Hospital mergers led to diminished quality of care, Elevance study finds
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 2, 2023
The study from the Blues payer is the latest finding hospital acquisitions lead to increased readmissions and higher costs for patients.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona launches subsidiary it hopes will improve quality of care
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 30, 2023
When Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona launched Prosano Health Solutions in January for its approximately 1,800 employees, the insurer seems to have liked the results because it now plans to offer | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona launched Prosano Health Solutions in January for use by about 1,800 of the insurer’s employees.
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3 healthcare CIOs share top industry challenges
Health Care Dive
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Healthcare CIOs help companies maintain the quality of care, balance costs, keep critical IT infrastructure up and running and attract enough talent to meet innovation goals.
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MA enrollees have fewer hospitalizations, Harvard study finds
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have better quality of care and health outcomes than traditional fee-for-service counterparts, researchers from Harvard Medical School found.
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FTC tells states to avoid shielding hospital mergers from antitrust enforcement
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 16, 2022
A report released Monday compiles research that shows arrangements, called Certificates of Public Advantage, result in higher prices, lower quality of care and lower wage growth for employees.
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Patients of color disproportionately suffer adverse health events, regardless of hospital safety ratings
Health Care Dive
JUNE 7, 2023
Rather than suggesting problems with individual hospitals, the data points to a “systemic issue impacting the quality of care for Black and Hispanic patients and those with public insurance plans,” according to a new Leapfrog report.
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Morgan Health: How employers can take a greater role in improving care quality
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 31, 2023
Employers fund huge swaths of the healthcare system, yet the quality of care their employees receive varies widely. Employers fund huge swaths of the healthcare system, and yet the quality of care their employees receive varies widely, a new study shows.
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Compliantly supercharge your hospital’s bottom line
Health Care Dive
JUNE 3, 2024
Transforming your hospital's Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) program from a cost center to a strategic center can enhance financial performance, mitigate risks and improve overall quality of care.
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How bad "cognitive ergonomics" can drain doctors' brainpower
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Poor "cognitive ergonomics" adds to physician overload, affecting well-being and quality of care
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Advocate Health, Mount Sinai among 10 big health systems in Transcarent provider network
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
We’re talking about the highest quality of care enabled by better processes," added Dr. Randy Hawkins, Transcarent's chief medical officer. Hawkins called the benefits of cost-effective coordination and value-based care incentives the platform aims to provide a "win-win" for employers and health systems.
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Patient data and insights to enable value-based care and improve payment integrity
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Value-based care is emerging in the healthcare ecosystem, largely due to its ability to offer benefits for everyone from patients to physicians to payers. With the power of data and analytics, users can track and improve patient outcomes and control healthcare costs while delivering better quality of care.
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Healthcare applications for private cellular networks
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The mandates of improving quality of care and lowering costs mean that hospital IT directors should consider deploying new, private 5G networks. Today, many hospitals rely on Wi-Fi and public cellular for connectivity even though the limits of current Wi-Fi solutions are being reached.
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Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 10, 2023
The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. Email: afox@himss.org.
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Majority of burned-out clinical support staff point to patient communications as the culprit
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 14, 2021
"With providers increasingly entering value-based contracts with payers, quality of care and patient experience have never been more important," observed report authors. ON THE RECORD. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich. Email: kjercich@himss.org.
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CommonSpirit still working to restore EHR systems after ransomware attack confirmed
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 14, 2022
"Patients continue to receive the highest quality of care, and we are providing relevant updates on the ongoing situation to our patients, employees and caregivers. Patient care remains our utmost priority and we apologize for any inconvenience this matter has created," CommonSpirit officials maintain.
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Telehealth, virtual care well-suited for use in behavioral health
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 25, 2021
As Rish pointed out, however, it’s not just about access--it’s about training care providers who go into the homes, as well as the beneficiaries themselves, to get comfortable with these technologies and to establish trust in them. " Rish said.
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DirectTrust partners with DTA on new accreditation program
Healthcare It News
JUNE 7, 2024
clinicians, provider systems, health plans, employers, and patients are evaluating how to best incorporate DTx products into their care plans to provide the highest quality of care," said Molnar. " ON THE RECORD "As the digital therapeutics industry grows, an increasing number of U.S.
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Srisawan Hospital pursues further digitalisation through partnerships with GE Healthcare, InterSystems
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Srisawan Hospital, a private tertiary healthcare provider in Thailand, is stepping up on its digitalisation efforts to further raise its quality of care provision and hospital experience.
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New study proves the efficacy of telepsychiatry for anxiety and depression
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Since the pandemic forced providers to immediately switch to virtual appointments, most of the initial focus in telepsychiatry care centered on increasing access for those living in rural areas and underserved minority populations. Right now, just 10.4%
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Covenant Health advances hospital-at-home program
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
For hospitalized patients, telehealth has also expanded critical care services and implementation of tele-ICU across the east Tennessee region , Chris Skinner, vice president of clinical informatics, told Healthcare IT News in November.
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Transport Accident Commission taps The Clinician to harness patient-generated data
Healthcare It News
JULY 6, 2023
TAC, which supports people injured in transport accidents, just launched the Enhanced Recovery Program to raise the quality of care and improve the outcomes for their clients. Based on a media release, the programme will leverage The Clinician's ZEDOC platform to gather and analyse PROMs and PREMs.
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University Hospitals puts a bow on new Epic EHR rollout
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Training and preparing nearly 30,000 caregivers has been a monumental effort, and when we went 'live' they were supported by over 6,000 personnel to ensure that our caregivers are equipped to deliver exceptional quality of care even during this transition. Our patients deserve it."
