HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What You Should Know: NextGen Healthcare, Inc. a leading provider of innovative, cloud-based healthcare technology solutions, today announced that its clients participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) leveraged NextGen® Population Health to achieve a cumulative $82 million in total Medicare savings last year.

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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Matthew Gitelis, CEO of PatientIQ, a health IT company deriving insights from patient-reported outcomes data, has some thoughts about healthcare information technology in 2023. And he added that healthcare organizations need to embrace the move to data-driven medicine. Healthcare organizations have their work cut out for them.

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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. UnityPoint Health, a health system based in Des Moines, Iowa, is well aware of this. The vendor enables digital transformation through a platform that provides patients a new entry point to healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

What You Should Know: – Notable, a San Mateo, CA-based leader in healthcare intelligent automation, today announced it has raised $100M in Series B funding led by ICONIQ Growth , including participation by Greylock , F-Prime Capital , and Oak HC/FT to accelerate growth and innovation within the healthcare industry.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Alok Mandal, Head of Healthcare Consulting, Virtusa Massive disparities continue to plague healthcare in the United States. Many Americans do not have access to quality care, leading to higher rates of diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and obesity. we can identify gaps and define appropriate next actions.

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Health Dialog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The value-based care model has thrown a wrench into how hospital systems get reimbursed for healthcare services and providers are now tasked with delivering a higher quality of care at a lower cost. Quality measures are set high and many providers and health systems are struggling to meet the necessary scores.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

What You Should Know: – KLAS Research , a leading healthcare IT research and consulting firm, has announced the winners of its 2024 Best in KLAS Awards , recognizing the top vendors and service providers in the healthcare technology and services industry.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2022

The yearlong study that collected information from over 1,000 agency sites found that home health agencies with registered nurse case manager caseloads under 25 have the highest star ratings for quality of care and patient satisfaction. Driving home health referrals.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. Advanced healthcare platforms, such as digital front doors, are emerging as an answer to some of these challenges. What are some of the challenges facing successful population health management programs today?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The prevalence of burnout among healthcare workers is stunning. While physician burnout is not new, the COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly accelerating the many negative repercussions of uncertainty and inadequate support, and the consequences are being felt by patients, physicians, and healthcare systems. Meaning the list grows.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2023

Now, as mental health-related visits in emergency departments (EDs) continue to rise , healthcare professionals must consider: “How can we create better behavioral health supports for people in crisis?” It’s a question that has significant implications for quality of care as well as cost.

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Healthcare Leadership

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Understanding the perspectives and challenges PCPs face, and the role they play in caring for their patients prior to specialty services, is crucial to the functioning of our health system. These are fundamental goals of the quintuple aim that can only be achieved by improvements within and beyond primary care.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 10, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. PORTLAND, ME, June 9, 2022 – LeadingAge , the association of nonprofit providers of aging services, announces the release of the National Healthcare at Home Best Practices and Future Insights Study results. Initial top-line findings from the study include:?.

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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

JULY 13, 2022

It unifies data from multiple sources and systems including pharmacy, claims, electronic health records, government agencies, and community-based organizations, as well as social determinants of health (SDoH) , to empower whole-person care. Outdated Public Sector Systems. Public Sector Offering Address 3 Use Cases.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

spent nearly twice as much as other wealthy countries on healthcare, mostly due to higher prices for both labor and products (especially prescription drugs). These sobering statistics were published in Health Care Spending in the Untied States and Other High-Income Countries this week in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Chief Medical Officer at Lucet One of the most pressing and often overlooked challenges in healthcare today is how to reach and effectively treat dually diagnosed patients — commonly, individuals who grapple with both mental health problems and substance use issues. Related to this is the need for coordinated care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Ashish Kachru, CEO, DataLink The new healthcare realm of value-based care (VBC) , designed to reward healthcare providers with incentive payments for the quality of care and patient outcomes not simply the volume of services provided, presents both opportunities and challenges for all stakeholders.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

What You Should Know: – The companies and organizations that comprise the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) , representing all sectors of the American healthcare industry, have joined in a commitment to advance health equity in the United States including principles and actions to ultimately eliminate health disparities.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

2023 Best in KLAS Definitions Best in KLAS is awarded only in those software and services market segments that have the broadest operational and clinical impact on healthcare organizations. Best in KLAS is based on information obtained from 23,000 evaluations KLAS conducted in 2022.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 11, 2022

Gentiva Health Services was the name of a home-based care company that was acquired by Kindred Healthcare in 2015 for $1.8 billion, which created Kindred at Home — ultimately the largest home health provider in the country. That new company is soon to be “Gentiva,” according to the release. .

