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery.

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Accenture Report Reveals Staggering Health Inequities and the Role of US Healthcare Ecosystem in Addressing Them 

HIT Consultant

These biases erode quality of care and access for underrepresented patients, in turn leading to a lack of trust in, and even fear of, the healthcare system as well as lowering participation by POC in their healthcare journey. Uneven quality and experience: Stark differences in the quality of care exist between races.

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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

Healthcare It News

Furthermore, in training we would move between premier research hospitals, like Stanford, to safety-net hospitals and witness the incredible inequality in resources available to both patients and providers. Hospitals are faced with impossible decisions.

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HEDIS® Public Comment Period Is Now Open

NCQA

HEDIS measures do not constitute clinical practice guidelines and should not be used to determine insurance or coverage. Proposed New HEDIS Measures Follow-Up After Acute Care Visits for Asthma. NCQA proposes transitioning this measure to be reported using only the Electronic Clinical Data Systems (ECDS) reporting method.

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. Reach out to state professional and hospital associations. Use the state’s palliative care task force as a resource.