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. "This results in fewer phone calls and messages coming into the clinic.

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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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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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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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Home Health Care

MARCH 21, 2023

While many providers in the larger home-based care space have struggled with collecting data, MD at Home considers data utilization one of the pillars of its success. The Chicago-based at-home primary care provider has a proven track record of leveraging clinical data and enhancing the lives of its patients.

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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

JULY 15, 2024

That poses a substantial burden for hospitals and health systems – and necessitates a paradigm shift in management strategies, clinicians say. It encompasses Erie County Medical Center, one of only five public hospitals in New York State and the region's only Level 1 Adult Trauma Center.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2023

” A team of roughly 16,000 healthcare professionals shares in that mission by offering the full breadth of healthcare services with a particular focus on population health management. "On the front end, DexCare optimized the ability for consumers to find and book care at a Community Health location," McGill said.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development Model (AHEAD Model) will aim to better address chronic disease, behavioral health and other medical conditions, according to CMS. The AHEAD Model is the next iteration of the CMS Innovation Center’s multi-payer total cost of care models. The Washington, D.C.-based

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

The six health IT leaders discussing their plans for the next five years in this sixth and final installment in the series include: Cara Babachicos, senior vice president and CIO at South Shore Health, a health system based in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Mobile health is an area of health IT that has been emerging in recent years.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Hospitals and health systems, especially larger ones, are using AI in myriad new ways – including leveraging it for improved patient experience, and for better patient engagement with the goal of reducing health inequities. How did you originally see AI being a fit for improving the patient experience?

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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.

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NASHP

APRIL 29, 2024

As states assess their interest and readiness to pursue the model, there are important considerations relating to meeting the requirements of the application (see NASHP’s AHEAD Model Application Assistance Tool ) and strategic planning for implementation relating to hospital global budgets.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2023

During their review of the scan, the radiologist notes that there is a lung nodule present and recommends follow-up by the patient’s primary care physician (PCP). However, at that moment, this is a secondary and non-urgent issue for this patient, so therefore the care team may not alert the appropriate care team for nodule management.

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

Primary care case management (PCCM) programs are one of the oldest types of Medicaid managed care, but over time most states have shifted to use managed care organizations (MCOs) to deliver services to Medicaid participants. ii] Rural areas are highly likely to suffer from shortages of primary care and other providers.

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NASHP

MAY 10, 2024

This blog post summarizes both the Primary Care AHEAD requirements identified by CMS and additional strategic considerations for states. See the first blog post in the series covering governance and the second blog post describing hospital global budgets. A core aspect is a focus on alignment between payers.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 30, 2022

This care model increases physician throughput so each physician can help more patients, while also engaging more deeply with them. This can reduce the resources and time needed to test new protocols for therapies in patient care.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 16, 2024

What You Should Know: – Pine Park Health , a rapidly growing primary care provider focused on senior living communities, has announced its adoption of Innovaccer’s leading healthcare AI platform. As a value-based care provider, their core philosophy centers on keeping seniors healthy and out of hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

We had to ensure seamless reporting to get results into the respective patient portals and out to their primary care physicians. Within the hospitals, units transformed overnight from one type of unit to another, which required extensive build and change. During COVID, I participated in a go-live for a children’s hospital.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Intermountain Health recently reached a major milestone with its hospital-at-home program. The health system has officially treated 1,000 patients at home since the launch of the program in 2020. Intermountain is a nonprofit system with 33 hospitals and 385 clinics. The health system has locations in seven states.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It is often said that social determinants of health are more important than many of the things we think of as more closely associated with health, such as health care services, health literacy, engagement in one’s own health care, adherence to prescribed health care treatment and medication.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It is often said that social determinants of health are more important than many of the things we think of as more closely associated with health, such as health care services, health literacy, engagement in one’s own health care, adherence to prescribed health care treatment and medication.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Humana is a health insurance company that operates one of the largest Medicare Advantage plans in the U.S. It is also a provider organization through its CenterWell arm, which includes home health care, pharmacy and primary care services. That wasn’t developed by hospitals, and I ran hospitals for many years.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

In particular, the volume of health data from wearables, implantables, and other decentralized technologies is growing by 48% annually, according to a recent report from the Swiss Re Institute.

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Home Health Care

JULY 3, 2024

Ultimately, the goal is to reduce unnecessary emergency room visits or hospitalizations. The urgent care service line will be added to Lifespark COMPLETE, Lifespark’s value-based population health business. Lifespark will also be coordinating telehealth visits with doctors as part of the in-home urgent care offering.

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Health Care Leader News

MAY 11, 2021

Ruth Rankine, director of primary care at the NHS Confederation, discusses the key priorities for the sector as the country moves into the next phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. We have been talking to primary care leaders about their challenges and what they need to deliver services safely and sustainably.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

Also see the poverty rate, percent of the population below poverty, is highest in the U.S. Now turn your eyes to the second chart, which is titled “Population Health” in the report. Access and quality of care in the U.S. varied, with that 10% of health citizens lacking coverage for basic health care.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2023

PHNs also promote effective health management and resource utilization by ensuring that employees have a primary care provider, encouraging them to work with their providers to manage their disease, and providing access to resources and support.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 24, 2024

What You Should Know: – FeelBetter , the leading provider of polypharmacy patient management technology and pioneer of Pharmaco-Clinical Intelligence, today announced a collaboration on a prospective research study with investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

The overarching goal of VBC is to improve the patient experience, improve population health, and reduce per capita health costs. As part of this VBC mode l, hospitals and health systems must store, track, and analyze a large amount of quality-related data for compliance and reimbursement purposes.

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Health Dialog

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

As we know, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are complex ecosystems and the implementation of new population health management programs can be daunting. Define the ACO’s Population Health Goals: I entered “ Population Health Management ” into Google search and received 430,000 results in 31 seconds.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 22, 2018

As Rasu said, even though UPMC is building three new hospitals, there will be no net increase in the number of inpatient beds. Keeping people out of the hospital, nudging them towards healthier behaviors, will ultimately be better than providing more inpatient care at hospitals.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 12, 2024

VBC: Transforming Kidney Care Humana’s Issue Brief outlines the numerous benefits that VBC offers to kidney patients. Patients enrolled in VBC programs experience: Smoother care coordination: Improved collaboration between primary care physicians (PCPs) and specialists.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Consider the frontline health care workers data point: behavioral health addresses peoples’ negative or dangerous “behaviors,” like the aforementioned binge drinking which may lead to alcohol use disorder or result from post-traumatic stress as a reaction to the daily grind working in the hospital ICU.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2022

Take a visit to your primary care physician, for example. Kaiser Permanente uses digital twins through a system that improves patient flow within a hospital. It achieves this by combining structured and unstructured data to build a more complete view of each patient to anticipate what their needs will be at the hospital.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2018

News & World Report, with help from the University of Missouri Center for Applied Research and Engagement Systems (CARES) and a team from the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. News’ portfolio of healthcare information projects, the best-known of which is Best Hospitals , most recently rated for 2017-18.

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