The client is a large, reputable healthcare services company that wanted to create a mobile app to monitor patient health after discharge. The app would collect health metrics from patients and help ensure they followed recommended care plans, while also alerting hospitals to potential issues. It provided reminders, contact options with care teams, and access to records. Testing improved the app's performance.
The document discusses how eHealth is acting as a catalyst to improve healthcare systems by making them more patient-centric and integrated. It outlines how healthcare costs are rising unsustainably and new models like Accountable Care Organizations are aiming to control costs through preventative care and early diagnosis. eHealth applications allow patients greater control, access to information anytime from anywhere, and more coordinated care between departments. The document also notes the growing demand for healthcare IT and how mobile health applications in particular are uniquely positioned to provide individualized care in real-time.
The InfoMC Coordinated Care Solution is a single software platform that uses real-time data sharing and integrated workflows to coordinate care for complex patients across multiple providers. It supports care management requirements through features like risk assessment, automated care planning, rules-based workflows, and a care team portal for collaboration. The goal is to improve care coordination, close gaps in care, and help manage costs and quality outcomes for high-risk populations.
Using Health Information Systems to Improve Health Services In FijiAlvin Sharma
This document discusses health information systems in Fiji. It outlines the objective to determine how health information systems at the Ministry of Health are adding value to clients and the organization. It describes key concepts like health information units and health information systems. It provides details on current and future opportunities for health information systems at the Ministry of Health, including components like the patient information system and logistics management information system. It recommends that the Ministry of Health make more significant use of these systems by further upgrading systems and infrastructure.
Final presentation system,HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMHector Rueda
HIME Associates, an IT consulting firm located in New York, has proposed designing and implementing an electronic health records (EHR) system called a computer-based patient record (CPR) system for St. Vincent's Medical Center. The proposal outlines delivering the following:
1) Designing the CPR system to import patient health information
2) Implementing and testing the new system
3) Training staff on how to use the new EHR functionality
The goal is to address the inefficiencies of paper-based medical records and help the hospital meet federal meaningful use standards for health IT. HIME Associates will tailor its IT services and deep healthcare expertise to help St. Vincent's realize its vision of
Establishing a Community-based Framework for ACOs - slide-share 120116Jennifer D.
This document discusses community-based accountable care organizations (ACOs) for Medicaid patients. It outlines that ACOs coordinate care across providers to improve quality and reduce costs. For Medicaid ACOs specifically, it is important to address social determinants of health through partnerships with community organizations. The document then discusses key components of Medicaid ACOs including payment models, quality measurement, and data analysis strategies. It provides examples from Colorado and Minnesota that have achieved cost savings and quality improvements. Finally, it argues that integrated care coordination platforms can help ACOs collect and share patient data to direct resources and invest in programs.
How do medicaid waivers expand the possibilities of whole person care 032117Jennifer D.
This document discusses how Medicaid waivers can expand whole-person care approaches. It provides examples of whole-person care pilots in California and Minnesota that integrate services across medical, behavioral health, and social services. These pilots aim to improve outcomes, patient experience, and lower costs. The document also discusses how care coordination platforms can help overcome challenges of data sharing, privacy, and interoperability across different provider types to better coordinate whole-person care.
The client is a large, reputable healthcare services company that wanted to create a mobile app to monitor patient health after discharge. The app would collect health metrics from patients and help ensure they followed recommended care plans, while also alerting hospitals to potential issues. It provided reminders, contact options with care teams, and access to records. Testing improved the app's performance.
The document discusses how eHealth is acting as a catalyst to improve healthcare systems by making them more patient-centric and integrated. It outlines how healthcare costs are rising unsustainably and new models like Accountable Care Organizations are aiming to control costs through preventative care and early diagnosis. eHealth applications allow patients greater control, access to information anytime from anywhere, and more coordinated care between departments. The document also notes the growing demand for healthcare IT and how mobile health applications in particular are uniquely positioned to provide individualized care in real-time.
The InfoMC Coordinated Care Solution is a single software platform that uses real-time data sharing and integrated workflows to coordinate care for complex patients across multiple providers. It supports care management requirements through features like risk assessment, automated care planning, rules-based workflows, and a care team portal for collaboration. The goal is to improve care coordination, close gaps in care, and help manage costs and quality outcomes for high-risk populations.
Using Health Information Systems to Improve Health Services In FijiAlvin Sharma
This document discusses health information systems in Fiji. It outlines the objective to determine how health information systems at the Ministry of Health are adding value to clients and the organization. It describes key concepts like health information units and health information systems. It provides details on current and future opportunities for health information systems at the Ministry of Health, including components like the patient information system and logistics management information system. It recommends that the Ministry of Health make more significant use of these systems by further upgrading systems and infrastructure.
