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Quality Improvement: Eliminating the Silo Effect in Healthcare Organizations

HIT Consultant

Without all of the teams involved in clinical care working as one team to quickly identify problems, find evidence-based practices, run tests of change, study results, and identify and disseminate improvements, progress will be spotty at best.

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

Cloud Blogs

But the principal purpose of adopting these foundational technologiesthose that make interoperability more achievable and lower barriers to creating fluid, secure, and realistic patient journeysis to place healthcare data near the most powerful and extensible population health platform on the planet, Microsoft Azure.

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Allina Health spinoff to help health systems build hospital-at-home programs

Healthcare It News

The new company will be led by CEO Dave Kerwar, who has previously served as chief product officer at Mount Sinai Health System, where he developed IT-driven direct-to-consumer, direct-to-employer and population health programs focused on quality improvement and cost efficiencies. ON THE RECORD.

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

Cloud Blogs

But the principal purpose of adopting these foundational technologiesthose that make interoperability more achievable and lower barriers to creating fluid, secure, and realistic patient journeysis to place healthcare data near the most powerful and extensible population health platform on the planet, Microsoft Azure.

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UnityPoint Health pins hopes on interoperable digital health platform for patients

Healthcare It News

Digital transformation also is essential in making an impact on quality improvement and cost containment goals associated with value-based care initiatives." So UnityPoint Health hooked up with health IT vendor b.well Connected Health. " PROPOSAL. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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CMMI Prioritizes Multi-Payer Alignment in New Models

NCQA

And then we’re also developing an approach for certification based on quality improvement and patient experience.” NCQA is eager to continue the conversation on multi-payer alignment and tracking state innovations.

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3 Focus Areas to Improve Behavioral Health

NCQA

Technology is also being used to expand behavioral health care capacity through virtual care. The expansion of services and provider types in behavioral health creates a need for quality standards and quality improvement. Costs Costs of behavioral health care continue to rise.