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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Fast forward nine years later.

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Does Private Equity Spike Adverse Events?

Digital Health Wire

A large study published in JAMA showed that Medicare patients at hospitals acquired by private equity firms went on to experience significantly higher rates of adverse events – such as infections and falls – within just three years of the acquisition. appeared first on Digital Health Wire. increase in falls a 37.7%

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How Covid-19 Can Inspire Tech-Enabled Value-Based Health Care in a Cash-Constrained America

Health Populi

” The implementation of electronic health records, spurred on by the HITECH Act which was embedded in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the Stimulus Bill) resulted in lots of EHRs deployed in hospitals and doctor’s offices, with huge gaps in interoperability and data liquidity. of the U.S. of the U.S.

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The Imperative to Develop the Participatory Patient

Society for Participatory Medicine

The Society for Participatory Medicine was founded in 2009 to transform the culture of care. SPM co-founder and former board member e-Patient Dave wrote years ago that it boils down to this: US healthcare is too big to let itself shrink (in 2009!) We Have Failed. Oh, you say, but I doubt the VBHE will come to pass.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

The program belongs to both Northeastern’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Since the program’s inception, the curriculum has required that students develop proficiency in health science, management science, and information science.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

In a global model, the lead health system VBP entity—whether part of an integrated delivery system or clinically and financially integrated IPA or ACO—would extend successes and performance across payor types, including Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS), Medicaid managed care, Medicare FFS, Medicare Advantage, and/or commercial plans.

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Pearl Health Raises $75M Series B Led by a16z to Accelerate Growth and Innovation in Value-Based Care

Healthcare IT Today

Pearl supports primary care organizations and providers in their transition to value-based care and surfaces data and insights that help them deliver better, more proactive care, decrease total cost of care across patient panels, and optimize performance in risk-bearing models like Medicare’s ACO REACH. We also operate an Impact fund.