Final presentation system,HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMHector Rueda
HIME Associates, an IT consulting firm located in New York, has proposed designing and implementing an electronic health records (EHR) system called a computer-based patient record (CPR) system for St. Vincent's Medical Center. The proposal outlines delivering the following:
1) Designing the CPR system to import patient health information
2) Implementing and testing the new system
3) Training staff on how to use the new EHR functionality
The goal is to address the inefficiencies of paper-based medical records and help the hospital meet federal meaningful use standards for health IT. HIME Associates will tailor its IT services and deep healthcare expertise to help St. Vincent's realize its vision of
Establishing a Community-based Framework for ACOs - slide-share 120116Jennifer D.
This document discusses community-based accountable care organizations (ACOs) for Medicaid patients. It outlines that ACOs coordinate care across providers to improve quality and reduce costs. For Medicaid ACOs specifically, it is important to address social determinants of health through partnerships with community organizations. The document then discusses key components of Medicaid ACOs including payment models, quality measurement, and data analysis strategies. It provides examples from Colorado and Minnesota that have achieved cost savings and quality improvements. Finally, it argues that integrated care coordination platforms can help ACOs collect and share patient data to direct resources and invest in programs.
How do medicaid waivers expand the possibilities of whole person care 032117Jennifer D.
This document discusses how Medicaid waivers can expand whole-person care approaches. It provides examples of whole-person care pilots in California and Minnesota that integrate services across medical, behavioral health, and social services. These pilots aim to improve outcomes, patient experience, and lower costs. The document also discusses how care coordination platforms can help overcome challenges of data sharing, privacy, and interoperability across different provider types to better coordinate whole-person care.
This document discusses consumers' participation in clinical handovers between general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals. It notes that currently, formal discharge summaries are only issued to GPs 10-20% of the time and specialists provide formal feedback 10-20% of the time. The document proposes that a personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) could help by giving patients more timely access to their clinical information and allowing for easier sharing of information between healthcare providers. This could support chronic disease management and improve healthcare quality through more coordinated team-based care.
Patients want safe, affordable, high-quality healthcare and to avoid preventable harms. However, the current system is convoluted, inefficient, and transactional. Payers also seek to limit waste and standardize care, but current business models profit from transactions. Value-based healthcare aims to relate quality and outcomes to affordability via the equation "V=Q/$". However, moving to this model faces barriers around measurement, incentives, and resistance to change from entrenched systems. A new framework is needed that holistically assesses quality using structure, process and outcomes data to inform patients and drive improvements.
SROA Presentation - Clinical Results of a Medical Error Reduction/Compliance ...edbkline
Clinical results from application of paper-based medical error reduction/compliance program vs software-based MERP program implenented at 30 free-standing radiation oncology centers.
This webinar presentation discussed the Investing in Innovation (i2) Program's challenge to develop an application that facilitates the reporting of patient safety events. The app should enable providers to import relevant EHR data to submit Common Formats-compliant reports to Patient Safety Organizations, capture useful demographic data, and reduce reporting burden by submitting information to other oversight groups. Entrants will be judged on effectiveness, usability, ability to integrate with HIT, creativity, and use of NwHIN standards, with submissions accepted from June to August 2012 and winners announced in September.
The document discusses the potential benefits of the PCEHR (Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record) system in Australia. It outlines five high-level categories of direct benefits: quality of care, safety of care and services, access to health services, efficiency of care and services, and promotion of population health. It also discusses how private health insurers could realize value from improved continuity of care for members and greater consumer involvement in health. Full benefits realization will require coordinated adoption across local health systems and stakeholders over time as functionality and models of care evolve.
The healthcare industry is undergoing change at unprecedented speed and magnitude, yet continues to be fraught with cost inefficiencies and disappointing clinical outcomes. In this slides you will explore an outline of the current healthcare revolution, and how innovative technology strategies, models and tools are helping improve efficiency, effectiveness, and patient experiences.
Malaria in Pregnancy-Strengthening Health Systems to Improve Outcomes for MIP...CORE Group
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of malaria in pregnancy (MIP) programs is important to track their progress, improve implementation, and provide accountability. Key M&E indicators recommended by WHO include the percentage of antenatal clinic staff trained, facilities with anti-malarial drug stockouts, pregnant women receiving intermittent preventive treatment, and sleeping under insecticide-treated nets. Data should be collected through routine health information systems, surveys, and community registers to evaluate outputs, outcomes, and impacts on anemia and birth weight. Assessing data quality and involving communities in M&E can strengthen MIP programs.
