Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Intermountain Health recently reached a major milestone with its hospital-at-home program. The health system has officially treated 1,000 patients at home since the launch of the program in 2020. Intermountain is a nonprofit system with 33 hospitals and 385 clinics. The health system has locations in seven states.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Minneapolis-based health system Allina Health is launching a new company named Inbound Health. The startup will enable health systems and health plans to establish hospital-at-home and skilled nursing-at-home programs around the country.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Office of Healthcare Transformation under Singapore's Ministry of Health has tied up with the nation's three public healthcare clusters to scale their pilot home hospitalisation programmes. Nurses can also visit patients up to several times a day to administer drip-based medication or draw blood for testing.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 14, 2024

Besides being all the rage in the industry, digital transformation is a key component to the strategy of forward-leaning hospitals and health systems today. This is one of the most important topics healthcare CIOs and other C-suite and health IT leaders can be talking about today.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the American Hospital Association said the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights rule regarding the use of online tracking tools is at odds with existing HIPAA rules and could cause meaningful harm to patients and public health.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 25, 2021

What You Should Know: – Independence Blue Cross Foundation , Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, and NeuroFlow have joined forces to implement a new technology program to create better pathways to care for nurses and frontline workers suffering from symptoms of burnout. Mary Medical Center in the Greater Philadelphia region.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Dr Metupalle said hospitals being ready to connect to people at home would be "the biggest opportunity" post-pandemic. "We hopefully get to see [the] empowerment of these patients, more knowledge [and] patient education – these are opportunities the hospitals have to educate the population," Dr Metupalle said.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2022

The rise of agency nursing and the mobility of nurses lured to large paychecks, as well as attrition in rural areas, has really hurt hospitals' ability to staff. The overall problem for rural hospitals right now is sustainability. What will the hospital of 2030 look like? And how can they do that?

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 13, 2023

In February, the company announced a partnership to serve as a catalyst for enrolling hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers and to help them with targeted population health initiatives. HIMSS will use that time to gather data on the cost of avoidance or the cost control aspects of telehealth, he said.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

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. Within the hospitals, units transformed overnight from one type of unit to another, which required extensive build and change.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When you have the payer and the provider together, you’re also able to invest in the clinical value-based side of it, for example, to decrease hospitalizations,” he said during the panel discussion. Our health care system is very reactive,” she said. That wasn’t developed by hospitals, and I ran hospitals for many years.

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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

Chartis repeats its success as the Overall Healthcare Management Consulting Firm for the fourth year in a row.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 27, 2023

As these goals and digital investments progress, the once golden standard of optimizing healthcare performance has shifted from the Triple Aim (enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, and lowering costs) to the Quadruple Aim, which factors the clinician’s well-being into the equation.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

hospitals have been working to improve the rate of nosocomial infections in America, there is a long way to go. hospitals still contracts an HAI, the Group’s recent report on HAIs attested. Now, digitally track that information through the patient’s journey during a hospital stay. One in 25 patients in U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Craig Parker, JD, CPA and CEO, Guideway Care Hospitals, health systems and group practices nationwide are finding value and effectiveness by partnering with an outsourced care guidance resource to extend clinical staff and strengthen care management support. Remove non-clinical tasks from the workloads of nurses and clinical staff.

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Health Dialog

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

As we know, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are complex ecosystems and the implementation of new population health management programs can be daunting. Define the ACO’s Population Health Goals: I entered “ Population Health Management ” into Google search and received 430,000 results in 31 seconds.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

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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HIT Consultant

JULY 4, 2022

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic , the pressure has only accelerated; improvement in patient outcomes now can mean the difference between viability and non-viability for a hospital system. Yet collaboration around quality improvement (QI) can often be a significant challenge for hospital systems, largely due to departmental silos.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 23, 2022

“Over the years, I’ve worked in a number of fields such as pay-for-performance, child obesity research for the White House and addiction medicine, but where I really found my niche was in population health.”. Before joining DispatchHealth, Alavi worked for Optum as a VP and national medical director of clinical performance.

