Population Health Management Starts with Flagging High Costs
How do you build an effective population health management initiative? A new white paper from the Health Care Transformation Task Force offers some guidance.
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MeHI Starts Care Coordination Grant Program for Massachusetts
Massachusetts is aiming to increase health IT usage for improved care coordination with a grant program. “MeHI’s goal is to increase the flow of health information exchange within the state and help providers address transitions of care and care management needs within their communities.”
The population health management conundrum: Overcoming challenges to sustainable PHM strategies
Population health management (PHM) has been identified as a critical tactic for developing sustainable healthcare models but is a complex endeavour. Becker’s Hospital Review shares some tips for overcoming the barriers to effective PHM.
Frontline Cancer: Cancer Survivor rates continue to improve
As cancer survivor rates continue to improve, the NIH’s Office of Cancer Survivorship is promoting a vision of integrating survivorship concepts across the stages of cancer care.
Using the navigation process to improve both your program and your patient outcomes
Learn how you can improve both your navigation program and patient health outcomes in this article from Oncology Nurse Advisor.
Care coordination is key to cost control
Technology and analytics, connected with care will reduce redundancy and drive down cost.
Survivorship Programs Improve Quality of Life, Satisfaction in Prostate Cancer
A new study published in Cancer demonstrates how a survivorship program improves cancer patients’ quality of life & satisfaction.
Population Health Exchange: Partnerships Key to New Models of Care
Data analytics — including both EHR and subjective patient-reported data — are key to successful population health management.
Health Systems Are Jumping into Population Health
Health organizations are recognizing how vital population health initiatives are for connecting with patients and advancing positive health outcomes.
Population health: Closer than we think?
Population health management is gaining traction. Factors driving care providers to focus on population health managment include: “improved health outcomes, improved patient experience, cost containment, increased revenue opportunity, and competition with other hospitals in the same market.”