VoIPcare's qMetrix toolset provides a secure, web-based application for healthcare organizations to collect real-time quality metrics across various modules like acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia. It streamlines the collection of over 1500 measures that are increasingly demanded by regulatory agencies. By automating population of reporting databases and collecting data daily, qMetrix reduces the time and cost of quality reporting while improving accuracy. It offers benefits like maximizing Medicare payments and reducing back-end chart reviews.
1) The document analyzes the costs of two approaches to obtaining clean data from electronic medical records (EMRs) - data discipline and data cleansing - and applies this to diabetes management in Canada.
2) A budget impact analysis finds that data cleansing would be quicker to implement and estimated to cost less at $21.6 million compared to $65.5 million for data discipline.
3) The analysis recommends considering a combination of the two approaches to improve data quality for diabetes management, which could save hundreds of millions to the healthcare system and billions to patients through reduced costs and improved health.
CINs (Clinically Integrated Networks) are groups of healthcare providers that work to improve care, reduce costs, and maintain quality standards. They create structures to manage value-based contracts, allow providers to demonstrate value, and integrate physicians and health systems. Key elements of CINs include collaborative physician governance, a focus on population health through data sharing and care management, health IT infrastructure, and aligning provider incentives through value-based contracts and shared savings. Providers commit to engaging with the network, focusing on quality metrics, and using resources to standardize care. In return, CINs provide opportunities for shared savings contracts and support providers through committees and performance feedback.
Connecting Patients, Providers and Payers John Halamka Keynotemihinpr
The document discusses goals and strategies for connecting patients, providers, and payers through healthcare IT and analytics. It outlines core objectives for physicians and hospitals that focus on clinical documentation, decision support, care coordination and exchange. It also describes various approaches to analytics using expert queries, self-service tools, repeatable reports and outsourced clinical repositories. The final sections discuss providing universal access to personal health records and required PHR functionality, as well as utilizing various decision support service providers.
Post Acute Care: Patient Assessment Instrument and Payment Reform Demonstration nashp
Presented at the National Academy for State Health Policy's 20th Annual State Health Policy Conference in Denver, Colorado. Authors: Judith Tobin and Barbara Gage.
This document provides an overview of the MiHIN (Michigan Health Information Network) and health information exchange (HIE) in Michigan. It discusses how HIE benefits care coordination by avoiding duplicate tests and enabling timely diagnosis. It also outlines how MiHIN facilitates statewide HIE through a network of networks model with multiple qualified organizations connected to share data. The governance structure and various workgroups that support MiHIN operations are described.
Maximizing Chronic Care Management (CCM) Outcomes with CareSkoreCareSkore
Efficiently supporting your Medicare CCM patients provides both clinical and financial benefits but CMS makes it challenging with changing workflows and shifting billing codes. Whether you’re exploring implementing CCM or are trying to optimize your current program, CareSkore can help.
Webinar - Telehealth: Bridging the Doctor-Patient DivideCareSkore
Do you risk negative outcomes due to poor patient engagement? Without technology, you can’t fully enlist patients to participate in their own care. This leads to rising no-show rates, medication non-adherence, and uninformed patient decisions, resulting in readmissions, lower MIPS scores, and lower reimbursements.
Boost Revenue by Reducing No-shows and CancellationsCareSkore
Do you struggle with reducing no-shows and cancellations? A 1% reduction in no-show and cancellation rate will lead to $650 per physician per month in ROI. In a recent report, one clinic saw 14,000 annual no-shows for a loss of > $1,000,000. Not to mention clinical outcomes suffer. So it’s a big deal. But how do you fix it?
Join us in this upcoming webinar to learn:
- How Methodist Hospital reduced no-show rates by 20% and increased revenue
- How to boost efficiency in how you deliver care
Free medicines are available through the pharmaceutical companies’ Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs), which may be accessed for individual prescriptions using The Pharmacy Connection (TPC) software or through a bulk replacement / Institutional PAP. Learn about the Virginia Health Care Foundation’s TPC software and its RxRelief Virginia initiative.
The document discusses InfoMC's Model of Care solution for Special Needs Plans (SNPs). The solution is a care coordination and quality improvement platform that ensures the unique needs of members are identified and addressed through integrated strategies. It promotes a collaborative approach for risk assessment, care planning, and care monitoring. At the core is an integrated Care Plan that is generated using real-time data. The solution also includes a Care Team portal that allows real-time communication and coordination between the care team and members.
Clarifications and updates to NCQA's 2011 PCMH standards
Our speaker Candace J. Chitty, BSN, MBA, CPHQ, PCMH-CCE is a NCQA PCMH reviewer and an expert in the NCQA patient centered medical home model and recognition process
Due to popular demand, the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) team hosted a repeat of the webinar that was originally held on Thursday, April 21, 2016. During this webinar Model team members provided an overview of the model specifically for health IT vendors.
