Health Blawg

JANUARY 8, 2018

I spoke recently with Cindy Friend , who is Vice President of Clinical Population Health Solutions & Transformation at Caradigm – a GE Healthcare company Twitter: @caradigm. Our conversation focused on the opportunities for improving population health through ACOs. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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Health Care Leader News

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Population health is a popular phrase in the NHS, but what does it really mean and how can we, as commissioners, providers and health systems, benefit from it? For example, in Leicestershire, Primary Care Networks (PCNs) have been commissioned to provide clinical support behind a model of more intensive community nursing.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Humana is a health insurance company that operates one of the largest Medicare Advantage plans in the U.S. It is also a provider organization through its CenterWell arm, which includes home health care, pharmacy and primary care services. Our health care system is very reactive,” she said.

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NCQA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The GUIDE model is the first of its kind to address health care costs and target reductions in federal spending on long-term nursing home placement. And then we’re also developing an approach for certification based on quality improvement and patient experience.”

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2023

” A team of roughly 16,000 healthcare professionals shares in that mission by offering the full breadth of healthcare services with a particular focus on population health management. "On the front end, DexCare optimized the ability for consumers to find and book care at a Community Health location," McGill said.

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This is the final post in my three-part series on the successful implementation of Population Care Managers (PCMs) within Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and Patient Centered Medical Home settings. The primary objective for any ACO or at-risk provider is to deliver value-based care and reduce wasteful spending.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

Primary care in the U.S. On one hand, the value of primary care physicians has never been higher. The evidence of that is in the tens of billions of dollars of investment in healthcare – more than $39 billion invested in the sector last year alone, with a notable focus on primary care.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. What are some of the challenges facing successful population health management programs today? More and more organizations are looking for ways to improve the health of the populations they serve.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It also has a number of care-at-home programs under its roof, including home health care, primary care, hospital at home and more. Patient care is provided through a partnership with Castell, Intermountain’s population health entity. “We

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It presents state examples and key considerations for state officials via an organizing framework broken down by major components of the delivery system (from primary care to community-based and home-based services and supports) and reflecting essential principles for a modern system.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, at consulting firm CereCore, and a former ICU nurse and nursing instructor at Brigham Young University, left the bedside for the IT side. We had to ensure seamless reporting to get results into the respective patient portals and out to their primary care physicians.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Empowering Individuals with Complex Needs The Cityblock Care Model from Cityblock University on Vimeo. Cityblock’s unique care model connects members to a dedicated team of healthcare professionals, including primary care providers, behavioral health specialists, community health partners, nurse care managers, and more.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: How to mitigate the supply-and-demand gap between growing health citizen needs for care as we age, and a shortage of doctors? Consider a subset of physician shortage shown here in the third chart — that is the shortage expected for primary care doctors.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

What You Should Know: Pair Team, a virtual and community-based primary care solution connecting Medicaid’s highest-risk patients to high-quality care, today announced its expansion into seven new California markets: Fresno, Merced, Monterey, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Joaquin, and Stanislaus counties.

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Health Dialog

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

As we know, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are complex ecosystems and the implementation of new population health management programs can be daunting. Define the ACO’s Population Health Goals: I entered “ Population Health Management ” into Google search and received 430,000 results in 31 seconds.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

“Patients are tired of a health care system that doesn’t put them first. Our patient-centric service is changing that, one visit at a time,” Kristen Helton, director of Amazon Care, said. We’ve brought our on-demand urgent and primary care services to patients nationwide.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The combination of Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger to form Risant Health will be a test of how Kaiser can build a national brand while embedding its approach to a regional health system that has been geographically boxed-in in central Pennsylvania. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In tandem, Concerto also announced that it has acquired Crown Health, a home-based primary care provider that serves the Pacific Northwest. That move aligns well with Concerto’s merger with Perfect Health , a home-based primary care provider that was integrated into the company last year.

