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At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload

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Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves.

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Systems Thinking: The Future of Equitable, Efficient, and Effective Population Health Management

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Designing Changes: Implementing workflow adjustments and other changes to improve system performance. The high rates of hospitalization for patients with heart failure serve as a good example of implementing systems thinking approaches.

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Advancing Health Equity by Addressing The Health Data Desert

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Health equity allows people to lead active and productive lives, reduces the healthcare burden on the government, and contributes to economic growth. By one estimate, healthcare improvements accounted for one-third of the economic growth of developed nations over the last century. And only 25% of U.S.

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My Patient, an Asian Male Like Me, Wanted to Know Cancer Outcomes for Patients Like Him. Ten Years Later, Are We There Yet?

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Wang, Chief Medical Officer at COTA Healthcare Improving outcomes for cancer patients starts with answering a simple question: Do our data and tools reflect the people we treat? Nearly a decade ago, I worked with a patient, a 50-year-old Asian male, who was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer during his first screening colonoscopy.

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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

Health Populi

When the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed the concept of the Triple Aim in 2007, it was founded on three pillars: enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and lowering per capita health care costs. Four in ten U.S. As we consider re-investing in the U.S.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

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Ultimately, CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) aim to improve information access in hopes of facilitating more holistic healthcare, improved quality of care, and better support for broader federal and regional public health initiatives such as disease surveillance and health equity.

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5 Years After The Chaos of COVID-19 Comes A New Era of AI Innovation

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We deployed a transparent, data-driven set of analytics to inform the dynamic allocation of resources, guide triage protocols in emergency rooms, identify COVID-19 community hotspots, and predict rising waves of hospitalizations and capacity challenges.