Patient Engagement

Dec 07 | Beth Jones Sanborn

Hennepin Healthcare uses EHR data to identify patients at risk of homelessness

Hennepin's Alex Knutson-Smisek says using the electronic health record to pinpoint social determinants was…

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Dec 03 | Beth Jones Sanborn

While PCP office visits decline, stats for NPs and PAs are way up showing promise for bridging future care gaps

Primary care visits to nurse practitioners and physician assistants increased…

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Dec 03 | Jeff Lagasse

Americans concerned about how hospital mergers and acquisitions will impact their care

About a quarter of respondents thought mergers and acquisitions were threats to their health, and many…

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Dec 03 | Beth Jones Sanborn

eConsult proves valuable tool for NYC Health+Hospitals in cutting wait times, speeding referrals

For patients referred for an in-person specialty care visit, the median wait time decreased…

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Nov 28 | Jeff Lagasse

What healthcare consumers really want: convenience, to start

Health systems can improve competitiveness by meeting consumer demand for more timely and accessible care.

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Nov 27 | Jeff Lagasse

Top 25 healthcare supply chains in 2018, as ranked by Gartner

Cleveland Clinic came in first, and has been in the top 10 in the ranking for the past three years.

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Nov 26 | Beth Jones Sanborn

How Grady Health System used AI to reduce preventable readmissions

Case study: Grady Health used an AI machine to generate which patients were most at risk of coming back to them within 30…

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Nov 15 | Jeff Lagasse

Patient engagement: Clinicians like the idea, but do they really know what it means?

While most interview participants expressed positive opinions about patient activation and engagement,…

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Nov 15 | Beth Jones Sanborn

Geisinger unveils ProvenRecovery program for surgery patients which cuts down on opioid use, speeds recovery

Pilot program showed an 18 percent drop in opioid use and cut length-of-stay in…

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Nov 14 | Jeff Lagasse

Data overload: Doctors say patients come into office misinformed

Patients all too often read unreliable sources of medical information and assume the worst-case scenario.

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Beyond Dollars and Cents: A Closer Look At Value Beyond the expected improvement in specific metrics, many organizations that outsource RCM with a trusted and certified partner are seeing several ancillary benefits of such agreements.

Care Collaboration Success for Improved Outcomes The nature of our healthcare ecosystem has been one of siloed care. Rarely do payers, providers and local resources come together with the patient's well-being prioritized as a unifying mission. Read how these organizations are getting it right.

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Healthcare mergers and acquisitions in 2016: Running list While 2015 was a record-breaking year in healthcare mergers and acquisitions, 2016 saw more change as organizations across the industry adjust and adapt to the evolving financial landscape.

Once-failing hospitals say accountability, transparency key to surviving fallout from failing patient safety grades When Leapfrog released their Spring 2016 patient safety grades recently, 15 hospitals got slapped with a very public 'F' grade casting a spotlight on them that no institution wants. ...

Analyze this: Health systems, health plans get to the core of big data Pamela Peele knows that people who subscribe to cooking magazines have a much higher risk of going to the emergency room. But how she knows that is a whole other story.

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Clinical Quality Measures 101 Although quality-reporting programs such as meaningful use provide incentives to help providers implement and use electronic health records (EHRs) to collect and report on clinical data, practices often need help deciding what data to collect, which measures to report ...

Credible, Defensible Estimates In healthcare, every interaction with the patient matters. Especially in today’s environment of continuous improvement, efforts have been concentrated on coordination among providers, the patient care experience and quality outcomes – all laudable goals.

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