Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Embarking on a virtual care journey for chronic care management demands a holistic approach: recognizing transformative potential, building a robust technological foundation, fostering collaboration, promoting patient engagement and prioritizing data-driven quality improvement. Building a robust technology infrastructure is crucial.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Direct integration with UConn Health’s Epic electronic health record system creates a seamless process from surgery scheduling through preoperative care and postoperative recovery at home. Care teams are alerted immediately and can intervene quickly when a patient is concerned or isn’t progressing as expected.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 27, 2023

A digital solution should also offer personalized integration with ongoing support, feature enhancements and updates. Through a comprehensive implementation of clinical decision support software, staffing, benefits and more, health systems can improve physician satisfaction while improving key markers of patient safety.

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NASHP

AUGUST 15, 2022

Recently, Pennsylvania shared their work with managed care organizations (MCO)s to improve access to oral health care services through quality improvement projects, measures, and incentives. CMS 416 preventative services. PH-MCOs employ PHDHPs to provide selective preventative services and oral health education.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The “National Forum on Advancing High-Quality, Equitable Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs” centered on two key topics for improving care coordination systems for CYSHCN: integrated care coordination and the care coordination workforce.

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

Regardless, most experts note that striking the right balance between securing data quality and determining when data are complete enough to advance policymaking can be challenging — suggesting a continuous quality improvement approach. 7 The plan includes steps to integrate community-based feedback on collected data.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

IIS are utilized by all states and some large cities and territories to varying degrees as a consolidated database for immunization history that can be used on both a micro and macro level to improve vaccine rates and reduce vaccine-preventable diseases. What gaps can be filled to help facilitate public health activity?

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

IIS are utilized by all states and some large cities and territories to varying degrees as a consolidated database for immunization history that can be used on both a micro and macro level to improve vaccine rates and reduce vaccine-preventable diseases. What gaps can be filled to help facilitate public health activity?

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Accountable Care Doctors

AUGUST 31, 2021

These discussion forums generated many promising and innovative solutions including improving healthcare by integrating behavioral health with primary care, pursuing strategies for reducing low-value care and increasing high-value care, and developing better metrics for measuring performance in alternative payment models.

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Accountable Care Doctors

AUGUST 31, 2021

These discussion forums generated many promising and innovative solutions including improving healthcare by integrating behavioral health with primary care, pursuing strategies for reducing low-value care and increasing high-value care, and developing better metrics for measuring performance in alternative payment models.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

Invest in prevention and early intervention. In addition, through its new 1115 demonstration extension and “Roadmap for Behavioral Health Reform,” the state is phasing in a new integrated primary care payment and reimbursement structure. Ensure all North Dakotans have timely access to behavioral health services.

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NASHP

APRIL 17, 2023

Performance measurement is a pillar of state quality improvement and oversight. Other states, such as Colorado, establish advisory committees that provide input on all aspects of a state’s quality improvement program , including measure selection. It is often factored into plan payment, and it supports public reporting.

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NASHP

JULY 24, 2023

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. Will quality improve or be maintained?

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NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

integrating?CHWs CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. USPSTF United States Preventative Services Task Force. The information on this map comes from a 50-state survey of a variety of stakeholders, ranging from Medicaid officials to Community Health Workers, on their states’ approaches?to?integrating?CHWs

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In addition, only four models met the requirements to be expanded in duration and scope: Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model; Pioneer ACO Model; Repetitive, Prior Authorization of Repetitive, Schedule Non-Emergent Ambulance Transport Model; and Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Expanded Model.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community. States have a range of tools and policy levers at their disposal to build capacity for integrated behavioral health approaches.

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NASHP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This map highlights state activity to integrate CHWs into evolving health care systems in key areas such as financing, education and training, certification, and state definitions, roles and scope of practice. Health promotion education to a member to prevent chronic illness. CHWs provide services in the following areas: COVID-19 (e.g.,

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NASHP

JUNE 22, 2022

State Strategies for Medicaid Quality Improvement for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs. Patient- and family-centered care coordination: a framework for integrating care for children and youth across multiple systems. 19] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Value-based payment. Pediatrics.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Director of Global Strategy at the RWTS Integrated Health Practice at IQVIA. Patient advocacy organizations and medical specialty societies can serve as a liaison between patients and providers in bi-directional engagement, closing gaps in the patient journey and ultimately driving innovation for higher quality care. David Voccola, Sr.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services, for example, recently issued an advisory to hospitals and health systems about preventing cyberattacks and data breaches given that reported ransomware attacks against health systems nearly doubled from 25 to 46 between 2022 and 2023.

