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Category: Healthcare Industry News
Care Coordination Improves Outcomes for Dual Eligible Patients
Date: June 16th, 2016Source: HealthIT AnalyticsTopics: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Care Coordination, Accountable CareCMS has announced that dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid patients face better outcomes because of integrated health plans that promote care coordination between the programs.
Read MoreLack of patient data, quality measures slowing shift to value-based care
Date: June 15th, 2016Source: Healthcare DiveTopics: Value-Based Care, Accountable Care, Quality Improvement64% of providers and payers said doctors don’t have the necessary tools to succeed in a value-based care model. And 85% of doctors said they would likely or very likely use a tool that provides real-time, on-demand patient-specific data to identify gaps in quality, risk and utilization.
Read MoreStudies tout progress toward value-based reimbursement
Date: June 13th, 2016Source: Healthcare DiveTopics: Health IT, Value-Based Care, Accountable CareValue-based reimbursement is the talk of the town. In March, HHS announced the agency reached its goal of tying 30% of Medicare payments to alternative payment models valuing quality over quantity of care. The agency attributes the figure (ahead of its year-end goal) to changes made via the ACA. Additionally, HHS’ sister organization CMS highlighted last week how Aetna has set a goal to have 75% of its spending to go through value-based contracts by 2020. While some have given a side-eye to that projection, it does speak to the rallied efforts backing behind value-based reimbursement (VBR).
Read MoreHow Will MACRA Legislation Affect Small Physician Practices?
Date: June 13th, 2016Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: MACRA, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)Some small physician practices could struggle with the impending MACRA implementation, and their concerns are palpable, a survey finds.
Read MoreAll Roads Lead to Population Health Management
Date: June 13th, 2016Source: Hospitals & Health NetworksTopics: EHRs, Health IT, Value-Based Care, Accountable CareApproximately 750 accountable care organizations are in operation today, covering some 23.5 million lives covered under Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers. Although still in the learning stages, many ACOs have had notable success in improving quality while reducing cost. As promising results continue to emerge, more of these organizations — whose existence was once thought to be more fantasy than reality — are expected. In fact, Leavitt Partners predicts that 105 million people will be covered by ACOs by 2020.
Read MoreFHIR’s normative stage only months away; EHR vendors planning to use it
Date: June 10th, 2016Source: Health Data ManagementTopics: EHRs, Interoperability, FHIRIndustry stakeholders are starting to see light at the end of the interoperability tunnel, as major electronic health record vendors look to incorporate HL7’s emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard in their products.
Read MoreSurvey shows nearly all U.S. hospitals using certified EHRs
Date: June 1st, 2016Source: Health Management TechnologyTopics: EHRs, InteroperabilityAccording to data from a new survey to be released today at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., nearly all of the nation’s hospitals have adopted certified electronic health records (EHRs).
Read MoreResearchers Affirm Long-term Value of Health Coaching
Date: June 1st, 2016Source: AAFP JournalTopics: Patient Engagement, Care Coordination, Value-Based CareAuthors of a recently published study on health coaching began their latest research well aware that health coaching can be an effective tool for physicians who want to encourage patients to self-manage their chronic diseases.
Read MoreFHIR rapidly advancing as healthcare data exchange standard
Date: June 1st, 2016Source: Health Data ManagementTopics: Interoperability, FHIRHealth Level Seven International’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) application programming interface is making significant progress on the road to becoming a mature standard, with the normative version slated for release early next year.
Read MoreInteroperability among U.S. Non-federal Acute Care Hospitals in 2015
Date: May 31st, 2016Source: HealthIT.govTopics: HIE, EHRs, InteroperabilityThis brief presents the most recent estimates on the state of interoperable exchange activity among U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals, including whether hospitals have key patient information electronically available from sources outside their system; whether this information is subsequently used for clinical decisions; and barriers to the exchange and use of that information.
Read MoreWhy EMS Must Be Part of Health Information Exchanges
Date: May 28th, 2016Source: EMS WorldTopics: HIE, Care Coordination, Emergency ServicesHospitals are starting to share more information with each other, labs and clinics are participating, and doctors are beginning to have better information with which to treat patients. Despite these efforts, there is a huge piece that is missing from the equation that many people still fail to recognize—ambulance data.
Read MoreHospital engagement networks end; new initiative takes over
Date: May 25th, 2016Source: Modern HealthcareTopics: Value-Based Care, Hospital Readmissions, Patient CareA new effort to curb adverse events in hospitals and cut readmissions will replace and expand hospital engagement networks, or HENs. A similar but more ambitious initiative known as the hospital improvement and innovation networks or HIINs is now looking for interested providers.
