Tag Archives: population health

7 Benefits of Leveraging a Patient Portal to Promote Population Health

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=As patients of Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) began to utilize the features of its newly minted portal, LVHN and its physician providers soon recognized the added benefits of this interactive tool.

In this HealthSounds episode, LVHN’s Lindsay Altimare outlines seven ways the LVHN portal, the fastest growing portal on the Epic® platform, improves efficiency and quality for her organization.

During Patient Portal Roll-Out Strategy: Activating and Engaging Patients in Self-Care and Population Health, a November 2017 webinar now available for replay, Ms. Altimare, director of operations for the Lehigh Valley Physician Group, and Dr. Michael Sheinberg, medical director, medical informatics, Epic transformation, share LVHN’s initial portal roll-out strategy as well as the evolution of portal engagement and functionality since its 2015 launch.

The webinar provided key details on promotion strategies for portal launch, four LVHN portal platforms that allow patients to initiate self-service and their impact on physician practice workflow, LVHN metrics to measure patient engagement and portal success, new portal features slated to launch this year, and much more.


Length: 3:48 minutes

Social Determinants of Health: Scenarios to Encourage the Sharing of Sensitive Information

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Dr. Randy WilliamsIdentifying social determinants of health (SDH) requires providers to probe beyond the scope of clinical data. But how can health teams ensure that patients and health plan members provide valid data during SDH assessments? In this audio interview, Dr. Randall Williams, chief executive officer, Pharos Innovations, describes three scenarios to build trust and encourage individuals to share sensitive information during SDH interactions.

During Social Determinants and Population Health: Moving Beyond Clinical Data in a Value-Based Healthcare System, a December 2016 webinar now available for replay, Dr. Williams shares his insight on the opportunity available to providers to impact population health beyond traditional clinical factors.


Length: 3:16 minutes

Connected Care Management: Do Mathematical Risk Predictors Trump Provider Intuition?

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Dr. Luke HansenEven when employing sophisticated predictive analytics to zero in on population health risk, healthcare organizations shouldn’t discount providers’ intuition, advises Luke Hansen, MD, vice president and chief medical officer, population health for AMITA Health.

With a future plan to adopt a risk prediction tool, AMITA currently creates chronic illness registries to track its high-cost patients. Listen as Dr. Hansen discusses the tradeoffs of mathematically intense risk predictors versus physicians’ guts.

During an August 2016 webinar, Reducing Readmissions and Avoidable Emergency Department Visits Through a Connected Care Management Strategy, now available for replay, Dr. Hansen and Susan Wickey, AMITA Health vice president, quality and care management, share the key components of AMITA Health’s care management process, how the various care management teams work together and the impact the program is having on healthcare costs and utilization.


Length: 3:04 minutes

3 Key Benefits to Prudent Sharing of Physician Performance Data

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There are three key benefits to prudent sharing of performance data among physicians, notes Cynthia Kilroy, senior vice president of provider strategy and business development at Optum, who suggests a four-step systematic approach for data dissemination that moves companies away from simply creating “metrics in a box.” Besides the electronic health record, she recommends three other data sources to mine for provider performance metrics.

Cynthia Kilroy explored the key structure, issues and challenges in these evolving reimbursement models during a January 29, 2014 webinar, Accountable Care Reimbursement Models: Moving from Productivity to Population-Based Incentives, a 45-minute program sponsored by The Healthcare Intelligence Network.


Length: 6:04 minutes

Managing Risk in Population Health Management

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Adventist Health’s successful use of incentives to engage employees in population health sets a high bar for the program’s imminent rollout to patients at Adventist-owned White Memorial Medical Center, notes Elizabeth Miller, Adventist’s vice president of care management. In this interview, Ms. Miller describes the program’s target population as well as the incentive that engaged 95 percent of its employees in health management.

Elizabeth Miller shared the key features of the population health management program at White Memorial, the program’s impact on Adventist’s 27,000 employees and program rollout to its patient population during a January 22, 2014 webinar, Managing Risk in Population Health Management, a 45-minute program sponsored by The Healthcare Intelligence Network.


Length: 3:27 minutes

Improving Population Health with Embedded Case Managers in an Open, Multi-Payor Community

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There’s education, there’s experience, and then there’s the ‘right stuff’ — the indefinable personality traits that earmark an individual as a change agent, collaborator and ambassador of case management, says Annette Watson, senior vice president of community transformation for Taconic IPA (TIPA), of TIPA’s requirements for the RN case managers it hires for its advanced patient-centered medical homes.

Then there are the not insignificant contributions of the RN case manager to accountable and patient-centered care, which Ms. Watson describes in this interview.

While staff-buy-in and communication continue to challenge the embedded case manager model, the participant in CMS Innovation Center’s Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative says reimbursement for embedded case management is less of an obstacle today than in the past, due to funding-friendly care models and pilots descending from healthcare reform.

Ms. Watson shared how TIPA has successfully embedded case managers in an open, multi-payor community during an October 9, 2013 webinar, Improving Population Health with Embedded Case Managers in an Open, Multi-Payor Community.


Length: 8:36 minutes