Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. A framework for tactical action.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 14, 2024

Besides being all the rage in the industry, digital transformation is a key component to the strategy of forward-leaning hospitals and health systems today. This is one of the most important topics healthcare CIOs and other C-suite and health IT leaders can be talking about today.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the American Hospital Association said the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights rule regarding the use of online tracking tools is at odds with existing HIPAA rules and could cause meaningful harm to patients and public health.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2022

From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. News As crisis mode ends, hospitals renew focus on the patient experience Speakers at HIMSS22's Patient Experience Forum discuss the future of the caregiver and patient.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

hospitals have been working to improve the rate of nosocomial infections in America, there is a long way to go. hospitals still contracts an HAI, the Group’s recent report on HAIs attested. Now, digitally track that information through the patient’s journey during a hospital stay. One in 25 patients in U.S.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Achieving health equity presents an urgent challenge that demands attention from all stakeholders. However, actual medical care accounts for 20% or less of what affects population health. hospitals screen patients for the social determinants of health and other markers. And only 25% of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. They also handle large volumes of data effortlessly within their hospitals.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

doctors felt burned out, with the specialties detailed here. And 8 in 10 doctors felt burnout before the start of COVID-19. At the top of the list of stressors was the same issue hurting physician well-being last year: too many bureaucratic tasks, felt by 58% of the surveyed doctors. Four in ten U.S. I have become the typist.”

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Gary Hamilton, CEO, InteliChart Seldom do people receive as much important information as quickly as they do during doctor’s visits and hospital stays. The survey also found that 24% of patients don’t understand all the information their doctor provides and 31% won’t even remember it immediately following an appointment.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. What are some of the challenges facing successful population health management programs today? More and more organizations are looking for ways to improve the health of the populations they serve.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 27, 2023

As these goals and digital investments progress, the once golden standard of optimizing healthcare performance has shifted from the Triple Aim (enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, and lowering costs) to the Quadruple Aim, which factors the clinician’s well-being into the equation.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A narrow scope means you won’t be able to solve broad sweeping applications, like a digital twin of a community or a hospital, or a segment membership, but it will allow you to design appropriate guardrails around data collection and management. Digital Twin of a Patient Healthcare is a constantly changing field.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2023

The second chart graphs average charge per claim for common retail clinic diagnoses, connecting the dots between site-of-care and lower costs in retail clinics compared with hospital outpatient departments, doctor’s offices, and urgent care centers which are higher-cost than retail clinics.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

.” At the heart of “being digital” in the health system’s ability to effectively take on value-based care is the right data flowing through the chassis: and that points to the “dynamic duo” of VBC and the social determinants of health (SDoH) as Innovaccer terms the relationship.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Under its belt, Desert Oasis Healthcare has senior wellness clinics, a population health and prescription management program, hospice services, a palliative care team and its own home health agency. “We With a wide-range of service offerings under its belt, it makes sense that Desert Oasis Healthcare would team up with Google.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2023

About Mary Bacaj 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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In September 2020, PwC surveyed consumers with employer-sponsored health insurance about their preferred locations to receive a COVID-19 vaccine within one year of its approval. Sites included: “My” doctor’s office, favored by more people who were White or Asian, and those 45 years or older. population health burden.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

Within the hospitals, units transformed overnight from one type of unit to another, which required extensive build and change. During COVID, I participated in a go-live for a children’s hospital. Population health is a broad concept that will increase in priority. We did not have that luxury. So much is changing.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2023

Now, as Medicare and Medicaid continue to move toward value-based contracts, developing practical strategies for meeting the behavioral health needs of vulnerable populations has become even more critical. That’s an approach healthcare organization can no longer afford to take, given already-significant pressures on margins and staff.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hospitals function on the back of nurses, and the current burnout levels cannot be sustained. In addition to the pandemic, Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems share a big part of the blame. While doctors see patients for minutes, nurses see them for days. Now it’s more like 3-4 years. Nurses will play a vital role.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Blood tests, biopsies, and X-rays transformed medicine by allowing doctors and clinicians to look under the surface and better pinpoint the cause of a patient’s symptoms. This is the pivotal role diagnostics will play, but not as it has mostly been known and used since these tools came into working practice.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

