Care Transformation Center Blog
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Tomi Ogundimu August 20, 2019
Health systems are increasingly investing in interventions to address social determinants—and transportation is often at the top of the list. The Altarum Institute estimates 3.6 million Americans miss or delay medical appointments each year due to a lack of transportation, and many more rely on medical transport with long-wait times and high rates of driver no-shows. Therefore, many provider organizations (and health plans) have begun to partner with popular rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft, aiming to get patients to their appointments more easily (and at lower cost than traditional NEMT services).
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by Darby Sullivan and Tomi Ogundimu August 14, 2019
The United States is the only industrialized nation where the maternal mortality rate is increasing. Black and Native patients are four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications compared to white patients. Transgender men report discrimination and insufficient care when pregnant. And 60% of these deaths are preventable. Researchers directly attribute these worsening trends to a few factors—insufficient access to care, miseducation on the warning signs of complications, and missed or delayed diagnoses.
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by Darby Sullivan and Tomi Ogundimu August 7, 2019
Chronic disease care currently accounts for $1 trillion in spending across the United States. By 2030, the number of patients with three or more chronic diseases will nearly triple to 83.4 million. Can your chronic disease management program accommodate three times as many patients? Too often we find that providers rely on technology innovations to solve the challenge of scale. But there's no magic bullet to supporting successful self-management.
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by Clare Wirth and Tomi Ogundimu July 31, 2019
The Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (BPCI) Initiative accelerated the shift of financial responsibility for post-discharge care to hospitals. In response, we'd expect participating hospitals and health systems to develop tighter relationships with post-acute care (PAC) providers to improve care coordination and control costs. Yet, new research suggests that skilled nursing facility (SNF) discharge patterns from hospitals participating and not participating in BPCI are largely the same.
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Andrew Rebhan July 25, 2019
Editor’s note: A version of this post previously ran on the IT Forefront blog.
Natural language processing (NLP) allows computers to analyze, understand, and derive meaning from text and speech similarly to how humans do. Part of the larger artificial intelligence (AI) landscape, NLP converts unstructured data into actionable information. NLP has various uses in health care today, such as supporting clinical documentation and decision-making.
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Tomi Ogundimu July 23, 2019
Editor's note: A version of this post previously ran in the Daily Briefing.
Annual checkups were originally designed to detect early signs of disease, but recent research has clinicians debating whether annual medical exams are worth it.
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Yulan Egan , Andrea Martin July 17, 2019
Editor's note: This post was originally published on the "At the Helm" blog. For further insights on the survey's findings, read Rob Lazerow's interview with Modern Healthcare.
At the start of every year, the Health Care Advisory Board research team conducts the Advisory Board Research Annual Health Care CEO Survey to identify the top strategic priorities for hospital and health system leaders. In this year's survey, we asked respondents to rate 29 issues on a scale of "A" to "F," with "A" indicating the greatest interest in learning more from Advisory Board researchers about the topic.
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by Darby Sullivan and Tomi Ogundimu July 11, 2019
In June, the Population Health Advisor held two webconferences: Health Equity 101 and Social Determinants of Health 101. Member interest on the topics has amplified just in the past year. This increasing interest likely stems from the confluence of increased academic research, policy shifts towards value, and a growing Medicaid population.
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