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Telemedicine is a major driver in shifting the healthcare delivery model

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Accountable Care Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Workflow More than ever, the system selected to provide telemedicine services must provide added controls to overcome factors that are outside the control of the provider.

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Employers Take on Health Activism, Embracing Behavioral Health, Virtual Care, AI, and Transparency

Health Populi

One-third of large employers will adopt new delivery and payment models like accountable care organizations and high-performing networks in 2019. More employers will also channel employees and dependents to Centers of Excellence for focused clinical areas like cancer treatment, cardiovascular care.

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The confluence of value-based care and population health

Health Blawg

We are certainly hurtling along the value-based care trajectory, and may not have the opportunity to make more that just a few mid-course corrections. We are certainly hurtling along the value-based care trajectory, and may not have the opportunity to make more that just a few mid-course corrections.

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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As was the case with most healthcare provider organizations, COVID-19 accelerated OhioHealth's pace rolling out virtual care. During the course of the pandemic, 1,400 caregivers have been trained and have performed some manner of virtual visit. Investing in consolidation. Currently, 10% of ambulatory visits are video-based.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Zealous for Wellness: How to Replace Hype with Data

Healthcare IT Today

Outcome measures are meaningful on an actuarial level, of course: not tied to individual patients on a one-to-one basis. As mentioned by Erica Kraus, a partner specializing in value-based care at Sheppard Mullin , the actions of a single clinical institution in the U.S. Are vital signs looking good?

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Telehealth and the CHRONIC Act of 2017 (S. 870)

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

House of Representatives, Accountable Care Organizations (groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their Medicare patients) could have some flexibility within these restrictions. If the act passes the U.S.