Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The health system's physician ambulatory network is using Innovaccer's population health management suite to improve clinical processes and streamline operations. The electronic health record system-agnostic tools are used by many stakeholders, including the health system's medical coders.

Medicare 210

Medicare Population Health Patient Experience Nursing 210

Healthcare It News

MAY 14, 2024

Similarly, hyper-automation streamlines administration processes such as appointment scheduling and patient registration, integrating them into a unified platform. Data integration and interoperability are critical components of successful digital transformation in healthcare.

Healthcare 213

Healthcare Life Sciences Prevention Patient Experience 213

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Minneapolis-based Allina Health, working with Flare Capital Partners, has launched a new company, Inbound Health, designed to help health systems and payers design and build hospital-at-home and home-based skilled nursing programs. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

Hospitals 298

Hospitals Home Care Population Health Quality Improvement 298

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2023

Faced with shifting regulations, growing administrative complexity, high-dollar claims, and the looming potential of audits, payment integrity is an increasingly important priority for payers. Why the emphasis on payment integrity? percent in 2021 according to a report published in the journal Health Affairs.

Integration 52

Integration Healthcare Regulations Population Health 52

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A nurse meets a patient at their home and sets up medication and equipment for treatment and devices for teleconsultation and remote monitoring. Nurses can also visit patients up to several times a day to administer drip-based medication or draw blood for testing. WHY IT MATTERS.

Healthcare Finance 219

Healthcare Finance Hospitals Integration Nursing 219

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Therefore, the BfArM emphasis on the interoperability of DiGAs is becoming increasingly important to ensure that the data captured via an app can be transferred into a patient’s EHR and integrated into doctors’ workflows. ” “DiGAs need to be integrated into the physicians’ workflows and included into EHRs.

Doctors 315

Doctors Nursing Integration Population Health 315

Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, at consulting firm CereCore, and a former ICU nurse and nursing instructor at Brigham Young University, left the bedside for the IT side. We made sure to do thorough application testing, integrated testing, interface testing and any mapped record testing to vet out issues prior to go-live.

Telemedicine 222

Telemedicine Nursing Integration Hospitals 222

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Chartis repeats its success as the Overall Healthcare Management Consulting Firm for the fourth year in a row.

Accountability 105

Accountability Integration Population Health Nursing 105

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

While critical to a comprehensive approach, primary prevention and broad population health approaches are beyond the scope of this resource.

Urgent Care 65

Urgent Care Integration Medicaid Primary Care 65

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Integration and alignment has been a key focus at Humana when it comes to leveraging all of these pieces of the puzzle. “We In general, value-based care allows health care organizations to be preventative, as opposed to reactive, Erin Denholm, chief nursing officer at DispatchHealth, noted.

Primary Care 108

Primary Care Urgent Care Hospitals Integration 108

Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This is the final post in my three-part series on the successful implementation of Population Care Managers (PCMs) within Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and Patient Centered Medical Home settings. Please join the discussion and let us know how your health system has integrated population health management initiatives.

Population Health 40

Population Health Primary Care Accountable Care Doctors 40

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. The platform fully integrates with our EHR to achieve consistency and interoperability for optimized efficiency, collaboration, visibility and ROI."

Urgent Care 215

Urgent Care Primary Care Integration Population Health 215

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Last year Innovaccer announced that Curana Health had chosen Innovaccer’s Best in KLAS data and analytics platform, care management solution, and point-of-care physician engagement solution to create a new technology platform purpose-built for senior living communities.

Population Health 59

Population Health Nursing Medicare Integration 59

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As healthcare organizations experience the profound financial impact of nurse shortages, care guidance is providing an innovative and efficient solution. Integrating care guidance with information technology can significantly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare services.

Patient Experience 97

Patient Experience Nursing Population Health Accountability 97

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.

Population Health 214

Population Health Primary Care Telemedicine Prevention 214

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health and hospice care. Sofia Koshevatsky, CEO and founder of Oakland, California-based HealthFlex Home Health & Hospice, has been named a 2021 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

Hospice Care 98

Hospice Care Nursing Integration Population Health 98

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. Here are steps your organization can take in advance of new program integration to maximize success. How does your organization define Population Health?

Population Health 40

Population Health Accountable Care Accountability Primary Care 40

Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

Since the start of his career as a primary care, internal medicine physician, Dr. Richard Feifer has sat at the intersection of geriatrics, population health and value-based payment models. We’re focusing a whole lot on palliative care, end-of-life care and advanced care planning, that’s so important for this population.

Nursing 92

Nursing Integration Primary Care Home Care 92

Health Dialog

MAY 15, 2016

Some organizations see nurse line services as a simple routine requirement and offer a basic helpline. However, a well-thought-out nurse line can be a powerful resource and bring greater success to population health management efforts. Seamless Integration of Existing Resources.

Nursing 40

Nursing Population Health Urgent Care Integration 40

Home Health Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

About five years post-launch, the Indianapolis-based Olio Health is now in half of the country. Olio’s software is designed to help valued-based care payers and providers work to improve population health measures by improving communication and workflow on its digital platform.

Nursing 90

Nursing Population Health Integration 90

HIT Consultant

JULY 19, 2022

. – Together, Curana Health and Innovaccer will build an industry-leading value-based-care toolkit using the Innovaccer Health Cloud. This will not only enhance population health outcomes, but it will also improve health equity for patients and enhance Curana’s provider engagement.

