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ICYMI! Christopher Whaley testified today before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging about the issue of health care price transparency. Key Highlights: 1. Health care prices in the United States are high and variable and are driven by provider consolidation and market power, and those high prices are not linked to increases in quality. 2. Effective price transparency can be a hub that enables employers and policymakers to develop impactful programs and policies that could improve access to affordable, high-quality care. 3. There are potential policy options that could enable price transparency to reach its cost-containment potential Read more about our initiatives at the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (https://lnkd.in/eFhGZGyB) at Brown University School of Public Health. https://lnkd.in/ejtuTRJS

When Rush University Medical Center in Chicago decided to re-engineer its delivery systems to address population health, reduce health inequities, and combat chronic diseases while controlling healthcare costs, they connected with the Home Centered Care Institute. Together, they launched the innovative Rush@Home house call program. Based on a six-month study, the Rush@Home program achieved the following: • 34% potential lower cost • 18% fewer hospitalizations • 21% reduction in ED visits • 4.6% fewer readmissions Total Program Savings • Total Actual Six-Month Savings: $761,000 • Total Potential Annualized Savings: Over $1.5 million Based on these results, a program with 200 MSSP patients would generate over $3 million in savings. Learn more: https://ow.ly/ex2h50Sm6pN #housecalls #healthcare #homecare #homebasedprimarycare

When Rush University Medical Center in Chicago decided to re-engineer its delivery systems to address population health, reduce health inequities, and combat chronic diseases while controlling healthcare costs, they connected with the Home Centered Care Institute. Together, they launched the innovative Rush@Home house call program. Based on a six-month study, the Rush@Home program achieved the following: • 34% potential lower cost • 18% fewer hospitalizations • 21% reduction in ED visits • 4.6% fewer readmissions Total Program Savings • Total Actual Six-Month Savings: $761,000 • Total Potential Annualized Savings: Over $1.5 million Based on these results, a program with 200 MSSP patients would generate over $3 million in savings. Learn more: https://ow.ly/ex2h50Sm6pN #housecalls #healthcare #homecare #homebasedprimarycare

When Rush University Medical Center in Chicago decided to re-engineer its delivery systems to address population health, reduce health inequities, and combat chronic diseases while controlling healthcare costs, they connected with the Home Centered Care Institute. Together, they launched the innovative Rush@Home house call program. Based on a six-month study, the Rush@Home program achieved the following: • 34% potential lower cost • 18% fewer hospitalizations • 21% reduction in ED visits • 4.6% fewer readmissions Total Program Savings • Total Actual Six-Month Savings: $761,000 • Total Potential Annualized Savings: Over $1.5 million Based on these results, a program with 200 MSSP patients would generate over $3 million in savings. Learn more: https://ow.ly/ex2h50Sm6pN #housecalls #healthcare #homecare #homebasedprimarycare

Things on my health system transformation to do list: 1) Homecare Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) study shows up to 1 in 9 residents in longterm care could be in their home. The report shows when additional home supports could potentially delay or prevent early admission to long-term care; and demonstrates the importance of effective placement policies and services across the health care continuum; and provide support for initiatives that help residents remain in their homes for as long as possible. 2) Longterm Care Complex medical needs - 3 out of every 4 people entering long-term care have 3 or more different medical conditions. Daily living support - 88% of people entering long-term care need support with activities of daily living, compared to 67% from10 years ago. Medications - Nearly 75% of people entering long-term care require eight different medications, with 30% requiring 13 or more. Cognitive impairment - 76% of people entering long-term care have mild to severe cognitive issues, an increase of 25% from 10 years ago. All with virtually the same staffing ratio as 20 years ago???? Data from https://lnkd.in/gn7tuFHC #healthcare #healthsystemtransformation #bettercare

The Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) has published an explainer for the multiple digital health and aged care strategies released since 2023, providing a guide to how they fit together and what gaps still remain. Aged Care IT Council #ITAC2024 #DigitalHealth #ehealth #HealthIT #PulseIT #PulseITnews

Among the tools health systems can leverage to improve their performance under value-based care contracts, integrated health system specialty pharmacy can be particularly impactful. Join Nicholas Bull, Clinical Director of Population Health, and Lillian Piz, Manager of Population Health, as they dive into how health systems can advance their population health and value-based care objectives while increasing the quality of pharmacy care patients receive. #PQA24 #PopulationHealth #ShieldsRx #ValueBasedCare

Research shows that nearly 134 million adverse events occur annually in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries alone, leading to 2.6 million deaths. As we observe World Patient Safety Day, we recognize that many of these tragic outcomes are preventable through better health literacy. When patients fully understand their care instructions, they are 30% more likely to follow treatment plans correctly, reducing complications and hospitalizations. Community engagement is key to making this change sustainable. In settings where communities actively participate in health education, avoidable harm is reduced by up to 25%, and patient safety outcomes significantly improve. Informed individuals take ownership of their health, enhancing both their safety and the system’s efficiency. #WorldPatientSafetyDay #HealthLiteracy #PatientSafety #CommunityEngagement #InformedCare #EmpoweredPatients #PatientRights #SafeHealthcare

I love the discussion in this week’s Health:Further podcast with Marcus Whitney and Vic Gatto about the question of the impact of the annual physical exam. Thank you gentlemen, for turning the conversation in exactly the right direction – that our system, not our clinicians, are at blame for the irrelevance of the annual physical exam (eg. the annual wellness visit, the annual PCP check-in) that does little to truly help guide a patient’s health and well-being. But let’s be clear and not confuse two different concepts: the lack of evidence around the annual ADULT physical exam does not in any way negate the importance of primary care. It’s not the annual nature of a primary care visit that actually makes a real impact on health. It’s the continuity and coordination that #primarycare provides that actually prevents longer term disease. It’s the anticipatory guidance and real focus on prevention and management that the pediatric framework supplies in the well child visit. I find it interesting that this JAMA article is from 2021 compares our annual physical exam to that of the national health service in England and the Netherlands - both also having larger systems surrounding #publichealth and prevention that our #healthcare system is clearly not in a place to support. Our primary care teams need a broader transformation throughout the system. When we discuss real #transformation in healthcare, let’s be sure to acknowledge how our system as a whole needs to incentivize real change in an upstream manner, and not single out what is really more of a vestige of the checklist approach to financial payment on which our healthcare system continues to rely. #healthcareonlinkedin

💻 ONLINE RESOURCE | FAIR Health, Inc. released, "Healthy Decisions for Healthy #Aging," a campaign to disseminate FAIR Health for #OlderAdults, an online resource designed to provide older adults and the people who support them with the clinical, financial and educational information they need to plan for a treatment, procedure or ongoing condition. 🔗 Explore the resource and share it with older adults and family caregivers who are making health care decisions and could benefit from clinical AND cost information: https://ow.ly/nKoA50QHebN