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• Pharmaceutical Distributor Cuts Day Of Safety Stock

  5/21/2013

  Scattered across Canada from St. Johns, Newfoundland, on the east coast to Vancouver, BC, on the west coast are 14 warehouses for Medis Health & Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., Canada’s leading pharmaceutical distributor. Until last year, warehouse tracking of the pharmaceutical and related items it shipped across the nation was primarily a manual chore. However, over an 18-month period, each warehouse is now being converted to an electronic tracking program. By the time all 14 are automated, Medis expects to eliminate a whole day of safety stock.

• Intervention Care For The 'Rising-Risk,' Before It's Too Late

  12/19/2016

  The first white paper in this population health management (PHM) series, Chronic Disease is Healthcare’s Rising Risk, reported on the health and financial burden associated with chronic diseases, specifically the ‘rising-risk’ and ‘high-risk’ clinically stratified population groups. The second paper, A Health Behavior Change Framework for Population Health Management, set out a coordinated clinical-community structure for delivering chronic disease intervention care. This is the third white paper in this PHM series that will discuss the advantages of setting process and evaluation standards for methodology and community-digital engagement to achieve and sustain health behavior change for self-management.

• Enabling A Consumer eHealth Ecosystem With A Continuum of Connectivity

  2/19/2016

  Consumer eHealth is empowering consumers through apps, social media, portals, medical devices, and other means to better manage and influence their health and wellness, access healthcare services, and improve workflows with their caregivers. In combination with mobile health (mHealth) modalities oriented around digital healthcare technologies, such as clinical diagnostics and electronic health record systems, and virtual health capabilities as exemplified by live, asynchronous clinical visits to a healthcare organization, this potent trifecta has the potential to fundamentally create a truly patient-centric ecosystem of health and wellness services. By Eric Abbott, director of product management and health facility technology, ExteNet Systems

• Please Be An Engaged Healthcare Leader

  12/8/2015

  As the co-founder of a healthcare technology company offering tools to increase patient engagement, reduce readmissions, and improve patient outcomes, I am no stranger to the current prevailing opinion that analytics are one of the, if not the only, key determinants in predicting outcomes and costs. However, my experience at the Congress on Population Health Management conference in Orlando earlier this fall made me question whether we are truly open to the newest information related to healthcare outcomes and its potential implications. By Zach Silverzweig, co-founder, CipherHealth

• Bending The Cost Curve: Are You Leaving Your Chips On The Table?

  9/7/2018

  Don't walk away from a process improvement project until you have put financial value around the expected gain and tied that back to your organization's key financial metrics. When you score a winning hand, use these methods to ensure that all those chips make it into your pocket.

• Patient Engagement Brings Promising Business Venture For Service Providers

  6/12/2017

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed rules last year for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).