Mercy and Mayo Clinic have signed a 10 year partnership, using a trove of deidentified data and the latest technology to identify optimal treatment options to produce better patient outcomes industry-wide.
What’s Next For mRNA? Cancer Vaccines
Why Health Systems Count on Extract’s HealthyData for Healthy Patient Outcomes
Quality of Patient Care and Racism
Bigger is Better?
Whole Person Care in Contra Costa
Rules of Patient Engagement
Don't Misidentify Your Patients
Patient Experience Platforms
Are Your Patients Completing Their Own Medical Forms?
Why You Should Value Caring About Value-Based Care
For years, healthcare’s financial incentive framework has been based on a fee-for-service model. This means that providers and hospitals are paid based on the number of healthcare services they provide. A higher volume of tests or procedures results in greater payments to the entities that provide them. The seemingly important element that is left out of this equation is whether the patient, who is being subjected to these tests and procedures, is experiencing improved health.
How to Leverage Data to Optimize Results
What is compliance and why it’s important in Healthcare?
It is a way for healthcare organizations to prove that their patients are their number one priority. By proving the quality of compliance, organizations can prove that year over year their quality in care is constantly improving. By being able to prove compliance is important within an organization, there is a direct correlation to better patient satisfaction, more patients, better opportunities for successful outreach, and staying in business.
Quick, what's the good news?
It’s had to find good news in the report published by Protenus Breach Barometer. Their research says there were, on average, one significant protected health information breach per day during the month of January 2017. As a company that helps prevent criminal acquisition of data, I can say that I am not surprised. If you are sensitive to the issue, you’ll regularly see this kind of news.
Are You Missing Data for Your Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs)?
Medical Errors are Causing Patient Deaths: Here's How We're Saving Lives
The headline Medical Errors are the Third Leading Cause of Death is a popular title for a recent study that highlights the impact diagnostic errors can have on patients.
A web search turned up similar headlines every few years going back to the 1990’s. Clearly, not much has changed. There are still too many diagnostic errors and not enough has been done to reduce the carnage.