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

HIT Consultant

Too often, healthcare improvement has focused on fixing healthcare workers so that they adopt new behaviors and mindsets. Systems thinking helps design these comprehensive care models by evaluating current state conditions, analyzing interconnections, and designing workflow adjustments.

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

Healthcare It News

" PROPOSAL For large-scale adoption, Providence took a population health approach and looked at how many patients could be eligible for this type of program, the clinical benefits, the increased access and the ability to care for patients in a better way.

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How to Improve Population Health with Telehealth & RPM

Health Recovery

Population health, defined by Kindig and Stoddart as “the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group,” is a crucial strategy. Population health is defined as the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.

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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.

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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?

HIT Consultant

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.

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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.