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National STI Awareness Week: Increases in Chlamydia Screening Rates and a New HEDIS Measure for Congenital Syphilis

NCQA

NCQAs HEDIS measure for chlamydia screening shows how quality measurement and reporting can raise awareness and shift patterns of care delivery, says NCQAs Tejal Patel, Senior Research Associate, Population Health. Preventive Services Task Force is updating its recommendation on syphilis screening during pregnancy.

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IT execs talk priorities and predictions for 2022

Healthcare It News

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. Here's what they had to say.

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AI-Powered Pop Health and SDOH – The Good, The Bad and The Best Practices

HIT Consultant

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool for making population health analytics more accurate and interventions more effective. Sensitivity to a wider range of factors that can impact population health, including SDOH, cultural and community issues, is key to minimizing both coding and data-driven bias.

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Bedrock Healthcare at Home Leans On Technology To Keep Patients Out Of The Hospital

Home Health Care

A New Jersey-based home-based care company, Bedrock Healthcare at Home includes a patient care medical group and a patient care specialty group, and offers home health, private duty home care, therapy, population health and other services to about 3,000 clients per year. We’re playing a team sport,” Gomez said.

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How Do Electronic Health Records Improve Patient Care? A Quick but Thorough Explanation

Sequence Health

In this blog post, we will explore those questions and discuss some of the benefits of using EHRs in clinical practice. EHRs Improve Population Health Management. Finally, EHRs can also help improve population health management. But how do EHRs work, and more importantly, how do they improve patient care?

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DeepScribe Appoints Dr. Dean Dalili as Chief Medical Officer

HIT Consultant

Dr. Dalili Bio/Background Dr. Dalili boasts an impressive two-decade career spanning clinical practice, academia, healthcare policy, and industry leadership. He also held executive positions at Envision Healthcare and SCP Health, overseeing physician networks across 800 hospitals and health systems.

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How AI-Powered Ambient Listening Is Transforming Clinical Documentation

HIT Consultant

This allows for seamless data exchange across healthcare institutions, facilitating collaborative care and population health management. Integrating healthcare with ambient listening technologies is an enormous leap for modernizing clinical practices. Standardized data unlocks the potential for advanced analytics.