Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2022

Some patients were not getting the medical care they needed, when they needed, because of a variety of issues. These patients could be bed-bound, homebound, have little to no support structure, have an inability to access transportation to medical appointments, have infirmities, have high fall risks or more. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2023

One way people in these rural areas still can receive access to high-quality healthcare in a convenient and cost-effective way is through telemedicine and remote patient monitoring options. What is the state of remote patient monitoring in rural settings? What's the typical patient look like?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Luke's Health System, an 11-hospital network based in Kansas City, Missouri, initiated its Hospital In Your Home care model in July 2022 to reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience. THE PROBLEM Saint Luke’s historically has had positive patient experience scores, but continuously strives to improve.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 11, 2023

These patients often come from traditionally underserved populations, including Black and Latinx communities, that disproportionately experience the clinical and economic burdens of diabetes. It can also help cut spending by $9,800 to $14,000 per patient each year.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Given this level of information, it’s critical for today’s clinicians to play a more active role in educating patients about the facts vs. fiction when it comes to nutrition. Understanding the Definition of Malnutrition It may be hard to believe that patients on these so-called healthy diets can be malnourished.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Hackensack Meridian Health , New Jersey’s largest and most integrated health network launches of Hospital At Home at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, a program that delivers high-quality acute care in the home of a Medicare patient and may ultimately be scalable to the larger patient population.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

. – The investment will go toward further accelerating VitalConnect’s rapidly growing cardiac monitoring business segment while advancing key Remote Patient Monitoring of individuals who have experienced heart failure (HF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and sepsis, among others.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 17, 2022

Lee Health’s virtual health program focuses on patients with congestive heart failure (CHF),chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and hypertension, as well as post cardio-thoracic surgery patients. The health system makes more than 2 million patient contacts annually.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

What You Should Know: – VillageMD announced it has acquired Healthy Interactions , which helps patients manage chronic conditions through interactive educational programming as part of a stronger patient-provider relationship. Healthy Populations, Healthy Interactions.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

What You Should Know: – Rimidi launches its new Respiratory Module through integration with Teva Pharmaceuticals’ digital inhalers that be integrated into healthcare provider workflows, enhancing respiratory care and population health management. Why It Matters.

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NCQA

AUGUST 1, 2023

Changes to Existing HEDIS Measures Glycemic Status Assessment for Patients With Diabetes. NCQA revised and renamed this measure (formerly Hemoglobin A1c Control for Patients With Diabetes) to include a glucose management indicator with hemoglobin A1c. NCQA reassessed how these seven measures identify individuals with diabetes.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, patients often had to wait for hours in hospital and doctor's office waiting rooms. After the pandemic quickly mainstreamed telehealth and prescheduling technologies, patient wait times were significantly reduced. So what does this mean for patients and providers moving forward?

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

to continue to develop and produce its clinical-grade respiratoryhealth wearable that uses acoustic resonance to assess lung function and identify changes in lung air volume, which is especially critical for COPD, COVID-19 and asthma patients. – 30 patients have been recruited in less than a month for trials. and expenses.

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Home Health Care

JULY 10, 2023

Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, Spiras Health provides nurse practitioner-led, at-home clinical care to patients with complex and chronic needs. Not a traditional home care or home health provider, the company focuses on underserved populations in a value-based care context. It believes its unique model enables it do so.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

physicians grew concerned that patients who were avoiding visits to doctor’s offices were missing care for chronic conditions, discussed in in Delayed and Forgone Health Care for N onelderly Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Urban Institute. By the autumn of 2020, U.S.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

APRIL 26, 2022

Make the disease definition too broad, then there may not be strong evidence from the clinical trial to support its use among these types of patients; make the disease definition too narrow, however, patients who could benefit from the treatment may not be able to receive it. heart failure, COPD). second line patients).

