“If you look at rate of diabetes, if you look at rate of heart disease, obesity, if you look at unnecessary ED utilization, if you look at readmissions—guess what?” Colesaidduring a keynote address at Xtelligent Healthcare Media’s Virtual Patient Experience Summit. “...
Rachel Harrington: Yeah. What I think people don't always realize about measure development is that measurement is seen as this very quantitative science. But half of the work that goes into it is the qualitative work of trying to understand why things are happening, and how things are...
What is this goal about? Andrew: Back in 2015, our CEO, Bruce Broussard, created a goal, which he intended to be inspirational, aspirational, and quantifiable. The goal was to improve the health of the communities we serve to make it easy for people to achieve their best health. The ...
“I think things are fluid. We don’t know what the real impact of these executive orders will be,” she said. “Unfortunately, it remains to be seen. It is hard for researchers. We depend on longitudinal data that’s representative of the population to do so much of the work.” S...
What to Do With All That Data The data is out there for providers and others involved in the care of individuals and populations to collect, document, report, make accessible and use. In addition to being the right thing to do, addressing SDOH makes financial sense because it helps create ...
The consequence of each of these is a less informed policymaker who may not grasp the true impact of the laws they pass. In this chapter, I address the who, what, where, and how of community-informed policy.Clark, JasmineEmory UniversitySpringer, Cham...
" What's the story that we're going to tell of ourselves of the future, but more important, what's the story that others are going to tell about us? When it comes to healthcare organizations, what's the story that community-based organizations are going to talk about?" ...