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Shifting the financial model alone is not sufficient for the transition - the care delivery, workforce, and many other pieces of the ecosystem with which PCPs interact also need to adjust accordingly. Funding to allow for the startup costs of transformation must be made available. A comprehensive analysis from The Commonwealth Fund: To encourage participation, practitioners say upfront payments, investment in the primary care workforce, and less emphasis on simplistic quality measures are needed, as well as more support for practices to provide accessible, comprehensive care. #primarycare #integratedcare #teambasedcare #healthcare #healthcareonlinkedin

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Monique Shaw, PhD, MPH, CHES from RWJF wants to reimagine the healthcare system so we listen to patients and their needs. "We do need to restructure the care model. We need to reimagine the entire system. What we don't often do is understand and take a really deep look at systems that are created outside of the current system in response to the current system not meeting people's needs.” Read the whole interview at Acumen America. https://lnkd.in/eRhDNt5a

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Discover the updated Bridging the Sectors compendium of resources! Explore new insights on Community Care Hubs, offering objectives, examples and guidance for effective collaboration. Join us in enhancing community health and supporting those with complex needs: https://lnkd.in/eKSm4qVC

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What equity frameworks does your organization use? Have you seen the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's "Practical Guide for Implementing the Digital Healthcare Equity Framework"? AHRQ takes an intentional approach to considering equity throughout the digital healthcare lifecycle aims to promote improvement in: • Clinical outcomes such as mortality, morbidity, and health/quality of life • Process outcomes such as care continuity, care coordination, and care quality • Healthcare experiences such as patient satisfaction/engagement and provider satisfaction/engagement #HealthcareEquity #ClinicalOutcomes #PatientExperience https://lnkd.in/eTA9d9Gn

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While many companies offer paid parental leave, far fewer provide adequate support for employees caring for aging parents or other adult family members. However, this is an emerging need - nearly 1 in 4 caregivers are #millennials, and #caregiving impacts over 70% of employees across various underrepresented groups. On average, family caregivers spend 18+ hours per week providing care, often for years. Yet only 22% of major companies offer paid leave designated for caring for adults, compared to 42% for new parents. Expanding caregiver #benefits isn't just the right thing to do - it's good for business. Companies with generous family-friendly policies report lower turnover and stronger returns. As boomers age, supporting the rising number of employee caregivers will be crucial for diversity, equity, inclusion, retention and success. Source: AARP- https://lnkd.in/e-X7pzE8

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Taking Transformation Personally - The Next/Last? Phase of JCD Advisors I'm sharing some reflections and future directions about the next phase of the business journey for me and JCD Advisors. I’d like to tell you a bit about the insights, realizations, and directional changes stemming from the transformative work of this past year. Forgive (or indulge) me for the length of this – and I hope you find something that supports/inspires your continued personal and professional growth. I’ve included links to resources that have been valuable to me and may be to you as well. https://lnkd.in/edFxhKqG

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I’m excited to share what we've been obsessing over for the last six months! Introducing Threshold Health, a unique patient engagement platform that puts healthcare operators in the driver's seat of modern care gap closure campaigns. Shockingly, only 1 in 20 US adults is up to date on their recommended preventive care, such as cancer screenings or blood pressure testing. This statistic is paradoxically low, especially given the increasingly direct financial incentives tied to increasing population-level care quality. When my longtime friend and now cofounder, Dr. Doug Murad, and I started exploring why patient engagement is so low, we quickly discovered a recurring pattern. Time and again, we heard from passionate operators across diverse healthcare organizations who struggled to mount effective patient engagement campaigns, often waiting until the last few months of the contract year to close important care gaps in their patient populations. In almost every case, these operators seemed to be building campaigns from scratch, deploying blunt tools like bulk SMS, physical gift cards, and manual call centers, and relying on lagging indicators of success. Unsurprisingly, these efforts were operationally expensive and often fell short of their targets. Dr. Doug and I aim to empower healthcare operators level up their patient engagement with campaigns that are cheaper, better, and faster than building something themselves. To do this, we’re building a self-serve platform that makes it easy for operators to rapidly launch and iterate on modern campaigns that integrate well with their existing care coordination workflows. If we’re successful in this first step, we will have a vehicle to deliver an increasingly sophisticated library of campaign templates and next-generation patient engagement technology. So far, we’ve developed a prototype that allows operators to go from zero integration to a modern deployed campaign in fewer than 10 clicks. We’re excited to run our first pilot in mid-July and continue developing the product with 2-3 launch partners through the rest of this year. There's a lot left to learn -- I plan to post regular updates and lessons here. Reaching this level of conviction took a lot of time—not just from me and Dr. Doug, but from numerous experts across various fields who have been extremely generous in sharing their expertise and feedback. I especially want to thank our network of advisors: Daniel Croymans, MD, MBA, Benjamin (Benny) Axt, Indira Gowda, Ivo Vlaev, Suruchi Kothari, MD, Melissa G., Christian Spier and many others; our investors Jane Wang and Saumitra Thakur at MedMountain Ventures; and our first full-time employee Joe Bonneau. Also, shout-out to Shirley Mao and rvnway for designing and building our new website: https://threshold.health With all that said, we’re open for business! Let’s chat :)

