article thumbnail

Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Therefore, identifying appointments at risk of being missed is a crucial prevention strategy to optimize care quality, ensure continuity, and reduce costs. for CA, 0.85

article thumbnail

Economic analysis of virtual Medical Legal Partnership model [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Evaluate the economic impact of receiving tele-legal services from Medicaid’s perspective with regard to a) fee- for service (FFS) total cost of care; b) FFS cost of primary care; c) utilization for FFS primary care; d) utilization for FFS and capitated behavioral health (BH) and BH emergency department encounters.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

More specifically, healthcare facilities benefit from partnering with medical staff recruitment agencies to: Maintain regular appointment schedules and avoid cancellations. Adapt quickly to new processes, electronic health record (EHR) systems, and more. Keep emergency departments and urgent care centers fully operational.

article thumbnail

Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. I was at an ophthalmology appointment a while back and I was checking in and there was a receptionist, her name was Rosie.

article thumbnail

Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

For example, practices have adopted electronic medical records (EMR) systems only to find that productivity in the practice ground to a halt. Successful practices have found ways to work around the loss of productivity and ultimately made Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) work effectively in their practices. What is it that they see?

article thumbnail

PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. We put a couple extra things in place to really try to reschedule appointments, and this was telehealth. Getting the appointments for outpatient palliative care was a challenge, it sounded like. Is that right?

article thumbnail

Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? That is correct.