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Newsletter, January 2024

Patient Safety Movement

“Make your commitment to ZERO… starting with culture of safety from your executive governing board down to the lowest paid employees.” In medicine, thousands of patients sustain preventable harm, and yet we do not know the actual number, as very little is reported.

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CMS Program Integrity’s Role in Combatting FWA While Maintaining Health Equity

HIT Consultant

Health outcomes and Medicaid program integrity Health outcomes are a function of the quality of care. CMS has been focusing heavily on quality of care for the last decade. Healthcare providers willing to commit fraud often do so at the expense of quality care.

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Social Determinant of The Healthcare Professional: Why We Cannot Wait

HIT Consultant

Within healthcare, burnout may affect bias, individual well-being, patient safety, quality of care, healthcare employee satisfaction and retention, erosion in the healthcare human capital national pool among other key performance indicators. Meaning the list grows.

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Seven Questions with Jeff Diamond & Andrea Green

Lexis Nexis

Another very common use of our data is to leverage our vast consumer data warehouse and linking capabilities to help ensure disparate patient records are linked appropriately. Having SDoH related data on patients and members can help identify patients at risk earlier, to then address disparities in access to care or quality of care.