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• Important Considerations When Implementing Population Health

  1/6/2017

  Population health isn’t a new concept, but it’s one that has taken on greater prominence as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and as accountable care organizations (ACOs) have gained traction. ACOs demand quality and outcomes measures from population health. By Susan Kanvik and Karen Curtis, Point B Management Consultants

• Community Health Partnerships (CHP) – Increasing Employee Engagement To Make A Difference

  12/11/2017

  Community Health Partnerships found that a mobile app platform helped keep employees highly engaged while improving communication across the organization.

• Achieving A Supply Chain That Can With Stand Any Disruption

  1/17/2018

  Nothing strikes fear and anxiety into the hearts and minds of supply chain departments across the country faster than the local news outlet predicting bad weather on the horizon. From an impending snow storm up north, to a catastrophic hurricane on the east coast, or a raging wild fire out west, the initial reaction within a healthcare supply chain department is panic. Do we have enough supplies? What will we need? Should we order more of everything?

• The Future Of Healthcare? Voice.

  3/7/2019

  Imagine that you’re enjoying a leisurely evening at home, unwinding from a long and stressful day at work. Suddenly the evening takes an unexpected turn. As you’re slicing up some veggies for dinner, the knife slips off a carrot and slices into your finger instead. It’s a serious cut, and you’re not sure how best to treat it. That’s not a problem, though. You can just ask Alexa.

• Improving Staff Training And Patient Education With Telehealth Data

  10/13/2016

  Have you ever taken the time to analyze data about your patients? Access to data about common chief complaints can create a valuable step in staff training — a step that can improve the patient experience. By David Thompson, CEO and chief medical officer, Health Navigator

• Big Data: The Right Prescription For Providers And Patients

  2/9/2016

  Big Data, aka the biggest challenge facing organizations everywhere, isn’t going away anytime soon. According to IBM, every day we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. To give you an idea of what that may look like, one terabyte alone is the equivalent of 4.5 million books — overwhelming to think about, especially for healthcare providers. From medical charts and prescriptions to financial and insurance information, patients generate a lot of data throughout their lifetimes. Some of that data is structured. However, even within sophisticated healthcare organizations, most of it — paper documents, ad hoc emails, data created through monitoring devices, for example — is not. As healthcare moves toward more of an evidence based model, data will play more of an instrumental role. Now more than ever, it’s important for healthcare providers to realize organizational success has less to do with how much data they gather and more to do with how data is utilized. By Andre Vandenberk, VP of Product Management and Lori Frampton, VP of Patient Flow Process Improvement & Data Analysis both of Medworxx, an Aptean Company