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The Benefits of a Stand-Alone Care-Management Program

HIT Consultant

Looking to the future Employer healthcare costs will likely continue rising as our workforce ages and a growing number of employees choose to work past retirement age. Stand-alone programs provide the transparency and analytics necessary to hold program vendors accountable and drive genuine results. According to the U.S.

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Leveraging Personal Health Nurses to Connect the Dots Across the Care Continuum

HIT Consultant

Research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that the number of people who spend $100,000 or more each year on healthcare increased by 50% between 2013 and 2021. Nearly half of all annual healthcare spending in the U.S. comes from just five percent of the population. comes from just five percent of the population.

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Why a Focus on Behavioral Health is Key to Improving Quality Measures

HIT Consultant

healthcare system has been moving towards value-based care (VBC) which encourages health providers to improve care quality by reimbursing them based on successful outcomes rather than individual medical services. Potential economic impact of integrated medical-behavioral healthcare: Updated projections for 2017 , from Milliman.

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Color Raises $100M at $4.6B Valuation to Expand Accessible, Equitable Public Health Infrastructure

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Color , a San Francisco, CA-based health technology company committed to advancing public health, announced a $100 million Series E financing round at a valuation of $4.6 billion led by Kindred Ventures and by certain funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

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Enhancing Physical Therapy With Artificial Intelligence

HIT Consultant

In healthcare, where human interaction is critical, AI continues to ingrain itself within the patient-clinician relationship at a breathtaking pace. Now, we are seeing what many in healthcare view as an alarming trend: an increase in the automation of tasks previously done by human hands.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

Health is determined by many factors in our own hands, and in forces around us: physical environment, built environment, and public policy. These are the social determinants of health, but knowing them even for the N of 1 patient isn’t quite enough to help the healthcare industry move the needle on outcomes and costs.

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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare It News

These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Welcome to the third installment in Healthcare IT News ' latest feature series, "Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years." Investing in consolidation.