Healthcare It News

MARCH 19, 2024

Need for speed As with the rest of the industry during the pandemic, Mount Alvernia was also thrown into a situation where it had to up the ante in its digital transformation. This involved the rapid development and deployment of critical solutions like health tracking and reporting.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2023

It is difficult enough to find access – especially timely access – to needed medical specialists in large urban areas, but it can be next to impossible in rural communities. Specialty care is where the cost and complexity lives in healthcare. Today, too many patients are lost in the labyrinth of the U.S. population.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2024

will be divided between the US government and various states. Specifically, the government claims that TRG: Failed to ensure adequate review of radiology scans: TRG allegedly used contractors located outside the United States, who were not licensed to practice medicine in the US, to prepare draft interpretations of radiology scans.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 25, 2023

As a department, we were at a point where it would take close to six months for patients to get in to see one of our providers." "We're a rural health system, and it's not as easy for us to recruit people as it is for more urban health systems. "Ultimately, that resulted in us seeing about 180 referrals per day.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 13, 2024

As an example, I often refer back to the early days in my career as a young ER nurse, where charge capture meant an index card in the patient’s chart that our business office would remind us to use to capture supplies and medications used during a patient’s visit. That’s easier said than done.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 26, 2024

This is a great space where comments drive our understanding rather than simply responses to questions. Using natural language processing , a form of artificial intelligence , we can connect respondents who are highly likely to recommend our care and analyze the positive themes they convey in their comments.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2023

According to Crosland, a fundamental shift she called "wave two" is happening, where DHA is taking military medicine – in the next three years – into a digitally-transformed ecosystem that will ultimately make care at home possible, she said. million beneficiaries worldwide.

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Healthcare Success

JANUARY 5, 2024

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are pivotal for deciding where to invest in terms of platforms and ad types. age, gender, medical needs, and geographic location of their preferred patient), learn where they are in their buyer journey. Is there flexibility to invest more where opportunities are more significant?

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Home Health Care

MARCH 18, 2024

Their experiences underscore the importance of finding advocates within partner organizations and embracing patient-centered models. I saw that [mindset] coming from hospice where it’s the perfect model of care because you control everything. Having a champion in what you’re doing is so important for us,” Hughes said. “We

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Home Health Care

APRIL 26, 2024

And the purpose of those visits is to really meet members where they are, do a full, end-to-end assessment of their current health situation, and help them think about what the next steps on their health journey should be. One was they started out by asking us, what other investment can we give you to help you achieve your long-term goals?

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The IoT diagnostic tools available now through technological improvements enable us to deliver clinical care effectively and efficiently. Australia is facing a shortfall of at least 110,000 aged care workers by 2030 , according to a projection by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

There are times where we do not have any kind of service out there, which creates challenges when trying to make contact with the patients and using our EVV systems. Not everything’s mapped, and so trying to find some of the places where people live in the residences can be a challenge, too.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2024

"MyChart was designed to offer a user-friendly platform where patients could easily access their health records, schedule appointments and communicate with their healthcare team. Patients use the portal to access medical records, manage appointments and communicate with their healthcare team.

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Home Health Care

MAY 17, 2024

That program is going extremely well for us,” Silbert said. “We’re That enables us to use those funds to support all of the fee-for-service folks, which is not profitable today, and palliative is not profitable. In many ways, these care models are natural allies to home-based care providers.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Where in your view does telehealth come up short? As such, telehealth can often make it easier to find a therapist, as any therapist licensed in the state in which the patient lives may now be a potential fit. In 2020, it was estimated that around 41.4 million adults in the U.S. received mental health treatment or counseling.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MARCH 26, 2024

That is the question a paper by Papanicolas (2024) aims to answer, comparing US prices to those from Australia, Canada, France, and the Netherlands between 2000 and 2020. How did health care prices change over the past 2 decades. Before we get to the results, we first need to determine what types of price indices are out there?

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Some of us may be looking for help with pain or a specific task, and some of us are well-adapted with technologies we have and use (and maybe would just like to get them maintained a little more easily ). The stakes of not heeding disabled-led conversations on these topics in health care and health policy are so high for us.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“The start of care is critically important for us,” Chase Dailey, a principal for Humana’s home solutions team, said during a Bright Spots in Healthcare webinar Thursday. When you’re going through a medical event, whether planned or otherwise, those days after you leave the hospital aren’t where care stops.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

He said data from these special populations of interest will be poured into a registry where clinical data, laboratory data and cost data can be measured. According to Hasbrouk, the Population Health 5x5 program will leverage technology to identify care for patients with these long-term conditions. The costs of ignoring chronic disease.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

"And factors such as housing and transportation are significant in substance use disorder treatment," Bloom explained. "This one-source implementation has helped us achieve dynamic reporting and insights across the entire treatment journey."