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This document discusses consumers' participation in clinical handovers between general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals. It notes that currently, formal discharge summaries are only issued to GPs 10-20% of the time and specialists provide formal feedback 10-20% of the time. The document proposes that a personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) could help by giving patients more timely access to their clinical information and allowing for easier sharing of information between healthcare providers. This could support chronic disease management and improve healthcare quality through more coordinated team-based care.
Patients want safe, affordable, high-quality healthcare and to avoid preventable harms. However, the current system is convoluted, inefficient, and transactional. Payers also seek to limit waste and standardize care, but current business models profit from transactions. Value-based healthcare aims to relate quality and outcomes to affordability via the equation "V=Q/$". However, moving to this model faces barriers around measurement, incentives, and resistance to change from entrenched systems. A new framework is needed that holistically assesses quality using structure, process and outcomes data to inform patients and drive improvements.
SROA Presentation - Clinical Results of a Medical Error Reduction/Compliance ...edbkline
Clinical results from application of paper-based medical error reduction/compliance program vs software-based MERP program implenented at 30 free-standing radiation oncology centers.
This webinar presentation discussed the Investing in Innovation (i2) Program's challenge to develop an application that facilitates the reporting of patient safety events. The app should enable providers to import relevant EHR data to submit Common Formats-compliant reports to Patient Safety Organizations, capture useful demographic data, and reduce reporting burden by submitting information to other oversight groups. Entrants will be judged on effectiveness, usability, ability to integrate with HIT, creativity, and use of NwHIN standards, with submissions accepted from June to August 2012 and winners announced in September.
The document discusses the potential benefits of the PCEHR (Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record) system in Australia. It outlines five high-level categories of direct benefits: quality of care, safety of care and services, access to health services, efficiency of care and services, and promotion of population health. It also discusses how private health insurers could realize value from improved continuity of care for members and greater consumer involvement in health. Full benefits realization will require coordinated adoption across local health systems and stakeholders over time as functionality and models of care evolve.
The healthcare industry is undergoing change at unprecedented speed and magnitude, yet continues to be fraught with cost inefficiencies and disappointing clinical outcomes. In this slides you will explore an outline of the current healthcare revolution, and how innovative technology strategies, models and tools are helping improve efficiency, effectiveness, and patient experiences.
Malaria in Pregnancy-Strengthening Health Systems to Improve Outcomes for MIP...CORE Group
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of malaria in pregnancy (MIP) programs is important to track their progress, improve implementation, and provide accountability. Key M&E indicators recommended by WHO include the percentage of antenatal clinic staff trained, facilities with anti-malarial drug stockouts, pregnant women receiving intermittent preventive treatment, and sleeping under insecticide-treated nets. Data should be collected through routine health information systems, surveys, and community registers to evaluate outputs, outcomes, and impacts on anemia and birth weight. Assessing data quality and involving communities in M&E can strengthen MIP programs.
VoIPcare's qMetrix toolset provides a secure, web-based application for healthcare organizations to collect real-time quality metrics across various modules like acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia. It streamlines the collection of over 1500 measures that are increasingly demanded by regulatory agencies. By automating population of reporting databases and collecting data daily, qMetrix reduces the time and cost of quality reporting while improving accuracy. It offers benefits like maximizing Medicare payments and reducing back-end chart reviews.
1) The document analyzes the costs of two approaches to obtaining clean data from electronic medical records (EMRs) - data discipline and data cleansing - and applies this to diabetes management in Canada.
2) A budget impact analysis finds that data cleansing would be quicker to implement and estimated to cost less at $21.6 million compared to $65.5 million for data discipline.
3) The analysis recommends considering a combination of the two approaches to improve data quality for diabetes management, which could save hundreds of millions to the healthcare system and billions to patients through reduced costs and improved health.
CINs (Clinically Integrated Networks) are groups of healthcare providers that work to improve care, reduce costs, and maintain quality standards. They create structures to manage value-based contracts, allow providers to demonstrate value, and integrate physicians and health systems. Key elements of CINs include collaborative physician governance, a focus on population health through data sharing and care management, health IT infrastructure, and aligning provider incentives through value-based contracts and shared savings. Providers commit to engaging with the network, focusing on quality metrics, and using resources to standardize care. In return, CINs provide opportunities for shared savings contracts and support providers through committees and performance feedback.
Connecting Patients, Providers and Payers John Halamka Keynotemihinpr
The document discusses goals and strategies for connecting patients, providers, and payers through healthcare IT and analytics. It outlines core objectives for physicians and hospitals that focus on clinical documentation, decision support, care coordination and exchange. It also describes various approaches to analytics using expert queries, self-service tools, repeatable reports and outsourced clinical repositories. The final sections discuss providing universal access to personal health records and required PHR functionality, as well as utilizing various decision support service providers.