Accountable Care 52

Accountable Care Population Health Medicare Accountability 52

Health Dialog

JANUARY 17, 2017

Every day, our nurse health coaches receive calls like these from members with urgent health concerns. In these instances, a nurse line program becomes an extension of the member’s pediatrician, primary care physician, nurse, or other trusted health professional. Do we need to go to the emergency room?”.

Nursing 40

Nursing Urgent Care Primary Care Quality of Care 40

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What You Should Know: Bridges Health Partners LLC (Bridges) , a Clinically Integrated Network, and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (Highmark) entered into a multi-year Value-Based Agreement for Highmark’s Commercial membership in Western Pennsylvania. Established in 2017 through a collaboration between Independence Health System, St.

Urgent Care 52

Urgent Care Hospice Care Integration Primary Care 52

HIT Consultant

JULY 4, 2022

Often today, for example, documentation systems are segmented by discipline; as another example, QI projects are often stored on SharePoint, where access may be limited to select work groups, rather than integrated into system-wide workflow tools. Eliminating the silo effect.

Quality Improvement 98

Quality Improvement Healthcare Patient Safety Population Health 98

NCQA

JANUARY 25, 2024

Practitioners who deliver behavioral health services include: Social workers. Community health workers. Psychiatric nurse practitioners. For example, primary care providers are playing a larger role in mental health care. A number of payment models now support integrated care : CMS funding of collaborative care models.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Quality Improvement Integration Population Health 52

HIT Consultant

APRIL 27, 2023

As these goals and digital investments progress, the once golden standard of optimizing healthcare performance has shifted from the Triple Aim (enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, and lowering costs) to the Quadruple Aim, which factors the clinician’s well-being into the equation.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Hospitals Patient Experience Integration 52

Home Health Care

JUNE 23, 2022

“Over the years, I’ve worked in a number of fields such as pay-for-performance, child obesity research for the White House and addiction medicine, but where I really found my niche was in population health.”. Before joining DispatchHealth, Alavi worked for Optum as a VP and national medical director of clinical performance.

Urgent Care 117

Urgent Care Population Health Hospitals Nursing 117

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Best in KLAS: Inpatient Clinical Care 340B Management Systems PharmaForce 340B Acute Care EMR: Large ( >400 Beds) Epic EpicCare Inpatient EMR Acute Care EMR: Midsize (151–400 Beds) Epic EpicCare Inpatient EMR Acute Care EMR: Small (1–150 Beds) MEDITECH Expanse Acute Care EMR Automated Dispensing Cabinets BD Pyxis MedStation ES Clinical Communications: (..)

Integration 52

Integration Population Health Patient Experience Nursing 52

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2023

DSWs include certified nursing assistants, home health aides, direct support professionals, personal care aides and other nonlicensed workers. These donations are part of UnitedHealthcare’s commitment to making a positive impact on the lives of the most underserved and, particularly, the population aging at home.

Hospice Care 97

Hospice Care Nursing Prevention Integration 97

HIT Consultant

APRIL 12, 2023

Matrix Medical Network (limited data) is used by a large customer base for in-home health assessments, and customers report the vendor provides a good experience at a fair price. Some respondents say that the nurses are excellent and bring insights that shape members’ care.

Accountability 98

Accountability Population Health Integration Healthcare 98

NCQA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The GUIDE model is the first of its kind to address health care costs and target reductions in federal spending on long-term nursing home placement. It offers critical support to individuals living with dementia and their caregivers, to establish ongoing, longitudinal assistance through an interdisciplinary care team. .”

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Quality Improvement Medicaid Accountable Care 52

Home Health Care

JUNE 15, 2022

If you look at the Advocate Aurora journey, we’ve been adding services and programs as we’ve gotten deeper into population health management,” Denise Keefe, executive vice president of Continuing Health for Advocate Aurora Health, told Home Health Care News. “As That’s always evolving for us.”.

Outpatient Care Centers 95

Outpatient Care Centers Home Care Integration Population Health 95

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Maria Warren, the vice president of McBee, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

Medicare 88

Medicare Hospice Care Population Health Home Care 88

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Cityblock’s unique care model connects members to a dedicated team of healthcare professionals, including primary care providers, behavioral health specialists, community health partners, nurse care managers, and more. This includes: Primary care: Regular check-ups, preventive screenings, and chronic disease management.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Medicaid Nursing Prevention 52

Health Dialog

JANUARY 5, 2016

Our Population Care Management program places registered nurses, called Population Care Managers (“PCMs”), in primary care practices or within the administrative departments of Accountable Care Organizations (“ACOs”) and Patient Centered Medical Homes. Learn more about how Health Dialog partners with providers.

Integration 40

Integration Population Health Primary Care Accountable Care 40

Healthcare Success

JULY 31, 2023

It has application in value-based care, patient population health, accountable care organizations (ACOs), and health management organizations (HMOs). the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA) to protect patient privacy and confidentiality. Request a proposal today.

Prevention 130

Prevention Accountability Healthcare Accountable Care 130

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That means shifting away from reactive medicine to proactive and preventative care, wellness, population health, and better support for chronic conditions. A recent study by the Commonwealth Fund found that, despite spending far more of its gross domestic product on health care than 10 other high-income nations, the U.S.

Telemedicine 52

Telemedicine Doctors Federal Healthcare Integration 52