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Health Dialog

JANUARY 17, 2017

Every day, our nurse health coaches receive calls like these from members with urgent health concerns. In these instances, a nurse line program becomes an extension of the member’s pediatrician, primary care physician, nurse, or other trusted health professional. Daily and monthly reporting.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

Since the start of his career as a primary care, internal medicine physician, Dr. Richard Feifer has sat at the intersection of geriatrics, population health and value-based payment models. The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model has long been a passion of his.

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NCQA

JANUARY 25, 2024

Community health workers. Psychiatric nurse practitioners. For example, primary care providers are playing a larger role in mental health care. We’re also seeing what we call “ workforce extenders” provide behavioral health care. At the same time, the cost of care has risen.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The funding announcement comes on the heels of ConcertoCare acquiring home-based primary care practice Crown Health. For qualifying members, ConcertoCare further expands its community-based, interdisciplinary care delivery model through its PACE, or Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly offering.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Meeting this surge in demand with our current systems would be challenging even under ideal circumstances—but post-COVID attrition of nurses, physicians, and other skilled caregivers makes it clear that there is no hiring solution to fix the issue. A radical transformation in how care is delivered is necessary.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Lifespark is a Minneapolis-based senior care provider with both home health and senior living operations. The company’s other services lines include home care, hospice and primary care. American Health Partners is a Franklin, Tennessee-based post-acute care organization that offers home health and hospice services.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Established in 2017 through a collaboration between Independence Health System, St.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The authors suggest that investing more in prevention and health promotion for these groups could improve health outcomes and get to more equitable spending levels. ” Next, let’s visit the article looking at Trends in Differences in Health Status and Health Care Access and Affordability by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 23, 2022

“Over the years, I’ve worked in a number of fields such as pay-for-performance, child obesity research for the White House and addiction medicine, but where I really found my niche was in population health.”. Before joining DispatchHealth, Alavi worked for Optum as a VP and national medical director of clinical performance.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

They are all trying to tackle this issue of broader access by launching new primary care models and virtual services. Digital health is a critical enabler as we think about the new models of healthcare emerging to address access issues. In so doing, the U.S. healthcare system (as a whole) can do more with less.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

The six health IT leaders discussing their plans for the next five years in this sixth and final installment in the series include: Cara Babachicos, senior vice president and CIO at South Shore Health, a health system based in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Click here to access all the features.

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Health Dialog

JUNE 5, 2018

As healthcare shifts from a volume-based model to a value-based model, providers will be increasingly responsible for implementing population health programs that help encourage healthy lifestyles, slow disease progression and avoid costly hospital visits. Population Health Management.

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

Primary care case management (PCCM) programs are one of the oldest types of Medicaid managed care, but over time most states have shifted to use managed care organizations (MCOs) to deliver services to Medicaid participants. ii] Rural areas are highly likely to suffer from shortages of primary care and other providers.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

All those digital tools generate data, which must flow into some version of a patient health record to ensure the data are collected, safely stored, and accessible for diagnosis and sound action-making and -taking. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records. population health burden.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2022

This can mean lining up an in-network acute care facility or ensuring the member complies with a follow-up appointment with a primary care physician or specialist post-hospital discharge since payers have already negotiated favorable rates with in-network providers. Conclusion.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 15, 2022

If you look at the Advocate Aurora journey, we’ve been adding services and programs as we’ve gotten deeper into population health management,” Denise Keefe, executive vice president of Continuing Health for Advocate Aurora Health, told Home Health Care News. “As

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NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

MHP Medicaid Health Plans. NIH National Institutes of Health. PCCM Primary Care Case Management. PH-MCO Physical Health Managed Care Organization. PHW Pandemic Health Worker. Idaho reimburses for CHW services through its Medicaid managed care (Primary Care Case Management) program.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2018

Just this week, JAMA features a Viewpoint column titled, How Disruptive Innovation by Business and Technology Firms Could Improve Population Health. Consumers-patients highly trust their doctors, their nurses, their pharmacists, above all professions in the U.S.

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Health Dialog

JANUARY 5, 2016

Our Population Care Management program places registered nurses, called Population Care Managers (“PCMs”), in primary care practices or within the administrative departments of Accountable Care Organizations (“ACOs”) and Patient Centered Medical Homes. Population Health Management.

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