Tag: patient engagement

Hospitals should take advantage of the typically competitive nature of physicians to encourage collaboration, says Nathan Kaufman, managing director of Kaufman Strategic Advisors. Kaufman notes that “quality dialogue” between hospitals and physicians is key to engagement. In this podcast, he also discusses how a physician champion can drive success and explains physicians’ reluctance to adding…

Recently we announced an important healthcare milestone – more than 50% of eligible professionals and nearly 80% of hospitals nationwide have adopted or are meaningfully using EHRs. CMS Medicaid HITECH Conference gathered stakeholders to discuss range of health IT issues The announcement about EHR adoption and meaningful use was timely, because two weeks ago participants…

Low scores on patient outcomes measures within the CMS Star Quality ratings program — metrics CMS weights most heavily in its assignment of stars — can typically be traced to poor provider and member engagement, notes Joseph Johnson, vice president of L.E.K. Consulting. Johnson suggests ways to enlist support from these two stakeholder groups, and…

Physician-hospital organizations have been around before, but it’s the emphasis on quality that sets today’s PHO apart from the 80’s version. In PHO 2.0, where healthcare value is favored over volume, clinical integration of participating physicians is a prerequisite, agree Greg Mertz, director of Healthcare Strategy Group, and Travis Ansel, its manager of strategic services.…

Getting people to think about dying is not the first health behavior that comes to mind when employing incentives. However, incentives can be used anywhere in the healthcare continuum — including end of life — to influence behaviors, notes Neal Sofian, MSPH, director of member engagement at Premera Blue Cross. Sofian describes the barriers individuals…

Social and demographic factors such as chaos in the home or functional status can complicate care coordination for patients as much as clinical factors, explains Jeff Schiff, M.D., M.B.A., medical director of Minnesota Health Care Programs for the Minnesota Department of Human Services. He identifies two key social/demographic factors getting close attention in Minnesota’s new…

Health Tech Hatch (Hatch), a resource for entrepreneurs who create innovative health and wellness products and companies, has announced it will operate as the user testing platform for the Blue Button Patient Co-Design Challenge, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) newest challenge effort which seeks to amplify the voices of…

Cleveland Clinic, a large nonprofit multi-specialty academic medical center, has announced that it is making patient data more transparent through its MyChart online patient portal. Cleveland Clinic, a large nonprofit multi-specialty academic medical center, has announced that it is making patient data more transparent through its MyChart online patient portal. read more