Post Acute Care: Patient Assessment Instrument and Payment Reform Demonstration nashp
Presented at the National Academy for State Health Policy's 20th Annual State Health Policy Conference in Denver, Colorado. Authors: Judith Tobin and Barbara Gage.
This document provides an overview of the MiHIN (Michigan Health Information Network) and health information exchange (HIE) in Michigan. It discusses how HIE benefits care coordination by avoiding duplicate tests and enabling timely diagnosis. It also outlines how MiHIN facilitates statewide HIE through a network of networks model with multiple qualified organizations connected to share data. The governance structure and various workgroups that support MiHIN operations are described.
Maximizing Chronic Care Management (CCM) Outcomes with CareSkoreCareSkore
Efficiently supporting your Medicare CCM patients provides both clinical and financial benefits but CMS makes it challenging with changing workflows and shifting billing codes. Whether you’re exploring implementing CCM or are trying to optimize your current program, CareSkore can help.
Webinar - Telehealth: Bridging the Doctor-Patient DivideCareSkore
Do you risk negative outcomes due to poor patient engagement? Without technology, you can’t fully enlist patients to participate in their own care. This leads to rising no-show rates, medication non-adherence, and uninformed patient decisions, resulting in readmissions, lower MIPS scores, and lower reimbursements.
Boost Revenue by Reducing No-shows and CancellationsCareSkore
Do you struggle with reducing no-shows and cancellations? A 1% reduction in no-show and cancellation rate will lead to $650 per physician per month in ROI. In a recent report, one clinic saw 14,000 annual no-shows for a loss of > $1,000,000. Not to mention clinical outcomes suffer. So it’s a big deal. But how do you fix it?
Join us in this upcoming webinar to learn:
- How Methodist Hospital reduced no-show rates by 20% and increased revenue
- How to boost efficiency in how you deliver care
Free medicines are available through the pharmaceutical companies’ Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs), which may be accessed for individual prescriptions using The Pharmacy Connection (TPC) software or through a bulk replacement / Institutional PAP. Learn about the Virginia Health Care Foundation’s TPC software and its RxRelief Virginia initiative.
The document discusses InfoMC's Model of Care solution for Special Needs Plans (SNPs). The solution is a care coordination and quality improvement platform that ensures the unique needs of members are identified and addressed through integrated strategies. It promotes a collaborative approach for risk assessment, care planning, and care monitoring. At the core is an integrated Care Plan that is generated using real-time data. The solution also includes a Care Team portal that allows real-time communication and coordination between the care team and members.
Clarifications and updates to NCQA's 2011 PCMH standards
Our speaker Candace J. Chitty, BSN, MBA, CPHQ, PCMH-CCE is a NCQA PCMH reviewer and an expert in the NCQA patient centered medical home model and recognition process
Due to popular demand, the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) team hosted a repeat of the webinar that was originally held on Thursday, April 21, 2016. During this webinar Model team members provided an overview of the model specifically for health IT vendors.
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This document discusses methods for controlling rising health care costs in the United States. It explores how increased use of health information technology, evidence-based medicine, and new models of primary care such as the patient-centered medical home can improve efficiency and reduce expenditures. Alternative delivery methods like urgent care clinics and greater use of nurse practitioners and physician assistants may also lower costs. While concierge medicine provides enhanced services, there is no data showing it contains overall spending. Tort reform aims to curb defensive medicine practices that drive up healthcare costs.
2023 — Focus on the Margin (Vitalware by Health Catalyst)Health Catalyst
This document discusses the importance of cost and charge management for hospital margin. It notes that the US spends the most on healthcare per capita but does not have lower mortality rates. Hospitals are facing financial challenges from rising costs and shrinking reimbursement as the industry shifts from fee-for-service to value-based models. Margin, or net operating income, is key to a hospital's financial survival. The document outlines cost management and charge capture as the two main levers for improving margin, and discusses common issues that can lead to lost charges and reimbursement if not properly managed.
Io Products provides a unique investment opportunity for small investors - in a market that is anticipated to become substantial if not explosive in the next decade.
Chronic Care Improvement: How Medicare Transformation Can Save Lives, Save Mo...Steve Brown
Presentation by Steve Brown and Harris Miller introducing the ITAA Whitepaper: Chronic Care Improvement: How Medicare Transformation Can Save Lives, Save Money, and Stimulate an Emerging Technology Industry
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services hosted a webinar on Thursday, April 14, 2016. During this webinar staff provided an overview of the model. A repeat of the webinar was held on Tuesday, April 19.
