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How the Quality of Your Data Affects Patient Care and Profitability

As a private primary care practice owner or business manager, how many sleepless nights have you spent worrying about how to keep your practice profitable? In today’s value-based healthcare environment, clinicians face extreme pressure to improve patient experience and outcomes with a dwindling amount of face-to-face contact. In order to survive the changing climate, independent practices need a way to use scarce resources more efficiently and maintain the quality of their patients’ care.

Technology provides the key. It can actually be a life saver by minimizing the administrative burden and helping you manage your patient populations. But to help you enhance care and not detract from it, the right technology solution requires two critical components:

1. Meaningful data

2. A way to share that data throughout the care continuum

Better Data Translates to Profitable Practices.

While some clinicians believe that technology takes away from patient care, too often the data, not the system, is letting them down. Few independent PCPs have access to data outside their own EMR system, and they can’t depend on their patients to fill in the gaps.

In an effort to eliminate disjointed care for patients with chronic or serious illnesses, Acclivity Health has developed a platform that integrates with the EMR to give PCPs a 360-degree view of their patients’ care. The platform collects data from multiple sources — from Medicare and payer claims to pharmacy records, lab reports and scheduling data. It then analyzes that data and reports it in a way that enhances population and care management. The benefits are significant. But optimum results depend on the willingness of providers to share their own data.

In order for the healthcare industry to operate with better data, providers need to understand the value of shared data and be willing to share the data they collect themselves. By sharing the data, every member of the care team can collaborate and ensure the best outcomes possible.

Sharing data can eliminate the ineffective or unnecessary treatments that increase healthcare spending. And it can enable practices not only to meet the terms of their value-based care contracts but also earn significant bonuses payments.

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March 1, 2021/0 Comments/by Nichole Sellers
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Value-Based Care Models For Home Care Practices

Home care practices are now preparing for new CMS payment models and understanding new ways to make value-based care work for their organizations and their patients. To hear industry experts compare and contrast value-based payment options, including insights from Acclivity Health’s CEO Jeremy Powell and COO John Dickey, listen to the first installment of the American Academy of Home Care Medicine’s webinar series.

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Acclivity Health is a member of the American Academy of Home Care Medicine. This webinar was presented in partnership with AAHCM

February 4, 2021/0 Comments/by Nichole Sellers
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5 Questions To Ask Your AI Supplier About Racial Bias

Understanding bias in AI, and using a platform that addresses it proactively, are vital to your patients’ care.

“Technology Can’t Fix Algorithmic Injustice.” “Ethical Considerations In The Use Of AI Mortality Predictions In The Care Of People With Serious Illness.” These are just two of the news stories published in recent months about the issue of racial bias in artificial intelligence. Even if you’ve read each one in an effort to learn about the topic, it can be difficult to know how it applies to your patient care, and what you can do about it.

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November 17, 2020/0 Comments/by Acclivity Health
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What Your Hospice Needs From Predictive Analytics

Most platforms have similar features, but look for those that stand apart.

Artificial intelligence is causing quite the buzz in the hospice and palliative care spaces thanks to its ability to turn real patient data into actionable items for providers. These tools can help prognosticate more accurately, enable objective examination of a patient’s status, and much more.

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October 8, 2020/0 Comments/by Acclivity Health
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Expanding the Role of Primary Care for Seriously Ill Patients

How Primary Care First and the SIP model re-center family physicians in advanced illness care

As 2021 approaches, hospices and other organizations participating in Primary Care First are gearing up to tackle their new patient loads. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Primary Care First (PCF) program, which will start enrolling patients in 2021, includes the Seriously Ill Population (SIP) model. The SIP program is designed to improve care for high-need, high-risk patients who are receiving fragmented or inadequate care.

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September 8, 2020/0 Comments/by Acclivity Health
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Quality in community-based palliative care programs

How one expert says it should be measured, practiced, and improved

Quality care is vital to any medical organization’s success and, of course, the health and outcomes of their patients. But most physicians don’t receive any formal training on quality during their schooling or residency, which means most learning on the topic happens on the job.

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August 19, 2020/0 Comments/by Acclivity Health
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Problems Facing Payers Right Now, And How To Combat Them

Bridging the gap between payer/provider groups, and hospices/SIP providers

Prior to COVID-19, payers were already experiencing a number of stressors: meeting quality metrics, maximizing patient and provider satisfaction, minimizing acute care utilization, and more. Now, amidst a global pandemic, that list has only gotten longer.

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August 10, 2020/0 Comments/by Acclivity Health
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Burnout in end-of-life care

When it comes to burnout, are we blaming the victim?

In research by Dr. Arif Kamal, Chief Medical Officer of Acclivity Health, palliative care physician shortages are predicted to send patient-to-provider ratios skyrocketing in the coming decade —1:808, to be exact. The reasoning? Dr. Kamal and his team found that one-third of palliative care clinicians are burned out, and two in five are 56 years of age or older. There are about 7,600 physicians board-certified in palliative care. That number is not increasing, meaning as burnout mounts and physicians age, there are no new providers waiting to take their place.

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July 6, 2020/0 Comments/by Acclivity Health
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Hospice Providers Embrace Predictive Monitoring to Identify Prospective Patients

Hospice providers have increasingly adopted predictive analytic systems to identify patients in need of their services further upstream in their disease trajectory, as well as to demonstrate their value to payers and referral partners, including Medicare Advantage plans. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin allowing hospices to participate in Medicare Advantage in 2021 with the value-based insurance design demonstration project.

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June 9, 2020/0 Comments/by Acclivity Health
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After COVID-19, will hospices still use telemedicine?

The pandemic forced providers into online care. Will they stay logged in once they can see patients in person?

The coronavirus pandemic has changed nearly every facet of how hospice care is delivered during this time. But when it comes to hospices adopting telehealth in response to the virus, many are wondering if care delivery online will carry into the future. Historically it has been difficult for hospices to establish strong telehealth programs, but now that COVID-19 has forced the issue, what does the path forward look like?

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June 9, 2020/0 Comments/by Acclivity Health
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