HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

By one estimate, healthcare improvements accounted for one-third of the economic growth of developed nations over the last century. However, actual medical care accounts for 20% or less of what affects population health. By comparing quality-of-care data with population, income, and ethnicity across the U.S.,

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CMS’s strategic refresh initiative aims to meet five objectives: drive accountable care, advance health equity, support care innovations, improve access and affordability, and establish partnerships to achieve these objectives. These models encourage providers to work together to coordinate care with a focus on quality.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

They were expected to provide a digital hub that would enable seamless communication and information sharing between providers, boost efficiency, improve the quality of care, and foster optimal patient and clinician experiences. Ultimately, the patient-provider relationship suffers, as does the quality of care.

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Accountable Care Doctors

JUNE 14, 2021

These insights were shared at the keynote discussion, “Leveraging Employer-Provider Partnerships to Curb Rising Health Care Costs and Improve Outcomes” at the World Health Care Congress (WHCC), held June 8?–?10. We are ready to move beyond ACOs and bundled payments in the journey to value-based care.”. Dr. Stephen Parodi.

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Accountable Care Doctors

JUNE 14, 2021

These insights were shared at the keynote discussion, “Leveraging Employer-Provider Partnerships to Curb Rising Health Care Costs and Improve Outcomes” at the World Health Care Congress (WHCC), held June 8?–?10. We are ready to move beyond ACOs and bundled payments in the journey to value-based care.”. Dr. Stephen Parodi.

Primary Care 52

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

However, “an app for everything” mentality has significant downsides, namely a complex and disjointed patient experience – and arguably, does not result in better quality of care. An integrated, systems and requirements-driven digital approach will put the whole patient back at the center of the digital ecosystem. A Way Forward.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

States are hoping to achieve a number of goals with their MLTSS programs, including increasing access to home and community-based services, promoting care coordination, enhancing quality and beneficiary satisfaction, and mitigating cost growth.

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Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 14, 2023

In hospitals, where patient experience is important and quality of care is non-negotiable, a subtle yet profound practice has emerged as a catalyst for positive change: Executive Leadership Rounds. Unpacking Leadership Rounds: Leadership Rounds is a dynamic practice in hospitals that brings leaders, staff, and together.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

health care financing regime of volume-based payment didn’t fare well as millions of patients postponed or cancelled procedures and visits for fear of contracting the virus in the halls, offices and clinics of hospitals and doctor’s offices. hospitals were losing $1.4 hospitals were losing $1.4 In other words, the U.S.

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GoMoHealth

JULY 7, 2021

Simply put, value-based care seeks to reduce spending while improving treatment outcomes. It ties reimbursement for treatment to the quality of care provided and rewards providers for both efficiency and effectiveness. How GoMo Health Facilitates Value-Based Care in Various Diseases. Learn More.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 15, 2021

CMMI was created through the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Its goal: to move toward a more value-based system in order to curb costs and improve the quality of care. Broadly, HHVBP is a Medicare demonstration that aims to tie reimbursement to quality of care.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

From communication between a provider and a patient, to diagnosis and treatment, to follow-up care and pain management, the patient/provider interaction is integral to obtaining access to quality health care.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 10, 2024

Consequently, the competition for potential candidates is intense, with agencies often competing against other industries like retail and hospitality to attract and retain staff. We have meticulously designed our technology to drive operational efficiencies by integrating with the diverse technologies that agencies already use.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Keeping patients safe is the top priority for hospitals, health systems, and other healthcare organizations across the globe. Unfortunately, this can become a cumbersome approach that drastically impacts the pace and quality of care – not to mention potentially introducing dangerous misconfigurations that can lead to attacks.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The “National Forum on Advancing High-Quality, Equitable Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs” centered on two key topics for improving care coordination systems for CYSHCN: integrated care coordination and the care coordination workforce.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 1, 2022

Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) are a new provider type established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 to address the growing concern over closures of rural hospitals. Critical Access Hospitals. For more information on Rural Emergency Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation, visit: [link].

