Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

" Feinberg added another example: "It's having me – an MD, an MBA with decades of experience as a doctor and running hospitals – yet not being able to make sense of an explanation of benefits of my healthcare, from my own health system. That's all noise."

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 19, 2024

The shift toward value-based reimbursement demands that hospitals and health systems take a more thoughtful approach to population health management. He's a longtime leader in clinical data management and healthcare policy, and has been focused on population health strategies for many years.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2024

But population health management tools from Alera Health will help the Ohio Behavioral Health Providers Network better integrate mental health care. Developing patient analytics for population health can no longer just incorporate electronic health record data filled in by healthcare providers.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2024

Through the portal, NHG partners can also access and leverage insights from anonymised population health data to design tailored community-based programmes. Tan Tock Seng Hospital then rolled out the system the following year, becoming the first hospital in the cluster to go live with the integrated EMR system.

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Health IT Analytics

AUGUST 26, 2021

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Through its latest collaboration with Accenture and Google Cloud, iHiS ultimately seeks to drive innovation for improving patient experience, staff productivity, and population health outcomes. The agency is taking an "API-first" approach to facilitate data capture across healthcare systems.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

From 1 to 4 October 2024, our reporters will be onsite to keep you updated on pressing discussions around artificial intelligence and innovations in smart hospital development. HIMSS24 APAC Healthcare industry movers and shakers in Asia-Pacific will gather in one of the world's biggest technology hubs – Seoul.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Hospital and health system C-suite executives and health IT leaders know the patient experience is crucial to ongoing success in healthcare. Hospitals and health systems must explore the potential of using data analytics and AI to personalize patient care. The question is: How to continually improve it?

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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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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Michael Kramer, chief medical informatics officer at OhioHealth, a health system based in Dublin, Ohio. Mike Mistretta, vice president and CIO at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. "Obviously the hospital acute setting is critical, but really it's all about care delivery," Moore said. " B.J.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Office of Healthcare Transformation under Singapore's Ministry of Health has tied up with the nation's three public healthcare clusters to scale their pilot home hospitalisation programmes. Should a patient's condition deteriorates, care escalation protocols, including transfer back to the hospital, could be initiated.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

What You Should Know: – Persistent Systems , a leading digital engineering and enterprise modernization company, and Microsoft today announced the launch of an innovative Generative AI-powered Population Health Management (PHM) Solution.

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Healthcare Success

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Mercy One , an integrated system of hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities in Iowa, has demonstrated success through their community benefit outreach programs that motivate behavior change, by removing barriers, ensuring everyone has access to care.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 30, 2024

"It was clear we needed an innovative turnkey solution to effectively connect with our hard-to-reach patients and ensure they were sticking to their care plans, which is essential to our goal of promoting cost-effective population health ," he added. "For us, the average ER visit costs $3,000," he said.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 7, 2022

ThedaCare is a seven-hospital health system in Wisconsin with 180 locations and 7,000 employees. To succeed in its mission, ThedaCare is on a path to population health – aiming to go above and beyond treating a particular condition to make care easy and accessible to help achieve better health for life.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the American Hospital Association said the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights rule regarding the use of online tracking tools is at odds with existing HIPAA rules and could cause meaningful harm to patients and public health.

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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. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2022

From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. News As crisis mode ends, hospitals renew focus on the patient experience Speakers at HIMSS22's Patient Experience Forum discuss the future of the caregiver and patient.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Acute care facility bed shortages, and how they arose From 2010-21 , 136 rural hospitals closed, according to data from the American Hospital Association. One study found that urban hospitals increased bed capacity by around 35 percent during the pandemic, while rural hospitals increased bed capacity by 15 percent.

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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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The high rates of hospitalization for patients with heart failure serve as a good example of implementing systems thinking approaches. Despite a focus on chronic disease, the prevalence of heart failure has increased over the last 20 years, and heart failure represents one of the most common causes of hospitalization.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Through the secure collection, documentation, reporting, access and use of data across provider types, ONC aims to address health inequities that have their root causes in poverty and racism. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 23, 2024

For instance, partnerships with mental health providers and integrating behavioral health assessments into routine care can support beneficiaries more holistically, potentially reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Launched in 2020, the DHI measures a health organisation's progress in building a digital health ecosystem in four dimensions: governance and workforce, predictive analytics, interoperability, and person-enabled health. The hospital scored 365/400 for the DHI. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

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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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Social determinants of health – the food, shelter and security attributes of patients that exist outside of care settings – contribute disproportionate risks for disease, hospital readmissions and a lack of access to quality healthcare among vulnerable populations, including people on Medicare.

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Healthcare Success

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

We have three hospitals in Madison that we own and operate. University Hospital, American Family Children's Hospital, and East Madison Hospital. Um, not all rural hospitals are an attractive, you know, acquisition for larger systems because of the cost involved. Dennis Jolley - UW Health (he/him) Absolutely.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 6, 2023

THE PROBLEM In addition, patients too often crash during a hospitalization with no advance care directives in place to guide care.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 10, 2024

Midwest health systems Sanford Health and Marshfield Clinic Health System announced plans Wednesday to explore a merger forming a 56-hospital, $10 billion revenue nonprofit heavyweight.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. Think differently about hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 13, 2023

Uber Health announced that payers and providers nationwide can soon use the same platform they may already use for non-emergency medical transportation and prescription delivery to order and deliver other covered items directly to patient homes.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

New York City-based Unite Us focuses on building equity in population health management through coordinated care networks of health and social service providers – the infrastructure of care. "Partnering with a coordinated care network, like Unite Us, is a game changer," he said. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

CommonSpirit is developing the digital capabilities and clinical and administrative processes to provide these services, which will enable patients to have greater control over their care, empower education, increase engagement, target improved clinical outcomes and further support population health management. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2024

High-acuity home care can significantly enhance patient outcomes by preventing hospitalizations and improving quality of life. Remote patient monitoring, trachs and vents in the home you receive the same level of care and fidelity through technology at a persons home rather than going to the hospital 500 miles away, Johnson said.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2025

19 billion increase in uncompensated care costs , which are services hospitals must provide without reimbursement. Hospitals Face Significant Financial Strain Hospitals would bear the brunt of these losses, with projected: $31.9 The analysis projects: $80 billion reduction in healthcare provider revenue in 2026. $19

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 13, 2023

In February, the company announced a partnership to serve as a catalyst for enrolling hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers and to help them with targeted population health initiatives. HIMSS will use that time to gather data on the cost of avoidance or the cost control aspects of telehealth, he said.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Dr Metupalle said hospitals being ready to connect to people at home would be "the biggest opportunity" post-pandemic. "We hopefully get to see [the] empowerment of these patients, more knowledge [and] patient education – these are opportunities the hospitals have to educate the population," Dr Metupalle said.

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