Healthcare It News

MAY 17, 2022

The pandemic has shone a spotlight on longstanding issues with healthcare inequities due to underlying social determinants of health issues, such as living in a food desert, a lack of reliable transportation and unequal access to care. How can healthcare provider organizations surface key SDOH insights about their patient populations?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Unlocking data silos using Federated Computing (FC) has the potential to achieve a positive impact across the healthcare industry, ranging from clinical care quality improvement and accreditation to population health management, precision public health and equitable drug development.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Michael Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value-Based Care, Edifecs While the need to address social determinants of health (SDOH) is definitely not new, 2023 marks the first year SDOH is codified into national and statewide value-based payment program mandates.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

For example, a healthcare organization might wish to improve its mammogram screening rate by 15%. Further, analytics and data can inform healthcare providers and payers about where patients' most significant gaps in care lie, both at the ZIP code level and within discrete age ranges.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 3, 2023

It is no coincidence that the intensifying interest in SDOH over the past five years has paralleled the growing interest among providers and payers in value-based care (VBC) models. The ultimate aim of VBC is to improve patient outcomes while lowering healthcare costs. Understanding and accounting for the impact of SDOH are keys.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2023

They work closely with the individual to enhance their health literacy and guide them through the healthcare system and its benefits. This connection fosters accountability and support for the employee’s everyday needs.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 31, 2023

According to the National Library of Medicine, patient engagement involves developing and fostering a collaborative patient-provider relationship to actively engage healthcare consumers in their decisions. the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA) to protect patient privacy and confidentiality.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Challenges in Medical Data Management The healthcare sector contains an abundance of confidential information related to patients, medical procedures, treatments, and population health. Regularly communicate with healthcare providers even after the completion of the project and product release.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Resolving Barriers to Care As healthcare organizations prioritize to deliver equitable, patient-centric care they must consider the full spectrum of a patient’s condition, including non-clinical factors and socioeconomic characteristics that influence their ability to access, receive and adhere to care.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2022

No doubt, rural healthcare currently is facing many challenges, such as lack of bed availability – even as COVID-19 decreases. You suggest it's a priority for healthcare provider organization CIOs to get the data required to ensure sustainable quality in medical transports. And how can they do that?

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2023

Both providers and health plans can use generative AI to assist customer support agents and enhance patient/member support and self-service. Customer experience is critical Contact centers are key to delivering a superior customer experience (CX) – the kind of experience that influence loyalty to healthcare providers and health plans.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2023

The High Cost of Poor Behavioral Healthcare A recent study indicates 10% of patients account for 70% of the nation’s costs and that more than half of these patients have a diagnosed mental health disorder. It’s a question that has significant implications for quality of care as well as cost.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2023

The quality of these healthcare services is measured by patient outcomes that are based on metrics such as rate of hospital readmission, timeliness of care, and overall patient satisfaction. Population Health Management Tools Another health IT needs includes improvements to current population health management (PHM) tools on the market.

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GoMoHealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Ability to Foster Trust within Community-Based Organizations and Providers. By addressing both social and personal determinates of health, we are not only able to bridge the divide in population health, but we can also go a long way toward advancing health equity in some of our most vulnerable populations.

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NASHP

JULY 11, 2022

Although efforts to modernize and strengthen public health systems pre-date COVID-19, the pandemic revealed new urgency and opportunities for states to invest in public health infrastructure and craft new approaches advancing population health goals.

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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. Click here to access all the features.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Since the beginning of healthcare’s digital revolution, organizations have been striving to achieve the Triple Aim of healthcare: better outcomes, lower costs, and improved patient experiences. Meeting heightened expectations in a hybrid health IT landscape. Firstly, patient satisfaction is a hard concept to quantify.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

By working with healthcare providers and payers to integrate NEMT benefits into existing programs and systems, we can provide high-quality transportation services to our most vulnerable populations.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Specifically, these SDoH stressors include access to healthy foods, living-wage employment, housing instability, crimes/violence and health literacy/access. Such factors account for about 80% of healthcare delivery and cost influences. But this level was up noticeably from nearly 0% before the pandemic.

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Twistle

JULY 9, 2021

And, when expanded across service lines, can help build a data-driven strategy for improving overall population health. By leveraging these digital technologies and patients’ growing comfort with telehealth, health systems can achieve a significant competitive advantage. Greater Patient Accountability.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The five strategic objectives for advancing this systemwide transformation include (1) Drive Accountable Care, (2) Advance Health Equity, (3) Support Innovation, (4) Address Affordability, and (5) Partner to Achieve System Transformation. Strategic Objective 1: Drive Accountable Care.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 24, 2022

Recent projects already funded by the AWS Health Equity Initiative include: Vodafone Foundation and Touch Foundation connect pregnant women to emergency care in rural Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for two out of three maternal deaths globally related to complications from pregnancy and childbirth.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Health outcomes and Medicaid program integrity Health outcomes are a function of the quality of care. Healthcare providers willing to commit fraud often do so at the expense of quality care. By nature, the goal of fraud analytics aims to seek out rare occurrences; only a small percentage of providers commit fraud.

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Health Dialog

MARCH 22, 2016

A simple online search can instantly deliver answers to everyday health and chronic disease questions, and the use of social networking sites (such as Facebook) provide a platform for individuals to share how they cope with chronic conditions. If a provider cannot meet that need, they will find the information elsewhere.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

The patient journey along the care map is now more important as a business matter to healthcare providers that are involved in value-based payment contracting (bundled payments and otherwise). As a result, healthcare providers are now more interested in workflow optimization, in care journey optimization.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 27, 2021

They are self-sufficient and reliable, keeping doctors and healthcare providers confident that they will listen to their instructions. Out of the four personas, this group is least likely to prioritize their healthcare, taking a more passive role when it comes to exercise or following the doctor’s orders.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The passing of the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 shows the federal government’s commitment to health equity, emphasizing the importance of increasing access to quality healthcare for all citizens, regardless of location or socioeconomic status.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

The patient journey along the care map is now more important as a business matter to healthcare providers that are involved in value-based payment contracting (bundled payments and otherwise). As a result, healthcare providers are now more interested in workflow optimization, in care journey optimization.

Healthcare 60

Healthcare Healthcare Innovation Hospitals Healthcare Providers 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

The patient journey along the care map is now more important as a business matter to healthcare providers that are involved in value-based payment contracting (bundled payments and otherwise). As a result, healthcare providers are now more interested in workflow optimization, in care journey optimization.

Healthcare 60

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NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The map identifies state approaches for Medicaid reimbursement of CHW services and the chart provides details about other ways that states are supporting a CHW workforce. ACO Accountable Care Organizations. PH-MCO Physical Health Managed Care Organization. PHW Pandemic Health Worker. RAE Regional Accountable Entity.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

1 return on investment The bottom line It is unlikely that healthcare premiums will come down anytime soon. Conifer VBC is uniquely positioned as a partner to employers and unions, risk-bearing healthcare providers and health plans.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

"As a result, we will continue to leverage our vendor-provided telemedicine capabilities and augment these capabilities with customized application development efforts to maximize the patient-clinician telemedicine experience," he said. Investing in consolidation.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (the Medicaid program administrator) does not specifically require the Regional Accountable Entities (RAEs), care coordinating entities contracted with Colorado’s Medicaid program, or other managed care entities to cover CHW services, nor does the Department pay for CHW services under FFS.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 7, 2023

Additionally, digitized health records have been used to make patient information more easily accessible, first to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and HITECH mandates, and now, increasingly, to meet the 21st Century Cures Act ‘Final Rule’ mandate, requiring timely and standardized access to all patient data.

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