Conifer Health Solutions | December 1, 2018
For the past 30 years, I've been deeply entrenched in healthcare and have had the great fortune of holding positions across the entire care continuum. Suffice it to say, the continuum most patients experience is far from perfect. How do we each use our sphere of influence to begin to improve outcomes throughout the healthcare ecosystem? Care coordination..
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"Provider Payment Reform: Right Course, Wrong Students?," a recent blog post authored by Chris Koller, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, argues that while delivering high-value care to vulnerable populations is the "right coursework" for the US health care system, the "courses" (value-based payment (VBP) programs) should be targeted toward primary care practices, as opposed to specialists and hospitals.
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Upcoming
Events
ACO Population Health Management Summit
January 30- February 1, 2019 | Atlanta, GA
Fourteenth National Value-Based Payment and Pay for Performance Summit
February 25-27, 2019 | Los Angeles, CA
The Nineteenth Population Health Colloquium
March 18-20, 2019 | Philadelphia, PA
TIPAAA 24th Annual Meeting
March 21-23, 2019 | Orlando, FL
NAACOS Spring Conference 2019
April 24-26, 2019 | Baltimore, MD
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Becker's Hospital Review | December 4, 2018
Low-income and rural patients are least likely to access healthcare services delivered remotely via video, phone call or text message, according to a study published in
Health Affairs. Researchers from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., reviewed four years of data from a survey commissioned by the Association of American Medical Colleges to assess trends in remote care, also called telehealth.
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Healthcare Informatics | December 5, 2018
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
released its proposals to overhaul the federal Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), it was expected that industry associations, along with the ACOs (accountable care organizations) themselves, would push back strongly. After all, in the August proposed rule, CMS, which has the core aim to push these organizations into two-sided risk models-so that Medicare isn't on the hook when ACOs overspend past their financial benchmarks..
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Vendor Spotlight
Vynca is a Saas based advance care planning solution that enables providers to engage in ACP conversations, electronically document care plans, and access these plans across the care continuum.
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