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2011 Healthcare IT Forecast Roundup
A crucial component of healthcare reform is to transform our care delivery system to improve quality and control costs. To do that, the government is working with the private sector to test and...
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Meaningful Use Will Require Use of Supplemental Information Technologies
As we all know, the meaningful use requirements of the HITECH Act are designed to facilitate quality improvement, better care coordination and population health management. However, it may not be...
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Transforming Today’s Manual Care Management Process
What if you were asked to take on the role of a primary care physician? Your objective would be to ensure that ALL of the patients you are responsible for receive the quality care they need at the...
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How Care Coordination Can Use Information Technology
A recent consensus report by The Commonwealth Fund emphasizes the role of health IT in care coordination, while asserting that today’s information technology is inadequate to the purpose. “Anchoring...
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Care Coordination = Planned Care
In discussions of care coordination, one may hear it described as the process of guiding patients across care settings or managing the care of patients with chronic diseases or trying to help patients...
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PGP Demonstration Links Coordinated Care and Technology
In 2005, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a physician group practice (PGP) demonstration designed to: Create incentives for physician groups to coordinate the overall...
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Taking a Proactive Approach to Care Management: Ideas from Medicare’s PGP...
A growing number of primary group practices are taking a proactive approach to care management because they know coordinated care will be a linchpin driving impending changes in the care delivery...
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How Value Stream Mapping Applies to Healthcare Organizations
A Value Stream is an end-to-end process that flows horizontally through an organization in order to provide value to a client, patient or customer. Many organizations map processes vertically rather...
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Population Health Management: 2012 Trends
Automation tools for population health management will become more important than ever in 2012 as a growing number of healthcare providers begin to take responsibility for the cost and quality of...
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Population Health Management and High-Risk Patients
The goal of population health management (PHM) is to keep a population as healthy as possible. It is well known that about 5 percent of patients’ use 50 percent of healthcare resources and 10 percent...
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Healthcare Products and Services: Innovate or Improve?
Companies in the healthcare industry should regularly ask themselves the question, “Should we spend time and resources improving existing products and services or innovating new ones?” The answer to...
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Patient Registries Ensure Tracking of All Patients
Population-wide patient registries keep track of all patients, showing their diagnoses, lab results, past interventions, service dates, and due dates for needed preventive and chronic care. Electronic...
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Population Health Management Tools
In the world of healthcare reform, population health management (PHM) must increasingly be a core competency of healthcare organizations. But organizations need not and should not try to build the...
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Automate Care Management; Reach More Patients
For many physicians, the demands of their extremely busy schedules make it a challenge for them to consistency reach out and engage their patients between visits. There are many lower-level clinical...
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ISO 9001: 2008 Certification
What does it mean to be ISO 9001: 2008 certified? Why should clients, providers, and patients care? The answer to that question can be aggregated into one word: trust. The foundation to creating...
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Using Technology to Engage Patients
One of the goals of population health management is to maintain continuous contact with patients and to address modifiable health behaviors that may lead to or exacerbate chronic diseases. To be...
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Phytel Recognized for TQM Initiative
Just this week, Phytel was recently recognized by the International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC) for implementing a Total Quality Management (TQM) Plan to improve customer service and...
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Day in the Life of a CMO: Managing a Contract for Diabetes
In December, more than 100 healthcare professionals gathered together to discuss leveraging digital data and technology to manage population health cost effectively. A key takeaway was that new care...
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Embracing Healthcare IT to Drive Effective Clinical Integration
I recently listened to a great webinar, in which Jennifer Endicott, VP of Clinical Integration at Orlando Health, shared how the organization is embracing healthcare IT to drive effective clinical...
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Using Health IT for PCMH, Accountable Care and Population Health
Recently, Dr. Sean Rogers, medical director and compliance officer at Bend Memorial Clinic (BMC) shared BMC’s journey in leveraging health information technology for accountable care and population...
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