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Provider Engagement Critical to Success in Population Health

In a recent annual survey conducted by Numerof & Associates, in partnership with Dr. David Nash of the Jefferson College of Population Health, several clear examples of success, or barriers to success, highlight the critical role which provider engagement plays in an organization’s ability to manage cost and quality.

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A Public Health Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Test and Trace

The ability of state governors to initiate lifting stay-at-home orders, and for business leaders and consumers to have the confidence and safety to return to work is contingent upon the trust that each of us feels about our ability to stay protected from Coronavirus infection.

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Capturing Pent-up Demand for Healthcare

As practices around the country begin filling their schedules again, now is a grand opportunity for patient outreach targeted to those individuals who may be hesitant to seek care and for whom a face-to-face encounter is appropriate.

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Get the Most Out of Your Healthcare Consulting Engagement, Part II - Factors: That Influence the Success of an Active Project

In this second of three related articles, we explore the factors that can influence the outcome of an active project and identify the cadence of a typical engagement to highlight opportunities for alignment and success.

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Get the Most Out of Your Healthcare Consulting Engagement, Part II - Factors: That Influence the Success of an Active Project

In this second of three related articles, we explore the factors that can influence the outcome of an active project and identify the cadence of a typical engagement to highlight opportunities for alignment and success.

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Deploying a Video Visit Strategy to Mitigate the Spread of Coronavirus

In response to the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the United States, many ambulatory practices are recognizing video visits as a crucial method to protect health care providers and patients and to flatten the curve of community infection.

Patient Engagement

Survey Results Show HIT Adoption Supporting Patient Engagement

Xtelligent Healthcare Media survey results show, patients are demanding technologies that make it easier and more convenient for them to access care.

Patient Engagement

Survey Results Show HIT Adoption Supporting Patient Engagement

Xtelligent Healthcare Media survey results show, patients are demanding technologies that make it easier and more convenient for them to access care.

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Our Doors Will Re-Open, But When Will the Patients Return?

Across the United States, community by community, businesses are making plans to re-open their doors to their customers.

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Time to Dial-a-Friend?

Our team of NextGen Advisors is engaging with clients on a range of tactical and urgent topics such as addressing disruptions to face-to-face encounters, the shift to virtual visits, and understanding local regulatory changes that are influencing client revenue stream.

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Travel Pass Solutions in the Era of COVID-19

It has been a little over a year since the initial identification of SARS Cov-2. As the virus spread globally, national governments developed a broad assortment of travel restrictions, border closures, limitations on the transportation of goods and other efforts to contain the virus’s spread.

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Establishing a Remote Patient Monitoring Program: 5 Keys to Success

As increasingly efficient technology and patient self-care merge to create better healthcare for all, NextGen Healthcare Advisor Graham Brown spotlights a winning RPM strategy.

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Establishing a Remote Patient Monitoring Program: 5 Keys to Success

As increasingly efficient technology and patient self-care merge to create better healthcare for all, NextGen Healthcare Advisor Graham Brown spotlights a winning RPM strategy.

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Four Ways to Adapt Preventive Care During COVID-19

Four strategies ambulatory practices have been deploying to ensure they continue to meet the needs of their patients for preventive care and chronic condition management.

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How FQHCs Can Use the American Rescue Plan Act Funds to Invest in the Future

The May 31st deadline by which Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) must submit plans to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for how they plan to invest their share of the once in a generation $6.1B of supplemental federal grant funding is fast approaching.

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COVID-19 Puts a Spotlight on Ambulatory Access

The massive disruption to ambulatory care brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic provides the opportunity to revisit how ambulatory care is delivered and to shine a light on workflows long considered entrenched, which may not serve practices and patients as well in the future.

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COVID-19 Puts a Spotlight on Ambulatory Access

The massive disruption to ambulatory care brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic provides the opportunity to revisit how ambulatory care is delivered and to shine a light on workflows long considered entrenched, which may not serve practices and patients as well in the future.