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Healthcare providers, comprising doctors, nurses, hospitals, and clinics, serve as the backbone of the healthcare system. However, disparities in provider distribution and biases in medical decision-making perpetuate inequities in access to quality healthcare services, especially among underrepresented groups and women. Our team at RiseHealth Compass explores intricacies of provider disparities and their impact on healthcare access and outcomes.

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After our articles detailing what the Health Equity Index (HEI) is and why it matters, we're happy to share best practices for driving impact through the lens of HEI to get the Stars score boost being offered by CMS. This is especially important if your plan previously benefited from the Reward Factor and has a meaningful population of members affected by Social Risk Factors. https://lnkd.in/eeTkXgXi From our very own Marc S. Ryan 🇺🇦. #healthcare #medicare #medicareadvantage #MAstars #CMS #healthequity #healthequityindex #hei

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Today's behavioral healthcare is broken due to misaligned incentives. This is one of the core reasons why we started Integral Health -- to fix the incentives to reorient toward patient outcomes. With technology and data, we can now build outcome-based behavioral health to scale. Integral Health #vbc #outcomebasedcare #behavioralhealth #incentivealignment

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It’s increasingly important for healthcare organizations to attract, develop, and retain diverse leadership talent that reflects the patient population. Download our free resource below to learn more about creating more diverse C-suites in healthcare. #DiverseLeaders #DEI #DiversityEquityInclusion #HospitalHR https://bit.ly/3XmE3Mg

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Virtual Blue, the health plan Blue Shield of California launched in partnership with Accolade, Inc. and TeleMed2U to increase access to high-quality, integrated care, is making waves in its first year since launch. According to data released last week, the plan saw sizable upswings in member engagement while decreasing the total cost of care by a whopping 8 - 10%. Underpinning these numbers are insightful data points about the impact of access. Plan members were able to quickly get virtual appointments—about two-thirds could schedule same-day visits. Not surprisingly, ER claims of virtual care users in this plan also declined—by 11%. These promising numbers resonate with Vori Health, as well as our clients. Driving value is all about providing people with access to the right care at the right time. https://lnkd.in/g2BJQMA8 #accesstocare #integratedcare #memberengagement #virtualcare

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As #AI becomes more prevalent in #healthcare, it's critical that we build trustworthy systems focused on advancing #healthequity. Published last week, this new A.C.C.E.S.S. AI #framework provides a roadmap for developing AI that promotes #community #collaboration in AI. We at Platypus would like to add that this framework should extend to collaboration in training data for AI. We need to bring communities to the table as partners, not just as end users but also as generators of data and knowledge. Only then can we build AI that works for everyone.

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Excited to join a panel of fabulous healthcare leaders on Tuesday, April 30th, including Seth Lovell, Garrett Olin, Wendy Fournet, and Rick Garbett, as we explore the transformative role of AI in healthcare recruiting. 🌟 AI is not just a future concept; it's a present-day tool that's reshaping how we connect talented individuals with vital healthcare roles. With AI's predictive analytics, we're able to match candidates to roles where they thrive, enhancing retention and job satisfaction. It's about creating a seamless, efficient, and personalized recruitment experience that aligns with our mission to deliver exceptional care. Let's embrace the #PowerofAI to #CreateGreatExperiencesForClinicians and understand how to leverage #TechnologyWorkingForUs to its fullest potential. #AMNHealthcare is at the forefront of this innovation, and I'm thrilled to share insights on how we integrate AI into our operations to support and enhance our recruiting strategies.

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Healthcare Communications MD, Kenny Bloxham, reflected on the current health tech landscape in this new feature from Health Tech News: “Like many industries, the election has created a short period of uncertainty, and we’re keen for the new government to be formed,” Kenny said, noting a need to be able to “pivot towards supporting key priorities for healthcare with digital enablers” and added that it is “encouraging” to see a digital-first approach for patient engagement feature in political party manifestos. “Since NHSE has driven patient engagement portals and integration into the NHS App across secondary care, this has kept the market focused. As projects are deployed, and consolidation is achieved the market will start to address what else can be done to further enhance digital patient engagement." "Inclusive patient experiences need to be much higher on the agenda. Progress has been made but equitable access is an urgent crisis in the UK. We intend to continue striving forward with further enhancements to our multi-channel approach for communications to help patients overcome daily challenges in accessing healthcare.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/ejiEZkMT

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