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National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN): Proceedings from the National Forum on Care Coordination for CYSHCN

NASHP

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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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. Will quality improve or be maintained?

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

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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Why The Healthcare Industry Needs Blockchain More Than Ever

HIT Consultant

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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State Strategies to Support OUD Treatment across the Criminal Legal System

NASHP

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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Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is transforming the healthcare journey

Cloud Blogs

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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How extending virtual options can drive value-based care

Healthcare It News

"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.