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Remote patient monitoring improves access to care for Avera patients
In the spring of 2020, the virus that causes COVID-19 was tearing across the country and wreaking havoc on patients and on the healthcare systems that served them. No hospital, system or ancillary facility was left unaffected.
In South Dakota, when the…
President Biden signs bill protecting mental health of healthcare workers
In recognition of the difficulties faced by healthcare workers, President Biden has signed into law the “Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act,” which authorizes programs to improve mental and behavioral health among healthcare providers.
Payer-provider partnerships essential to creating stable hospital-at-home programs
ORLANDO – Healthcare organizations from payers to providers have been sounding a common refrain in recent years: Provide the right care at the right place at the right time. Various hospital-at-home programs have popped up in response to this ethos, an…
FHIR may be the future of healthcare data, but payers want more
ORLANDO – Healthcare has undergone a number of policy and technology shifts in recent years, and at the intersection of these changes is Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, or FHIR. It’s a standard that describes data formats and an API for exc…
AI, machine learning can drive better hospice utilization
ORLANDO – More than 1.5 million Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in hospice care for at least one day during 2018, a 17% jump in about four years. While hospice care is useful and compassionate, especially when focusing on quality of life for termi…
Machine learning, AI can help ease the trend of physician burnout
ORLANDO – Even before COVID-19 made the business of healthcare a nightmare for countless physicians and clinicians, burnout was a prevalent issue. And even the slow, still-ongoing emergence into normalcy hasn’t been enough to ease this trend: Clerical …
ACOs increase shared savings, but quality drops, data shows
The performance of Medicare Accountable care organizations has been mixed. When ACOs were first launched, the goal was to save costs and improve quality, with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offering two different models with two differe…
Clinicians key when assessing EHR safety
ORLANDO – It’s been less than a year since the Department of Health and Human Services implemented a new measure to the Protect Patient Health Information objective requiring eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals to complete an annual assess…
Population health focus helped Baycare make the jump to value
ORLANDO – Value-based care will continue to accelerate, and the best way forward for health systems, from both a financial and clinical quality standpoint, is to have a clear transition plan and a robust population health framework.
Physician-led data analytics teams becoming more important in healthcare
More than ever before, data drives the business of healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular brought statistics, data and analytics to the forefront, and the healthcare industry saw real scrutiny on the source of its data, as well as the collecti…
