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How to Improve Your VBP Scores and Boost Medicare Payments

Home Health Care

The program is the process by which a home-based care provider measures its quality metrics. If a provider knows they need to focus on reducing acute-care hospitalizations, for instance, QAPI can help them do so. Striving to create a culture of quality is an important goal for home health organizations.

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5 Ways Federated Computing Can Reshape Public Health

HIT Consultant

Unlocking data silos using Federated Computing (FC) has the potential to achieve a positive impact across the healthcare industry, ranging from clinical care quality improvement and accreditation to population health management, precision public health and equitable drug development.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

Today, regulatory and market forces have led to improved transparency and enhanced consumerization, changing the face of healthcare. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care. Heightened cybersecurity threats. Regulatory compliance.

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First Do No Harm

Briggs Healthcare

A recent study found that when a patient is admitted to the hospital, harm occurs nearly 24 percent of the time. Another report revealed that nearly 1 in 4 Medicare patients have experienced harm in the hospital. What’s worse, a considerable portion of this is preventable.

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State Policy Considerations to Support Equitable Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs 

NASHP

5 Compared to white, non-Hispanic CYSHCN, CYSHCN who are Black or Latinx are at particular risk of receiving infrequent, low-quality care, 6 while American Indian and Alaska Native CYSHCN are less likely to be able to access specialty treatment or receive culturally sensitive services.

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Newsletter, March 2023

Patient Safety Movement

Save the Date: June 1-2, 2023 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit The 10-year anniversary marks professionals like you making a significant difference in eliminating preventable medical errors. 2 Surgi-Sign is a temporary tattoo that serves as a visible checklist to help prevent wrong-site surgeries.

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Weighing Policy Trade-offs: Building State Capacity to Address Health Care Consolidation

NASHP

Evidence suggests that vertical integration and growing consolidation in health care leads to higher hospital and provider prices and higher total spending — all while having little to no impact on improving quality of care for patients, reducing utilization, or improving efficiency.