Healthcare It News

JULY 6, 2023

For Texas health system Houston Methodist, the major challenges to obtaining completed advance care directives included the time constraints of primary care physicians in addressing advance care planning with their patients.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves. "This results in fewer phone calls and messages coming into the clinic.

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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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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2023

During their review of the scan, the radiologist notes that there is a lung nodule present and recommends follow-up by the patient’s primary care physician (PCP). However, at that moment, this is a secondary and non-urgent issue for this patient, so therefore the care team may not alert the appropriate care team for nodule management.

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Health Care Leader News

MAY 11, 2021

Ruth Rankine, director of primary care at the NHS Confederation, discusses the key priorities for the sector as the country moves into the next phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. We have been talking to primary care leaders about their challenges and what they need to deliver services safely and sustainably.

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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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NASHP

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It includes four main components: Cost growth and primary care spending targets Hospital global budgets Primary care delivery and payment reform Health equity planning It builds on existing payment and delivery system reform efforts in Maryland , Pennsylvania , and Vermont.

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NASHP

MARCH 1, 2024

Examples include moving toward capitated payments, prioritizing primary care, and focusing on broad population health goals. These resources are developed for states to explore the potential opportunities within these models and to understand what may be learned from them.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 13, 2023

Uber Health announced that payers and providers nationwide can soon use the same platform they may already use for non-emergency medical transportation and prescription delivery to order and deliver other covered items directly to patient homes.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Humana is a health insurance company that operates one of the largest Medicare Advantage plans in the U.S. It is also a provider organization through its CenterWell arm, which includes home health care, pharmacy and primary care services. That wasn’t developed by hospitals, and I ran hospitals for many years.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released its latest total cost of care model, the Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) model with the goals of slowing growth in health care costs, improving population health, and advancing health equity.

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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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NASHP

JANUARY 19, 2024

For example, will one agency have authority for hospital global budgets, another authority for primary care? This may include input on all-payer cost growth and primary care investment targets. existing health equity structures) What staffing and infrastructure is needed from the state agencies?

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2023

PHNs also promote effective health management and resource utilization by ensuring that employees have a primary care provider, encouraging them to work with their providers to manage their disease, and providing access to resources and support.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

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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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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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. "On the front end, DexCare optimized the ability for consumers to find and book care at a Community Health location," McGill said.

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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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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The combination of Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger to form Risant Health will be a test of how Kaiser can build a national brand while embedding its approach to a regional health system that has been geographically boxed-in in central Pennsylvania. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It presents state examples and key considerations for state officials via an organizing framework broken down by major components of the delivery system (from primary care to community-based and home-based services and supports) and reflecting essential principles for a modern system.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

The overarching goal of VBC is to improve the patient experience, improve population health, and reduce per capita health costs. As part of this VBC mode l, hospitals and health systems must store, track, and analyze a large amount of quality-related data for compliance and reimbursement purposes.

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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 It News

JUNE 29, 2022

We had to ensure seamless reporting to get results into the respective patient portals and out to their primary care physicians. Within the hospitals, units transformed overnight from one type of unit to another, which required extensive build and change. During COVID, I participated in a go-live for a children’s hospital.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

Also see the poverty rate, percent of the population below poverty, is highest in the U.S. Now turn your eyes to the second chart, which is titled “Population Health” in the report. Access and quality of care in the U.S. varied, with that 10% of health citizens lacking coverage for basic health care.

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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

JUNE 13, 2023

The first-of-its-kind platform will simplify and enhance the entire patient journey—from getting to a primary care appointment to accessing critical prescriptions and groceries. million hospitalizations annually, resulting in a cost-savings of $13.6 billion a year for payers.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2018

News & World Report, with help from the University of Missouri Center for Applied Research and Engagement Systems (CARES) and a team from the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. News’ portfolio of healthcare information projects, the best-known of which is Best Hospitals , most recently rated for 2017-18.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The funding announcement comes on the heels of ConcertoCare acquiring home-based primary care practice Crown Health. For qualifying members, ConcertoCare further expands its community-based, interdisciplinary care delivery model through its PACE, or Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly offering. “Our

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

to expand access to integrated primary and behavioral health care to younger people in America, and telehealth can be a practical and even desirable platform for doing so particular for the nation’s younger patient population. Health care happens everywhere. Hospital care is coming home.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Virtual care also offers an opportunity to enhance the patient experience, improve population health , reduce costs and improve the work-life of healthcare providers — the quadruple aim of healthcare. “To The future of healthcare is most likely a hybrid model, where patients receive a mix of virtual and in-person care.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

They are all trying to tackle this issue of broader access by launching new primary care models and virtual services. Digital health is a critical enabler as we think about the new models of healthcare emerging to address access issues. Nicole Rogas, President at symplr. Kristin Russel, Chief Marketing Officer at symplr.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2023

The second chart graphs average charge per claim for common retail clinic diagnoses, connecting the dots between site-of-care and lower costs in retail clinics compared with hospital outpatient departments, doctor’s offices, and urgent care centers which are higher-cost than retail clinics.

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Health Care Success

JUNE 9, 2021

Beyond the “usual suspect” service lines such as cardiovascular and orthopedics, one of the biggest trends in healthcare is a renewed focus on primary care. This growth is due to several factors, likely including a desire for revenue growth, expanded referral networks, and addressing population health disparities.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2022

Payers and providers share goals around emerging healthcare delivery models such as value-based care and accountable care organizations (ACOs). But inadequacies in current payer/provider communication often disrupt the flow of timely care and lead to unnecessary hospital readmissions and poor outcomes.

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