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How States Are Using Medicaid Authorities to Cover Housing-Related Services

NASHP

States can leverage a variety of Medicaid authorities, including through their state plans, waivers, and managed care arrangements, to cover housing-related services for Medicaid beneficiaries.[1] 1] States considering creating or amending covered housing-related services can draw from numerous approaches.

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How Hospitals Can Overcome the Challenges of Diabetes Management

HIT Consultant

Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, FACP, Chief Medical Officer at Glytec The modern-day hospital is grappling with an alarming trend. This is generating a national conversation among health system leaders on inpatient glycemic management strategies, and whether their facilities are doing enough. The time for change is now.

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Palliative Care: FAQs for State Policymakers

NASHP

Many state health policy leaders are interested in increasing access to palliative care so that people who are seriously ill can get needed care, including support for their caregivers, while avoiding costly, unwanted, or unnecessary care. Throughout the past five years, NASHP, with generous funding from The John A.

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State Policy Considerations to Support Equitable Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs 

NASHP

Children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) require services beyond those needed by children generally, yet they often face difficulties accessing high-quality health care. percent receive care in a well-functioning system, 1 and 44.6 percent receive care in a well-functioning system, 1 and 44.6

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Keeping Families and Patients Updated in the ICU with Cisco’s Video Conferencing Solution

CiscoHealth

The Customer Story blog series highlights how Cisco’s collaboration technology has helped customers solve their business challenges. This utilizes the hospital’s existing Cisco Enterprise Wireless Network in combination with Cisco Webex Meetings and Cisco Webex Devices donated from Cisco Collaboration Business Unit in Galway.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

With President Trump’s somber speech from the Oval Office last night, we wake up on 12th March 2020 to a ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S., Here is a link to the President’s full remarks from the White House website, presented at about 9 pm on 11 March 2020. Note this poll was done three weeks ago from this writing.

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How data transformation can support population health strategies

Cloud Blogs

While many organizations define population health slightly differently, its core aim is to provide an opportunity for leaders in healthcare, agencies, education, and business to work together in order to improve the health outcomes in the communities they serve, all while making an impact to reduce the total cost of care.