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

2021) defines multiple chronic conditions (MCC) are as “the co-occurrence of two or more chronic physical or mental health conditions” Why do policymakers, payers and clinicians care so much about patients with MCC? 88% of individuals hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 infection had MCC. Bierman et al. Health disparities.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Best in KLAS: Inpatient Clinical Care 340B Management Systems PharmaForce 340B Acute Care EMR: Large ( >400 Beds) Epic EpicCare Inpatient EMR Acute Care EMR: Midsize (151–400 Beds) Epic EpicCare Inpatient EMR Acute Care EMR: Small (1–150 Beds) MEDITECH Expanse Acute Care EMR Automated Dispensing Cabinets BD Pyxis MedStation ES Clinical Communications: (..)

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community.

Medicaid 52

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

State leaders play a critical role in convening key internal and external partners, implementing engagement and input processes that foster shared ownership and accountability toward goals at the state and community levels.

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NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

State health reform efforts increasingly focus on providing comprehensive and well-coordinated care to people with serious illness to improve quality of care and drive down costs. Reach out to state professional and hospital associations. Use the state’s palliative care task force as a resource.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2022

Technology solutions can be a key component of keeping a clinician accountable to themselves. It also means not allowing cultural norms to dictate how patients are cared for. For example, a health facility shouldn’t continue to send a certain type of patient to a tertiary hospital just because that’s the way it has always handled it.

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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

MARCH 24, 2023

These biases erode quality of care and access for underrepresented patients, in turn leading to a lack of trust in, and even fear of, the healthcare system as well as lowering participation by POC in their healthcare journey. Uneven quality and experience: Stark differences in the quality of care exist between races.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Children’s Hospital and the Stollery Children’s Hospital. Maren Batalden, MD, MPH: the Chief Quality Officer at the Cambridge Health Alliance, an integrated community health system serving seven towns in metro-northwest Boston, Massachusetts, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A chronically ill enrollee is defined as an MA member with one or more complex chronic conditions, who is at risk for hospitalization or other adverse health outcomes, and who requires intensive care coordination.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 2, 2024

Health Care Entities Under SB 184, “health care entities”, which include (i) payers , (ii) providers and (iii) fully integrated delivery systems [2] , are potentially subject to OHCA’s CMIR authority. Who is subject to the CMIR process?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’re looking forward to hearing about the acceleration of technology-driven performance and accountability in healthcare. This could include continuous glucose monitoring devices that are integrated with mobile apps and better pulse oximetry and cardiac rhythm detection built into wearables.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Serious illness is “a health condition that carries a high risk of mortality and either negatively impacts a person’s daily function or quality of life or excessively strains the caregiver.”. Rhode Island is another state that has invested in coordinated care for complex populations enrolled in Medicaid. The state and U.S.

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NASHP

JUNE 22, 2022

This section of the guide outlines considerations, examples, and resources for: Identifying stakeholders and establishing partnerships across care coordination and child-serving systems. Assessing care coordination system capacity, gaps, and process improvements. Financing care coordination systems. Meet quality requirements.

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NASHP

MAY 17, 2022

In response to the growing recognition of the value of investing in strategies that better serve children in or at-risk of out-of-home placement, a number of federal initiatives have emerged, resulting in significant changes to child welfare and spurring renewed efforts to better integrate care across child-serving systems. [5]

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

iii] Also, those living in rural areas are more likely to experience a preventable hospitalization. [iv] Lack of Access to Specialists Associated with Mortality and Preventable Hospitalizations of Rural Medicare Beneficiaries.” Regional accountable entities. Joynt Maddox. Health Aff (Millwood) 38 (12): 1993-2002. Oklahoma*.

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Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Together they discuss the role that cost awareness plays in patient care and the need for positive operating margins in healthcare. Lisa notes: ‘ ’It’s a huge myth that most hospitals are making lots of money. This episode is sponsored by VIE Healthcare Consulting ® which has proudly helped hospitals save $758 million since 1999.

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