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Graphium Health Acquires ABG, Boosting Patient Safety and Efficiency

HIT Consultant

This enhanced platform will offer: Quality Improvement (QI) and OPPE reports: Empowering providers to track progress and meet Joint Commission standards. Customizable QI bonus plans: Allowing practices to incentivize quality initiatives.

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Referrals, quality of care and the human connection

Healthcare ECONOMIST

As a health economist who likes to think about the world in a quantitative manner, I do whatever I can to measure quality in a numeric manner. Thus, if I was visiting a primary care physician (PCP) and needed some specialist care, I would want the PCP to refer me to the specialist with the best quality ratings.

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Impact of star ratings on provider demand

Healthcare ECONOMIST

However, there is another mechanism through which quality of care could improve provider finances: increased demand. If patients are responsive to star ratings or physicians who refer patients are sensitive to star ratings, better measured quality can increase provider revenue. due to bonus payments.

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The Growth of Patient-Centered Care with Shanil Ebrahim | E. 110

Vie Healthcare

Ultimately, when you think about that term, at its core, patient-centered care is about ensuring that healthcare systems and all of their processes are fundamentally designed around the patient’s needs or their experiences or their preferences I should say. And usually it is a step-wise approach.

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Seven Steps for Building a Community-Based Palliative Care Benefit Within Medicaid

NASHP

STEP 7: Identify Quality Measures Palliative care can contribute to improved outcomes on HEDIS quality measures commonly used by state Medicaid programs, such as Plan All-Cause Readmissions and Emergency Department Utilization, and on CAHPS patient experience measures.