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• Chronic Disease Is Healthcare's Rising-Risk

  6/17/2016

  The move to value based care is no longer a question of if or when, it’s now. As health systems prepare for impending change in their revenue, they must decide if they are going to lead, follow or resist the transformation at their own peril. Leading Health Systems are already partnering with value-based payers and creating shared and full-risk contracts. New leadership teams, focused on Population Health Management (PHM) are essential to success under new alternative payment models that reward maintaining a healthy population. As a competitive business necessity, health systems must continue the acquisition of value-based care payer contracts. Those contracts also include the acquisition of significant financial risk. PHM’s task is to identify, track and manage the real drivers of costs across their populations and in doing so, manage the risk. By Phil Trotter, leader, Exercise is Medicine, Felipe Lobelo, associate professor of Global Health, Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, and Ashley John Heather, co-founder, Off The Scale

• Virtual Tumor Boards – Cancer Does Not Stop For COVID-19

  4/29/2020

  It is a very challenging new world for cancer patients and their care teams. While data on cancer patients with COVID-19 is limited, published reports from China, Italy, and “ground zero” hospitals in the United States show a 3.5x higher risk of needing ventilation, ICU admission, and dealing with mortality compared with patients without cancer. This is a serious problem, which falls on community oncologists and care teams—given that 80 percent of cancer patients are treated in the community.

• Is BPO The Solution To Patient Contact Center Modernization?

  1/2/2018

  Contact centers were created to manage many of the administrative tasks associated with patient management, such as scheduling or re-scheduling appointments, accessing lab results or referral requests. This system allowed patients to engage with their provider organization without adversely impacting the top-of-license work of clinicians.

• Real-Time Data Is The Answer For Mobile Workforce Management

  10/1/2019

  When it comes to homecare and managing patient relationships, following through on commitments is mandatory. Yet many providers are shooting themselves in the proverbial foot — using tired scheduling methods that overlook real-world challenges, such as appointments running over and unanticipated traffic that can lead to broken commitments. In lieu of a crystal ball that can predict problems and delays, providers must rely on actual, real-time data to create the ideal schedule. This model, known as truth-based appointment booking, involves booking appointments based on true job durations and true travel time, and considers existing commitments to patients in making the best scheduling decisions.

• Data's Credibility Problem: It's About The Quality, Not The Data

  6/24/2016

  In the first part of this article, we discussed the ways in which health insurers should begin to position themselves for the transformation to a data world where the quality of the data — and thus its believability — holds primacy above anything else.

• Nurses: Your HIT Frontline

  6/18/2020

  If you want something done ask a busy person. And if you need help transitioning to a new health information system (HIS), ask a nurse. A lifeline to patients and doctors alike, nurses were early health information technology (HIT) adopters and continue to be on the frontline of its efficacious use in the clinical setting. That is why they are invaluable partners as hospitals move to a new HIS and figure out how best to archive legacy clinical data.