HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Rich Steinle, Carium CEO Despite positive proof points, the expansion of virtual care and remote patient engagement strategies – including RPM – continues to be hampered by misconceptions among potential users and misalignment of financial incentives among providers and payers.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Healthcare spending is projected to exceed $6 trillion by 2028 , largely driven by rising costs of care for an aging population and the growing number of Americans suffering from chronic physical conditions such as pulmonary disease, diabetes and hypertension. Sheila Talton, CEO of Gray Matter Analytics.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Americans might run on Dunkin’ — but the healthcare industry runs on data, specifically structured and unstructured data. SDOH includes a variety of non-clinical factors impacting an individual’s health, including education, healthcare access, neighborhoods and built environments, social community and socioeconomic status.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 24, 2022

What You Should Know: – Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of the next AWS Healthcare Accelerator—this year with a new focus on health equity. Tackle Health Disparities. based operations through a four-week technical, business, and mentorship program. Recent AWS Health Equity Initiative Projects.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to Africa CDC, as of September 2022, Africa, the second most-populated continent, has only vaccinated 21% of its people; an inadequate number In comparison to other populated countries such as India (65%) and China (89%). Health resources are unevenly distributed and often of poor quality.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2024

These factors can significantly impact their ability to effectively manage their condition and achieve optimal health outcomes. As detailed in a recent brief from the Center for Health Care Strategies, HRSN are prevalent among Medicaid beneficiaries, particularly those living with chronic conditions like IRD.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The New York State Health Home program is designed for the neediest Medicaid patients and aims to reduce overall healthcare costs by decreasing inpatient costs (and utilization) by addressing social determinants of health such as housing, transportation and food. " Dr. Sumir Sahgal, Essen Health Care.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Rich Steinle, Carium CEO Despite positive proof points, the expansion of virtual care and remote patient engagement strategies – including RPM – continues to be hampered by misconceptions among potential users and misalignment of financial incentives among providers and payers.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Virtua Health's successful "get human fast" online engagement platform propelled patients to interact with staff and clinicians expanded to virtual consultations, chatbots and RPM. The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Over recent years, the virtual speech therapy delivery model has intersected with a host of healthcare disruptions — value-based care delivery, the COVID-19 pandemic and the influence of social determinants of health (SDoH) have reshaped healthcare delivery. They also experience poorer health and depression.

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GoMoHealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Partnering with Managed Care Organizations and Provider Networks to reduce costs and better manage utilization of health services. By Nakecia Taffa, Quality Improvement and Health Equity Director for GoMo Health. This led me to GoMo Health, where we create, activate and scale these improvements daily.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2022

The fastest way to access healthcare in the United States isn’t through a primary care physician or urgent care or orchestrated referrals processes. It comes through three taps of a button: Nine, one, and one. So how can providers optimize and ensure that patients not only have easier paths to care?

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Etactics

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s important that as the population around us changes, our social and economic systems in healthcare do as well. In this blog, we break down what cultural competency is and explain 10 reasons why it’s important for healthcare organizations. When you hear the word “culture”, what comes to mind? Why is this the case?

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

To do this well, clinicians need to understand the whole person and the context in which they live — their race, gender identity, native language, socioeconomic status, or zip code, among other things — to ensure equitable care. Yet, health inequities abound in our healthcare systems.

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

This report is one section of of Healthy People, Healthy States: Promising Practices to Address Health Disparities. High-quality data and an intentional data strategy are foundational to identifying disparities and unmet needs, shaping policies to improve the health of all residents, and selecting and monitoring progress toward goals.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

Healthcare, however, has been an outlier in this regard. While the healthcare digital transformation has been in play for years, it’s still taken longer for the paradigm shift to gain momentum. Healthcare stakeholders have long relied on paper-based processes. Healthcare stakeholders have long relied on paper-based processes.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Michael Pattwell, Principal Consultant, Value-Based Care at Edifecs. Amid the difficulties of the last year, a bright spot has emerged that may provide a strong indication of renewed movement toward the transformation of the healthcare industry that we know today. Building a Foundation for Value-Based Care.

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Twistle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Clinical trials are essential to identify better ways to detect and treat diseases, improve management and survival of chronic conditions, and more. The 2020 Drug Trial Snapshots Summary Report found that in 2019, 72% of clinical trial participants were white, even though they only make up 60% of the population.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 28, 2022

The results are one example of the gains that can be made in addressing health inequities—differences in health status or distribution of health resources by race, population, gender, income and more—by exploring the nuances that perpetuate disparities in health outcomes. Digging Deeper into Disparities in Care.

