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How AI and machine learning can help predict SDOH needs

Healthcare It News

How do care management interventions to mitigate SDOH as a risk for undesired health outcomes work? Recently, population health management strategies have begun to incorporate evaluations for patients' social needs connected to SDOH, as well as interventions addressing these needs.

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How AI can improve patient experience and patient engagement

Healthcare It News

Hospitals and health systems, especially larger ones, are using AI in myriad new ways – including leveraging it for improved patient experience, and for better patient engagement with the goal of reducing health inequities. How did you originally see AI being a fit for improving the patient experience?

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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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Aledade Acquires Advance Care Planning Company Iris Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Despite robust literature demonstrating that participation in an ACP program can help improve patient health outcomes and lower unnecessary care utilization, thereby lowering costs , Medicare data reports that only about 2.8 percent of seniors end up having these discussions with their doctor. “Today, more than 1.7

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Health Provider News – November 4, 2022

Hall Render

AMA scrutinizes lack of competition, consumer harms in Medicare Advantage plans. CMS makes big changes to Medicare Shared Savings Program. 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.

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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.