Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Structural challenges, especially painful due to EHR barriers — with the promise of APIs (application programming interfaces) and the ongoing development of clinical decision support tools.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033. Based on Trilliant Health’s calculations in this analysis, we project a provider deficit of over 200,000 primary care providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2021

In November, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services took several new steps to help U.S. hospitals manage the crush of new patients as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. Actually, we've had randomized control trials showing that when patients get their care at home instead of in the hospital, they get readmitted less often.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years News Brooklyn provider automates patient experience tracking to spot health equity gaps At One Brooklyn Health System, tools such as the Brooklyn Health Equity Index survey are helping.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), a Medicare and Medicaid program designed for individuals aged 55 and above requiring nursing-home-level care, embraced the benefits of providing care at home prior to the pandemic, enabling this frail population to remain within their familiar home environments and communities.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Once adjusted for volumes, the higher expenses are more evident as hospitals struggle to hold down per-patient costs.” ” The report’s revenue data is shown here in a table from Kaufman Hall’s analysis of the July 2020 data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Data Analysis will Gain Traction Once again, SDoH generated a lot of buzz over the past year. But much of the data required to make SDoH meaningful for a patient population is either not standardized or tracked, or it’s tracked by tools without standard export/interoperability frameworks.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

health care system not seen since the 1968 creation of Medicare, coupled with decreased reimbursement due to health care reform. From the patient-as-health-consumer’s standpoint, doing-more-with-less means self-rationing care away from hospitals and providers to doing more DIY and self-care at home and in lower-cost settings.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

For example, patients with diabetes may use a glucose meter to regularly check their blood sugar levels, and then securely transmit this data to their healthcare provider for monitoring and analysis. This allows Medicare beneficiaries to receive medical treatment and consultation from the comfort of their own home.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs. Experience and Skills: Bachelors degree in STEM or related field required. Other duties as assigned. Tableau, ggplot).

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

CMS also analyzed data from the National Committee for Quality Assurance, Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set, and CMS Medicare Advantage Star Ratings. Customize education, tools and access for physicians and for patients. Align financial investments with clinical and patient experience goals.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. With healthcare professionals working longer hours and dealing with increased workloads, patient experience has fallen to the wayside. Almost 75% say that this impacts patient care moderately to severely.

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American Well

APRIL 26, 2016

According to a Willis Towers Watson analysis, telemedicine has the potential to lower health care costs for U.S. Click here to read more about battling Zika with telemedicine. Employers Should Consider Offering FREE Telemedicine. Employee Benefit News. employers by as much as $6 billion annually. New Medicaid Rule Welcomes Telemedicine.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Ever since the announcement last year that three of America’s biggest companies — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — had united, Voltron-style, to fight for lower healthcare costs and forge “a better patient experience” for their combined 1.2 For the most part, we’re still waiting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 began with a bang, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially “unbundled” CPT code 99091 to give eligible practitioners the ability to receive separate reimbursement for certain remote care services. In what ways does your company put your patients, users, or consumers first? "We Read more here.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As we look toward healthcare trends for 2024, one of the most pivotal developments is the rise of remote patient monitoring (RPM). This innovation is not just enhancing the way healthcare providers deliver care; it’s revolutionizing the patient experience by making healthcare more accessible, personalized, and efficient.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Spatially Health applies geospatial analysis to expand a provider’s understanding of SDoH data. Like many SDoH tools, the analysis identifies vulnerable patients and does risk stratification. The CDC has an Environmental Justice Index to find correlations between environmental problems and health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Another study published in 2021 analyzed the geographic distribution of neurologists actively billing in Medicare and compared this to the geographic distribution of Medicare beneficiaries with neurologic disease. As a result, this program directly addresses access issues that these patients experience.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

An analysis of nearly 500,000 deliveries in the Truveta Research database found that Black women with preeclampsia are two times more likely to experience heart failure than white women. Overall, 31% of users achieved a Medicare Advantage Star rating of 4 or more.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Research shows that 38% of consumers want more personalized and inclusive healthcare options, and organizations are beginning to invest in technology and infrastructure that will enhance the patient experience and empower them to make educated care decisions. Health consumers demand better care experiences.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

That’s because we’re in the business of thinking about the future of health and health care through the health economics lens; the MMI is a key component of our ongoing environmental analysis of the health/care landscape, and we include it in nearly every presentation and talk we give to every audience.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Operationally, hospitals and health systems will be more designed around the patient experience rather than the patient accommodating to the hospital design and operations. Specifically, more geared toward patient choice, shopping for services, and price competition for out-of-pocket expenses. Ronda Lehman, PharmD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By eliminating barriers and providing greater visibility into a patient's medical history and then providing bespoke recommendations or materials to support their care, interoperability and tech stand to provide a better patient experience anywhere as well as empower patients to take greater control over their healthcare journey, he said.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2019

is prescription drug prices — that they’re too high, that the Federal government should negotiate to lower costs for Medicare enrollees, and that out-of-pocket costs for drugs should be limited. One of the only issues bringing people together in the U.S. “Humalog isn’t thirteen times as effective as it used to be.

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