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Marketing proposal to Hartford HealthcareArchit Patel
The presentation is a brief description to the proposed marketing strategy for the Hartford healthcare specifically targeting on the New Health Enhancement Program proposed for Connecticut state employees.
The document discusses the importance of program management and strategic change management for eHealth initiatives. It notes that eHealth programs involve many interconnected projects that impact stakeholders. To succeed, an eHealth program management office should focus not just on project management, but also on governance, standards, architecture, change management and benefit realization. Managing stakeholders and helping them understand the benefits are also key to gaining support and adoption of eHealth programs.
This document discusses several topics related to healthcare finance and quality reporting systems:
1) It summarizes the goals of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and Value-Based Purchasing System (VBPS), including improving quality of care and tying reimbursement to quality metrics.
2) It outlines the roles of Health Information Management professionals in supporting these programs through data analytics and quality reporting.
3) It describes the roles of Quality Improvement Organizations in ensuring accurate medical coding and documentation for reimbursement.
4) It provides an overview of several laws and acts aimed at reducing healthcare fraud, including the Anti-Kickback statute and their effects on providers.
The document provides guidance on the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) for eligible medical professionals. It describes the goals of the PQRI to focus on quality of care and reward reporting of quality measures with financial incentives. It outlines the eligible professionals, quality measures, reporting requirements, and bonus payments for successful reporting. It also provides details on understanding the quality measures, applicable codes, modifiers, and examples of successful reporting.
The CMS Innovation Center hosted a special webinar featuring Dr. Patrick Conway, CMS Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality and CMS Chief Medical Officer, on Monday, November 10, 2014 from 10:30am – 11:30 am ET. Dr. Conway will provided an update about the work of the CMS Innovation Center and the models being tested to improve better care for patients, better health for our communities, and lower costs through improvement for our health care system. Opportunities for questions were provided.
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When appropriately designed, the current shift to value-based reimbursement allows healthcare organizations to compete based on their ability to provide high quality and low-cost care that patients value. To address this challenge many healthcare organizations have successfully developed programs designed to deliver this type of high-value care. These programs typically focus on the needs of a specific segment of a patient population. The most successful programs are artfully crafted to address clinician preferences for providing outstanding care, patient desires for convenience and affordability, and detailed nuances of payment contracts to optimize reimbursement. The complexities of value-based healthcare reimbursement provide tremendous opportunities for organizations that develop thoughtful strategies to provide highly demanded care in a financially sustainable structure. In this workshop, we will interactively review case studies of innovative healthcare programs that have effectively created higher quality care and improved financial outcomes. This discussion will illustrate the concrete steps to develop programs and innovations that will enable your organization to thrive in a value-based environment.
AGENDA
Define value, common reimbursement arrangements and critical reimbursement levers
Discuss the types of risk associated with each reimbursement arrangement
Case studies that examine real-world examples of opportunity, revenue impact, and expense impact
SPEAKERS
Mason Roberts, ASA, MAAA, MBA, Associate Actuary
Stoddard Davenport, Healthcare Management Consultant
Nick Creten, FSA, MAAA, Consulting Actuary
USA Commercial Strategy, Medical Devices, National Technology Transfer Confer...Debra A. Chanda
This document discusses financing trends in the medical device industry and strategies for US commercialization of medical devices. It notes that venture capital funding and deal activity declined in recent quarters, forcing companies to seek alternative financing from angels, crowdfunding, and strategic partners. The document provides examples of recent funding rounds for medical device companies and outlines strategies for developing regulatory and commercialization plans that address clinical needs and reimbursement pathways. It emphasizes the importance of strong operational management to execute business plans and stresses that investors fund management teams rather than just technologies.
In this Thursday, July 12, 2012 webinar, presentations focused on learning more about program requirements, preferences, and other keys to success from CMS Innovation Center staff and communities currently participating in the CCTP program. The final CCTP review panel for 2012 convened on September 20, 2012. Applications must have been received by September 3rd to be considered for this review. Future panels may be announced as funding permits.
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Providers know that successful care coordination is key to enhancing patient outcomes and better personalizing their experience. At its root, care coordination starts with effective communication, and healthcare organizations are increasingly turning to innovative technology solutions to solve their needs. To improve their care teams’ communication, coordination, and data capture capabilities, two of New York City’s leading healthcare organizations worked with two cutting edge tech solutions providers to design and implement innovative pilots as a part of the New York Digital Health Accelerator program. Utilizing real-life case studies, the panelists will discuss the design and implementation of the pilots, and lessons learned from their participation in the program.
• Anuj Desai - Vice President of Market Development, New York eHealth Collaborative
• Joseph Mayer, MD - Founder & CEO, Cureatr Inc.
