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AI-Powered Pop Health and SDOH – The Good, The Bad and The Best Practices

HIT Consultant

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool for making population health analytics more accurate and interventions more effective. Code is written by humans who have unconscious biases, and those biases can creep into the algorithms of AI when Quality Assurance functions are not properly sensitized to detect them.

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NCQA Launches Race and Ethnicity Stratification Learning Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) today launched the Race and Ethnicity Stratification Learning Network, a free, interactive, online tool that offers data and best practices to help health plans improve how they collect race and ethnicity data on their enrollees.

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Racial Bias in Algorithms: How One State is Leading the Charge

NASHP

As states continue developing their health equity strategies, an emerging consideration is how commercial algorithms that are used by states’ Medicaid managed care organizations to inform clinical care decisions may exhibit significant racial bias.

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State Community Health Worker Models

NASHP

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 MHP Medicaid Health Plans. NCQA National Committee for Quality Assurance. NIH National Institutes of Health.

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Why Health Plans Are Vital to Health Equity

HIT Consultant

Plans hold a unique vantage point into data patterns that pinpoint where disparities in health and health access exist as well as best practices for intervention. They possess the resources to disseminate this information to providers for broader discussions around population health. Create a social index score.

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Higher satisfaction with care and treatment outcomes seen with shared decision making

Health Dialog

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NQCA) includes certified or evidence-based decision aids as an element of provider support in the most recent population health management accreditation standards.

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Supporting Youth Mental Health through Crisis Stabilization Facilities: Wisconsin Case Study

NASHP

Following approval of the first step, applicants must complete a second step that entails background checks ,[18] an application (form DHS 50) ,[19] and fee payment [20] to DHS Division of Quality Assurance. Data Shows Wisconsin Students Face Significant Mental Health and Emotional Challenges,” press release, December 6, 2022 [link].