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Beyond Directories: The Real Impact of Accurate Provider Data in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Solving Big Problems with Proven Strategies When one of the nation’s largest payers was struggling with outdated data, they leveraged CAQH for a smarter, more efficient way to clean up its records without overwhelming providers. Erin holds a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H.

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HLTH 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

The challenges and opportunities of integrating social determinants of health into care delivery. Health Policy: The impact of healthcare policy on patient outcomes and access to care. Investment Strategy: The investment landscape for healthcare startups and emerging technologies. Subscribe Today!

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A Tale of Two States: Idaho, Limiting Health Plan Benefits; and Oregon, Moving Toward Universal Health Care

Health Populi

David Cameron, the state’s Director of Insurance, called this strategy, “pushing the envelope” in an interview with NPR last month. I welcome Health Populi readers to comment on the 290-mile health policy chasm I’ve identified here. So close, and yet so far, health policy-wise. .

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Most Americans Blame Drug Companies, Insurers, and Hospitals for High Health Care Costs

Health Populi

reduce the high cost of health care? The most-agreed strategy would be to advance prevention of future disease and to ensure that people live healthier lives, cited by 84% of Americans, and fully 8 of 10 people across political party. After this strategy, few solutions have this level of agreement across party divides.

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The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report

Health Populi

” In their methodology for curating this list, ECRI takes what they call a total systems safety (TSS) approach incorporating four pillars which together drive patient safety: Patient & family engagement Learning system Workforce safety & wellness, and, Culture, leadership, & governance.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

Health Populi

Telehealth and remote health monitoring, virtually “seeing” and treatment patients in lower cost settings (such as the home) is one key strategy for value-based care. Another component of health equity is peoples’ access to health insurance (mostly an SDoH risk factor in the U.S.,

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

This initiative resulted in a strategy for tackling loneliness in the United Kingdom. Three quarters of GPs surveyed have said they are seeing between one and five people a day suffering with loneliness, which is linked to a range of damaging health impacts, like heart disease, strokes and Alzheimer’s disease.