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Personalized Patient Engagement Can Help Cure America’s Non-Adherence Problem

by Carrie Kozlowski, OT, MBA, COO and co-founder at Upfront Healthcare 09/11/2023 Leave a Comment

Personalized Patient Engagement Can Help Cure America’s Non-Adherence Problem

Today, more than 131 million Americans – 66 percent of all adults in the U.S. – use prescription drugs, and one in four use three or more, according to the Health Policy Institute. Not only are we being prescribed more drugs than ever before, but we’re paying more for them too: the U.S. has the highest per-capita pharmaceutical spending among the developed countries. In 2021, the U.S. healthcare system spent $603 billion on prescription drugs. But even as we’re being prescribed more drugs,
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LG Launches Patient Engagement Boards for Hospital Rooms

by Fred Pennic 08/15/2023 Leave a Comment

LG Launches Patient Engagement Boards for Hospital Rooms

What You Should Know:  LG Business Solutions USA launches a new line of “Patient Engagement Boards” that empowers hospitals to outfit patient rooms with crisp high-definition screens for displaying patient information such as their name, schedule, a list of caregivers, native language and more. The new Patient Engagement Boards are now available in a 43-inch UHD model and 32-inch FHD model, featuring Power over Ethernet (PoE) capability, offering optimized solutions and simplified
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Chatbot Care Managers? ACOs Should Be Cautious in AI Adoption

by Theresa Hush, CEO and Co-founder of Roji Health Intelligence 07/14/2023 Leave a Comment

Chatbot Care Managers? ACOs Should be Cautious in AI Adoption

Given Artificial Intelligence’s potential to improve patient care and reduce costs, it’s no surprise that AI applications are gaining momentum in health care. As your organization explores the benefits of AI in your journey towards Value-Based Care, however, you need to carefully assess the implications, for better and worse. Evaluating AI implications can be tricky. Healthcare AI varies widely, with clinical technology paving the way for advancements in diagnostics and treatment. But
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What VBC Providers Demand From Their IT Solutions

by Rohinee Lal, Principal Analyst at Signify Research 05/16/2023 Leave a Comment

Value-based care (VBC) is a healthcare delivery model that differs from traditional fee-for-service because rather than compensating providers based on the number of services provided, it ties the amount providers earn to the results they deliver for their patients.  The quality of these healthcare services is measured by patient outcomes that are based on metrics such as rate of hospital readmission, timeliness of care, and overall patient satisfaction.  This VBC model holds providers
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Aledade Expands Access to Value-Based Care for More Medicare Advantage Customers

by Fred Pennic 03/23/2023 Leave a Comment

Aledade ACO

What You Should Know: - Aledade is continuing its strong momentum today, announcing that Cigna Healthcare Medicare Advantage customers can now receive value-based care from Aledade’s network of independent primary care practices. - Participating practices can access Aledade’s cutting-edge data analytics, user-friendly guided workflows, and health care policy expertise, as well as integrated care services supported by AledadeCare Solutions. - This news comes shortly after Aledade
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Steps for Preventing Medical Malpractice Risks

by Fred Pennic 03/14/2023 Leave a Comment

New Study Reveals EHR-Related Malpractice Suits On The Rise

Doctors and other healthcare professionals are entrusted with the responsibility of safeguarding the health and well-being of their patients, ensuring they receive the highest quality of care. While healthcare professionals are expected to provide a certain standard of care, any deviation from that standard that results in harm or injury to a patient may leave them exposed to a medical malpractice claim. The consequences of medical malpractice can be severe, and in some cases, can result in
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Maryland HIE to Expand Medicaid Redetermination Notification Project

by Fred Pennic 03/06/2023 Leave a Comment

Maryland HIE to Expand Medicaid Redetermination Notification Project

What You Should Know: - CRISP, the nonprofit state-designated health information exchange (HIE) of Maryland, announced plans to expand its Medicaid Redetermination Notification project across the state to support care teams as they navigate redetermination for 1.6 million Medicaid enrollees. - The project is a collaboration across state agencies and began as a pilot supporting federally qualified health centers who expressed concerns about lacking resources that would contribute to
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Why Proactive Patient Engagement Is The Pathway to Better Care Outcomes in 2023

by Diana Nole, EVP and General Manager, Healthcare Division at Nuance Communications 01/31/2023 Leave a Comment

Proactive Patient Engagement

When it comes to consumer engagement, other industries have had a significant head start. For years, retailers, banks, and other customer-centric organizations have been working hard on curating digital experiences that simplify, personalize, and secure interactions and transactions with their consumer base. Accessing your savings account through an app is now the standard for millions of people. It’s second nature to use the chat feature on a clothing retailer’s website to get information
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Out of Sight: Why Invisible Patient Engagement is Optimal Patient Engagement

by James Rachlin, Director of Product, Interoperability at CipherHealth 12/07/2022 Leave a Comment

Out of Sight: Why Invisible Patient Engagement is Optimal Patient Engagement

As a patient engagement product director, there’s nothing that I love to hear more from customers than they live and breathe in the systems we’ve created. We’ve thought long and hard about UI; about the rich dashboards we build; about new ways to expand functionality within the parameters of our applications and programs.  But there’s a hard truth that I—and the healthtech community at large—need to learn, or have already:  Most of the people who use our software aren’t focused
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Lumeris Launches Value-Based Care Accelerator for Practices

by Fred Pennic 11/03/2022 Leave a Comment

Lumeris Launches Value-Based Care Accelerator for Practices

What You Should Know: - Lumeris is launching Tribus, a value-based care accelerator for practices to convert from fee-for-service to value-based care using a community based-model. - Under the direction of Dr. Chuck Willey, CEO of Tribus, who is a practicing internal medical physician in St. Louis, doctors will participate in physician-to-physician training and mentorship for anyone looking for a better way to deliver at-risk care for senior populations. Why It Matters The Medicare
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