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Top Improvement Strategies for SDOH Programs: Part Two

Lexis Nexis

Health outcomes (e.g., ambulatory care-sensitive condition emergency room visits, readmissions, cost of care) Evaluate the impact of an intervention on a health outcome of interest: Readmission Rates Total Cost of Care Admissions ER visits Hospital acquired conditions Preventable Hospitalizations: Ambulatory Care?Sensitive?Emergency

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

Another key shift that serves as a medical cost trend deflator is the shift in site of care, to homes, community-based care locales, and outpatient healthcare settings such as ambulatory surgery centers. We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S.,

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

The authors suggest that investing more in prevention and health promotion for these groups could improve health outcomes and get to more equitable spending levels. Here, we see that Latino/Hispanic and Black people were more likely to lack an ongoing relationship with a physician or primary care clinic.

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Chronic Care Management and Prevention: How Will the 2015 USPSTF Blood Pressure Screening Guidelines Impact Care Delivery?

Health Dialog

Partnering with community resources known to have excellence in care may be your solution: Community coordinated care programs such as the Rite Aid Health Alliance, which combines trained care coaches who measure BP in a relaxed, non-clinical setting with support from pharmacists on site. Population Health Management.

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Mount Sinai Health tackles digital health inequity with robust RPM program

Healthcare It News

Uncontrolled chronic disease is another issue, said Dr. Robert Fields, executive vice president and chief population health officer. " Care plans include nutrition and physical activity strategies and care coordination services to onboard patients to the program, and in-home devices. Interdisciplinary.

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

NASHP

Health Aff (Millwood) 38 (12): 1993-2002. Health Care Access in Rural Areas: Evidence that Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions in the United States May Increase with the Level Of Rurality.” Health Place. Health Aff (Millwood) 38 (12): 1993-2002. Health Place. 2008.12.007.