This Week's Challenge: More than half of healthcare organizations tap into telephonic case management to expand the reach of care coordination to high-risk, high-cost patients, according to HIN's 2014 Telephonic Case Management survey. This week's data point identifies the most common patient stratification tools utilized by telephonic case managers who want to impact populations with chronic disease.

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Stratifying High-Risk, High-Cost Patients: Benchmarks, Predictive Algorithms and Data Analytics presents a range of risk stratification practices to determine candidates for health coaching, case management, home visits, remote monitoring and other initiatives designed to engage individuals with chronic illness, improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare spend.

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Editor: Patricia Surdovel, [email protected];
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