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How AI and machine learning can help predict SDOH needs

Healthcare It News

Social determinants of health are major contributors to health inequity and rising healthcare costs in vulnerable populations such as Medicaid beneficiaries. How do care management interventions to mitigate SDOH as a risk for undesired health outcomes work?

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Leadership in a Value-Based Care (VBC) Environment

AIHC

Value in healthcare is the measured improvement in a person’s health outcomes for the cost of achieving that improvement1. But healthcare providers haven’t been able to successfully reduce cost, even with the massive number of hospital mergers and acquisition of physician practices over the past few decades.

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Health Provider News – November 4, 2022

Hall Render

Rural hospitals plan to reject Congress’ program. Staff shortages make patient surges harder for children’s hospitals — and the situation won’t get better soon. Rural Alabamians getting improvements in health care with federal grant. Alabama hospital officials weigh in on ‘tripledemic’ concerns.

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What the Telehealth Expansion Act means for tackling social determinants and boosting health equity

Healthcare It News

By increasing access to telehealth services, we're able to provide healthcare to the people who need it most, while also specifically addressing health equity implications in socially marginalized communities, improving patient satisfaction, increasing access to specialty care services, and decreasing reliance on emergency departments.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Wade; expected to remain big issue in 2024 races Most nursing home residents in Arizona still haven’t gotten their COVID-19 booster COVID-19 hospitalizations are up in Arizona and around the U.S.

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Pomelo Care Secures $33M, Partners with Leading Health Plans, Employers and Academic Medical Centers to Deliver Value-Based Care and Improve Maternal and Newborn Health

Healthcare IT Today

The capital will fuel Pomelo’s continued partnership expansion with major health plans, including several Medicaid managed care organizations, employers and leading academic medical centers on the front lines of the national maternal health crisis. Despite spending $111 billion annually on maternal healthcare , the U.S.

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Patients – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Integrating health benefit accounts, payment plans and even Medicaid enrollment will help meet patients where they are on their financial journey. Patient Loyalty: We recently surveyed 1,200 healthcare consumers and found that the billing experience is a key driver of patient loyalty.

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