Change Healthcare today unveiled InterQual® 2019, the latest edition of the company's flagship clinical decision support solution. The new release builds on Change Healthcare’s tradition of continuous innovation in content and technology. Among the new features is support for ‘Hospital in the Home’ programs, which have gained traction as an alternative option to acute inpatient stays. This latest edition also advances the technology in InterQual AutoReview™ with Episode Day One review
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Triple Aim
Report: Why Today’s Health IT Market is Loud, Crowded, And Confused
Today’s health IT market is loud, crowded, and confused. Payers and providers are inundated with new solutions as they struggle to both define priorities and see results from their tech acquisitions. To understand how health IT companies should approach finding growth in a crowded market, Sage Growth Partners has launched a new report outlining key strategies for HIT companies to stay ahead of the market trends.Why Growth Is Getting Harder for Health IT CompaniesAccording to the report, there
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The Costs, Challenges and Drivers Of The Quadruple Aim
In 2008, Donald Berwick and colleagues outlined a new framework for the delivery of healthcare, the Triple Aim. The Triple Aim's framework served as a guide to the transition from service-based to value-based care and population health management. This framework is centered about three goals: 1. Improving the individual experience of care2. Improve the health of populations3. Reducing the per capita cost of healthcareToday, health systems are struggling with these challenges of improving the
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Remote Physical Therapy Solutions – Mobility is Essential for Delivering Value
Editor's Note: Robert Haywood is the Senior Marketing Manager at Breg, a provider of premium, high-value sports medicine products and business solutions that advance orthopedic patient care.Game console therapy solutions were originally designed for use in skilled nursing and facility settings. Recently, their use has expanded to include pre-and post-operative therapy at home. Game console therapy involves performing exercises in front of a TV using an Xbox® or camera enabled laptop/tablet
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Healthcare is Riddled With Throwing Tech on Top of Broken Processes
Co-founder of Healthfundr’s Quad Aim Fund Dave Chase talks about healthcare moving beyond the Triple Aim, and why it’s imperative health-tech developers and investors follow suit.It’s time to let go of the status-quo. That may sound like a great slogan for a t-shirt, but it’s more like a resounding battle cry for U.S. healthcare at large. Patients, providers, health-tech developers and investors need to recognize the failings of today’s system to prompt and promote real change—and it’s going to
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