Tag: meaningful-use
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Patient Engagement in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Continuum Approach
Although the healthcare industry is well-acquainted with the patient-centered medical home, the model is still quite new and novel to patients, notes, Jay Driggers, director of consumer engagement at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. In this interview, Driggers describes what’s at stake when moving from a reactive provider model to a proactive…
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Advanced Illness Care Coordination: A Case Study on Aetna’s Compassionate Care Program
Aetna’s Compassionate Care Program is a case management initiative that specifically targets health plan members with advanced illness, focusing on improving the quality of care they receive. As a result, explains Dr. Joseph Agostini, senior medical director of Aetna Medicare, these patients get more of the type of care that they want and spend less…
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Reducing Avoidable Medicaid ER Visits With a Community Partnership Approach
Anxiety caused by the wait for a non-urgent appointment or lack of awareness that they are assigned a primary care physician are just two barriers to appropriate ER utilization by a diverse Medicaid population, explains Laura Linebach, director of quality improvement at L.A. Care Health Plan. As part of a health plan-hospital collaboration with a…
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Facebook fans ‘lonely’?
A report on Facebook, Bill O’Reilly and the Fox “brand,” Current TV”s new hire, a Pulitzer for a PA reporter, GMA rises
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New show ‘too white’?
HBO’s ‘Girls’ is the latest TV show depicting life in New York City without one of its most crucial elements: diversity.
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Anderson battles on ‘Jeopardy!’
CNN’s Anderson Cooper reflects on the highs and lows of his past “Jeopardy” appearances and weighs his odds of winning.
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Zimmerman’s body language
An expert in body language says George Zimmerman showed signs of anger in court in Florida.
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Steinem on GOP and women
Activist and author Gloria Steinem analyzes the “war on women” and says extremists have taken over the Republican party.
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Levon Helm remembered
Anderson Cooper takes a look back at the life of The Band’s Levon Helm and his many contributions to music.
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Working moms of CNN
CNN goes behind the scenes with the working moms on Suzanne Malveaux’s team to see how they juggle it all.