Healthcare It News

JANUARY 8, 2025

It is likely we will also see an increase in dynamic and interactive population health dashboards for general practices subscribed to NQPHN’s data program. This program helps practices work with patient groups to offer recalls for health assessments.

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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. THE PROBLEM.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 21, 2025

What You Should Know: – Percipio Health , a population health monitoring and management platform, today announced its official launch and the closing of a $20M in Series A funding round led by UPMC Enterprises , WAVE Ventures , and Labcorp.

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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

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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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 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

MAY 14, 2024

It aligns with the Quadruple Aim of healthcare : enhancing patient experience; improving population health; reducing costs; and augmenting the work life of healthcare providers. This allows teams to prevent denials, analyze payments and conduct efficient accounts receivable follow-ups.

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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

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

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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Innovation in diagnostics, however, is not just vital to advancing disease surveillance and early detection to help prevent the next pandemic. Why we need a preventive approach. Creating a holistic picture of health. The future of diagnostics, and the preventive health movement it serves, lies in harnessing the power of data.

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NASHP

JUNE 17, 2024

Substance use in youth can lead to a variety of negative outcomes, including health issues, poor academic performance, and increased risk of addiction and overdose. Prevention: What Works? Prevention requires understanding the multiple factors that influence individual choices and behaviors related to substance use.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

” He said: “The model is driven by quality outcomes; it will put health consumers at the centre of the model, focus on preventive care, and reduce healthcare expenditure thus leading to healthcare sustainability.” ” WHY IT MATTERS. ” ON THE RECORD.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Theres also great potential in providing additional custodial support and assessing caregiver burden at the start of care episodes to prevent any challenges early. Denver-based DispatchHealth provides high-acuity, in-home medical care for people experiencing serious health concerns in 20 states across the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2024

Perhaps more, striking, however, is that many, if most, of these deaths, were preventable. While we do not have a vaccine to protect against hypertension, there are preventive measures that can be effective. So why, even with these prevention options, does heart disease remain the silent killer?

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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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Year over year, data from the Commonwealth Fund demonstrates that despite high costs for healthcare, the patients in United States experience worse outcomes with lower life expectancy and higher rates of preventable and treatable deaths than other developed nations.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 15, 2025

By leveraging AI-powered self-triage tools, healthcare organizations can influence better health outcomes and promote more efficient use of resources. By analyzing vast amounts of data, AI can uncover population health trends and help predict future healthcare needs.

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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. While not only a path to improving health equity, affordable broadband access could benefit cost control in healthcare.

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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

MARCH 29, 2022

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Despite significant investment and well over a decade of different transformation plans and initiatives, there’s still much to do before we can say the health and care system has truly gone through a digital revolution.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When researchers and providers combine diverse data sets, the healthcare industry can acquire new insights at the population health level. Although patients in these populations are undiagnosed, predictive modeling can account for many data factors to pinpoint the patients who require interventions.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Deskless and physically demanding roles, especially in manufacturing, construction, and logistics, present unique health challenges, and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are an outsized driver of those challenges. – Real-Time Data Analytics: COEs monitor worker health in real-time, identifying issues before they become injuries.

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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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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Key recommendations include: Extend Enhanced Tax Credits: Make permanent the enhanced marketplace premium tax credits, which are set to expire in 2025, to prevent premium increases and coverage losses. Promote Continuous Coverage: Allow states to maintain continuous Medicaid eligibility for adults for 12 months to prevent gaps in coverage.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 30, 2022

Over time, with new data sets that are more locally sourced and incorporate novel links between variables, specialists can use this technology to produce novel care algorithms on a population health level using machine learning and AI. This can reduce the resources and time needed to test new protocols for therapies in patient care.

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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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NCQA

MARCH 4, 2025

It is part of the cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome (CKM), which highlights the interconnected health risks of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease. Impact of CKD on Population Health CKD damages the kidneys and impairs their ability to filter blood. Heres what they said.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2022

McAllister, assistant vice president of population health and telemedicine. "Less than 1% of all ambulatory services were completed virtually prior to 2020, and only a few providers offered the service," recalled Shannon R. " Shannon R. McAllister, WVU Medicine.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

That’s why we call on the industry as a whole to shift their perspective of digital health ROI and to view it through a holistic lens that encompasses not only financial returns but also improvements in patient outcomes, operational efficiencies, and clinician well-being over longer timeframes.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Importantly, these findings indicate that suicidality can occur independently of other mental health conditions, underscoring the need to approach suicidality as a condition, with a distinct program of care. Many primary care providers miss critical warning signs, particularly in patients who do not exhibit mental health symptoms.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

How do care management interventions to mitigate SDOH as a risk for undesired health outcomes work? Recently, population health management strategies have begun to incorporate evaluations for patients' social needs connected to SDOH, as well as interventions addressing these needs.

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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.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

"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. Click here to read the first feature, on AI and machine learning, and click here to read the second feature, on interoperability.

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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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