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NCQA Launches Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has initiated the Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot program, a significant step in developing a quality improvement framework for organizations offering care through telehealth or digital platforms.

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Amedisys, DispatchHealth Add New Chief People Officers; Cypress Living Names HCBS VP

Home Health Care

Originally launched as an in-home urgent care startup, Denver-based DispatchHealth delivers higher-acuity care – including offering hospital-level care – in the home. Mission Healthcare appoints chief clinical officer. Mission Healthcare has hired Mag VanOosten as the company’s new chief clinical officer.

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The 7 Deadly Sins to AVOID When Fostering Patient Engagement

Medical GPS

Patient engagement can be defined by patients’ access to information, their participation in healthcare decisions, and their involvement in healthcare organizations’ policymaking. Engaged patients must communicate their health situation to providers, as well as their ‘values, beliefs, and risk tolerance regarding care choices.’” (3).

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Changing Your Healthcare Mindset with Rhone D’Errico | E. 63

Vie Healthcare

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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MIPS 2021: All About the Promoting Interoperability Measures

p3care

It replaced three pre-existing quality-reporting programs (PQRS, VBM, and MU) and made a single system with categories, based on which a score is determined called the MIPS composite or final score. Improvements Activities (IA). Provide Patients Access to their Healthcare Information. Categories. Promoting Interoperability (PI).

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MIPS 2021: All About the Promoting Interoperability Measures

p3care

It replaced three pre-existing quality-reporting programs (PQRS, VBM, and MU) and made a single system with categories, based on which a score is determined called the MIPS composite or final score. Improvements Activities (IA). Provide Patients Access to their Healthcare Information. Categories. Promoting Interoperability (PI).

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

States such as Texas, Wyoming , and New Jersey are adopting Medicaid reimbursement of collaborative care services and are addressing capacity to transition to CoCM. These updates offer more detailed data for improvement and regional variation tracking. Detailed reports are published quarterly, along with monthly dashboard reports.