Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Robert Lauritzen, Cerebriu CEO, said: “This is a major step on our mission to automate radiology workflow, increasing quality of care by bringing our Smart Protocol technology within neuroimaging.” But the report warns that a lack of co-ordinated national support and funding could prevent further progress being made.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With greater use of 5G technology, speed of bandwidth is increased, enabling expansion of care across many continents, regardless of boundaries or country borders. Connected health technologies can provide fast, chronic and preventive care to patients on-demand at any time or place. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2025

For example, predictive analytics can identify individuals at high risk of developing specific conditions, enabling proactive interventions that can prevent or mitigate adverse events. In addition to improving patient care, data-driven decision making also can boost operational efficiency. It's a win-win for everyone involved.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

"RPM provides a viable solution to improve patient care and outcomes, leverage team-based care, and maintain neutral workload for PCPs and care teams. "Together, we were able to identify a site where we could prove the concept, demonstrate success and socialize it internally to scale."

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Effective regulation of AI in healthcare requires appropriate authority and a thorough understanding of AI’s impact on patient care, with regulatory frameworks aimed at encouraging innovation, ensuring equitable access and addressing disparities in quality of care.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the road to implementing effective pop health strategies is laden with challenges: monitoring chronic illness rates and preventing community transmission, triaging emergencies over routine health care circumstances, and executing preventive services all require providers to alter their traditional fee-for-service workflow.

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p3care

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

134 Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Depression and Follow-up Plan. Quality of Care by ACOs. The idea behind ACOs is to improve the quality of healthcare with collective efforts. There is one good news for ACOs that will take effect from next year. 236 Controlling High Blood Pressure.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2023

Doctors and other healthcare professionals are entrusted with the responsibility of safeguarding the health and well-being of their patients, ensuring they receive the highest quality of care. This article will examine some of the causes of medical malpractice and outline steps to prevent its occurrence.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For example, physical security is top of mind, as it involves securing physical locations and equipment to prevent unauthorized access and potential breaches. Securing cloud services and connected medical devices to prevent vulnerabilities. However, protecting patient identity is equally crucial.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

. – Virtual Sitter aims to enhance patient safety, address workforce challenges, and improve care delivery for hospitals and health systems. This allows for faster intervention by bedside staff, potentially preventing falls and minimizing injuries.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care. With recent advancements in technology and an explosion of non-urgent care options (e.g., Patient reviews have a greater reach than ever before.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Advantages for Patients. Accountability.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Advantages for Patients. Accountability.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

CMS’ Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule will promote greater use of telehealth and other telecommunications technologies for providing behavioral health care services, encourage growth in the diabetes prevention program, and boost payment rates for vaccine administration.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In this world, many of these activities will be accomplished online by virtual providers and non-physician team members who are empowered to manage stable patients via evidence-based protocols and similar rules to help automate their care.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 11, 2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) posted its first ever Global Report on Infection Prevention and Control – Executive Summary on May 6, 2022. This document provides a detailed summary of the content of the WHO global report on infection prevention and control (IPC). This is a 30-page document.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 16, 2023

A caregiver incentive program that increases caregiver productivity and retention while preventing caregiver burnout and improving quality of care for patients. An online occupational health solution that provides primary care health benefits for employees. – Perry. – Vitable Health. – Remote Focus.

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p3care

OCTOBER 30, 2020

For instance, CMS asks physicians to focus on the quality of care rather than the volume of patients. However, with the pandemic, there was no choice left other than catering to the volume of patients while being careful and value-driven to every extent possible. Diabetes: Hemoglobin A1c Poor Control.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 22, 2023

This report: (1) describes actions experts identified that HHS should continue, enhance, or discontinue to improve infection prevention and control practices in nursing homes and (2) compares actions identified by experts with prior recommendations from GAO and others.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

is "aging and stretched thin," with the country needing "thousands more primary care doctors. Our ability to effectively communicate the value of the services we deliver (or the value of any chronic care management program) is pivotal, particularly as these models emphasize outcomes and the quality of care over volume.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

