What you need to know before approaching clinicians about quality improvement
Before attempting to engage clinicians in quality improvement initiatives, you need to know how you’re going to answer two of their most immediate and important questions: Let’s explore a few ways you can answer these important questions and how to better navigate these critical conversations. To start, here are five benefits clinicians can get from…
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How big data, AI and automation are transforming patient access
The healthcare industry celebrates Patient Access week once a year in April, recognizing hardworking staff and significant advancements in this area of the field. While we all love a celebration, especially one that shines a light on such a deserving field, it’s critical that this focus on patient access does not dwindle in the other…
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You can’t spell value-based care without clinicians
In advance of her panel participation at the 2023 RISE Qualipalooza, we sat down with Vice President of Product Consulting at MedeAnalytics, Andrea Sorensen, to discuss the primary panel topic: how to incorporate providers into quality improvement efforts and value-based care initiatives. In this post, Andrea discusses why clinicians are critical to advancing value-based care.…
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Your EHR’s new favorite teammates
EHRs are truly great at their jobs. They are fundamentally and fantastically equipped to collect data that to the naked eye seems inconsequential but is in fact essential for healthcare organizations. Like most of us, however, EHRs are not built to do it all, and they operate best alongside other skilled high performers. Let’s meet…
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10 Strategies for Engaging Providers in Data Dashboards
Payer organizations should be dialed in on data engagement as a key indicator of financial sustainability, successful care delivery, and smooth operational management. We’re almost halfway through the year, depending on when you’re reading this article. Is your organization where it should be in optimizing its data use? As focus on value-based care delivery continues…
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4 tactics to harness data analytics for patient access engagement and efficiency
As healthcare consumers and regulatory bodies push for more transparency in medical services and transactions, provider organizations are applying greater focus and resources on sustainable solutions to fragmented front-end revenue cycle processes. In this blog post, I’ll cover 4 tactics that can help you capitalize on the power of data analytics to drive improvements in…
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Proactively predicting ER visit trends with augmented analytics to improve revenues, asset utilization and patient outcomes
Mission critical emergency departments (EDs) are the most valuable revenue generating asset for hospitals. While visits decreased during the pandemic, hospitals are starting to report a return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. In December of 2022, more than 80% of hospital beds were in use nationwide, jumping 8 percentage points in two weeks. However, capacity varies…
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Conversations at HIMSS23
HIMSS23 was nothing short of outstanding. I was thrilled to see the familiar faces of colleagues and clients, mingle with new acquaintances, and attend an abundance of inspiring presentations. Over the course of the event, I also had the chance to personally discuss how innovations in data analytics are impacting staff culture, financial success, clinical…
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Best practice tools to build an integrated approach to multimorbidity
The traditional model of treating single diseases no longer works. Data collected from 2016 to 2019 indicated that 32.9% of US adults had multiple chronic conditions—and that attempting to address these issues individually and separately is ineffective and costly. This fact is particularly poignant for Medicaid populations, who are significantly more likely to suffer from…
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Will adopting a risk-based approach with augmented analytics support care gap closure?
A common challenge for healthcare systems is how to properly segment its patient populations based on risk profiles and co-morbidities. Doing this well ensures a high quality of care delivery and superior patient outcomes.
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