• Patricia Meisner, MS, MBA - CEO & Co-Founder, ActualMeds
• Ken Ong, MD, MPH - Chief Medical Informatics Officer, New York Hospital Queens
• Victoria Tiase, MSN, RN - Director, Informatics Strategy, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
New York eHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference
November 17, 2014
Is mHealth Prescribing: Dead or Thriving?AppScript
App rating is happening everywhere in the ecosystem, but without putting apps in practice, evaluating the prescribing data and patient feedback, we only have half the story. Learn about the prescribing data, rating and scoring methodologies and the evidence of the growing promise of mobile health curation, discovery and distribution.
Better health outcomes at less cost - future nhs stage, 4pm, 2 september 2015NHS England
Expo is the most significant annual health and social care event in the calendar, uniting more NHS and care leaders, commissioners, clinicians, voluntary sector partners, innovators and media than any other health and care event.
Expo 15 returned to Manchester and was hosted once again by NHS England. Around 5000 people a day from health and care, the voluntary sector, local government, and industry joined together at Manchester Central Convention Centre for two packed days of speakers, workshops, exhibitions and professional development.
This year, Expo was more relevant and engaging than ever before, happening within the first 100 days of the new Government, and almost 12 months after the publication of the NHS Five Year Forward View. It was also a great opportunity to check on and learn from the progress of Greater Manchester as the area prepares to take over a £6 billion devolved health and social care budget, pledging to integrate hospital, community, primary and social care and vastly improve health and well-being.
More information is available online: www.expo.nhs.uk
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Reimbursements for primary care physicians and specialists saw modest increases from January 2013 to September 2013 compared to the same period in 2014, with primary care physicians seeing larger increases for new and established patients than specialists. The data also shows increases in patient deductibles and obligations over the same time periods.
Women with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have significantly higher rates of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and food addiction compared to women not exposed to trauma. The document cites several studies that found PTSD symptoms were linked to up to 60% higher rates of heart attacks and strokes, up to 80% higher risk of developing diabetes, 36% higher risk of becoming overweight or obese, and 16% higher rates of food addiction. PTSD occurs twice as often in women as in men, affecting about 1 in 10 women.
This document provides safety tips for celebrating July 4th to prevent common injuries and issues. It warns that around 230 people per day go to the emergency room with firework injuries, with over 50% being burns, and the hands, fingers, eyes, head and face being most at risk. It also cautions that improperly cooked meats at cookouts can cause foodborne illness, and that even 15 minutes of sun exposure can lead to sunburn and skin cancer risks. Drowning is also a concern, with 10 deaths per day and the highest rates among males under 14 and children ages 1-4, often in home swimming pools. Driving under the influence also kills 30 people daily, resulting in over 10,000 deaths and
Confused About Prostate Cancer Screening? Even Experts Don’t Always AgreeMedical Business Systems
The four major medical organizations have differing recommendations on prostate cancer screening:
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- The National Comprehensive Cancer Network recommends baseline screening at ages 45-49 and annual or biannual screening beginning at age 50 depending on PSA levels. Screening should discontinue by ages 69-75 depending on PSA levels and risk factors.
- The American Urological Association does not recommend routine screening for those under age 40, ages 40-54 at average risk, or over age 70
The document summarizes 2013 Medicare Part D prescription drug statistics from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It lists the top 5 most expensive drugs by cost as acid reducers and cholesterol drugs. The top 5 drugs by volume included blood pressure medications and painkillers. The top specialties prescribing drugs were internal medicine, dentistry, family practice, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Overall, there were 36 million Part D enrollees, 1 million prescribers, and $103 billion spent on prescribed drugs through Medicare Part D.
Smoking contributes to excess mortality of these 21 diseases: 12 types of cancer, 6 categories of cardiovascular disease, diabetes,chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and some pneumonias.Tobacco smoke contains 7000 chemicals and chemical compounds. These poisons damage DNA.
The three most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any mental disorder at 10% and can result in death from starvation, metabolic collapse, or suicide. Bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder are associated with being within a normal weight range or being overweight/obese, respectively. The documents provides statistics on the prevalence, treatment rates, and average ages of onset for each eating disorder in the United States.
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By 2025, the number of new cancer cases will rise by 42%.
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This document discusses research showing that the microbes in our gut can influence our food choices and diet by secreting hormones that affect our mood and appetite. The gut microbiome can be rapidly altered within 24 hours by prebiotics, probiotics, dietary changes, and fecal transplants. Certain gut microbes are highly dependent on the nutrient composition of our diet and may manipulate our brain through the vagus nerve to influence what we eat.
