Healthcare It News

AUGUST 11, 2022

The goal is to give patients easier access to all their health information in one place through MyChart – enabling them to see test results, schedule appointments and message their physicians. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It comes as a surprise to no one that healthcare's digital landscape is fragmented and siloed with numerous point solutions. "Patients want digital health tools, but they do not want 100 of them," said Matthew Warrens, chief digital innovation officer at UnityPoint Health. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 8, 2024

What You Should Know: – Press Ganey , a provider of healthcare experience measurement and data analysis, announced a collaboration with Epic to integrate nurse-sensitive indicators (NSIs) and outcomes directly into Press Ganey’s National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators ( NDNQI ). What is the NDNQI?

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simplifying Quality Reporting, Enhancing Care: The ABG platform, renowned for its user-friendly interface, simplifies complex quality reporting requirements, particularly for the MIPS program. Customizable QI bonus plans: Allowing practices to incentivize quality initiatives. ”

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

For healthcare organizations, that means a constant barrage of possibilities for new and better technology. Yet, when viewed through the lens of improving patient outcomes, data integration rises to the top of the priority list.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog, we will cover the details related to the two remaining MIPS performance categories: PI and Improvement Activities. Together, these categories exemplify a dual commitment to a better patient experience. The title for this new IA is ‘“Practice-Wide Quality Improvement in MVPs’.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2024

Common obstacles include changing regulations and policies, trouble collecting and reporting patient information, such as care gaps, unpredictable revenue, complex financial risk, lack of resources to implement and manage VBC programs, and interoperability gaps within and outside the organization, according to a Definitive Healthcare survey.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 20, 2022

Increasing data diversity – to include patient-generated and population-based information – would allow us to honestly examine patient outcomes while better controlling for social determinants of health and patient experiences. healthcare. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

“This strategic acquisition positions us to broaden our impact in Texas, ensuring that more communities have access to the high-quality healthcare services they deserve.” This acquisition aligns with our long-term goals to advance healthcare through cutting-edge technology and expert clinical support.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 22, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Palliative Care Measures Project was led by AAHPM, with subrecipients the RAND Corporation and the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care and was funded under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) to develop two quality measures.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2023

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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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 18, 2023

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Ryse Health Partner to Accelerate VBC for Diabetes Patients Ryse will combine a mix of in-person and virtual care interactions to help patients control their HbA1c and blood pressure and conduct timely diabetes-related health screenings so early detection and interventions are available.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 10, 2022

Robert Califf laid out areas of challenge and opportunity when it comes to improving health outcomes, restoring public trust in science, and making the most of our ongoing investments in data analytics and clinical research. Offer tangible support for providers to improve data quality and integrity.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

Before the merger, funding was lacking for technology and infrastructure investments to support quality improvement. As a result, there was variation from standard clinical practice, such as sending patients for elective procedures through the emergency department. How were these quality improvement achieved?

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We have accreditation programs that really work to make sure that that variance in quality is very narrow. We always work to have high quality graduates. And then within all the schools I’ve ever worked, there is strong quality improvement mindsets involved there. ” So, that’s really all about.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 27, 2023

First, they provide a nice overview of the program: The EOM is a voluntary 6-month, 2-sided, risk-based payment model for clinicians caring for Medicare patients with 7 common cancer types beginning on July 1, 2023, for 5 years. for high-risk breast cancer to 3.2%

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Baird Group

JULY 15, 2021

We often see well-meaning patient experience leaders creating “service recovery kits”. However, if the monitoring and tracking ends with how the gift cards are distributed, you miss a huge opportunity for quality improvement. Learning and improving. Track how the issue was resolved, by whom, and how fast.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Presenters recommended the use of solutions customized to specific groups, as well as engaging with patients and community organizations as key stakeholders when developing quality improvement models and strategies. Literature Link: Health Equity.

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Medical GPS

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

“Patient engagement is a strategy that enables and encourages patients to be more active in managing their health.” (2). Patient engagement can be defined by patients’ access to information, their participation in healthcare decisions, and their involvement in healthcare organizations’ policymaking.

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The Beryl Institute

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a CF/lung transplant patient turned Patient/Family Advisor (PFA), I have been on the frontlines of the evolution of Patient Experience strategies since 2005. I fell in love with PFACs and have been thrilled to see the ways in which we partner with patients and families grow more sophisticated over time.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In short, the Innovation Center’s mandate was, and is, to develop healthcare payment models to decrease health care spending and improve health care quality.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2022

However, patient data collection has been a historically difficult process due to disparate data sources, disconnected systems and a lack of patient-centricity in collection processes. The 21 st Century Cures Act is enabling patient-driven healthcare information exchange.

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NASHP

JUNE 22, 2022

Comprehensive quality measurement of care coordination services is essential to evaluate and guide care coordination efforts, yet little agreement exists among stakeholders about how to best measure the provision and quality of care coordination services. [4] 5] Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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Cloud Blogs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated the transformation of the healthcare industry and how healthcare is delivered for the foreseeable future. Healthcare leaders and frontline workers have been the catalyst to reveal areas that could improve the resilience of the system.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Almost 25% of New Yorkers lacked the infrastructure for basic internet connectivity to see their healthcare clinicians, and approximately 1.6 Person-centered clinical care using RPM technology and services to increase healthcare access and empower patients to engage in self-management for improved health outcomes.

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Ambulatory Care Population Health Telemedicine Prevention 294

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As of right now, Frontpoint has three locations: One Point Health, a home health agency in Dallas with a 2,200-patient census; Dignity Hospice, also based in Dallas; and Highland Hospice, which is located in Houston. Frontpoint is backed by Park City, Utah-based Tacoma Holdings and Salt Lake City, Utah-based Cimarron Healthcare Capital.

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Accountable Care Doctors

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As providers continue to apply lessons learned from their experience with the COVID-19 pandemic to their delivery models and reimbursement structures, it is clear more must be done to promote value in healthcare. The patient experience also significantly improves when care is coordinated versus delivered piecemeal.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 5, 2023

Finally, CMS is proposing a series of technical clarifications of the existing rules related to adjustments for disasters, quality bonus payment appeals, contract consolidations, and weighting of measures with a substantive specification change.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Patients, children, and healthcare workers are killed and injured. We need to bring back the sanctity of healthcare facilities and our children and take them out of battle zones. Approximately 25% of patients experience an adverse event in US hospitals, with over 40% caused by preventable errors.

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