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Get the Most Out of Your Healthcare Consulting Engagement, Part III Ensuring Success After the Engagement

In our final blog in this series, we address how organizations can ensure the successful adoption of recommendations once the consulting engagement has concluded.

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Could Existing Vaccines Help Curb COVID-19?

With over 11.5 million cases of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) confirmed worldwide, resulting in 540,000 reported deaths1, researchers are looking to all available tools in the medical toolbox to prevent infections, mitigate the severity of illness and increase the chance of survival for those infected with the novel coronavirus.

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Innovation Accelerates COVID-19 Research

In the race to develop effective treatments for patients infected with COVID-19, researchers are employing an innovative study design to evaluate the clinical efficacy, as assessed by time to recovery, of multiple different investigational therapeutics.

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Ambulatory Practice Creativity: A Necessary Response to COVID-19

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were significant regulatory requirements effectively limiting the use of virtual visits which have been temporarily waived during the period of the national emergency.

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How Will We Address New COVID-19 Variants?

Just as the global vaccination campaign is ramping up, with healthcare providers and state agencies wrestling with the complexity of inoculating millions of citizens, new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are being identified by researchers which may require vaccine developers to update their vaccines periodically.

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A Strategy Pivot for COVID-19?

In recent conversations with clients we have touched on the topic of strategy, inquiring whether the pandemic has altered their organization's short and medium-term plans.

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Are We Ready to Embrace Remote Monitoring and Data Derived from Wearable Devices?

Stay at home and social distancing policies across the U.S. have had a serious impact on face-to-face encounters, yet the need to monitor the health and stability of individuals, particularly those with poly-chronic disease and co-morbidities does not go away.

Integrated Care

Findings from a Recent Provider Survey on Integration of Behavioral and Physical Health

Recently, NextGen Healthcare partnered with XtelligentMedia to conduct a national survey of provider organizations who offer behavioral health (BH) and primary care services. We had a few objectives in conducting this survey.

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The Need for a COVID-19 Antibody Test

How many cases of COVID-19 have gone unreported, having been mild enough to be excused as just a seasonal cold, or due to the lack of availability of diagnostic testing, gone undiscovered entirely?

COVID-19

The Need for a COVID-19 Antibody Test

How many cases of COVID-19 have gone unreported, having been mild enough to be excused as just a seasonal cold, or due to the lack of availability of diagnostic testing, gone undiscovered entirely?

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Considerations Regarding Hospital Affiliation for Multispecialty Group Practices

NextGen Advisor Graham Brown, MPH, explores the pros and cons of hospital affiliation among multispecialty practices (MPH).

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Considerations Regarding Hospital Affiliation for Multispecialty Group Practices

NextGen Advisor Graham Brown, MPH, explores the pros and cons of hospital affiliation among multispecialty practices (MPH).

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2021 Healthcare Trends

As is traditional at the beginning of a new year, and in the context of a newly elected administration, we have reviewed the predictions of healthcare writers to see which themes align with those we heard from the front lines of ambulatory care as well as unique perspectives whose ideas may not have been on our radar, but none-the-less piqued our interest.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Next Healthcare Consulting Engagement, Part I

The past several decades saw enormous growth in management consulting services supporting the healthcare industry to develop strategies, manage change and address a myriad of industry-specific complex problems. So how do provider organizations ensure they gain the greatest benefit from engaging a management consultant?

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The Status of COVID-19 Therapeutic and Vaccine Trials

For clinicians on the front lines treating patients with COVID-19, it has been a long and winding road to determine therapeutics that are effective in reducing the severity of illness, shortening hospitalizations or through other indicators of effectiveness, reducing the morbidity and mortality of this novel disease.

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Rationale and Requirements for Clinical Integration

Well before the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, providers have been joining together in an effort to better manage the care of a specific patient population by setting up a clinically integrated network, or CIN.