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🏥 84% of hospitals don't send summary of care records to long-term care providers, and 83% don’t share these crucial documents with behavioral health providers. Seamless, interoperable health information exchange is vital for ensuring clinicians have timely and relevant patient information for better healthcare decisions. Read the full ONC report here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gaGQYcgg. #Interoperability #PatientCare #HealthIT

Healthcare systems, remember that patient engagement isn't black and white. There's room for nuance. From the patient's perspective, it comes down to preference. Patient's willingness to engage in shared decision-making isn't universal, and health systems must be prepared to meet them where they are. Engagement with patients who seek these relationships will look different from strategies designed to connect with people who prefer a level of distance. #PatientCare #Healthcare #SharedDecisionMaking

Healthcare is a universal human need, yet not all patients experience it equally, with a patient's needs differing from individual to individual. Minority populations often face the biggest challenges in finding reliable providers who can address these unique needs. According to recent research, patients receive better access to care, feel more positive about their treatment, and achieve better health outcomes when, #healthcare workers reflect the diversity of their community. But how can providers gain a better understanding on the needs and communities of their patients? Well, predictive data is certainly playing a roll! By leveraging advanced data and analytics, healthcare systems can gain deeper insights into healthcare providers' personal characteristics, such as race and ethnicity. This approach empowers the healthcare industry to enhance provider diversity, leading to more personalized care, better patient engagement, and improved health equity. Interested in learning how you can better understand providers to elevate the patient experience? Learn more about our partnership with HealthVerity and how we link people-based data to NPI to provide insight on healthcare providers here --> https://shorturl.at/p0Y27 #HealthcareData #PatientOutcomes

📢 If there’s one trend that has had staying power in American health care, it’s been the rise of the system. Today, roughly two-thirds of American hospitals belong to a health system, up from 10% in 1970, and those systems have inevitably become larger and increasingly diversified providers of care—with some owning physician specialty groups, surgical centers, and home care services among other businesses. In this spirit, Fortune and PINC AI™ collaborated to rank the PINC AI™ 15 Top Health Systems™. According to PINC AI’s analysis, if all health systems operated as this year’s winners, more than 220,000 patient lives would be saved and 196,000 patients would be complication-free. See the list here: https://lnkd.in/g7bxDK7t

I am asked quite often my "Why, Intermountain and SelectHealth?". I am proud to work for such an amazing HealthCare system, and help people live their healthiest lives possible. I wanted to share the below article where, Intermountain Ranked #1 in Top Large Health Systems nationally: https://lnkd.in/gtSF3fXh   Some highlights are below, Study of 355 health systems across the U.S. using publicly available Medicare data. Considered eight performance indicators, like inpatient mortality and average length of stay, that measure an organization’s clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, and patient experience. If all health systems performed as their top-rated peers, the analysis found, there would be 220,000 fewer patient deaths and 196,000 fewer patients to suffer complications during their hospital stay.

High quality #primarycare is the foundation of a high performing health care system. Check out this newly released report from @njhcqi https://lnkd.in/e-68nFC9 with recommendations to better support Advanced Primary Care in #NJ through improved payments rates, physician workforce data transparency, & reforming measure collection.  

Patients' creative ideas, often overlooked, have the potential to catalyze healthcare innovation, according to a Columbia University study. The tested methodology for eliciting these ideas from diverse populations could revolutionize health services research, fostering high-quality, patient-centered care while containing costs. This interesting study underscores the importance of health care organizations adopting valid and reliable methods to integrate patients' creative ideas into routine quality improvement, enhancing patient agency and autonomy within the healthcare system. #PatientCare #Healthcare #PatientExperience

57 Quality Metrics? Not possible. And worse, these metrics are not the same between “value-based” plans. Accountable care with incentives only works when it can reasonably be achieved. Countless physicians I’ve worked with say they race at the end of the year to cram “annual wellness” and “gap closing” visits into their schedule that burden their practices when time would be better spent focusing on high-cost, rising risk patients who need care management, counseling, and treatment from their doctor that could improve their care AND lower costs. This article should be a wake up call to medical societies and governing organizations to intervene. If we want to help physicians/providers, we need to callout bad actors using burdensome contracts that only serve to lower care delivery/access but disguised as “value.” And, who knows, maybe this next best action increases access, relieves physician stress, improves outcomes, and lowers cost?

If health systems master the art of delivering a world-class consumer experience in urgent care, they can replicate this success across their entire operation, becoming market leaders and thriving in the long term. This is the core thesis of what we do at UCP Merchant Medicine. For nine years, UCP Merchant Medicine has partnered with 68 healthcare operators, most of whom are health systems, to create internal capabilities that allow them to thrive in consumer experience excellence. This isn’t just about having a world-class urgent care platform, this is about owning the future and the capabilities to expand these experiences across the broader health system. As healthcare shifts towards a consumer-driven model, the need for health systems to adapt is more critical than ever. Patients now have unprecedented freedom to choose their care providers, with 45% researching providers and costs before choosing a health plan, and 44% before making an appointment, according to McKinsey’s consumer Health Insights Survey. These improvements are not just numbers; they're about real people getting better access to the care they need when they need it in a way that they will love. This is what we stand for at UCP Merchant Medicine. Join us as we continue to innovate and lead the way in making healthcare more responsive, efficient, and patient-centric. Together, we can transform the future of healthcare! #HealthcareInnovation #PatientCare #UrgentCare #HealthcareLeadership #UCPMerchantMedicine Intellivisit Solutions