Read MorePatient-Centered Medical Home takes team approach to care
Date: May 25th, 2016Source: BizWestTopics: Medical Home ModelProponents of the new model — which stresses a team approach to providing health care rather than the single gateway that has long been the role of the primary-care physician — hope it also will become synonymous with better health. The incoming results of the new model, which is rapidly gathering steam with both physicians and insurance companies, have been remarkably positive this far.
Read MoreMACRA backers tell providers: Now is your last chance to sway the outcome
Date: May 20th, 2016Source: Healthcare DiveTopics: Meaningful Use, MACRA, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)While the law is a huge legislative step from volume to value, it's still a proposed rule and can be changed. Whether it is a perception of undue burden on small practices or the implementation timeline is too aggressive, submit comments and make your voice heard to CMS to suggest changes. The agency will take public comments on the MACRA implementation proposed rule until June 27.
Read MoreWhat Entities Need to Know about Upcoming OCR HIPAA Audits
Date: May 19th, 2016Source: HealthIT SecurityTopics: EHRs, HIPAAThe latest round of OCR HIPAA audits were announced earlier this year, leading many healthcare organizations to review their HIPAA compliance measures and ensure that all necessary policies and procedures have been properly documented. The second phase will not only review covered entities’ practices, but also how business associates work toward keeping PHI secure.
Read MoreONC Details Plan to Improve Data Standards, Big Data Analytics
Date: May 17th, 2016Source: HealthIT AnalyticsTopics: HIE, Health IT, Information BlockingONC has proposed several pieces of legislation promoting better and more effective data standards for health information exchange, which would help to support the use of healthcare big data analytics to improve patient care.
Read MorePreventing Readmissions Through Enhanced Care Team Collaboration
Date: May 12th, 2016Source: RCM AnswersTopics: Care Coordination, Transitions of CareAs the healthcare industry transitions from a fee-for-service system, we must expand our focus from “discharge” to care continuity. No longer can we discharge responsibility for a patient to another care setting. Rather, we must shift our perspective and provide continuous coordinated care across multiple sites and settings. To do this efficiently, enabling care team collaboration technology is imperative.
Read MoreReducing Medical Errors with Improved Communication, EHR Use
Date: May 11th, 2016Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: HIE, EHRs, Patient CareSimilarly, Dexter sees a valuable role for health information exchange to provide a longitudinal record of a patient that enables providers to view a patient's allergies and history of illness in a single location.
Read MoreEHR-immunization data exchange boosts pediatric vaccinations
Date: May 9th, 2016Source: Health Data ManagementTopics: EHRs, Public Health Reporting, Duplicate TestingThe exchange of immunization data between a centralized city immunization registry and provider electronic health records led to significant improvements in pediatric immunization coverage, a reduction in over-immunization for adolescents, and more complete immunization records.
Read MorePost-Acute Care Can Help Accountable Care Organizations Save
Date: May 6th, 2016Source: RevCycle IntelligenceTopics: Long-Term Care, Transitions of Care, Accountable CareAccountable care organizations may find financial opportunities in developing closer partnerships with post-acute care and long-term care facilities.
Read MoreNATE congratulates CMS on its commitment to patient access to data in proposed MACRA rule
Date: May 4th, 2016Source: DotMed.comTopics: HIE, MACRA, InteroperabilityNATE is especially excited by the proposal to award extra performance points to providers who demonstrate more than a minimal commitment to patient access to data, patient engagement and health information exchange.
Read MoreComparing Advancing Care Information to Meaningful Use
Date: May 4th, 2016Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: EHRs, Meaningful Use, MACRA, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCMS released a fact sheet that outlines how the proposed Advancing Care Information program will replace meaningful use and clinical quality reporting.
Read MoreElectronic records help cancer care: study
Date: May 2nd, 2016Source: The Chronicle JournalTopics: EHRs, Care Coordination, Patient CareA study released last week by the Canada Health Infoway states that 57 per cent of electronic medical record enabled clinics reported that using such records was beneficial for improving quality of care.
Read MoreHospital discharge: It’s one of the most dangerous periods for patients
Date: April 29th, 2016Source: Washington PostTopics: Care Coordination, Transitions of Care, Patient CareMedication mistakes like the one in Oyler’s case — which slipped past both her pharmacist and home health nurses, according to court records — are, in fact, one of the most common complications for discharged patients. The federal government views them as “a major patient safety and public health issue,” and a Kaiser Health News analysis of government records shows such errors are frequently missed by home health agencies.
Read MoreCMS releases MACRA proposed final rule
Date: April 27th, 2016Source: Healthcare DiveTopics: Meaningful Use, MACRA, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)CMS released on Wednesday the proposed final rule for the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). The rule establishes the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) which consolidates components of the Physician-Quality Reporting System, the Physician Value-based Payment Modifier, and the Medicare EHR Incentive Program for eligible professionals.
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