Accountable Care

From March 23 through July 20, Florida’s Millennium Physician Group has performed more than 90,000 telemedicine encounters – more than 30% of its total visits.

Rural providers can pursue care transformation, such as expanding telehealth to allow the beneficiary's place of residence to be an originating site.

Among other provisions, the bill extends the 5% advanced APM bonus for an additional six years and modifies thresholds to achieve the bonus. 

UPMC spin-off Curavi Health, CarePointe and U.S. Health Systems will work together on integrated pop health analytics and virtual-care tools for nursing homes and other underserved elder populations.

The health IT company’s EHR-agnostic system aggregates data to help providers better understand and manage their patient panel, and tailors practice workflows to align with value-based protocols.

The new telehealth-specific electronic clinical quality measures are to be used by eligible professionals and clinicians participating in CMS quality reporting programs such as MIPS and APMs.

Move over patient engagement: A positive patient experience is the new imperative for health systems that recognize the value of customer satisfaction.

Providers can reduce liability, avoid readmissions, prevent costs, and have greater patient satisfaction through a transition of care protocol.

In a HIMSS20 Digital presentation, leaders from Stanford describe how patient experience was improved across primary care and other service lines by developing dynamic dashboards with insights for C-suite, clinicians and staff.

CMS will require hospitals to adopt the Hybrid Hospital-Wide 30-Day Readmission measure by 2023. Experts say you should start preparing now.