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 16, 2022

The findings revealed that although the evaluated SDOH were associated with differences across participants in their starting glucose levels, these differences disappear after one year of enrollment in the Teladoc Health diabetes management program. What were the results you realized after one year of patients in the program?

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2024

Power reveals concerning trends in US hospitals, highlighting patient dissatisfaction with limited doctor access, lengthy wait times, and communication issues. In the era of value-based care, where reimbursement hinges on patient satisfaction, these findings pose a significant challenge for hospitals. – The J.D.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

And then, for duplicate payments, that’s a large revenue stream for us. And once the data scrub team is done with that, they’ll pass it off to us and we’ll go into our client’s imaging systems, where they store their invoices and we will pull those invoices and pass it back over to the data scrub team for validation.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 3, 2023

April Anthony is used to running large home health and hospice entities. VitalCaring – where she now serves as CEO – is still smaller than what she’s used to. There are certain markets where we’ve just turned the volume practically off,” Anthony said. It likely won’t be small for long, however.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The fact that we can partner with Google Cloud allows us to focus on what we are good at, which is bringing features and capabilities in solutions that are tailored for specific end markets, like home health, hospice, or other post acute-care care settings,” Joel Dolisy, chief technology officer at WellSky, told Home Health Care News. “We

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But where providers do have leverage is demographics. We also don’t have a great fee-for-service structure for us as providers to adjust to that demand. We saw those demographic shifts as a huge opportunity for us to step in and build a safety net that is more effective. When we go to a payer and we say, ‘Help us move to value.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It was far easier for us to do that with a partner like SCAN or other types of health plan customers.” It was far easier for us to do that with a partner like SCAN or other types of health plan customers.” Shah, co-founder and CEO of Dina, told Home Health Care News. We found that providers are already margin constrained.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 7, 2023

If you can really find a way to prioritize, and win the timing battle, you can get folks out to work very quickly. . — a move management, organizing and consulting company. The company has also purchased a few Assisted Living Locators franchise geographies. When it comes to business moves like these ones, CEO Kevin Smith isn’t risk averse. “We

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 1, 2023

However, at a time of unprecedented development, the industry also finds itself at the center of a skills shortage that threatens to stall, or even halt, its trajectory. However, at a time of unprecedented development, the industry also finds itself at the center of a skills shortage that threatens to stall, or even halt, its trajectory.

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Home Health Care

MAY 8, 2024

The minute someone is engaging us on any of these platforms, we have an AI system that’s going to engage back — answer any question that they might have and really drive them to scheduling interviews — to really cut down on those ghosting problems that we’ve been all seeing over the last couple of years,” Sinykin said.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

Rapid advances in AI oblige us to consider system design choices in light of possible futures that we may discern only indistinctly today. The family of machine learning algorithms most often used in medical imaging and diagnostic applications is called “discriminative,” as they are techniques for discriminating between existing data points.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

But, unfortunately, getting into all the nuts and bolts, very little changed for us.” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is going to continue gaslighting providers. CMS has a hard job, and protecting the Medicare trust fund is a noble cause. For context, CMS finalized an aggregate 0.8% aggregate cut it proposed in June.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 23, 2024

You have to focus where your clinician, your resources and your scheduling are going – and who you’re partnering with.” At some point in conversation, he said, ‘Do you want to know what’s important to us?’ It was just one of those moments where you realized you had to shut your mouth and listen. Shaner said.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 18, 2023

To find the most memorable home-based care executive quotes in 2023, Home Health Care News employed a strategy that is part art, part science. It’s not enough for us to get Congress all worked up about it to pass legislation. But it’s enough to keep us in purgatory. I’ve done this, and everybody in our business has.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Can you take us behind the curtain there and explain what that means? This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership New Day Healthcare has been one of the most active acquirers in home health care over the last year. As it grows, it’s looking to set itself apart from the home health company archetype of yesteryear.

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Healthcare Leadership

JULY 25, 2022

Having a yes culture leads to echo-chamber behavior where everyone seems to always agree with each other without critical thinking. I’ll argue that this is a failure to see the middle ground – something that any of us can fall into when presented with two choices. We find ourselves wondering why no one gets it. Seems simple!

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