HIT Consultant

MARCH 27, 2024

What You Should Know: – WVU Medicine announced a new partnership with Interwell Health to focus on improving care for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in West Virginia. Interwell partners with physicians and healthcare providers to implement a population health approach to kidney care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

The track covers all aspects of aging well, from financial health to entertainment, mental acuity and of course, physical health. Consider this the digital transformation of heart health, from our hands and homes to hospitals and back home again.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 7, 2022

ThedaCare is a seven-hospital health system in Wisconsin with 180 locations and 7,000 employees. To succeed in its mission, ThedaCare is on a path to population health – aiming to go above and beyond treating a particular condition to make care easy and accessible to help achieve better health for life.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“In our current health care system, fragmented care contributes to persistent, widening health disparities in underserved populations,” CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said in a statement. For statewide measures, states will select a set of quality and population health measures from a menu created by CMS.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Getting ahead of rising patient risks can greatly improve quality of life and reduce the incidence of complications from diabetes, such as preventable foot ulcers. That leaves the needs of the rising-risk diabetes population unaddressed and inaccurately minimizes the costs associated with this small but very high healthcare spend population.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

And that data will be generated from many sources, frequently siloed and decentralized which can prevent aggregation, mash-up, and analysis. In particular, the volume of health data from wearables, implantables, and other decentralized technologies is growing by 48% annually, according to a recent report from the Swiss Re Institute.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

The latest research notes that the volume of preventive screenings in the U.S. Clinicians continue to be concerned about licensure required which has historically preventing doctors from consulting with patients residing in states in which the doctors are not licensed to practice. Health care happens everywhere.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. A lot of new challenges.

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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. The lives that succumb to HAIs are cut short for reasons that are largely preventable. One in 25 patients in U.S.

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Health Dialog

AUGUST 7, 2018

With 25 percent of employers’ healthcare costs tied to unhealthy lifestyle choices or conditions – such as obesity, stress, and smoking – organizations are increasingly turning to technology-driven wellness programs to encourage lifestyle changes that lead to better overall health. Population Health Management.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Hospitals and health systems, especially larger ones, are using AI in myriad new ways – including leveraging it for improved patient experience, and for better patient engagement with the goal of reducing health inequities. How did you originally see AI being a fit for improving the patient experience?

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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. While not only a path to improving health equity, affordable broadband access could benefit cost control in healthcare.

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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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NCQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Eric Wei Dr. Ted Long On this episode of Inside Health Care, we offer two interviews. NYC Health + Hospitals leaders Dr. Eric Wei and Dr. Ted Long, discuss hospital worker burnout, including suicide , and the need for awareness, mitigation and prevention.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Prevention of healthcare disparities : Healthcare providers can help mitigate healthcare disparities by ensuring that the right patient information is available at the right time to all healthcare providers, irrespective of their location or affiliation.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

To improve health outcomes while lowering cost of care, providers and payors increasingly are implementing value-based care (VBC) payment models. VBC contracts are structured to reward proactive and preventive healthcare, measurable positive outcomes (such as lower readmission rates) and reduced spending.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2022

McAllister, assistant vice president of population health and telemedicine. "The mitigation of a large surge will allow for the hospitals in the state to prepare and slow the influx of patients. " Shannon R. McAllister, WVU Medicine.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2024

Leveraging AI models to manage plan costs, identify potential emerging risks and high-cost claimants requires a proactive approach that focuses on prevention, early intervention, and the efficient allocation of resources to properly address the health needs of a population.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. Think differently about hospitals.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While there is exuberant support for embedding SDoH factors into digitally transforming health care systems, relatively few providers will be leveraging software and other digital technology to identify at-risk patients. Heath plans and providers taking on risk-based payments are tuning into this opportunity.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It is often said that social determinants of health are more important than many of the things we think of as more closely associated with health, such as health care services, health literacy, engagement in one’s own health care, adherence to prescribed health care treatment and medication.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It is often said that social determinants of health are more important than many of the things we think of as more closely associated with health, such as health care services, health literacy, engagement in one’s own health care, adherence to prescribed health care treatment and medication.

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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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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Their NCQA-accredited case management and population health programs and HITRUST-certified technology platform ensure high-quality care delivery. – Proactive management: Strive’s care team will proactively monitor patients’ health and intervene to prevent complications.

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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. Schedule appointments, screenings, preventive care and annual wellness visits.

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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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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Achieving health equity presents an urgent challenge that demands attention from all stakeholders. However, actual medical care accounts for 20% or less of what affects population health. Rural communities may lack easy access to preventive care and screenings. The costs are astronomical. And only 25% of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This lack of medication adherence has serious repercussions for both our physical and financial health. non-adherence to prescribed treatments can be attributed to at least 125,000 preventable deaths, up to 25 percent of hospitalizations, and $500 billion in preventable medical costs.

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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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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool for making population health analytics more accurate and interventions more effective. Sensitivity to a wider range of factors that can impact population health, including SDOH, cultural and community issues, is key to minimizing both coding and data-driven bias.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 7, 2022

“In California, we’re delegated to take full risk for our members, which means we do everything from primary care and preventative care, all the way through hospice services,” Brian Hodgkins, executive vice president of clinical operations at Desert Oasis Healthcare, told 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

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Access to care is a central focus for healthcare given several factors: a growing population being impacted with chronic conditions, increased resourcing constraints, and growing fatigue and workload among providers. hours/ day to serve their patients if they followed the national recommended guidelines for preventive and chronic care.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It is often said that social determinants of health are more important than many of the things we think of as more closely associated with health, such as health care services, health literacy, engagement in one’s own health care, adherence to prescribed health care treatment and medication.

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