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Leveraging Personal Health Nurses to Connect the Dots Across the Care Continuum

HIT Consultant

A New Approach Many forward-thinking companies are taking a different approach to employee health by focusing on high-risk individuals who incur the most significant costs. These individuals are then assigned a personal health nurse (PHN) who acts as a partner in the employee’s health journey.

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Aging Populations of Consumers and Physicians Underpin the Future Doctor Shortage

Health Populi

Another timely feature in the 2021 study is the Health Care Utilization Equity Scenario which provides a baseline looking at inequities in access to care. What’s underneath the sobering forecast is a combination of aging patients and aging doctors. The population under 18 years of age is expected to grow by 5.6%

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Population Health Management Strategies: Creative Ways to Use Population Care Managers in ACOs

Health Dialog

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. The primary objective for any ACO or at-risk provider is to deliver value-based care and reduce wasteful spending.

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Evolving patient portals, remote workforce challenges and tech at the bedside

Healthcare It News

Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, at consulting firm CereCore, and a former ICU nurse and nursing instructor at Brigham Young University, left the bedside for the IT side. We had to ensure seamless reporting to get results into the respective patient portals and out to their primary care physicians.

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It's time for primary care to take advantage of advanced technology

Healthcare It News

Primary care in the U.S. On one hand, the value of primary care physicians has never been higher. The evidence of that is in the tens of billions of dollars of investment in healthcare – more than $39 billion invested in the sector last year alone, with a notable focus on primary care.

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Digital front doors' advantages when meeting population health needs

Healthcare It News

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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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

The combination of Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger to form Risant Health will be a test of how Kaiser can build a national brand while embedding its approach to a regional health system that has been geographically boxed-in in central Pennsylvania. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint.