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Webinar

Webinar Replay: CMS鈥 Interoperability Rule 鈥 Magnifying Data and Powering your Analytics

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This webinar was held on March 31, 2021.

During this Health Performance Accelerator by 红领巾瓜报 & HealthEC webinar, our panel of experts summarized the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, walked through what this data will do for your organization, and explored how it could positively impact the economics of healthcare.

Speakers

Laura Zaremba, 笔谤颈苍肠颈辫补濒,听贬惭础
Managing VP, Private Sector, HealthEC
VP, Public Sector, HealthEC
Blog

New report supports state Medicaid programs in advancing health justice

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Rates of illness and death due to the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionally impacted Americans who are Black, African American, Latinx, Native American, Asian, and other people of color as well as people with disabilities and those subsisting on poverty-level income. In response to this, , in partnership with the a Massachusetts-based cross-disability advocacy and action research organization, released a new report: Advancing Health Justice Using Medicaid Data: Key Lessons from Minnesota for the Nation. This report provides information on the importance of investing in data analysis to advance health justice in Medicaid populations. It further highlights the importance of partnering with communities most impacted by injustices that cause inequities in health outcomes.

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红领巾瓜报 Launches Institute on Addiction

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红领巾瓜报 (红领巾瓜报) announced today creation of the 红领巾瓜报 Institute on Addiction (IOA), a division dedicated to supporting the national effort to build an evidence-based, patient-centered, and sustainable addiction treatment ecosystem.

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红领巾瓜报 to lead Integrated Care Technical Assistance Program in the District of Columbia

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The District of Columbia’s Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF) has engaged 红领巾瓜报 (红领巾瓜报) to spearhead a multi-year training and coaching effort across the District. The five-year project will support Medicaid providers’ efforts to deliver whole person care by integrating physical and behavioral health in order to better manage the complex needs of Medicaid beneficiaries.

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Webinar Replay – Health Performance Accelerator Webinar Series: Strategies to Integrate Health and Human Services Systems

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This webinar was held on September 22, 2020.聽

State and local governments face a common set of challenges to implementing well-coordinated, fully-integrated health and human services (HHS) programs. From multiple information systems that cannot exchange data to overlapping funding streams and workflows, fragmented and siloed HHS systems create inefficiencies which jeopardize the health and wellbeing of the populations which they seek to serve. During this webinar, experts from 红领巾瓜报 and HealthEC shared recommendations that states and localities can adopt to achieve greater coordination of HHS programs.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about practices being employed across the country to improve coordination of health and human services, including the critical role of improved information management and systems in enabling service coordination.
  • Learn how 红领巾瓜报 can support state and local government agencies on HHS coordination/ integration initiatives.
  • Find out how IT solutions such as HealthEC鈥檚 can dramatically improve processes such as data aggregation, synthesis, transformation and validation that enable HHS agencies to have greater visibility into the needs of individual residents and tailor interventions that more effectively address those needs.

Speakers

Laura Zaremba, MA, Principal, 红领巾瓜报
Sita Kapoor, HealthEC, Chief Information Officer

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Webinar Replay – Health Performance Accelerator Webinar Series: Making the Most Out of Opioid Use Disorder Funding

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This webinar was held on September 17, 2020.

With access to billions of dollars in federal funding aimed at battling the opioid epidemic, state and local governments are working with health plans and providers to build the most efficient and effective programs to help individuals struggling with opioid use disorder (OUD). During this webinar, experts from 红领巾瓜报 and HealthEC touched on best practices for the design, implementation, and evaluation of OUD prevention and treatment programs that help maximize the return on investment on OUD program funds.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about practices being employed across the country to design, implement, evaluate and continuously improve OUD prevention and treatment programs.
  • Learn how 红领巾瓜报 can work with state and local government agencies, health plans and providers on OUD prevention and treatment programmatic initiatives.
  • Find out how IT solutions such as HealthEC鈥檚 can dramatically improve processes such as data aggregation, synthesis, transformation, validation and comparative analysis in support of program design, ongoing evaluation and continuous improvement efforts.

