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Startups, Payer-Provider Hybrids Believe They Can Bring New-Age Thinking To Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

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. You’re able to invest in that and actually see the benefit from a total cost of care reduction, on the payer side of it.”

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Community Health Network finds big ROI in consumer-centric technology

Healthcare It News

” 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 our website, the technology powers our urgent care directory and care discovery experience.

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Retail Clinics’ Growing Role in Health Care and Prescription Drug Sales

Health Populi

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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WVU Medicine uses $781K grant to greatly boost telehealth to rural patients

Healthcare It News

McAllister, assistant vice president of population health and telemedicine. "The devices and increased technology services allowed us to connect patients and providers who otherwise may not have had the opportunity to receive care.

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Ease the Shift to Value-Based Care with Proven Population Health Tools

Health Dialog

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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2 Years Later, Senior Helpers CEO Breaks Down Advocate Aurora Enterprises Integration

Home Health Care

“Someone who was actually in health care, [for instance],” Senior Helpers CEO Peter Ross said during a recent Home Health Care News webinar. With Advocate, we now have the whole health care continuum. Advocate Health is one of the largest integrated health systems in the U.S.

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Modernizing Behavioral Health Systems: A Resource for States

NASHP

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.