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The document summarizes key health statistics about the Hispanic population in the United States. It notes that as of 2013, there were over 54 million Hispanics in the US, comprising around 17% of the population. The top 10 causes of death for Hispanics/Latinos in 2010 are listed, with cancer and heart disease being the top two. Additional data presented includes rates of health insurance coverage, cancer screening, influenza vaccination, birth rates, binge drinking, smoking, diabetes prevalence, asthma attacks, HIV infection diagnoses, and obesity levels among Hispanic Americans.
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Hypertension and it's role of physiotherapy in it.Vishal kr Thakur
This particular slides consist of- what is hypertension,what are it's causes and it's effect on body, risk factors, symptoms,complications, diagnosis and role of physiotherapy in it.
This slide is very helpful for physiotherapy students and also for other medical and healthcare students.
Here is summary of hypertension -
Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a serious medical condition that occurs when blood pressure in the body's arteries is consistently too high. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of blood vessels as the heart pumps it. Hypertension can increase the risk of heart disease, brain disease, kidney disease, and premature death.
This particular slides consist of- what is hypotension,what are it's causes and it's effect on body, risk factors, symptoms,complications, diagnosis and role of physiotherapy in it.
This slide is very helpful for physiotherapy students and also for other medical and healthcare students.
Here is the summary of hypotension:
Hypotension, or low blood pressure, is when the pressure of blood circulating in the body is lower than normal or expected. It's only a problem if it negatively impacts the body and causes symptoms. Normal blood pressure is usually between 90/60 mmHg and 120/80 mmHg, but pressures below 90/60 are generally considered hypotensive.
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Deep Leg Vein Thrombosis occurs when a blood clot forms in one or more of the deep veins in the legs. These clots can impede blood flow, leading to severe complications.
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How is the Transformation of Primary Care Going?
1. How is the Transformation of
Primary Care Going?
Results from the First Evaluation Report
Comprehensive
Primary Care
Initiative
Source:
http://innovation.cms.gov/Files/r
eports/CPCI-EvalRpt1.pdf
Multi-Payer Advanced
Primary Care Practice
Demonstration
Source:
http://innovation.cms.gov/Files/r
eports/MAPCP-EvalRpt1.pdfAccess &
continuity
5
Functions
Planned
care for
chronic
conditions
&
preventive
care
Risk -stratified
care
management
Patient &
caregiver
engagement
Coordination of care
across the medical
neighborhood
Participants
Payers Practices Clinicians
29 492 2,158
Patients 2.5 Million
Regions 7:
Arkansas Colorado
New Jersey Oregon
New York: Capitol District Hudson Valley
Ohio/Kentucky: Cincinnati-Dayton Region
Oklahoma: Greater Tulsa Region
Practice Care
Management Fees Paid
$141.3 million
For care of 1.2 million patients
including 315,000 Medicare
beneficiaries
Evaluating Milestone
Progress
38 practices received notice of corrective
action needed and 4 were terminated.
Published by
Medical Business Systems
and Iridium Suite
Practice Management
Software
www.iridiumsuite.com
$14 (2%) less in Medicare A & B
expenditures per beneficiary per
monthly.
(Monthly care management
Fees average $20.)
2% reduction in hospitalizations
and 3% reduction in emergency
department visits.
Participants
8 states:
Maine Michigan Minnesota New York
North Carolina Pennsylvania
Rhode Island Vermont
Measuring Performance
252 total round 1 site visits
Maine $6.95
Michigan $2.00 + $4.50 (if have a
care manager) + P4P incentives
Minnesota $10.14 (1–3 conditions) /
$20.27 (4–6 conditions) / $30.00 (7–9
conditions) / $45.00 (10+ conditions)
+ 15% for mental illness
+ 15% for patients who speak
English as a second language
NewYork $7.00
North Carolina $2.50 / $3.00 / $3.50
(NCQA Level 1 / 2 / 3)
Pennsylvania $1.08 + $0.43 (age
1–18) / $1.08 (age 19–64) / $3.61 age
65–74) / $5.06 (age 75+)
+ Up to 50% of the net savings they
generate for a payer, based on cost
and quality performance
Rhode Island $5.00 (0–1
performance targets met) / $5.50
(utilization target and 1 other target
met) / $6.00 (all targets met)
Vermont $1.20 to $2.39 (depending
on NCQA 2008 score)
Practice Care
Management Fees Paid
Monthly Medicare payments
per member to practices
Gross savings $ 40,314,752
Minus MAPCP Fees $ 33,215,984
Equals net savings $ 4,190,227
Best: Michigan $ 27,751,046
Worst: North Carolina ($ 11,375,882)
Medicare ROI:$1.35 in savings for every
$1 Medicare paid out