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• The Unexpected Effects Of Greater Patient Engagement

  7/15/2019

  The way that medical care is delivered is undergoing a sea change. It starts with an increasing emphasis on value-based care, defined by tying payment to patient health outcomes. Better outcomes are known to be influenced by the level of patient engagement—good things happen when patients play a bigger role in their own healthcare.

• A Historical Look At The Evolution Of Clinical Decision Support

  1/4/2018

  When discussing the evolution of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) with regards to diagnostic imaging, it’s always good to step back from all of the acronyms and look at the big picture. This is especially true when it comes to the diagnostic process and quality of care.

• Closing Gaps In Care With Digital Care Coordination

  1/4/2019

  The rates for closing gaps in care are some of the most widely used, quantitative metrics to measure quality, allocate incentives, and control costs. Both health plans and providers are each financially incentivized to close gaps in care. For health plans, programs through Medicaid (HEDIS) and Medicare (STARS) have meaningful incentives and/or penalties tied to a members’ ability to receive certain healthcare services. Similarly, valued-based providers can control costs by providing certain recurring services to their patients. Fee for service providers also benefit from the additional volume generated by closing gaps in care. Gap closure uniquely aligns quality and financial incentives across health plans and providers.

• Why Healthcare Needs Private Optical Networks

  5/14/2019

  For at least the past 10 years, healthcare providers have invested in tools that utilize computing and information technology to better control patient outcomes. Several large hospital systems in the U.S. have reported meaningful improvements in metrics such as length of inpatient hospital stays, need for post-operative antibiotics and 30-day re-admissions. These positive outcomes are credited to the increased use of predictive analytics that model patient scenarios as part of a real-time connected healthcare system (RTHS). A cornerstone of the RTHS is connectivity among patients, healthcare providers as well as devices and systems that generate, process and store real-time data.

• 5 Health IT Trends To Watch For In 2018

  1/9/2018

  More of the same and plenty of the new are on tap for health IT in 2018. Here are five trends to watch as the year unfolds.

• ER Overuse: Leveraging Analytics To Improve Care, Reduce Visits

  7/7/2016

  A mother takes her asthmatic child to the ER for treatment. An elderly man with a stomach ache visits the ER for an assessment. A 30-something gets bitten by a spider and promptly heads to the ER. The common thread among each of these patients was a visit to the ER. Yet each could just have easily visited the pediatrician, primary care provider or an urgent care facility.