By Sarianne Gruber – Announcemets from Health DataPalooza 2015, now in its sixth year included the Obesity Challenge, more Medicare data transparency, and release of more Medicare claims data.
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By Sarianne Gruber – High Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs) essentially shift financial accountability to consumers. Based on recent statistics, there has been a ten-fold increase in the past 7 years of people having insurance coverage with these programs.
By Sarianne Gruber – HITEC studied the association between the usage of an HIE system post-discharge and 30-day same cause hospital readmissions among patients in Rochester, NY.
By Sarianne Gruber – Smart Insights, a provider of specialized information on the secured transactions industry, and brings the latest information on the mHealth industry in their April 2015 white paper, “mHealth Market in the US at a Glance”.
By Sarianne Gruber – Predicting Readmission Risk with Institution Specific Prediction Models is a study that illustrates why healthcare analytics has a vital role in meeting challenges of new policies, managing population health, and predicting a patient’s risk to readmit.
By Sarianne Gruber – In their most recent white paper, Assessing mHealth Apps in the Digital Health Maturity Index, Mobiquity, Inc., a mobile engagement provider, wanted to know which mobile health (mHealth) apps are working, which apps are not and what does it take for a health app to keep a head of the competition.
By Sarianne Gruber – The PerfectServe survey, A Study of the Role of Communications in Population Health Management, quantifies and qualifies the challenges that medical and healthcare professionals face trying to communicate with each other given the multitude of hi-tech options.
By Sarianne Gruber – Without Health information technology (IT), how can our healthcare system achieve better patient outcomes at a reduced cost and move from a volume to a value payment method?
By Sarianne Gruber – The CMS Innovation introduced its Oncology Care Model, an innovative new value-based care, payment model this past February 2015. This the second specialty new payment and delivery care model.