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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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care. Passed in 2016, The Cures Act requires that electronic health record (EHR) systems provide patient-facing application programming interfaces (APIs) to maintain federal certifications.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 28, 2022

Rachael Jones, SVP of Performance Analytics and Quality at Cotiviti. 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.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

We’ve gone after hospitality workers. ” And I’m not shooting down hospitality or restaurants here. But I think with senior care, people feel like it’s almost a mission-driven kind of business. What are the chances of them being readmitted to the hospital? This is how we can help prevent falls.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2018

The researchers recommend three strategies: first, address key modifiable risks like diet, tobacco, alcohol and drug use, activity, and obesity; then improve access to quality of care in specific areas to address chronic kidney disease and substance use disorders; and, address social determinants of health.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For example, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center is currently supporting the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) model across seven sites in six states. This model aims to improve quality of care for children, including CYSHCN, through integrated care delivery systems that include care coordination.[12].

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In addition, only four models met the requirements to be expanded in duration and scope: Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model; Pioneer ACO Model; Repetitive, Prior Authorization of Repetitive, Schedule Non-Emergent Ambulance Transport Model; and Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Expanded Model.

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

Figure 1 displays a consolidated overview of the “Framework for Public Health-Health Care System Collaboration.” A precondition of sustaining these partnerships is sustained investment in state and local public health capacity.

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NASHP

JUNE 22, 2023

having one of the most advanced health care systems in the world, U.S. 3] Most maternal deaths are considered preventable, with the majority due to cardiovascular conditions, infection or sepsis, hemorrhage, and suicide or overdose. Relatedly, VPB models can be general or targeted to a specific health care need (e.g.,

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

[ii] These shortages of primary care providers (PCPs), who serve as the entry point to medical care and often play a large role in coordinating patient care, create challenges for residents of rural areas, the PCPs who serve them, and the Medicaid agencies responsible for providing access to services for program participants throughout the state.

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Patient Safety Movement

JANUARY 31, 2024

In medicine, thousands of patients sustain preventable harm, and yet we do not know the actual number, as very little is reported. If this data were made available, with the aid of AI technology reviewing medical records, would we have the same response as in the airline industry to prevent the same errors from occurring again and again?

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