Population Health

• 6 December, 2022
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Given how central and important value is to so many aspects of life, it may be surprising to learn that value-based care wasn’t really on anyone’s radar until 2008, when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services introduced several programs intended to improve the Medicare program.

• 16 November, 2022
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This month, our Population Health blog series looks at the innovative solutions presented at the 2022 eClinicalWorks and healow National Conference in Orlando. Read on to learn how eClinicalWorks is helping practices bring together new thinking and the latest Population Health solutions to achieve the goals of value-based care.

• 13 October, 2022
• blog

Monitoring provides data for near real-time care delivery At healow, RPM doesn’t stand for revolutions per minute, but it can still be a way to rev up your understanding of Population Health and achieve the goals of value-based care.

• 13 September, 2022
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Transition Care Management helps reduce hospital readmissions No one likes going to the hospital; however, getting the care we need sometimes requires making the trip. What shouldn’t be necessary is being readmitted to the hospital because a provider lost track of where a patient was, didn’t check to see what medications they were on, or was too slow to provide necessary follow-up care.

• 17 August, 2022
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Employing effective tools for high-risk, high-need patients The numbers don’t lie: The older we get, the more chronic medical conditions — on average — we accumulate. Yes, there are 90-year-olds who spring out of bed and go hiking or waterskiing, but they are the exception. For most humans, age takes its inevitable toll.

• 12 July, 2022
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The most fundamental difference between modern and medieval medicine isn’t found in the fancy equipment, powerful medications, or lifesaving skills of physicians, nurses, and EMTs. All those things help, but the most critical difference is the ability to see.

• 14 June, 2022
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What would you do if you found yourself facing a complex and seemingly insoluble problem that might well be a matter of life and death? You might do what the Romans did — use a cohort-based system.

• 13 April, 2022
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Remember eating alphabet soup as a child and gathering those tiny letters made from pasta to spell your name? Well, getting the right letters together still matters, and in the healthcare world, three letters to pay close attention to are HCC.

• 25 March, 2022
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Time travel is still the stuff of science fiction, but after two years of a global pandemic, attending a live healthcare conference sure felt like a paradigm shift. In some ways, the 2022 HIMSS Annual Global Health Conference & Exhibition, held in Orlando in mid-March, felt like early 2020, with in-person conversations, presentations, and networking.

• 17 March, 2022
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Just as no building can long endure without a strong foundation, medical practices that hope to grow and thrive in an age of value-based healthcare need to build upon fundamentals.

• 10 February, 2022
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In last month’s opening blog in this series, we defined the field of Population Health as including “health outcomes, patterns of health determinants, and policies and interventions that link these two.”

• 11 January, 2022
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In March 2003, an article in the American Journal of Public Health could declare that “Population health is a relatively new term that has not yet been precisely defined.”