Healthcare Success

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Stewart Gandolf Yeah, I can see the infrastructure of all this, right, how that data is going around, how do you manage it, how does that fit with everything else you do, you know, by the way, your doctors are all very, very busy. Dennis Jolley - UW Health (he/him) Absolutely. What's going on in health care?

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Other key findings of the report include: Employer-Based Coverage: A majority of underinsured adults (66%) have coverage through their employers, highlighting the limitations of employer-sponsored health insurance in providing adequate financial protection.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Instead, we should take a step back and think about how we can better support doctors in delivering high-quality care. They neatly align with the well-recognized Quintuple Aim of healthcare: enhancing patient experience, improving population health, supporting clinician well-being, advancing health equity, and reducing costs.

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Cloud Blogs

APRIL 26, 2021

While many organizations define population health slightly differently, its core aim is to provide an opportunity for leaders in healthcare, agencies, education, and business to work together in order to improve the health outcomes in the communities they serve, all while making an impact to reduce the total cost of care.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Innovation in diagnostics, however, is not just vital to advancing disease surveillance and early detection to help prevent the next pandemic. Why we need a preventive approach. Creating a holistic picture of health. The future of diagnostics, and the preventive health movement it serves, lies in harnessing the power of data.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 30, 2022

Over time, with new data sets that are more locally sourced and incorporate novel links between variables, specialists can use this technology to produce novel care algorithms on a population health level using machine learning and AI. This can reduce the resources and time needed to test new protocols for therapies in patient care.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

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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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. The latest research notes that the volume of preventive screenings in the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

America spends half of what other developed countries spend on primary care, despite it being the single area of healthcare that has proven to deliver actual cost savings with better population health results. People stop seeking out primary care in the times when preventive, proactive care could make the most difference.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Importantly, these findings indicate that suicidality can occur independently of other mental health conditions, underscoring the need to approach suicidality as a condition, with a distinct program of care. Many primary care providers miss critical warning signs, particularly in patients who do not exhibit mental health symptoms.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In September 2020, PwC surveyed consumers with employer-sponsored health insurance about their preferred locations to receive a COVID-19 vaccine within one year of its approval. Sites included: “My” doctor’s office, favored by more people who were White or Asian, and those 45 years or older. population health burden.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

doctors felt burned out, with the specialties detailed here. And 8 in 10 doctors felt burnout before the start of COVID-19. At the top of the list of stressors was the same issue hurting physician well-being last year: too many bureaucratic tasks, felt by 58% of the surveyed doctors. Four in ten U.S. I have become the typist.”

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Achieving health equity presents an urgent challenge that demands attention from all stakeholders. However, actual medical care accounts for 20% or less of what affects population health. Rural communities may lack easy access to preventive care and screenings. The costs are astronomical.

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This is the final post in my three-part series on the successful implementation of Population Care Managers (PCMs) within Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and Patient Centered Medical Home settings. When a patient’s doctor is no longer within the network she assists that patient in identifying a primary care doctor who is.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While there is exuberant support for embedding SDoH factors into digitally transforming health care systems, relatively few providers will be leveraging software and other digital technology to identify at-risk patients. Heath plans and providers taking on risk-based payments are tuning into this opportunity.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2024

The Women’s Health report, titled “ Human Centered Design: A Women’s Health Case Study ,” was developed through a comprehensive research effort. ” This finding underscores a shared desire for a more open and supportive environment for discussing women’s health.

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Icanotes

JANUARY 17, 2023

Knowing how to prevent medical errors in healthcare means setting up a system that simplifies the process, catches errors and helps you stay organized. Unnecessary or inappropriate testing: Incomplete or inaccurate records may lead a doctor to order a duplicate or unnecessary test. How to Prevent Documentation Errors in Healthcare.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S. health care.

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Health Dialog

APRIL 1, 2020

Health Dialog is full of devoted employees committed to our mission of helping clients improve population health, reduce costs, and engage patients to make the best decisions about their health. What do you do at Health Dialog? What work did you do before joining Health Dialog?

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Home Health Care

JULY 3, 2024

The urgent care service line will be added to Lifespark COMPLETE, Lifespark’s value-based population health business. The Minnesota-based company provides home health, home care, hospice, primary care and senior living, among other services. Ultimately, the goal is to reduce unnecessary emergency room visits or hospitalizations.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This lack of medication adherence has serious repercussions for both our physical and financial health. non-adherence to prescribed treatments can be attributed to at least 125,000 preventable deaths, up to 25 percent of hospitalizations, and $500 billion in preventable medical costs. Statistics show that each year in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The lives that succumb to HAIs are cut short for reasons that are largely preventable. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The public health and regional population health benefit to this informatics/genomics approach to managing HAIs is clear. Combating these deaths is a “winnable battle,” the U.S.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 7, 2022

“In California, we’re delegated to take full risk for our members, which means we do everything from primary care and preventative care, all the way through hospice services,” Brian Hodgkins, executive vice president of clinical operations at Desert Oasis Healthcare, told Home Health Care News.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. In contrast, Electronic Medical Records capture information about specific visits to a doctor or medical facility, circulating within one institution.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

What You Should Know: – Mount Sinai Health System , a leading U.S. healthcare provider, and Noom , a pioneer in digital health and chronic disease prevention, have joined forces to offer patients a comprehensive approach to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.

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NCQA

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

NCQA seeks candidates who embody Phyllis’ passion for health care quality research and policy. Preventive care. Maternal health. Behavioral health. Health care disparities. Telehealth and health information technology. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Primary care. Patient-reported outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2024

The main driver behind ER chaos and expense is a nationwide shortage of trained doctors and nurses. This can also prevent vulnerable patients from waiting too long to get help, thus, reducing the occurrence of deadly emergencies. Sometimes chaos still occurs due to a major population health crisis.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2023

VBC also focuses on preventative care, not just treatment after discovering an illness. Preventative care nips health issues in the bud before they become chronic conditions, leading to an overall healthier population that seeks less treatment in the long term.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Second, too-long waiting times for appointments to visit the doctor motivate 15% of women to skip care, versus 10% of men in the U.S. Third, both “not feeling well enough to visit the doctor” as well as lack of transportation to get to the appointment drove 9% of women to not seek care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Connecting Members With Primary Care Doctors That Provide Longitudinal Care. HealthTap provides its members access to their own long-term doctor of their choice to orchestrate all their ongoing health needs every step of the way.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2023

Health plans have a responsibility to provide members with personalized, long-term health management support that meets their unique needs. By doing so, plans can help members stay healthy and prevent potential health complications. Chan School of Public Health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Once cleared (planned for Fall 2018), the clinical quality of the data output promises to be a huge advance for consumer-marketed wearable technology that doctors can trust. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

While healthcare systems are there to care for those in need, they also feel the straining effects of their overextended providers and overwhelmed ER staff being used to treat preventable illnesses and behavioral health needs , the majority of which are distributed unequally in our communities.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Ongoing health inequity also continues to prevent Latino people from receiving and accessing adequate diabetes care. I have witnessed the positive impact in glucose control, prevention of hypoglycemia and quality of life that the access and use of diabetes technologies and medications have had in my patients with diabetes.

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Health Dialog

MARCH 10, 2020

Health Dialog is full of devoted employees committed to our mission of helping clients improve population health, reduce costs, and engage patients to make the best decisions about their health. What work did you do before joining Health Dialog? It’s wonderful to see these kinds of results.

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