One national telehealth organization covering 2,000 hospitals and 81,000 doctors, for example, experienced an 86% decrease in time needed to complete the patient onboarding process, and 92% of providers said they expect to continue video visits post-pandemic. It will not address the growing doctor and nursing shortage.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Virtual care also offers an opportunity to enhance the patient experience, improve population health , reduce costs and improve the work-life of healthcare providers — the quadruple aim of healthcare. “To Say you have a virtual checkup, and your doctor orders a blood test. About Larry English.

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NCQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Eric Wei Dr. Ted Long On this episode of Inside Health Care, we offer two interviews. NYC Health + Hospitals leaders Dr. Eric Wei and Dr. Ted Long, discuss hospital worker burnout, including suicide , and the need for awareness, mitigation and prevention.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This lack of medication adherence has serious repercussions for both our physical and financial health. non-adherence to prescribed treatments can be attributed to at least 125,000 preventable deaths, up to 25 percent of hospitalizations, and $500 billion in preventable medical costs. Statistics show that each year in the U.S.,

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Accountable Care Doctors

JULY 26, 2021

Those medical groups and health systems that have strong foundations to provide integrated care are demonstrating the ability to: Rapidly adapt to pandemic conditions by implementing new ways to safely deliver care through telehealth, drive-through testing sites, and alternative venues such as hospital-at-home.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Banner Health, WellSpan Health, University Hospitals, and the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network are also part of the Series B round because of their participation in Babyscripts’ Strategic Partner Program. To date, Babyscripts manages more than 200K unique pregnancies across 30 states.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Research says that those Americans who live in rural communities have less access to care and subsequently worse health outcomes than those who live in non-rural communities. African American adults are more likely to report they cannot afford to see a doctor, leading to worse health outcomes. telehealth) or partnerships (e.g.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2023

While the distribution of vaccines has allowed for a version of pre-pandemic life to resume, hospitals are still not recovered from the high rates of hospitalizations that occurred in March 2020, and the indirect costs of the pandemic continue to loom over the American population as a result of strained health systems.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

As the healthcare world continues to rapidly adopt telemedicine, move toward value-based care, and combat rising pharmacy costs, HLTH 2022 will showcase digital health companies that embrace those trends: medication management solutions, telemedicine services, and population health analytics. Nicole Rogas, President at symplr.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

Also see the poverty rate, percent of the population below poverty, is highest in the U.S. Now turn your eyes to the second chart, which is titled “Population Health” in the report. varied, with that 10% of health citizens lacking coverage for basic health care. across the OECD nation-peers.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2022

But inadequacies in current payer/provider communication often disrupt the flow of timely care and lead to unnecessary hospital readmissions and poor outcomes. If notified upon a member’s discharge from the hospital, payers can coordinate care in the next care setting.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2018

Just this week, JAMA features a Viewpoint column titled, How Disruptive Innovation by Business and Technology Firms Could Improve Population Health. Note that respondents to this study were mostly C-level executives working in hospitals. ” This isn’t just a word that we’ve been waiting to “happen.”

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

DG has been exploring its health-and-wellness offerings and has enlisted four physicians to advise the company’s strategy. One of the advisors, Dr. Von Nguyen, is the Clinical Lead of Public and Population Health at Google… tying back to yesterday’s post on Tech Giants in Healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 29, 2022

It’s why CMS passed a new rule in 2015 that hospitals would no longer be paid for a patient’s readmission within 30 days of discharge. A litany of SDoH factors that had never been a hospital problem was front and center on their list of things about which to worry. Does the patient have nutritious food to eat?

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

cases per 100 children) In Texas, over 211,000 cases have been reported among Public School students within the first three months of in-person school reopening in the fall ~25,000 hospitalizations have been recorded among US children (~2.6 percent of all hospitalizations), and 600 US children have died from COVID-19 complications.

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