Speakers

Jim McEvoy, MA, Principal, 红领巾瓜报

Jenifer Leaf Jaeger, MD, MPH, MS, Health EC, Senior Medical Director

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Webinar Replay – Health Performance Accelerator Webinar Series: Maximizing the 鈥淰alue鈥 of Value-Based Payment Arrangements

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This webinar was held on September 15, 2020.

Provider-based organizations – particularly groups of providers such as accountable care organizations (ACOs), independent practice associations (IPAs), and clinically integrated networks – are in a unique position to create value for patients. Moreover, payers are increasingly being called upon to enter into value-based payment arrangements with providers. During this webinar, experts from 红领巾瓜报 and HealthEC discussed ways in which providers can maximize the 鈥渧alue鈥 of their value-based payment arrangements through careful contract design, robust performance measurement systems, and an orientation toward population health management.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about strategies provider-based organizations should employ to design, negotiate and administer value-based payment contracts.
  • Learn how 红领巾瓜报 can work with provider-based organizations to succeed in a value-based payment environment.
  • Find out how IT solutions such as HealthEC鈥檚 can dramatically improve processes such as data aggregation, synthesis, transformation, validation and comparative analysis in support of value-based payment contract negotiation, administration and continuous optimization.

Speakers

Greg Vachon, MD, MPH, Principal, 红领巾瓜报
Sanjay Seth, MD, MPH, MS, HealthEC, Executive Vice President

 

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Webinar Replay – Health Performance Accelerator Webinar Series: How Health Plans Can Meet Competing Performance Demands of Stakeholders

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This webinar was held on September 10, 2020.

Health plans face complex and competing demands from a wide variety of stakeholders for measurable improvements in performance. That鈥檚 especially challenging for small and mid-sized health plans that don鈥檛 have the resources of larger entities. During this webinar, experts from 红领巾瓜报 and HealthEC outlined ways in which health plans can use data and robust analysis to prioritize performance management efforts, improve key business functions, and meet the varied needs of state and federal regulatory agencies, enrollees, providers, advocacy groups, and other constituencies.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about how health plans should approach improvements in business functions and overall performance to address the needs of various stakeholders.
  • Learn how 红领巾瓜报 can work with health plans on process and performance improvement initiatives.
  • Find out how IT solutions such as HealthEC鈥檚 can dramatically improve health plan processes such as data aggregation, synthesis, transformation, validation and comparative analysis in support of process and performance improvement initiatives.

Speakers

Glenda Stepchinski, RN, BSN, Senior Consultant, 红领巾瓜报
Frank Persinger, Vice President, Strategic Development, HealthEC

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Webinar Replay – Health Performance Accelerator Webinar Series: How States Are Rethinking Medicaid Managed Care Performance Management

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This webinar was held on September 8, 2020.

State Medicaid agencies (SMAs) are actively exploring improved approaches to managing the performance of Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) and accountable care organizations (ACOs), emphasizing tailored quality measures, new incentive models, more effective use of information technology, and revised contract requirements.

During this webinar, experts from 红领巾瓜报 and HealthEC outlined potential improvements to MCO/ACO performance management and showcased ways in which information technology can be deployed to enable these improvements.

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  • Learn about ways in which the number and mix of measures, the design of business processes and use of information systems should change to achieve improvements in MCO/ACO performance management.
  • Learn how 红领巾瓜报 can work with SMAs on performance management initiatives.
  • Find out how IT solutions such as HealthEC鈥檚 can dramatically improve SMA processes such as data aggregation, synthesis, transformation, validation, and comparative analysis in support of performance management system improvements.

Speakers

Steve Soto, Principal, 红领巾瓜报
Sita Kapoor, HealthEC, Chief Information Officer

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