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IBM’s new Care Analytics Platform may help increase treatment personalization

Mar 14, 2012 No Comments

The PRNewswire reported that IBM has created a new type of care analytics program that could help many doctors improve the personalization of treatment and medicine given to patients. The company’s new biomedical analytics platform has the potential to allow doctors to provide patients with the most compatible and beneficial type of medical treatment based [...]

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4 and 5 Star Medicare Programs Enrollment Increases

Feb 27, 2012 No Comments

The rating system that was established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has provided beneficiaries with a better sense of the type of care they will be receiving when entering into certain programs hosted by health care providers. The three main categories used to establish the rating of a nursing home or other facilities [...]

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Medicare Programs such as Medicare Advantage are a Hot Button Campaign Issue

Feb 24, 2012 No Comments

There are a number of different issues that have begun to come to the forefront of the upcoming presidential campaign; one of the largest ones is that of the current health care system and the place that the Medicare and Medicaid system has within it. One of the aspects of Medicare is that of Medicare [...]

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Medicare Hierarchal Condition Categories to expand in 2012

Feb 16, 2012 No Comments

It has been found that a large part of the potential success of Medicare’s Hierarchical Condition Category rests upon the proper documentation by the health care provider. This relies heavily on the health care professionals who are administering care to the chronically ill properly recording all patient encounters and making that information readily available to [...]

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Health IT is a major stepping stone to improved healthcare delivery

Feb 16, 2012 No Comments

There are many different approaches on how to best improve our health care system along with the quality of care provided and the cost of the care provided. One of the ways being utilized in order to improve patient care is through the use of Health Information Technology. As the world becomes a more technologically [...]

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Pay for Performance possibly an Improvement From Fee for Service

Feb 16, 2012 No Comments

There are a number of issues with our current health care system and there are also a number of solutions that have been presented as options and alternates to the current way of doing things. One of the issues that many experts believe is a main problem is that the current cost system is largely [...]

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Little Incentive for Providers to Practice Chronic Care Management

Feb 16, 2012 No Comments

Caring for the chronically ill is a part of the health care system that is in desperate need for improvement. The current system in use readily reimburses caregivers and providers when certain elements of a patient’s health are treated without consideration of the patients overall health. Some of these issues are hoped to be solved [...]

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Case Management

Feb 16, 2012 No Comments

It has been seen in many instances, that one of the improvements that needs to be made within the health care provider system is the level of communication and coordination that occurs between different care providers, patients and other practitioners. Proper case management within health care providers, especially hospital case management can provide patients with [...]

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Disease Management

Feb 16, 2012 No Comments

One of the most heated debates of the present is how to improve the health care system within the United States and one of the biggest questions is what can be done in order to keep the cost of health care down. Over the past few years there have been a number of different programs [...]

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Accountable Care Organizations (ACO)

Feb 16, 2012 No Comments

There are a number of different areas which can be improved within our working health care system, particularly the quality of care and cost of care. This holds true especially with those who are part of the Medicaid and Medicare programs and the organizations and healthcare providers who work with these beneficiaries. Accountable Care Organizations, [...]

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