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MACRA MIPS – What it Means for Physicians?
p3care
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Not only that, but it determines the quality of care within hospitals, practices, and clinics should meet certain standards. The quality category replaced the PQRS (Physician Quality Reporting System) and reflects the efforts to improve the quality of care. Improvement Activities (IA).
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Roundup: Sheba Medical Center launches remote monitoring program, ORCHA creates digital health academy and more
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.” ” Digital transformation in community health services needs backing, says report.
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Bot MD powers data collection, enhances doctor experience in Indonesia
Healthcare It News
MARCH 17, 2023
Adopting an AI chatbot will help scale its data collection across a range of clinical conditions, as well as benchmark and measure patient outcomes across its hospitals, which ultimately informs clinicians in improving their quality of care.
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Cognizant and Microsoft collaborate on new cloud offerings
Healthcare It News
APRIL 7, 2023
ON THE RECORD "Delivering leading technology to our healthcare clients is critical in enabling payers and providers to focus more time on supporting quality of care for beneficiaries," said Gummadi in the statement.
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Verizon Business and Visionable team up to empower next generation healthcare with 5G
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Technologies such as private 5G, have the potential to shift the landscape around how healthcare is delivered; empowering professionals, sharing intelligence and improving the quality of care they provide,” Scott Lawrence, group vice president, Verizon Business EMEA said.
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How hospitals should engage in the 'information war'
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
"While top-tier digital performance doesn’t necessarily imply top-tier quality of care or vice versa … the elevated status of being a top-tier healthcare provider now comes with the opportunity to achieve outsized digital performance at scale – one which did not exist until recently," said Chevalier.
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At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload
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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Speedoc to deliver home healthcare for Parkway Shenton
Healthcare It News
JULY 13, 2023
ON THE RECORD "We are taking huge steps into delivering on our promise to build and strengthen the health of our communities… By leveraging technology, we are able to scale our services without compromising quality of care.
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Vendor notebook: New AI tools to cut billing burdens, improve testing and more
Healthcare It News
MAY 12, 2023
"Dave provides smart, personalized and accessible information instantaneously, which can greatly improve the quality of care and life for millions of patients worldwide."
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Western Australia pursuing healthcare generative AI and more briefs
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 19, 2023
"This technology involves uncertainties and risks, but also has the potential to dramatically increase efficiency, improve the quality of care, and create value for health care organisations," WA Medical Research Minister Stephen Dawson said about generative AI.
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The future of telemedicine: purpose-built, integrated platforms
Healthcare It News
MARCH 1, 2022
Patient adoption requires having a frictionless user experience that delivers a high quality of care. Providers also need an excellent user experience with integrations that allow them to deliver uncompromised quality in a more streamlined and integrated manner.
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Taking a patient-centric approach to value-based care
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients.
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WELL Health, OSIS bring communications tech to community health centers
Healthcare It News
APRIL 21, 2022
"The deep expertise of the OSIS team paired with WELL Health’s innovative solution will help our members increase the quality of care and positively advance outcomes in the modern age of community healthcare," Heaton said. THE LARGER TREND.
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Epic and UW research: Healthcare AI must be equitable, transparent, regulated
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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UnityPoint Health pins hopes on interoperable digital health platform for patients
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 15, 2021
"Through the convenience of the all-in-one platform, UnityPoint Health expects an increase in virtual visit utilization, reduced call center volumes and a higher percentage of closed care gaps," Warrens said. UnityPoint Health will leverage b.well to improve the efficiency of value-based care initiatives, he added.
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Rauland equips care hotel in Adelaide with safety monitoring, fall detection devices
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 15, 2021
In the push for a digitally enabled care model, stakeholders in the aged care sector emphasised that quality of care must remain a top priority. For a wider uptake, technology must supplement and improve healthcare provision and should not replace face-to-face care delivery. ON THE RECORD.
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Does ChatGPT really outshine doctors? Or just on social media?
Healthcare It News
MAY 4, 2023
When we asked how critical is human interaction in patient-doctor messaging, either through patient portals or telehealth, McNerney said there is not a lot of research on the quality of care delivered through online interactions and raised the issue of context.
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Getting the basics of digitalisation down with webPAS
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Pragmatic Clinicals - Provide your VMOs and clinicians via their mobile devices, a secure, auditable, clinical module allowing clinical staff to better manage vital patient data, improve quality of care, save time, and increase workflow efficiency.
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What’s ONC-certified health IT? Why Do We Require it for MIPS 2023 Reporting?
p3care
JULY 2, 2023
Afterward, they implement strategies to enhance the quality of care they deliver. Also, it enables quality reporting and performance improvement and enhances eligibility for incentive payments. They can improve the quality of care and contribute to the goal of advancing healthcare outcomes for Medicare patients.
An inside look at AdventHealth's powerful telemedicine program
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
"For the inpatient setting, we have been able to reduce time to care for patients requiring consults, and for those needing assessments prior to transfers," she said.
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How telehealth can keep people with disabilities out of the ER
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
CIOs and health IT leaders should not and must not compromise on the quality of care that is performed remotely. For many with disabilities, virtual visits that only utilize audio and visual capabilities are not sufficient, especially if they have a specific disability that affects their speech, hearing, mobility or sight.
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Remote patient monitoring in an app boosts quality at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Healthcare It News
JUNE 24, 2022
" The goal was to bring more value to the patient and improve the quality of care through virtual care and remote monitoring. We wanted to provide an app that patients liked to use as a part of their weight management experience."
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