NCQA

JANUARY 27, 2025

WellSpan is an integrated health system with more than 23,000 team members across 13 counties in central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland, delivering high-quality, safe, reliable and equitable care in inpatient and ambulatory settings. Data Collection.

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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But the principal purpose of adopting these foundational technologiesthose that make interoperability more achievable and lower barriers to creating fluid, secure, and realistic patient journeysis to place healthcare data near the most powerful and extensible population health platform on the planet, Microsoft Azure.

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Integration Healthcare Quality of Care Regulations 80

NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The “National Forum on Advancing High-Quality, Equitable Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs” centered on two key topics for improving care coordination systems for CYSHCN: integrated care coordination and the care coordination workforce.

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NCQA

AUGUST 30, 2024

We asked Allison Lance, NCQA’s Director, Digital Quality Community, to give us her insight into the challenges health care organizations are facing during the process. In those roles, she learned firsthand about the challenges of integrating FHIR ® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) data into business operations.

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NCQA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And then we’re also developing an approach for certification based on quality improvement and patient experience.” NCQA is eager to continue the conversation on multi-payer alignment and tracking state innovations.

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Accountable Care Doctors

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The 31 multi-specialty medical groups and integrated health systems that are part of the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), their 85,000 physicians, and hundreds of thousands of staff are at the forefront of the battle for their patients’ lives.

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NCQA

MARCH 22, 2023

Adding the Population Health Roadmap for Chronic Kidney Disease to our Kidney Health Toolkit means there’s a fifth free resource from NCQA to help manage chronic kidney disease (CKD) or end-stage renal disease (ESRD). DaVita Integrated Kidney Care. Fresenius Health Partners—InterWell Health. Somatus, Inc. “In-the-Field

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NCQA

JANUARY 25, 2024

Technology is also being used to expand behavioral health care capacity through virtual care. The expansion of services and provider types in behavioral health creates a need for quality standards and quality improvement. Costs Costs of behavioral health care continue to rise.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

What gaps can be filled to help facilitate public health activity? What tasks can support IIS interoperability, integration, and outreach with partner systems like Medicaid and Public health? Outreach surveillance integration of partner systems including Medicaid and Public Health, as well as other systems like school health.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The information on this map comes from a 50-state survey of a variety of stakeholders, ranging from Medicaid officials to Community Health Workers, on their states’ approaches?to?integrating?CHWs integrating?CHWs CHTs are multi-role teams (can include RNs, Health Coaches, Substance Abuse Specialists, RDs, Pharmacists, CHWs, etc.).

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

Figure 1 displays a consolidated overview of the “Framework for Public Health-Health Care System Collaboration.” In many states, SHIPs serve as the driving mechanism for engaging health care systems and communities in statewide planning, implementation, and evaluation efforts. One example is Live Well San Diego.

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Medicaid Accountability Public Health services Population Health 52

Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

From the perspective of trying to build a learning health system, a key challenge is the way in which patient care, quality improvement and research are siloed. Working in academic medicine comes with its own special set of challenges and opportunities.

Doctors 60

Doctors Healthcare Healthcare Innovation Population Health 60

Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

From the perspective of trying to build a learning health system, a key challenge is the way in which patient care, quality improvement and research are siloed. Working in academic medicine comes with its own special set of challenges and opportunities.

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Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

From the perspective of trying to build a learning health system, a key challenge is the way in which patient care, quality improvement and research are siloed. Working in academic medicine comes with its own special set of challenges and opportunities.

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Doctors Healthcare Healthcare Innovation Population Health 60

Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

From the perspective of trying to build a learning health system, a key challenge is the way in which patient care, quality improvement and research are siloed. Working in academic medicine comes with its own special set of challenges and opportunities.

Doctors 60

Doctors Healthcare Healthcare Innovation Population Health 60

Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

From the perspective of trying to build a learning health system, a key challenge is the way in which patient care, quality improvement and research are siloed. Working in academic medicine comes with its own special set of challenges and opportunities.

Doctors 60

Doctors Healthcare Healthcare Innovation Population Health 60

Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

From the perspective of trying to build a learning health system, a key challenge is the way in which patient care, quality improvement and research are siloed. Working in academic medicine comes with its own special set of challenges and opportunities.

Doctors 60

Doctors Healthcare Healthcare Innovation Population Health 60

Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

From the perspective of trying to build a learning health system, a key challenge is the way in which patient care, quality improvement and research are siloed. Working in academic medicine comes with its own special set of challenges and opportunities.

Doctors 60

Doctors Healthcare Healthcare Innovation Population Health 60

Health Blawg

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

From the perspective of trying to build a learning health system, a key challenge is the way in which patient care, quality improvement and research are siloed. Working in academic medicine comes with its own special set of challenges and opportunities.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Innovation Center models can define success as encouraging lasting transformation and a broader array of quality investments, rather than focusing solely on each individual model’s cost and quality improvements.

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Disparities : Preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations. Utah Department of Health, Office of Health Disparities, 2021.

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

For example, to move from tier 3 to tier 4, the provider must meet all the requirements of tier 3 and several new requirements, such as having a well-established quality improvement process. Through this program, Colorado is seeking to both improve behavioral health services and better integrate them with physical health.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This map highlights state activity to integrate CHWs into evolving health care systems in key areas such as financing, education and training, certification, and state definitions, roles and scope of practice. CHTs are multi-role teams (can include RNs, Health Coaches, Substance Abuse Specialists, RDs, Pharmacists, CHWs, etc.).

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Uncontrolled chronic disease is another issue, said Dr. Robert Fields, executive vice president and chief population health officer. "We conducted an internal quality-improvement-matched cohort analysis of 218 patients, examining the effects of RPM on blood pressure control and healthcare utilization versus usual care in-clinic.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2023

This is evident in the US with the insurgence of both IDNs and ACOs, in France with the development of GHTs, and in the UK with the growth of ICSs (Integrated Care Systems). The mandate of these healthcare networks is clear – to improve patient experiences and population health outcomes while simultaneously reducing costs.

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

Through the strike force, Ohio leveraged community feedback from virtual community forums, town hall meetings, and a community needs assessment performed by the Ohio State University College of Public Health, pairing equity goals (better health outcomes for communities of color) with equity-based processes aimed to transform the health system.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 22, 2024

. – This IBH model holds immense promise for transforming how we address the complex healthcare needs of individuals struggling with both mental and physical health challenges. Performance-based incentives will further encourage quality improvement throughout the implementation period.

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NCQA

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The use of clinical data to measure health care quality in close to real-time creates new value for health plans, including: More complete, accurate and generally higher quality rates. Improved ability to drive meaningful quality improvement programs with better data. Value-Based Care.

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