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.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Although many companies had plans on the books to advance telemedicine, the crisis revealed that virtual care is not only possible but in many cases is also preferred by patients. With virtual care, you are providing that care continuum, and therefore providing better outcomes. Our future is technology.

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Health Care Success

JUNE 9, 2021

John is an expert in integrated health systems, health care delivery and value-based care models. This growth is due to several factors, likely including a desire for revenue growth, expanded referral networks, and addressing population health disparities. Integrated Care and Consumerization.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. The pandemic accelerated many providers’ initial adoption of virtual care, along with their growing appreciation for the value delivered by digital health tools in patients’ hands and homes.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

America spends half of what other developed countries spend on primary care, despite it being the single area of healthcare that has proven to deliver actual cost savings with better population health results. People stop seeking out primary care in the times when preventive, proactive care could make the most difference.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 12, 2023

Both Ascension Health and Sutter Health highlighted the important strategy for health systems of focusing on and growing their ambulatory networks. Warner Thomas, the new CEO of California’s Sutter Health, reported on an interesting structural initiative to transform (transrupt?) If inpatient services (i.e.,

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