The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and applicable regulations assert that health plans, including SADPs, must meet a…
Healthcare
An Introduction to Qualified Health Plan
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), defines QHP as an insurance plan certified by the Health Insurance Marketplace which provides Essential Health…
Current PHM solutions and associated challenges
In the previous section we discussed the technologies available to enhance a PHM solution, and how it helps the healthcare…
How Technology can enable PHM?
Healthcare organizations need to have technological capabilities within their care delivery processes to effectively use data to manage the cost…
Benefits of PHM / Value-Based Healthcare Delivery
Population Health Management is the systematic process of patient data gathering, analyzing and managing patient’s data in the health care…
BlueButton 2.0 Use Cases in Healthcare Ecosystem
Blue Button 2.0 is creating a data-centric ecosystem for Medicare beneficiaries. By facilitating access to patient health history, it has the potential to drive down Medicare spending and improve health outcomes.
Impacts of HHGM on Home Health Software
With the finalization of the Home Health Grouping Model, the CMS intends to shift from paying for volume to paying for value by eliminating therapy visits as a factor in payment determinations. The HHGM is expected to meet or exceed industry quality standards in healthcare by incentivizing home health providers. It also has the capability to remarkably influence the operations of home health agencies and healthcare industry as a whole.
Home Health Grouping Model
The current case-mix adjusted payments under the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) are therapy driven, and beneficiaries with…
Deploying and Hosting Applications on the Cloud
Cloud is the new generation platform that is evolving with a goal to solve traditional problems and to optimize resource…
Benefits and Flexibility of Cloud Deployments Over Traditional Deployments
Cloud is the new generation platform that is evolving with a goal to solve the problems associated with traditional deployment.…
Blockchain and Data Transmission
For a data-intensive industry like healthcare sector, blockchain is a reforming technology, which could revolutionize the way data is managed.…
An Interpretive Guideline for Home Health CoPs
Though the final version for Interpretive Guidelines is not released, CMS released a draft on the final CoPs for HHAs providing specifics on all the sections under CoPs. Check out our blog to know more.