Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), it has become possible to deliver deeper insights into patient illness status, often in real time. Codified data is used for case mix analysis, local, national and international benchmarking, population health management, disease outcomes as well as reimbursement.

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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. Like many in the U.S., Ohioans are experiencing a historic shortage of behavioral healthcare resources.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 14, 2024

Similarly, hyper-automation streamlines administration processes such as appointment scheduling and patient registration, integrating them into a unified platform. Data integration and interoperability are critical components of successful digital transformation in healthcare.

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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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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Inaccessible and incomplete patient data creates insurmountable challenges to coordination, financial-risk arrangements, and effective preventative care. It empowers users to take a giant leap towards continuous, integrated care. Heightened cybersecurity threats. Regulatory compliance.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. Castlight published the full research findings in April in the company’s 2022 Workforce Health Index.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Automated pre-visit planning helped prevent downstream utilization, such as inpatient visits, while helping to deliver more comprehensive patient care. The health system's physician ambulatory network is using Innovaccer's population health management suite to improve clinical processes and streamline operations.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the past 18 months, telehealth has emerged as an integral component of care delivery for many institutions, said Restuccia of Penn Medicine. "The level of complexity in virtual health was high and prevented a consistent approach and consistent support; it has been a complex experience for patients.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

seeks to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, many who survive the initial illness suffer debilitating long-term health impacts, especially those with underlying health conditions. Technology allows easier access to disparate data sources without compromising data privacy or integrity. Even as the U.S.

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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. "No additional API or software integration was necessary.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Foundation Fighting Blindness offers free genetic testing to individuals with these diseases and links the data with Verana’s population health database. Verana Health, the exclusive data curation and analytics partner of the Academy’s IRIS Registry, is the primary source of real-world evidence (RWE) in ophthalmology.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

" 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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Healthcare It News

JUNE 30, 2022

These tools can be made more effective by integrating into existing workflows in a way that allows scalability of a provider's time. Technology also can support more sophisticated tasks, such as the synthesis of health data with AI software so physicians don't have to wade through extraneous details for the essential information.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 15, 2024

"The prevalence of cardiovascular disease in Erie County is alarming, with higher rates of stroke-related fatalities than both the national average and the aggregate of New York State," said Lucia Rossi, vice president of ambulatory services and population health at ECMC.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. A lot of new challenges.

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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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Healthcare It News

MAY 17, 2022

Why are social determinants of health issues, such as living in a food desert, lack of reliable transportation and unequal access to care so important, yet so often overlooked? Social determinants of health encompass a range of socioeconomic factors that affect individual and population health.

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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. Read the archive of the Q&A here.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 23, 2024

a leading healthcare AI platform company, today announced that San Mateo County Health (SMCH) has selected Innovaccer’s Healthcare AI Platform and population health management solutions to modernize their technology infrastructure and improve patient care services across the county.

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p3care

JULY 30, 2024

Since 2017, MIPS (The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System) has been an integral part of physicians’ professional life. MVPs 2024 Saving the Day for Specialties in MIPS 2024 Reporting Services To prevent the vagueness of the MIPS services 2024, MVPs (MIPS Value Pathways) have been introduced. At least for eligible physicians.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ly even acted as the vice president of desktop, building a team of professionals to lead the desktop integrations. Ly helped launch LinkedIn from a strategic perspective and assisted with the architecture and implementation of specific aspects of the networking and search algorithms.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Harnessing the power of broad population health data to uncover new and more accurate predictors of future health risks enables patients to have a more personalized view into their health status and become more engaged and empowered to follow a customized care plan that’s tailored to them and their unique needs and preferences.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

And that data will be generated from many sources, frequently siloed and decentralized which can prevent aggregation, mash-up, and analysis. 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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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Inaccessible and incomplete patient data creates insurmountable challenges to coordination, financial-risk arrangements, and effective preventative care. It empowers users to take a giant leap towards continuous, integrated care. Heightened cybersecurity threats. Regulatory compliance.

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Health Dialog

AUGUST 30, 2016

The New Force Behind Innovative Health Insurance Coverage and Population Health Services. Due to the complexities in healthcare delivery and data privacy and security, the US health care market is often slow to adopt technology and innovation. Population Health Management.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

To improve health outcomes while lowering cost of care, providers and payors increasingly are implementing value-based care (VBC) payment models. VBC contracts are structured to reward proactive and preventive healthcare, measurable positive outcomes (such as lower readmission rates) and reduced spending.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2024

COEs—specialized programs or facilities that provide high-quality, mulit-disciplinary care—are at the forefront of revolutionizing how we approach workforce wellness and safety by integrating technology, data, and proactive interventions. How do COEs impact an organization’s bottom line?

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 30, 2024

Value-based care seeks to improve health outcomes by leveraging the Quintuple Aim framework – focusing on the patient experience, population health success, cost reduction, team wellbeing, and health equity. Healthcare cannot be approached as a one-size-fits-all-all circumstance.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Acting on these insights could improve member experience, knowledge, and enable interventions that prevent future problems, improve outcomes, and drive down healthcare costs. AI’s Impact on Healthcare The potential benefits of integrating AI into healthcare are profound.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

healthcare system has been moving towards value-based care (VBC) which encourages health providers to improve care quality by reimbursing them based on successful outcomes rather than individual medical services. The overarching goal of VBC is to improve the patient experience, improve population health, and reduce per capita health costs.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 29, 2024

FarmboxRx: Pioneering Food as a Health Intervention FarmboxRx is revolutionizing preventative care by leveraging food as a tool for engagement and health improvement. The company partners with health plans and non-profit organizations to deliver fresh produce and healthy groceries to individuals across the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Substance use/abuse, language barriers, and health literacy rank at the top of the list of SDoH factors that would be captured by one-half or more health systems this year — specifically, alcohol usage, tobacco usage, other controlled substance usage, English as a second language, and health literacy.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Meeting the care needs of Medicaid/dual-eligibles now and beyond 2025 will provide opportunities for home care and the health care industry to enhance care services supported by emerging technology and care innovations. This shift would enhance patient satisfaction while benefiting payers, health care facilities and other stakeholders.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Getting ahead of rising patient risks can greatly improve quality of life and reduce the incidence of complications from diabetes, such as preventable foot ulcers. That leaves the needs of the rising-risk diabetes population unaddressed and inaccurately minimizes the costs associated with this small but very high healthcare spend population.

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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. Please join the discussion and let us know how your health system has integrated population health management initiatives.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

Health plans can utilize its analytics to develop strategies aimed at boosting HEDIS scores or Star Ratings. HealthAdvisor engages members by providing easy-to-use, evidence-based assessments to identify, manage, or prevent risk factors for various diseases.

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