At its core, population health has the potential to help us bring significant health concerns into focus and help us understand how resources can be allocated to overcome the problems that drive poor health conditions in the population. In addition to the public health benefits, population health data analytics is crucial to the success of any provider organization that is considering value-based reimbursement (VBR) arrangements.
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The Opioid Crisis & Recent Federal Policy Responses
On September 23, 2022, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published this report regarding the opioid crisis and recent Federal policy responses.
Mental Health Service Demand & Workforce Supply – How Do The Numbers Stack Up?
Supply and demand is a straightforward concept. What people want and the capacity to fill that demand drive waiting lists, rates, and more in many markets.
Taking The Hike To Sustainability
Preparedness starts with answering two questions. First, what is your organization’s path to longer-term sustainability? Second, are your organization and your team prepared to get there?
How Technology Can Improve Efficiency
Efficiency is justifiably one of the central preoccupations of health policymakers, clinical staff, and administrators. Inefficiency in care delivery and workflow can lead to barriers to care, quality issues in care delivery, and limits resources available to people who need treatment.
Population Health & Care Management: The Key To Whole-Person Care & Value-Based Care Delivery Models
The trend toward “whole-person care” meaning a fully integrated model of care including physical health, behavioral health, and social determinants of health, is growing. A number of states have created managed care models for children in foster care, two states […]
Consumerism In Behavioral Health
Many experts believe that the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic impact have increased the pace of consumerism in health care. While consumerism in health care was written about and discussed before the pandemic, the focus on it as part of a long-term strategy for health care has increased due to the challenges exposed during the pandemic.
Archived Webinar – Case Study – A Robust Practice Management System Your Key To Success
In this webinar you get to see under the hood of an organization that has cultivated its practice management system into delivering revenue.
The Great Resignation Applies To Provider Organizations Too
The financial strength and stability of health care provider organizations was strained before the pandemic. And while the pandemic provided a large influx of unexpected federal/state monies into the system, the structural financial sustainability problems remain.
Data? I Don’t Want To Know…
For all the talk about data, I’m not sure how it is being used by executive teams. The proportion of executives describing themselves as “data driven” dropped to 31% in 2019 and half say they are not competing on performance data.