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Complimentary from the publishers of
Population Health News
June 2019
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"Truly understanding populations in geographic areas where the cancer
burden is disproportionately high is essential to the effective use of
public health resources to lower their cancer death rates and other
health disparities."
- David Haggstrom, M.D.,
Investigator, Regenstrief Institute.
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According to an
article published by Healthcare IT News, Legacy Salmon Creek
Hospital in Vancouver, Washington, reduced its all-cause 30-day
readmission rate by 24.9 percent and the overall ED visit rate by 81
percent for identified high utilizers, using the Collective Platform, a
real-time, risk-adjusted event notification and care collaboration tool.
Excerpted from:
Volume 11 Number 6, June 2019, Industry News: "Collective Medical Helps Providers
Support and Collaborate on Homeless Patients."
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William Ashton (Client Success Manager)
and Sophie Geoghan (Lead Data Scientist) of Health Recovery
Solutions address the role of data in healthcare and the current
and future projects of our own data science team.
Other
topics include the growing role of data in the healthcare
industry, its impact on population health, and the future of
machine learning in flagging patients at risk.
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Kaiser Permanente survey: 5 Statistics About Social Barriers to
Health in America
1. 28% of Americans reported
experiencing a barrier to health in the past year due to a social need.
2.
21% prioritized paying for food or rent above seeing a doctor or
obtaining medication.
3.
17% lacked transportation to go to the doctor or pick up medication.
4.
13% were sick and had no one who could help.
5. 9%
couldn’t see a doctor regularly because they lacked stable housing.
Source:
Kaiser Permanente, June 4, 2019
check out more lists on
healthsprocket. "What's on your list?"
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- What Keeps Me Up at Night – The Uphill Climb to Addressing
Alzheimer's Disease by Brent P. Forester MD, MSc.
- Providing a Critical Roadmap to Bridge the Gap
Between Medicine and Public Health by Sasha Walek
- Population Study Finds Striking Disparities in
Health Behaviors and Screening in Indiana by Cindy Fox
Aisen
- Thought Leaders' Corner: How Can Alternative Payment
Models Help to Improve Population Health?
- Industry News with briefs regarding Navigant,
Collective Medical, United Way of Metro Chicago, Garmin
Health, CitiusTech, and UnitedHealthcare.
- Catching Up With... Kyle Frederickson, MD
- In the June Medical Home News Supplement:
Medicaid HHS Recommends Perioperative Surgical Homes To
Address Opioid Crisis; The Medical Home As A Tool For
Reducing Prison Recidivism; and Medical Home Quotes
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