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Population Health Outcomes: The Impact of Social Determinants of Health and the Initiatives Being Implemented

Healthcare IT Today

This means there is a pretty good overlap of SDOH with population health. So today we are diving into this topic to see just how social determinants of health impact population health outcomes and what initiatives are being implemented to address these factors and reduce health disparities within communities.

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How Medicare Advantage Programs Can Address Social Risk and Improve Health Outcomes

HIT Consultant

When a new member joins, MA plans usually lack insights into beneficiaries claim history, morbidity risk, and health behaviors. Without that data, understanding social risk becomes difficult for identifying beneficiary needs, guiding interventions, and ultimately improving health outcomes.

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Health system heavy hitters team on new network for nutrition-based interventions

Healthcare It News

Joining the effort are several other major healthcare organizations including Geisinger, Highmark Health, CVS Health, Elevance Health, Devoted Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. Sharing insights and identifying opportunities to optimize program design and delivery. economy $1.1

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How RPM can scale and sustain CMS' hospital at home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. You contend CMS's Acute Hospital Care at Home program needs scalability to survive.

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Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support

Healthcare It News

The virtual care services will be delivered without copays, out-of-pocket costs or deductibles for families with active insurance or Medicaid coverage. Before the pandemic, patients had to be in a rural area in a hospital or clinical setting to receive reimbursement for telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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How health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital at home

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. They cleared the path for parity reimbursement during the public health emergency.

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ONC launches SDOH interoperability pilot

Healthcare It News

"The ability to use and build from established standards in real-time and as part of screening practices that help identify specific needs related to insecurity is an important step in enabling more coordinated care and timely assistance or interventions needed to improve health outcomes," according to Argentieri, Meklir and Henry.

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