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Health Dialog

MAY 15, 2016

Some organizations see nurse line services as a simple routine requirement and offer a basic helpline. However, a well-thought-out nurse line can be a powerful resource and bring greater success to population health management efforts. Health Advice Consistent with Standards of Care.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health and hospice care. Sofia Koshevatsky, CEO and founder of Oakland, California-based HealthFlex Home Health & Hospice, has been named a 2021 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

How do care management interventions to mitigate SDOH as a risk for undesired health outcomes work? Recently, population health management strategies have begun to incorporate evaluations for patients' social needs connected to SDOH, as well as interventions addressing these needs.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 19, 2022

. – Together, Curana Health and Innovaccer will build an industry-leading value-based-care toolkit using the Innovaccer Health Cloud. This will not only enhance population health outcomes, but it will also improve health equity for patients and enhance Curana’s provider engagement.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

Since the start of his career as a primary care, internal medicine physician, Dr. Richard Feifer has sat at the intersection of geriatrics, population health and value-based payment models. We’re focusing a whole lot on palliative care, end-of-life care and advanced care planning, that’s so important for this population.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

While critical to a comprehensive approach, primary prevention and broad population health approaches are beyond the scope of this resource.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

The six health IT leaders discussing their plans for the next five years in this sixth and final installment in the series include: Cara Babachicos, senior vice president and CIO at South Shore Health, a health system based in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Mobile health is an area of health IT that has been emerging in recent years.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A narrow scope means you won’t be able to solve broad sweeping applications, like a digital twin of a community or a hospital, or a segment membership, but it will allow you to design appropriate guardrails around data collection and management. Digital Twin of a Patient Healthcare is a constantly changing field.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2023

” A team of roughly 16,000 healthcare professionals shares in that mission by offering the full breadth of healthcare services with a particular focus on population health management. ADVICE FOR OTHERS "Health systems have no choice but to change the way care is discovered and accessed," McGill stated.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Enhancing Healthcare Excellence: Bridges’ Integrated Care Approach with Highmark Bridges’ dedication to excellence has earned recognition from various national and independent organizations, such as HealthGrades, The Leapfrog Group, Quantros CareChex, IBM Watson 100 Top Hospitals, and U.S.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 31, 2023

As a hospital or health system, you know the value of patient engagement. You understand that it’s crucial for improving the overall patient experience and health outcomes for people of all socio-economic classes. But first, a primer on why this is a savvy investment for any hospital or health system.

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Medi Leadership

AUGUST 11, 2022

A growing number of physicians are stepping into leadership roles in hospitals and health systems. Many health system CEOs are physicians. As a career health system executive CEO and executive coach to healthcare leaders, I’ve noted an interesting pattern in how physicians often emerge as leaders.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2023

and nearly 40% of all in-patient hospital encounters. Meeting this surge in demand with our current systems would be challenging even under ideal circumstances—but post-COVID attrition of nurses, physicians, and other skilled caregivers makes it clear that there is no hiring solution to fix the issue.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 20, 2022

She also serves on the boards of several venture-backed companies, is a board advisor to Independence Health Group — parent of Independence Blue Cross and Amerihealth Caritas — and advises C-suite health care leaders in health system redesign, integrated care strategies and clinical value improvement. John Moross Hospital.

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Home Health Care

JULY 10, 2023

Spiras Health – an emerging home-based care startup – has recently hired two former UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) executives to join its C-suite team. Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, Spiras Health provides nurse practitioner-led, at-home clinical care to patients with complex and chronic needs.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2023

While the distribution of vaccines has allowed for a version of pre-pandemic life to resume, hospitals are still not recovered from the high rates of hospitalizations that occurred in March 2020, and the indirect costs of the pandemic continue to loom over the American population as a result of strained health systems.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Founded in 2015, ConcertoCare deploys physician-led interdisciplinary teams— supported by its proprietary population health platform, Patient3D®, and clinical decision support tools — to manage the country’s most medically and socially complex and costly patients in ways that keep them in their homes and out of the hospital.

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