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HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Andy Auerbach, Chief Revenue Officer of SafeRide Health As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, there is a growing need for innovative solutions that not only improve the quality of care but also make care more accessible.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Americans might run on Dunkin’ — but the healthcare industry runs on data, specifically structured and unstructured data. SDOH includes a variety of non-clinical factors impacting an individual’s health, including education, healthcare access, neighborhoods and built environments, social community and socioeconomic status.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2023

In healthcare, where human interaction is critical, AI continues to ingrain itself within the patient-clinician relationship at a breathtaking pace. Now, we are seeing what many in healthcare view as an alarming trend: an increase in the automation of tasks previously done by human hands.

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Cloud Blogs

MARCH 12, 2020

The healthcare industry is undergoing an enormous transformation. This transformation is being driven by one core idea; expectations of patient care and wellness are changing. Technology is enabling healthcare organizations to reimagine how care is delivered and managed for the long term. Reimagine healthcare.

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Twistle

JULY 9, 2021

Adding remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology to a telehealth program increases access to care and enhances the quality of care delivery. And, when expanded across service lines, can help build a data-driven strategy for improving overall population health. Improved Quality of Care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Program integrity staff from every state Medicaid program, and federal program staff working on Medicare, must consider the roles of both program integrity and analytics when combatting fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA)in the healthcare system. Health outcomes and Medicaid program integrity Health outcomes are a function of the quality of care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services recently acted in the best interests of patients and health care providers by covering telehealth services through 2023. Telehealth also increases access to care by decreasing travel time, limiting missed workdays, and reducing the need to find alternative caregivers.

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Health Dialog

APRIL 26, 2017

For many years shared decision making (SDM) has been recognized as a powerful method of improving care quality and reducing costs. Through the delivery of SDM, Health Dialog has seen a reduction in utilization and cost and improvements in the quality of care in both payer and provider models.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 28, 2022

Disparities in the way medical professionals assess and treat pain in people of color, for example, have been the focus of many studies and reflect an unconscious bias among some medical professionals that prevents members from getting the care they need. There is also greater recognition that race and racism are risk factors for health.

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Medical GPS

MAY 13, 2021

Last week we began looking at APPs (advanced practice providers) as valuable members of a patient’s healthcare team , especially in today’s current shift from fee-for-service healthcare, to value-based healthcare. APPs in Healthcare Today. Awkward Tension. It’s not news that patients don’t like surprises.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2023

In 2020, growth in federal government spending on healthcare increased 36 percent , compared to the 5.9 The Cost of Healthcare Provider Burnout Across the country, healthcare providers are reporting extreme rates of burnout. Employment across healthcare is down 1.3 percent bump in 2019.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

What You Should Know: – Persistent Systems , a global Digital Engineering provider, expands its relationship with AWS by partnering with Amazon HealthLake to help its Healthcare and Life Sciences clients accelerate their care transformation journeys. Why It Matters.

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Lexis Nexis

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Discover more about the Health Care business of LexisNexis Risk Solutions in this interview hosted by Jess DaMassa of What’s the Future (WTF) Health as she talks with Jeff Diamond and Andrea Green about social determinants of health (SDoH), healthcare tokenization and the power of data for good*.

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Health Dialog

JANUARY 17, 2017

But—plans wanting to truly impact their population’s health and wellness beyond the basics, must deliver a more robust offering with a strong foundation and additional smart features. Proven Quality of Care: Nurse line programs should be primarily equipped to offer guidance and information to members making urgent care decisions.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Wes Little: I have had the great opportunity to have worked on the provider side and the technology side of home-based care. Data analytics are increasingly important for providers as health care continues to shift from fee-for-service payment models to value-based care. Little: Absolutely.

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