Infographic from Adventist University of Health Sciences. Facts, statistics, and examples related to hospital efforts to improve the health of the communities in which they operate.

Reference: https://www.ehidc.org/resources/how-hospitals-can-improve-health-whole-communities-infographic

This playable PPT presentation with audio describes the Cloud Healthcare Appliance Real-Time Solution as a Service information technology reference architecture for a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE). This IDE is designed for use by healthcare provider subject matter experts (SMEs) with low cost and little/no need for IT system or staff resources. Healthcare SMEs can use CHARTSaaS to design, develop, deploy, operate and optimize apps that provide real-time cognitive support to them in the execution of clinical and administrative processes. CHARTSaaS-built apps are expected to have significant positive transformative impact on medical practice and healthcare delivery resulting in much-improved personal health maintenance, medical mistake mitigation, clinical case management, optimal case outcomes and accelerated knowledge accrual.

The future of U.S. healthcare demands extensive coordination across the full continuum of care. But accurate patient identification and patient matching are essential for this coordination: - The ability to access patient information is integral to care coordination across the full continuum of care; - Resolving patient identities across disparate systems is critical to accessing information; - Existing Master Patient Indexes (MPIs) cannot resolve identities consistently or well enough to support healthcare's emerging needs. Learn why a new type of MPI technology will pave the way for "identity interoperability" across the entire continuum of care.

The AHA supports many of CMS’s proposed policy changes that relieve regulatory burden and foster greater collaboration across the health care system, including the facility-based measurement in the MIPS and the gradual, flexible increase in reporting requirements.

National health payer Anthem is collaborating with primary care providers and operating their Enhanced Personal Health Care program. This report outlines the key benefits experienced through this program, including a 3% cost savings for members treated by providers who participated.

We are now in the era of electronic health records (EHR), MACRA and a plethora of digital clinical data, which means we can take advantage of what happens today, sometimes in real-time.

With the advent of Value Based payment models, where healthcare organizations work to improve outcomes at the same or lower cost, the need to know what happens today, becomes an imperative.

eHI interviews Senior Vice President John Glaser, PhD, Cerner Corporation on how the business models in healthcare are changing. He makes recommendations on how the new administration can best support the shift to value-based care.