Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

In the larger public and population health context, on the patient side, we can expect the burden of disease beyond COVID to increase due to postponed care and treatment backlogs. This has been found to be the case in the U.S., for example, for heart disease and cardiovascular complications as well as for cancers.

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Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Population Health Regulations 108

NASHP

MAY 10, 2024

See the first blog post in the series covering governance and the second blog post describing hospital global budgets. Also, states may earn a higher (a maximum of $21) or lower (a floor of $15) PBPM depending on hospital recruitment for global budgets or state TCOC performance.

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Primary Care Medicaid Medicare Integration 52

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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NASHP

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Health Plans’ Weakened Negotiating Authority: Facing high premiums and hospital costs, policymakers, employers, and consumers might ask why health plans aren’t doing a better job negotiating for lower prices with hospitals. Hospitals and health systems may threaten to charge high out-of-network prices.

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NASHP

MAY 3, 2024

This demonstration waiver falls within the scope of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ new initiative to address health-related social needs. Hospitals offer another key intersection between energy and health. The health care ecosystem is a contributing source of pollution and emissions.

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Medicaid Hospitals Prevention Population Health 59

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 20, 2023

Research has indicated that healthcare systems that connect patients to basic resources have observed improvements in population health metrics, fostered trust with their patient base, and experienced reduced hospitalization costs.

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Medicaid Regulations Federal Healthcare Medicare 52

Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Ultimately, CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) aim to improve information access in hopes of facilitating more holistic healthcare, improved quality of care, and better support for broader federal and regional public health initiatives such as disease surveillance and health equity.

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Health Dialog

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In addition to an impressive speaker roster, the event attracts attendees from all corners of the healthcare ecosystem (health plans, employers, hospitals) who will collaborate to share their own best practices for navigating our complex system and providing true value-based care. Population Health Management.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2023

Trend #1: Consolidation of IT Procurement In recent years, changes to the health systems in countries such as the US and UK, for example, are making standalone hospitals a thing of the past. They will only consider cloud providers who ensure sensitive data is stored securely while adhering to industry regulations.

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Healthcare Patient Safety Population Health Integration 52

Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Ultimately, CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) aim to improve information access in hopes of facilitating more holistic healthcare, improved quality of care, and better support for broader federal and regional public health initiatives such as disease surveillance and health equity.

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Integration Healthcare Quality of Care Regulations 88

Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Congress’s expansion of access to telehealth takes steps to ensure continuity of care for Medicare beneficiaries and provides regulators with additional time to determine which flexibilities will become permanent, indicating a success for the telehealth industry as well as a reminder that there is more legislation to come.

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Health Data Regulations Medicare Telemedicine 52

NASHP

OCTOBER 16, 2023

2] These facilities are intended to work in conjunction with the other crisis components — crisis call centers, mobile response teams, and post-crisis support — to more effectively meet the needs of individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis.[3] Across the U.S., 4] In Wisconsin, over one-third of all students surveyed (33.7

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Unfortunately, healthcare systems globally are ignoring this reality and spending 90% of mental healthcare investments on acute mental healthcare treatment for adults, such as inpatient psychiatric care as well as hospital and emergency services. This “downstream” approach is detrimental, inefficient, and exorbitantly expensive.

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Vie Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2024

19:08 Applying economic theories to healthcare strategy Cole said education is important to help hospitals adapt to strategy. ‘’I I’ve been so privileged to sit with most of the CEOs of hospitals in the Philadelphia region. One thing I had been educated in is process improvement for hospitals, but not for ambulatory care systems.

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Healthcare Hospitals Process improvement Ambulatory Care 98

NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Vermont has incorporated community health worker services through their Community Health Team all-payer model structure as well as incorporated CHW services through medical homes, ACOs, and other VBP models. Health systems/providers, community-based organizations, and health departments serve as the major CHW employers in the state.

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Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 122

Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2023

Last week, I received a mailing from my local hospital system, Main Line Health. ” This came to front of mind now as I wrestle and think about the data from the CDC, OECD, and the JAMA viewpoint on “losing our most cherished population:” our children.

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Accountability Hospitals Population Health Regulations 117

Lexis Nexis

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Jeff: We help our customers accomplish two main objectives: increase operational efficiency and improve health outcomes. For example, in the provider market we help hospital systems better understand physician splitting behavior and how they can make operational changes to address potential lost revenue.

