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This week's industry news

1.) Children More Likely to Get Preventive Care When Parents Use Online Health Tools

Parents of young children who used integrated personal health records (PHRs) were more likely to get their children the nationally recommended number of preventive care visits, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

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2.) 2013 Healthcare Benchmarks: Telehealth & Telemedicine
This resource provides actionable new information from more than 125 healthcare organizations on their utilization of telehealth & telemedicine. This 60-page report, now in its third year, documents trends and metrics on current and planned telehealth and telemedicine initiatives and includes a year-over-year comparison of telehealth trends from 2009 to present.

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3.) Small Business Owners Value Choice of Plans for Employees

More than half of small business owners who currently provide their employees with health benefits are willing to offer a choice of health plans while paying a fixed cost, as long as the employee pays extra for a more expensive plan, according to a new study from The Commonwealth Fund.

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4.) 46 Healthcare Metrics to Boost Profitability: Charting 2013 Trends

This resource delivers charts and tables on 46 actionable metrics, enhanced by commentary and interviews with industry thought leaders from Aetna, Buck Consultants, HealthFitness, the IHI's STAAR hospital readmissions initiative, Strategic Health Group, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ, and others.

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5.) Healthcare Business White Paper: Home Visits in 2013

As a result of home visit programs, patient satisfaction increased for 87 percent of organizations and medication adherence has increased for 81 percent, according to new metrics from the Healthcare Intelligence Network. Almost 80 percent of respondents to HIN's Home Visits e-survey conducted in August 2013 visit some percentage of their patients or health plan members in their homes. Download this HINtelligence report for more data on home visits as reported by 155 healthcare companies, including home visit program components, results and ROI, specific responses from hospital/health systems, and successful home visit work flows, processes and tools as told by respondents in their own words.

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6.) Michigan Value Cooperative Targets Hospital Costs, Outcomes

A new initiative aimed at helping hospitals across the state understand their practice patterns compared with their peers, better manage costs and improve outcomes for patients has been launched by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Blue Care Network, and the University of Michigan Health System.

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7.) New Chart: What's the ROI from Health Coaching?

Health coaching and the tools and technologies supporting it are critical elements of a population health management approach. Telephonically, face-to-face and increasingly powered by mHealth, health coaches are instrumental in reducing health risk across the care continuum, often working within new care delivery models such as the patient-centered medical home and the accountable care organization. We wanted to see what ROI was generated by health coaching programs.

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8.) Hospital Discharge Improvement Guide: How to Close Six Key Care Gaps and Reduce Readmissions

This resource delivers dozens of tactics to tighten the six major gaps in the hospital discharge process: education, test management, follow-up and discharge, communication, physician accountability and health literacy.


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10.) Pharmacists and Medication Adherence: Brief Interventions, Motivational Interviewing and Telepharmacy

This resource describes a number of interventions in which pharmacists help to guide patients and health plan members to higher levels of medication adherence - programs that take place in the pharmacy, in the physician practice, or virtually, and answers more than 30 questions on the role of the pharmacist in reducing non-adherence.

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11.) 2 Standards of Care for Managing a Diabetic Population

Utilizing EHRs and closely identifying and managing patients who have missed appointments for hemoglobin A1C are two standards of care employed by Hudson River HealthCare (HRHC), a network of 16 FQHCs that use a patient-centered team of healthcare professionals to manage its diabetic population, says Kathy Brieger, RD, CDE, HRHC's chief operations officer.

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12.) 33 Metrics for Care Transition Management

This resource provides a graphic compendium of performance benchmarks in key areas impacting care transitions - from key tasks performed at hospital discharge to the prevalence of home visits in programs to improve medication adherence.


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13.) HINfographic: Healthcare Strategic Planning for 2014

Sustained growth in emerging reimbursement models, including accountable care, bundled payments and shared savings will continue to have an impact on innovation within the healthcare industry in 2014 as providers and payors struggle to find more ways to reduce costs within their systems and better manage the care they provide. Hospital readmissions dropped by nearly 70,000 in 2012, and this trend is expected to accelerate through 2014, according to a new HINfographic from the Healthcare Intelligence Network.

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14.) Healthcare Trends & Forecasts in 2014: 7 Payor Strategies That Will Reshape Primary Care

From partnering with non-traditional providers like retail clinics to targeting larger physician practices to achieve savings and boost health outcomes, watch for health plans to continue to reshape primary care delivery over the coming year, predicts Catherine Sreckovich, managing director, healthcare, Navigant. Ms. Sreckovich outlines seven ways in which payors will influence primary care, advocates for big data for both payors and providers, and comments on the longevity of the bundled or episodic payment trend in this HealthSounds interview.
 

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