Health Blawg

JANUARY 8, 2018

I spoke recently with Cindy Friend , who is Vice President of Clinical Population Health Solutions & Transformation at Caradigm – a GE Healthcare company Twitter: @caradigm. Our conversation focused on the opportunities for improving population health through ACOs. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 14, 2024

This solves a critical problem for nurses and doctors, who currently spend most of their time in administrative and clinical information gathering and still lack access to the most appropriate clinical guidelines or an updated 360-degree view of patient information.

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Health Dialog

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

As we know, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are complex ecosystems and the implementation of new population health management programs can be daunting. Define the ACO’s Population Health Goals: I entered “ Population Health Management ” into Google search and received 430,000 results in 31 seconds.

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Health Dialog

APRIL 1, 2020

Health Dialog is full of devoted employees committed to our mission of helping clients improve population health, reduce costs, and engage patients to make the best decisions about their health. What do you do at Health Dialog? What work did you do before joining Health Dialog?

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Chartis repeats its success as the Overall Healthcare Management Consulting Firm for the fourth year in a row.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In its September RFI, the HELP Committee asked stakeholders for feedback on a number of questions about health data and accountability, including whether accountable entities should have a duty of loyalty to patients and how it could be imposed so as to minimize burdens on those entities.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

How do care management interventions to mitigate SDOH as a risk for undesired health outcomes work? Recently, population health management strategies have begun to incorporate evaluations for patients' social needs connected to SDOH, as well as interventions addressing these needs.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2022

The yearlong study that collected information from over 1,000 agency sites found that home health agencies with registered nurse case manager caseloads under 25 have the highest star ratings for quality of care and patient satisfaction. Driving home health referrals. Source: LeadingAge.

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This is the final post in my three-part series on the successful implementation of Population Care Managers (PCMs) within Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and Patient Centered Medical Home settings. Please join the discussion and let us know how your health system has integrated population health management initiatives.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 19, 2022

. – Together, Curana Health and Innovaccer will build an industry-leading value-based-care toolkit using the Innovaccer Health Cloud. This will not only enhance population health outcomes, but it will also improve health equity for patients and enhance Curana’s provider engagement.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As healthcare organizations experience the profound financial impact of nurse shortages, care guidance is providing an innovative and efficient solution. Remove non-clinical tasks from the workloads of nurses and clinical staff. Reach and manage more patients, maintain their continuity of care.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2022

Dr. Richard Watson is co-founder of Motient, a health IT vendor that equips health systems, accountable care organizations and individual facilities with tools and data designed to help ensure quality in medical transports. The first round of COVID-19 tested the system, while the second round crippled it.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 31, 2023

It has application in value-based care, patient population health, accountable care organizations (ACOs), and health management organizations (HMOs). the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA) to protect patient privacy and confidentiality.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 12, 2023

Validated Veradigm customers report a stronger partnership post-acquisition thanks to executive leadership changes as well as the vendor’s willingness to fix problems, develop the solution, meet regularly, and provide account managers who help organizations meet goals.

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NCQA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The GUIDE model is the first of its kind to address health care costs and target reductions in federal spending on long-term nursing home placement. It offers critical support to individuals living with dementia and their caregivers, to establish ongoing, longitudinal assistance through an interdisciplinary care team.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Scott Cullen, MD, EVP of Strategic Innovation and Chief Clinical Officer at AVIA The rapid growth of America’s senior population presents unique challenges for the healthcare industry. Caring for these seniors accounts for more than one-third of all medical expenditures in the U.S. and nearly 40% of all in-patient hospital encounters.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

Since the start of his career as a primary care, internal medicine physician, Dr. Richard Feifer has sat at the intersection of geriatrics, population health and value-based payment models. We’re focusing a whole lot on palliative care, end-of-life care and advanced care planning, that’s so important for this population.

