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A study presented at the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting suggests that patient navigation programs reduce costs and minimize required healthcare resources for care providers.
A new study highlights the ability of patient navigation programs to reduce operating expenses for care providers. “Navigators have the potential to identify patient needs, communicate with the care team, and contribute to better care and lower health care costs.”
Patient Navigation Programs (PNP) have been shown to improve patient outcomes and increase patient satisfaction. A study presented at the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting demonstrates how a PNP improved survival, early-stage diagnosis, and various other clinical variables among patients in the Colombian Health Care System.
Seventy percent of providers surveyed by KLAS Research in 2014 saw tangible patient care benefits—including improved outcomes and cost savings—from the implementation of population health management tools.
CMS has paid out more than $30 billion in EHR incentive payments to care providers who have attested to Meaningful Use as of March 2015. Check out this handy chart illustrating MU attestation and related EHR market share across the US.
Patient portals are the key to population health management success. Learn why in this Healthcare IT News article.
The Georgia Center for Oncology Research and Education is teaming up with health care providers and other stakeholders, along with survivors, to undertake new cancer survivorship research. Potential topics include the effectiveness of survivorship care plans, survivors’ mental health needs, weakness and fatigue, and pain.
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Thanks for joining us at the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators (AONN+) West Regional Meeting in Seattle earlier this week. And congratulations to RN Navigator, Robin Munoz, from California Cancer Center who won a FitBit in the Equicare prize draw!
AONN+ is the largest professional organization dedicated to navigation and we were pleased to sponsor this event, which gathered more than 150 nurse and patient navigators from west of the Mississippi. Attendees discussed the advancement of the navigation profession in the changing healthcare system, including:
UCLA-based Jacqueline Casillas, MD, MSHS, contributed to the CoC conversation by focusing on the importance of the survivorship care plan in the continuum of care.
“Survivorship care plans help survivors navigate their healthcare needs by serving as their own health advocates,” said Jacqueline. Drawing upon case studies, she demonstrated how people have successfully developed these plans and addressed the needs of diverse patient populations.
At Equicare Health, we recognize the critical importance of patient navigation for improving patient outcomes. Our ECS comprehensive care coordination solution helps Nurse Navigators care for cancer patients from screening to survivorship—including navigation and psychosocial distress screening tools, survivorship care plans, and a secure, user-friendly patient portal.
The value of patient engagement for increasing patient satisfaction and optimizing revenue generation is being recognized.
Understanding how people seek cancer information during their cancer survivorship is an important component of patient care. The information and education needs of cancer patients appear to differ depending on the type of cancer they have and where they are in their survivorship.