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NCQA

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Proposed Changes to Existing Measures Diabetes Care: We are asking for input on changes to HbA1c Control for Patients With Diabetes and Eye Exam for Patients With Diabetes, and to the denominator used in seven measures related to diabetes care. Use of Spirometry Testing in the Assessment and Diagnosis of COPD.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

ranked first in the share of population not fully vaccinated in the context of 10 high-income countries. The team analyzed data from January 1 2020 to September 30 2021. “These results support previous research that has found an association between trust and compliance with public health guidance,” the authors assert.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

Since the passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients & Providers Act in 2008, the U.S. The overarching goal of VBC is to improve the patient experience, improve population health, and reduce per capita health costs. This means that outpatient behavioral health treatment pays for itself, and more.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It solves the access challenges of at-risk and often homebound patients.”. Through the partnership, UCI Health will leverage DispatchHealth’s platform to coordinate and deliver home-based care to patients. This includes care for conditions, such as viral infections, congestive heart failure and COPD exacerbations.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The home care market continues to expand due to growth in an aging population, increased prevalence of chronic conditions, and a continued consumer preference for the comfort and familiarity of home over institutions. Remote monitoring for vitals and fall risks will help provide a more complete picture of patient health.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Research recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that even oncologists taking care of patients with stage IV cancer largely missed opportunities to discuss advance care planning, palliative care, and end-of-life decisions with their seriously ill patients. Comprehensive care coordination.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Meanwhile, its supportive care offerings feature multiple services to help vulnerable populations with activities of daily living (ADLs) and social determinants of health (SDoH). BrightSpring’s pharmacy solutions serve patients in both facility-based settings and the broader community, including the home.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? Patients’ experiences with virtual care were generally positive, with over 75% of consumers reporting being very or completely satisfied.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 10, 2024

Markovich is worried that the healthcare system is losing the public’s trust – which will make it harder to effectively fix our system – while also not delivering the quality of care and accessibility needed by our population. For a disease that has a total spend of approximately $420 billion, how is our system missing these patients?

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Geek Doctor

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Cultural change has modified patient expectations for the care they can get at a distance, which can be more convenient, less likely to result in COVID exposure, and more patient-centric. Bruce Leff, MD, and his colleagues have tested this program with 455 elderly patients from three Medicare-managed systems and a VA medical center.[2]

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Health Dialog

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Health coaches deliver vital support and education to patients with chronic conditions (such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, COPD, and hypertension), acute care support, and shared decision making (SDM) guidance, and medication adherence support. . Healthcare Engagement & Education.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Amedisys is in a unique spot to apply home health into higher-acuity settings – and to take full risk for the care and cost of the patient. Remote monitoring will continue to get better and more sophisticated, allowing for new ways of keeping track of patients’ health. Paul Kusserow; President and CEO, Amedisys Inc.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 20, 2022

Throughout her time there, she has been committed to driving performance through collaboration, and delivering quality patient-centered care. Also, it’s better for both patients and for our industry. The patients that we were looking to keep out of the hospitals were still acute, but the lower acute level patients.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2022

By using digital twins to model a person, you can use technologies like natural language processing (NLP) to better understand data and uncover other useful insights that will help improve use cases from customer experience to patient care. Kaiser Permanente uses digital twins through a system that improves patient flow within a hospital.

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NASHP

AUGUST 24, 2023

Palliative care can be an important component of these strategies, buttressed by research that finds it improves patient satisfaction and reduces costs for people with serious illness. Target Populations That Could Benefit from Palliative Care Services Use data to identify Medicaid enrollees with serious illness.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

2021) defines multiple chronic conditions (MCC) are as “the co-occurrence of two or more chronic physical or mental health conditions” Why do policymakers, payers and clinicians care so much about patients with MCC? The prevalence of MCC will grow with our aging population. Bierman et al.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2021

We need to be able to bring services and options for members and patients. CenterWell is a brand that we’re using across Humana for any of our delivery services that are meant to serve patients in the community broadly, regardless of who their payer might be. We really needed to be more than a health insurance company.

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Health Dialog

JANUARY 26, 2018

Managing a geographically dispersed population is challenging. Even more challenging is managing a population based primarily in rural areas where members may have limited access to healthcare (whether it be for emergencies or even for regular primary care visits). One of Health Dialog’s clients is facing this uphill battle.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 23, 2024

With affordable, AI-powered medical imaging in a pocket-sized device, caregivers can get to answers immediately to accelerate diagnosis and create new care pathways for heart failure patients at the point of care.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 13, 2022

Too often, the ideals of personalized medicine and population health seem to be at odds with each other: What might benefit a group en masse may not necessarily improve the health of an individual. "The population is overwhelmingly altruistic – especially as it relates to science," he said. 'We " he said.

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Lexis Nexis

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Understanding the risk profile of their member population is essential for payers participating in Medicare programs. But thanks to new interoperability requirements enacted by CMS, entities acting on behalf of members/patients (e.g., Risk adjustment is a highly complex process.

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