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GoMoHealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

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. Ability to Foster Trust within Community-Based Organizations and Providers.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Founded in 2015, ConcertoCare deploys physician-led interdisciplinary teams— supported by its proprietary population health platform, Patient3D®, and clinical decision support tools — to manage the country’s most medically and socially complex and costly patients in ways that keep them in their homes and out of the hospital.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 10, 2022

Signify is launching its program with seven inaugural partners, including Medalogix, Quartet Health and ReferWell. We have a team of account managers – a partnership team that helps support them and makes sure we’re doing everything in a really high-fidelity way,” Armbrester said. “We

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 10, 2022

LeadingAge collaborated with national accounting and consulting firm BerryDunn to conduct the yearlong effort collecting data from over 1,000 agency sites in the areas of clinical, operational, and financial best practices as well as technology, palliative care, staffing, and future deliveries of care.

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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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Sheppard Health Law

MAY 16, 2022

ECM benefits are administered by MCPs: Plans identify members in each of the ECM target populations and assign them to “ECM providers” responsible for conducting outreach and for coordinating and managing care across a broad spectrum of physical, behavioral, and social service providers.

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Medi Leadership

AUGUST 11, 2022

Today, the name of the game is population health management, turning the focus to value, teamwork, and coordination of care inside and outside the hospital. It works well for the hospital clinicians, such as hospitalists, nursing, and hospital-based physician services. Their table manners differed a lot!

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

Social drivers of health, which impact a disproportionate number of non-white Americans who live below the poverty line, account for as much as 90% of individuals’ health outcomes. Structural racism and poverty are correlated with a higher incidence of obesity among Black Americans (49%).

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

Payers and providers share goals around emerging healthcare delivery models such as value-based care and accountable care organizations (ACOs). Patient apathy — combined with a lack of proactive attention from care providers — can lead to hospital readmissions, poor health outcomes, and higher healthcare spending.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

ACO Accountable Care Organizations. PH-MCO Physical Health Managed Care Organization. PHW Pandemic Health Worker. RAE Regional Accountable Entity. Rhode Island’s Medicaid Accountable Entities (similar to ACOs) may use funds earned through the Health System Transformation Project Incentive Fund to fund CHW services.

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Health Dialog

JANUARY 5, 2016

Our Population Care Management program places registered nurses, called Population Care Managers (“PCMs”), in primary care practices or within the administrative departments of Accountable Care Organizations (“ACOs”) and Patient Centered Medical Homes. Learn more about how Health Dialog partners with providers.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Generally, these are patients with a skilled nursing level of care, such as senior citizens, medically fragile patients like Mikayla Norman, and patients diagnosed as intellectually and developmentally disabled (IDD). 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 Populi

APRIL 12, 2018

. “To increase the likelihood of prevention to succeed, it has to be a priority for all stakeholders — physicians, nurses, hospital systems, policy makers, health insurance companies, patients and their families, and advocacy groups.”

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

In a nursing facility for over N days? Health Care Law and Consulting. It is important to be able to make mid-course corrections, to improve quality and to reduce waste, and Clarify can do that using both passive and active monitoroing throgh the patient’s smartphone — including using the patient’s location.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

As President of Value-Based Care (VBC) for Conifer Health Solutions, Mary Bacaj is responsible for leading the company’s business unit that delivers population health management and financial risk management services to more than 250 organizations. About Mary Bacaj, Ph.D.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Progress toward accountable care is halting. Jerry Shultz, president of Lightbeam Health, whose population health management platform helps risk-bearing organizations manage the cost and quality demands of value-based reimbursement, would like to see a wholesale effort to improve the care delivery system writ large.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Partnerships are strongest when they are based on a collective impact model, focusing on a common vision and developing shared accountability. 18] This study involved collaboration with accountable care organizations, MCOs, the state Medicaid agency, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders. Leveraging Data and Technology.

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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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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Telehealth has shown great promise to bridge gaps in the areas of rural health and access to specialized care since Regenstrief researcher-clinicians pioneered a decade ago the value of telephone-based care management delivered by nurses for cancer related pain and depression, said Tachinardi of Regenstrief Institute.

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