Despite efforts to make the healthcare system more transparent, significant gaps persist. This is no more evident than in transitional care, the process of moving a patient from the hospital to a sub-acute rehab facility, or skilled nursing facility (SNF), as a permanent patient.
Helping FQHCs Care for the Most Vulnerable with PHM Technology
While no one could argue the benefits of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and the important services they provide to under-insured or uninsured patients in low-income communities, keeping them afloat in the rapidly-changing healthcare market is difficult.
HealthEC Helps ACOs Generate MSSP Savings and Boost Performance
Last month HealthEC reported that we helped our accountable care organization (ACO) clients achieve $21.4 million in Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) savings and receive reimbursements totaling more than $9.5 million for the 2017 performance year. We also announced a 100% client success rate for the MSSP program.
The Combination of Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Medicaid Could Transform Healthcare Delivery
Unexpected, large-scale partnerships have the potential to spur dynamic change in the healthcare industry.
Implementing Technology Solutions to Address the Growing Opioid Epidemic
Medicaid is neck deep in the opioid epidemic – covering 4 in 10 non-elderly adults with opioid addiction – and well aware of the critical need to explore technology solutions to address the crisis.
Update: Improving Care for Washington D.C. Medicaid Beneficiaries with a Population Health Management Platform
Ahead of the 2018 Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference next month in Portland, Oregon, we’re circling back to Washington D.C.
Data Analytics | Opioid Analytics: Agents of Change in the Opioid Crisis
The opioid epidemic is a currently a very, very serious healthcare crisis in the United States. Policy makers, administrators and physicians need to think outside the box to confront this challenge, and the earlier we reach children through intervention efforts, the better. Data analytics platforms are among the valuable tools that can help the healthcare industry develop solutions.
AI in Healthcare Could Revolutionize the Pre-Authorization Process
More than nine in 10 physicians say that pre-authorization programs have a negative impact on patient outcomes, according to a 2017 survey by the American Medical Association (AMA).
Opioid Epidemic: Closing Gaps Between Primary Care Providers and Specialists
Think about how a child acts when he really wants ice cream .
Primary Care Physicians: Strategy for Closing Communications Gap
About 30 years ago, the World Wide Web was developed. About 15 years ago, researchers cracked the human genome. About 10 years ago, the first iPhone was rolled out. Yet, in the year 2018, at the height of the digital age, why is it so difficult to visualize a scenario where every single patient’s primary care physician (PCP) is notified once they are admitted to the emergency room?