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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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M&A: Phreesia Acquires Insignia Health to Improve Patient Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Phreesia’s acquires Insignia Health, a mission-oriented company dedicated to improving health outcomes through patient activation. – Insignia has an exclusive worldwide license for the Patient Activation Measure® (PAM®).

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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. When done “right,” value-based healthcare’s focus for better health outcomes aligns clinicians with their patients. That alignment is the essence of empathy.

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How AI can improve patient experience and patient engagement

Healthcare It News

Many of these organizations are using AI to not only identify these patients but proactively reach out to them through preferred communication channels and encourage them to schedule their annual wellness visits – typically through streamlined, AI-driven online scheduling options.

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Navigating the Intersection of Payment Integrity and Provider Relations in Healthcare

Innovaare Compliance

According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, the financial losses due to healthcare fraud are estimated to be in the billions of dollars annually. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported that in the fiscal year 2020, they recovered $3.1 References: National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association.

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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.

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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.