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Engaging Providers in Underserved Areas to Adopt Electronic Health RecordsWe assessed Regional Extension Centers' (RECs') progress in promoting EHR adoption among providers in rural and health professional shortage areas and found that RECs are achieving much success in enrolling these providers.
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Aligning Payment Reform and Delivery Innovation in Emergency CareThe authors apply HHS’s payment taxonomy framework to acute unscheduled care and describe how payment reform supports delivery innovation.
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Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions of Challenges to Chronic Pain ManagementHealthcare professionals report pain management barriers across system, provider, and patient levels, highlighting the need to consider chronic pain as a chronic condition that warrants coordinated approaches.
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Identifying Frail Older People Using Predictive ModelingThe frailty determination of the Adjusted Clinical Groups“diagnoses based predictive model identified frail elders with moderate success compared with a validated screening questionnaire.
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Real-Time Video Detection of Falls in Dementia Care Facility and Reduced Emergency CareAn artificial intelligence–enabled video fall detection system using visual science reduced emergency department visits by 80% in 6 communities over 3 months.
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Innovative Care Models for High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries: Delivery System and Payment Reform to Accelerate AdoptionThis paper illustrates how Medicare Advantage plans and accountable care organizations could benefit from adopting innovative care delivery models, and suggests policy changes to accelerate spread.
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Health Economic Analysis of Breast Cancer Index in Patients With ER+, LN- Breast CancerThis study projected that the breast cancer index assay is cost saving when used either at diagnosis or at 5 years post diagnosis.
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Evaluation of Care Management Intensity and Bariatric Surgical Weight LossThis study examines the effect of pre- and postoperative care management intensity on weight loss outcomes after bariatric surgery in 9 US centers.
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Identifying Frail Older People Using Predictive ModelingThe frailty determination of the Adjusted Clinical Groups“diagnoses based predictive model identified frail elders with moderate success compared with a validated screening questionnaire.
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Quality Care Opportunities: Refining Physician Performance Measurement in Ambulatory CareThe quality care opportunities model can lead to increased utility and validity of current measurement tools and more accurate assessment of physician performance.
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Are Obese Patients Assisted in Losing Weight?In obese patients, we assessed the lack of advice to lose weight and its association with cardiovascular risk using the REGICOR chart (adaption of Framingham).
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A Dementia Care Management Intervention: Which Components Improve Quality?Specifically trained care managers are essential for quality gains from a dementia care management program; even higher quality accrues with coordination across community and primary care.
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Medicare and Commercial Inpatient Resource Use: Impact of Hospital CompetitionHospitals in more competitive markets had significantly lower costs per discharge for both Medicare and privately insured patients.
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Impact of Clinical Training on Recruiting Graduating Health ProfessionalsA business case is made for medical centers to offer high-quality clinical training experiences to recruit graduating health professionals.
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Personalized Preventive Care Leads to Significant Reductions in Hospital UtilizationWe assessed the impact of the MDVIP personalized preventive care model on hospital utilization and found the MDVIP members' rates were substantially lower than nonmembers'.
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Diabetes and Employment Productivity: Does Diabetes Management Matter?Diabetes itself affected working and wages more than control of blood sugar levels in a Mexican American population.
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Preventing Patient Absenteeism: Validation of a Predictive Overbooking ModelElectronic health record data can be used to predict patient absenteeism accurately. Predictive overbooking of missed appointments can significantly increase service utilization.
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Implications of DRG Classification in a Bundled Payment Initiative for COPDDiagnosis-related group coding determines eligibility for many Medicare bundled payment initiatives. This approach excluded many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease likely to benefit while including others without the disease.