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NASHP

AUGUST 3, 2022

Over time, as new funding for SUD has been introduced through opioid abatement settlements and enhanced federal dollars, the complexity of managing multiple funding streams to drive prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts has increased. The EO also established a Prevention and Recovery Cabinet, chaired by the Director of Opioid Response.

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

This feedback, along with state-collected health data, helped shape Oregon’s five priority areas : institutional bias; adversity, trauma, and toxic stress; behavioral health; access to equitable preventive services; and economic drivers of health.

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NASHP

MARCH 11, 2022

State experience indicating that payment is an effective lever for improving service delivery. State officials viewed their efforts as part of broader efforts to improve behavioral health and better integrate it with primary care. " > Why Use Payment to Improve Delivery of SUD Services. Retrieved from [link].

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Accountable Care Doctors

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The 31 multi-specialty medical groups and integrated health systems that are part of the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), their 85,000 physicians, and hundreds of thousands of staff are at the forefront of the battle for their patients’ lives. Embrace, expand, and pay for telehealth at the same level as in-person visits.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

"Created in June 2020, this program aims to improve cardiovascular health for those with uncontrolled conditions, while also addressing the challenges of healthcare access through technology," he continued. Improving provider effectiveness through automated data collection and patient interactions.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 19, 2023

Although these tenants remain integral, trust is often broken in more ways than one. They must also seek membership in professional associations in combination with seeking accreditation for their respective facilities, demonstrating ongoing training, adherence to ethical standards, and commitment to quality improvement.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 20, 2022

States are taking steps to provide additional prevention, treatment, and recovery services to higher-risk individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD), including those in contact with the criminal legal system. Community Services and Prevention (Intercept 0). Across states, drug violations have led to most arrests in recent years.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

Three years later, I moved from Tucson back to Missoula to start our quality improvement department and started taking on other pieces of the business. Things like fraud prevention measures. We developed our own fraud prevention program that’s been in place for nearly a decade now. We can scale that in a different way.

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Cloud Blogs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare provides trusted and integrated capabilities that deliver automation and efficiency on high-value workflows as well as deep data analysis functionality for both structured and unstructured data, that enable healthcare organizations to turn insight into action.

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NCQA

MARCH 22, 2023

Slowing or preventing disease progression is possible if the disease is treated early. DaVita Integrated Kidney Care. As part of our drive to improve health equity , most toolkit resources are available in Spanish. Four Roadmap Landmarks The Roadmap is organized around four “landmarks”—key steps on the path to better CKD care.

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

For example, rural residents are less likely than urban residents to obtain preventive services, including services needed to identify health conditions early in their onset. iii] Also, those living in rural areas are more likely to experience a preventable hospitalization. [iv] iv] Johnston, K. Wen, and K. Joynt Maddox.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Virginia reflects a growing call by states and federal agencies including the C enters for Disease Control and Prevention, to focus on racism as a public health emergency, creating opportunities for state policy makers to highlight a root cause of health inequities faced by people of color.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 26, 2024

"Systems were clunky, there was little or limited integration of our systems and poor interoperability," recalled Dr Katharine See, chief health outcomes officer and director of Respiratory Medicine at Northern Health. We are currently in the process of finalising integrations," an IKAO Health representative disclosed.

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Improving Access to Behavioral Health Care Providers The Proposed Rule would expand MA network adequacy requirements to encompass outpatient behavioral health in order to improve access to behavioral health care providers.

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health : Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement Public Health : The science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities.

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NASHP

JUNE 22, 2022

Recruit providers to support system improvements. Support quality improvement efforts. Guide quality measurement and evaluation. Advise on evidence-based improvement practices. [1] 1] National Improvement Partnership Network. Establishing a Child Health Improvement Partnership: A How-to Guide.

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

States interested in comprehensive health disparities transformation may consider these approaches, where deep policy work also reflects lessons learned and opportunities for future learning through continuous quality improvement. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022. American Medical Association, 2022.

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