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Understanding Climate and Disability Justice: Mitigating Structural Barriers to the Right to Health

Bill of Health

The left side boxes provide examples of social determinants of health associated with each of the elements of vulnerability. Increased exposure, increased sensitivity and reduced adaptive capacity all affect vulnerability at different points in the causal chain from climate drivers to health outcomes (middle boxes).

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For value-based care, virtual options aren't always beneficial, study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Based on a study of patient visits across all hospital-based outpatient clinics in Maryland from 2012 to 2021, telehealth visits did reduce the overall number of future outpatient visits within 30 days of a telehealth encounter by 14% and saved $239 in total outpatient costs per patient, the new study found.

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Curana Health, Innovaccer Partner to Accelerate Value-Based Care for Seniors

HIT Consultant

It achieved impressive gross savings of $2,235 per beneficiary per year, marking the highest per beneficiary per year savings for a first-year MSSP ACO since 2012.

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MultiPlan Acquires Leading Healthcare Data and Analytics Firm Benefits Science LLC

Healthcare IT Today

The platform ingests, validates, and stores massive amounts of data with exceptional accuracy, and applies advanced descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to help employers and their advisors, commercial health plans and government health plans to optimize decision-making and financial and clinical performance.

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A Tale of Two America’s for Health

Health Populi

Health citizens living in states in New England, and then those west of Michigan and north of Missouri and Kansas, demonstrate better-than-average health outcomes. The top row illustrates that the ACA covered a lot of people with health insurances between 2012 and 2016.

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Ask and Tell: Family Caregiving as a Social Determinant of Health

Healthcare IT Today

2012 May;60(5):1000. It’s become clear that being a caregiver is a social determinant of health (SDoH): a non-medical condition that influences health outcomes. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2010 May;58(5):895-900. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02806.x. 1532-5415.2010.02806.x. Erratum in: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2013 Sep;61(9):1642.

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3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Mike Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value Based Care at Edifecs Consumers are at the heart of healthcare — their fears are forcing healthcare innovators to shift priorities to deliver consumer-centric digital health offerings. This is true today, tomorrow, and far into the future.