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NASHP

JULY 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated long-standing challenges for states in providing access to high-quality home and community-based services (HCBS).[1] The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated long-standing challenges for states in providing access to high-quality home and community-based services (HCBS).[1]

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NASHP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This report is one section of State Actions to Build the Behavioral Health Crisis Continuum. To ensure effective crisis care, it is crucial to integrate essential principles throughout the crisis service delivery system. See the full resource guide.

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Sheppard Health Law

MAY 16, 2022

Except as noted below, the requirements of the Final Rule are effective January 1, 2024. The Final Rule also requires D-SNPs to consult with their enrollee advisory committees on various issues, including ways to improve access to covered services, coordination of services, and health equity for underserved populations.

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Icanotes

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A patient portal is an excellent resource for patients, allowing them to access their health records, communicate with providers, and accomplish other tasks related to their care — but what about your practice? How does a portal help you offer better care or ease administrative challenges? Table of Contents.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 13, 2021

State Strategies to Increase Diversity in the Behavioral Health Workforce December 13, 2021/ By Mia Antezzo, Jodi Manz, Eliza Mette, and Kitty Purington. States are increasingly engaging in efforts to address behavioral health workforce shortages. among white individuals, but increased 5.9% among Latinx individuals and 40.3%

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Icanotes

MARCH 28, 2023

As a mental health therapist, treating patients with suicidal thoughts can be very intense and distressing, which is why it's important to know how to identify risk factors, symptoms and signs. Tips for Working With a Client Experiencing Suicidal Ideation Suicidal ideation refers to any thoughts, feelings or visualization of one's suicide.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 21, 2022

With the country’s aging population comes a reality for many family members: the role of caregiver, providing a range of often complex and time-consuming supports to a relative, friend, or neighbor. Family caregivers are an essential component of the country’s health care system, providing about $470 billion in unpaid health care services.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Lessons for Advancing and Sustaining State Community Health Worker Partnerships December 15, 2021 / By Elinor Higgins, Elaine Chhean, Sandra Wilkniss, Hemi Tewarson. Community health workers (CHWs) are one critical segment of the community-based workforce and are increasingly central to state workforce and equity planning.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

Primary care in the U.S. On one hand, the value of primary care physicians has never been higher. The evidence of that is in the tens of billions of dollars of investment in healthcare – more than $39 billion invested in the sector last year alone, with a notable focus on primary care. primary care today?

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 18, 2021

Before shifting gears to telemedicine, the technology infrastructure of Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex in McComb, Mississippi, was very old and extremely limited. Further, the older equipment did not make the best use of the broadband the organization was using through USAC funding. THE PROBLEM.

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

You are viewing one section of the Public Health Modernization Toolkit. Figure 1 displays a consolidated overview of the “Framework for Public Health-Health Care System Collaboration.” A precondition of sustaining these partnerships is sustained investment in state and local public health capacity.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Pennsylvania's Geisinger health system faces several challenges common to the healthcare industry, such as improving access to care, recruiting and retaining providers, and scaling technologies for rapid deployment across multiple campuses and dozens of medical specialties. THE PROBLEM.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Health equity – or the lack thereof – is one of the biggest challenges facing US healthcare organizations today. Through these actions, one could synthesise health inequities’ leading causes and effects. The statistics are staggering.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Ross, President of SSM Health Foundation. Community health is more than how someone’s physical health needs are being met. It involves all the physical, social, and environmental factors — access to nutritious food, stable income and housing, education opportunities, and more.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 22, 2024

What You Should Know: – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken a bold step towards improving care for individuals with both mental health conditions and substance use disorders (SUD), announcing the “ Innovation in Behavioral Health (IBH)” Model.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 10, 2022

The advisory committee would be required to have a reasonably representative sample of enrollees of the population enrolled in the D-SNP or other individuals representing those enrollees. This proposal intends to ensure enrollees are engaged in defining, designing, participating in, and assessing their care systems.

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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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HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2022

No one would argue that a crisis is looming for healthcare professionals and their employers. We asked 22 healthcare and health sciences leaders for their thoughts; here’s what they said. Critical care workers are all human. How can clinical caregivers ease the corrosive effects of grief on their lives?

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