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What facilitated telehealth can do to improve care for high-need groups

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Health disparities are intimately tied to social determinants of health, which can be defined as conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.

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Scripps Health’s Tracy Chu and Xealth’s Aaron Sheedy Speaking at HIMSS23, Highlighting Automation and Digital’s Role in Care Delivery

Xealth

HIMSS23, with the theme “Health That Connects + Tech That Cares,” will be held April 17-21 in Chicago. Digital health, including tools delivering patient education and remote patient monitoring, help fill a necessary role in extending care options for patients, and integration into clinician workflow is essential for success.

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Value-based care: what exactly is it and how much money is being invested into VBC?

Lloyd Price

Care coordination: This involves connecting patients with the care they need, when they need it, across different settings. Preventive care: This involves providing services that can help to prevent illness and keep people healthy. For example, UnitedHealthcare has a number of VBC programs, such as its OptumHealth program.

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Employers Take on Health Activism, Embracing Behavioral Health, Virtual Care, AI, and Transparency

Health Populi

One-third of large employers will adopt new delivery and payment models like accountable care organizations and high-performing networks in 2019. More employers will also channel employees and dependents to Centers of Excellence for focused clinical areas like cancer treatment, cardiovascular care.

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Micky Tripathi’s glass-half-full view of EHR interoperability – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

In general, Micky said he prefers incentives to mandates, and cited as an example of a mandate gone awry the Massachusetts HIE, which got tangled up in definitions of terms like “provider” or “connected” or “use.”. For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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Micky Tripathi’s glass-half-full view of EHR interoperability – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

In general, Micky said he prefers incentives to mandates, and cited as an example of a mandate gone awry the Massachusetts HIE, which got tangled up in definitions of terms like “provider” or “connected” or “use.” For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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Micky Tripathi’s glass-half-full view of EHR interoperability – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

In general, Micky said he prefers incentives to mandates, and cited as an example of a mandate gone awry the Massachusetts HIE, which got tangled up in definitions of terms like “provider” or “connected” or “use.”. For example, “Direct” (i.e.