. – This entity integrates Emory’s growing primary care service line and affiliate physician network to expand value-based care (VBC) – a focus on quality and outcomes while containing costs – to more than 350,000 individuals across Georgia. Its reach extends through partnerships with six regional affiliate hospitals, St.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

The Commonwealth Fund’s- methodology covered, Access and affordability Prevention and treatment Avoidable use and cost Healthy lives Reproductive care and women’s health Income disparity, and Racial and ethnic equity. This day marks the one-year anniversary of the overturn of Roe v.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 4, 2022

Care coordination is becoming increasingly important in U.S. healthcare for a variety of reasons, including the increased use of value-based care models, the behavioral care shortage and a boom in home healthcare. For example, when a patient's care goes off-course, home-based providers often are not looped in.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2022

"Physicians commonly prescribe antithrombotic or anticoagulants for these patients to prevent cardiac events such as heart attack and stroke, which may result in hospitalizations and readmissions if patients don't adhere to their medication regimen," said Brian Davis, CIO at Magnolia Regional Health Center.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

India’s healthcare system lacks an outcome-based, preventative approach, and struggles with a physician shortage that leads to long waits, fragmented care, and questionable specialist referrals. WhiteGlove addresses these challenges by focusing on long-term, preventative care and utilizing AI to digitize patient health histories.

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Prevention Quality of Care Integration Healthcare 98

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What You Should Know: In light of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, Talkspace announced the results of its unique AI algorithm over the last three years of identifying individuals at risk of self-harm or suicide.

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Telemedicine Quality of Care Prevention 98

p3care

JULY 30, 2024

Most MIPS quality measures seem to be generalized and specialties are seen scratching their heads. 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. One such specialty is Emergency Medicine (EM).

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Population Health Primary Care Quality of Care Prevention 130

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2024

What You Should Know: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center a nd CVS Accountable Care, part of CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS), today announced the creation of an accountable care organization (ACO) to improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries by Ohio State providers in central Ohio.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 23, 2024

People of color, low-income families, rural residents, and immigrant communities often face a daunting array of barriers that prevent them from accessing quality preventive and diagnostic services. The consequences of these disparities are staggering, especially when it comes to diseases like lung cancer.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

. – This entity integrates Emory’s growing primary care service line and affiliate physician network to expand value-based care (VBC) – a focus on quality and outcomes while containing costs – to more than 350,000 individuals across Georgia. Its reach extends through partnerships with six regional affiliate hospitals, St.

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Population Health Primary Care Healthcare Integration 97

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We didn't want to spend an incredible amount of time searching for patient histories and past results so we could ensure the quality of care we were providing was at the top of the spectrum. It also allows a much more personalized approach to preventative care.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2024

The overarching narrative at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting “From Comfort to Cure,” calls providers to view treatment plans with an emphasis on quality of life. To answer this call, we must implement solutions that enable providers to maintain the quality of life without compromising the quality of care.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As is often the case in today’s healthcare environment, advanced technologies powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are emerging as a potential solution, helping to both prevent falls and accelerate recovery when falls lead to injury – particularly when they can be used in the comfort of the patient’s home.

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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.

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Cloud Blogs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

You'll also find practical use cases for applying AI and data analytics to make healthcare more efficient, including how to: Share and analyze clinical data to deliver targeted health services and improve outcomes through predictive care. Detect and prevent fraudulent claims and other abuses based on behavioral patterns.

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Home Health Care

MAY 30, 2024

Specifically, home-based care – home health services, house calls and other ways of engaging with Medicare beneficiaries in the home – allows UnitedHealth Group and Optum to take a more preventative approach. That, in turn, benefits the company as well as the health care system as a whole, according to Witty.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Comprehensive and Coordinated Care : Array’s collaboration with KeyCare enhances care coordination across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring that patients receive treatment optimized to their mental health needs, irrespective of severity. Prevents unnecessary escalations in treatment.

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