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Blog | Operations | Patient Activation | | RCM

‘If there’s no money, there’s no mission’: An interview with FQHC expert Beth Wrobel

August 5, 2024
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Blog | Operations | Security & Privacy | Staffing

Four reasons it’s time for your hospital to digitize patient forms

May 3, 2024
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Blog | Clinical | Patient Experience

Q&A: How collecting self-reported race, ethnicity and language data can advance health equity

April 5, 2024
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Operations | Patient Activation | | RCM

‘If there’s no money, there’s no mission’: An interview with FQHC expert Beth Wrobel

Learn from FQHC Expert Beth Wrobel about steps your organization can take to maintain a healthy balance sheet and ensure long-term success.

August 5, 2024
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Clinical | Patient Activation | | Policy Perspectives | Value-Based Care

Capturing the Patient Voice in Discharge and Rehabilitation Could Improve Outcomes and Reduce Costs

Why it’s important to include patient activation in skilled nursing, rehabilitation, hospice, and hospital quality and payment programs

July 10, 2024
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Clinical | Patient Activation | | Value-Based Care

Q&A with Wellinks on the Importance of Activating Patients

Wellinks’ Dr. Abi Sundaramoorthy and Phreesia’s Dr. Christina Suh discuss the importance of activating COPD patients, and all patients, in their care.

July 8, 2024
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Clinical | Patient Activation | | Policy Perspectives | Value-Based Care

Ensuring the Patient Voice is at the Heart of the MA STARS Quality Ratings Program

Supporting patient activation in MA STARS quality rating program is important.

May 13, 2024
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3 simple steps can improve medication adherence

Alicia Cowley, MD, MBA, Director of Clinical Content at Phreesia, shares strategies for helping patients take their medications as prescribed.

May 6, 2024
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Clinical | Patient Activation | | Policy Perspectives | Value-Based Care

Bringing Patient Activation to Specialty Care

A key way to support more patients in taking an active role in their care is by having the PAM included in additional MIPS measure sets. 

May 2, 2024
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Clinical | Patient Activation | | Policy Perspectives

Why patient activation is key to successfully addressing health-related social needs

What makes a successful program is not only connecting patients to SDOH resources, but targeting intensive resources toward those who need them most.

April 24, 2024
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Clinical | | Policy Perspectives

It doesn’t take a moonshot: The simple thing we can do to increase cancer screening rates now

The way to diagnose cancer earlier is simple, and one that our healthcare system is already equipped to do: Make it easy for people to get regularly screened.

April 23, 2024
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Three steps to drive patient acquisition—and a strategy to ensure retention

Patients are switching to new providers, and you can help them find your organization with these three tips to boost patient acquisition.

January 26, 2024
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How digital screening helps healthcare organizations close SDOH gaps

Digital screening encourages patients to share their SDOH and gives providers the information necessary to connect patients to resources.

December 15, 2023
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Clinical | | Value-Based Care

‘We’re here to change communities’: Q&A with HealthLinc on addressing social needs at scale

Melissa Mitchell shares how HealthLinc, an FQHC in Indiana, transformed its SDOH workflows with the Patient Activation Measure®.

October 23, 2023
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Patient preferences across generations: Myths debunked

Challenging age-based myths about what patients want from their healthcare experience can help you deliver better, more inclusive care.

October 17, 2023