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Life Sciences Patient Safety Healthcare Quality of Care 52

NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Yet, states often face barriers to integrated care including a lack of trust across agencies, privacy regulations that may hinder data sharing, and misaligned eligibility, enrollment, and referral systems. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern School of Medicine ?. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ?.

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Medicaid Integration Quality Improvement Accountability 98

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Moore is all for telemedicine.

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Telemedicine Hospitals Nursing Health Technology 361

NASHP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Vermont has incorporated community health worker services through their Community Health Team all-payer model structure as well as incorporated CHW services through medical homes, ACOs, and other VBP models. Health systems/providers, community-based organizations, and health departments serve as the major CHW employers in the state.

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Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 52

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery.

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Urgent Care Medical Technology Patient Experience Population Health 77

HIT Consultant

MARCH 13, 2023

As a result, food insecurity can exacerbate medical conditions driving up hospital/health systems patient care costs. The single most important thing a patient can do to successfully manage their diabetes is to regulate what they eat. How does food insecurity set back patients living with chronic diseases, like diabetes?

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Regulations Healthcare Hospitals Prevention 98

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

With practice ownership almost equally split between hospitals and corporations, it is easy to miss how much the last few years have been won by healthcare corporations, which grew their physician employees by 86 percent over the last three years. Health systems have already made investments in APM preparation.

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Population Health Pharmaceuticals Medicaid Healthcare 52

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Those who remain are often itinerant nurses and other providers who travel from hospital to hospital as needed, often at exorbitant rates that have increased compensation by 50 to 100%, costing facilities an extra $24B per year.

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Prevention Healthcare Nursing Hospitals 98

Accountable Care Doctors

OCTOBER 21, 2020

These more tightly integrated systems of care demonstrated: The ability to rapidly pivot and deliver care in new ways and venues, like video visits, drive-by testing sites, and even the conversion of public buildings into emergency hospitals. Continue to encourage the migration of care from the health care campus to the home.

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Primary Care Integration Remote Care Population Health 59

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

health care. This challenge covers hospital-acquired conditions and adverse events, clinician-related inefficiency, and lack of adoption of preventive care practices like administering vaccines and addressing obesity and hypertension. That’s the Holy Grail and vision in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Note that point estimates such as the mean or median can often be misleading on their own, as they do not convey the level of variability which can be very high such as in the Telemedicine and Population Health sectors. The Controlled Substances Act regulates the distribution of potentially addictive medicines like Adderall and Xanax.

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Life Sciences Telemedicine Population Health Healthcare 98

Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

More granularly, prevention encompasses screening, counseling, and rates of avoidable hospital admissions for diabetes, asthma, and congestive heart failure. That’s what government regulation and intervention are for, to make more fair and effective the lack of a real health care market.

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Tertiary Care Primary Care Prevention Pharmaceuticals 160

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2022

At a recent annual customer meeting, Xccelerate , a leader of one of the country’s largest health systems told me, “What we’ve come to appreciate is that the health of our patient population is 50% a function of their zip code, 30% a function of their genetic code, and 20% a function of their care.”.

Integration 52

Integration Healthcare Regulations Accountability 52

Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra. There is no question that staff, across any health care setting, who remain unvaccinated pose both direct and indirect threats to patient safety and population health.

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Medicaid Medicare Nursing Patient Safety 40

Patient Safety Movement

JANUARY 31, 2024

Other reasons they cited for giving blood were to feel good about themselves, support their local communities and hospitals, and “pay back” the blood supply for times when they or their loved ones needed a blood transfusion. A study of more than 5,000 blood donors in 2002 found that nearly 75% of them give blood to help others.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Integration 52

Lexis Nexis

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

They are the nexus of claims submitted by and paid to physicians, hospitals, pharmacies and so on. Improve Health Outcomes with No Additional Burden to the Patient. Now members and their representatives can access this trove of data via the patient access API.”.

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Medicare Medicaid Population Health Regulations 52

HIT Consultant

APRIL 7, 2023

Ittai Dayan, co-founder & CEO of Rhino Health Hospitals are increasingly motivated to drive digital transformation in order to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements and stay competitive. Data Security: Hospitals need to protect patient data from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Life Sciences Integration Accountability 52

Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra. There is no question that staff, across any health care setting, who remain unvaccinated pose both direct and indirect threats to patient safety and population health.

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Medicaid Medicare Patient Safety Nursing 93

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

CVS Health’s acquisition of Aetna was approved this week by U.S. Federal regulators after months of scrutinizing the antitrust-size-market control implications of the deal. The legacy healthcare system — hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — haven’t delivered on that expectation.

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