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Quality Improvement: Eliminating the Silo Effect in Healthcare Organizations

HIT Consultant

Vikram Savkar, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Medicine Segment of the Health Learning, Research & Practice business at Wolters Kluwer. Yet collaboration around quality improvement (QI) can often be a significant challenge for hospital systems, largely due to departmental silos.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

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Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. The 21st Century Cures Act has accelerated healthcare innovation, technology advancement, and improved interoperability.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. The 21st Century Cures Act has accelerated healthcare innovation, technology advancement, and improved interoperability.

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Allina Health spinoff to help health systems build hospital-at-home programs

Healthcare It News

The new company will be led by CEO Dave Kerwar, who has previously served as chief product officer at Mount Sinai Health System, where he developed IT-driven direct-to-consumer, direct-to-employer and population health programs focused on quality improvement and cost efficiencies. ON THE RECORD.

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UnityPoint Health pins hopes on interoperable digital health platform for patients

Healthcare It News

It comes as a surprise to no one that healthcare's digital landscape is fragmented and siloed with numerous point solutions. UnityPoint Health, a health system based in Des Moines, Iowa, is well aware of this. So UnityPoint Health hooked up with health IT vendor b.well Connected Health. THE PROBLEM.

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5 Key Trends Driving Purchasing Decisions in Healthcare IT

HIT Consultant

As the healthcare industry continues to evolve and transform with providers facing increasing financial burdens and dynamic patient expectations, Signify Research has had the opportunity to speak to 100s of C-suite health IT executives and departmental decision-makers.

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3 Focus Areas to Improve Behavioral Health

NCQA

Technology is also being used to expand behavioral health care capacity through virtual care. The expansion of services and provider types in behavioral health creates a need for quality standards and quality improvement. Costs Costs of behavioral health care continue to rise.