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We're so excited to team up with Accushield, the leading visitor management and health screening platform. This partnership ensures automatic updates between ECP’s EHR and Accushield, eliminating redundant data entry, enhancing visitor management with accurate, real-time information, and freeing up staff to focus on quality care instead of administrative tasks. Ready to simplify your operations? Learn more in our press release: https://lnkd.in/gUtDAUTu   #SeniorLiving #HealthTech #DataIntegration #VisitorManagement #EHR #LongTermCare   What excites you most about this integration? Let us know below!

Where Do We Begin? Hear First-Hand Accounts of Payer-to-Payer Data Exchange and End-to-End Prior Authorization Implementations at Upcoming Community Roundtable https://hubs.ly/Q02xNk4V0

A recent newsletter from Resources For Integrated Care explores effective strategies for improving dental care for individuals who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. It highlights the importance of person-centered care, interdisciplinary care teams, and addressing social determinants of health to ensure equitable access to dental services. Additionally, it discusses strategies for enhancing care coordination, improving communication between providers, and leveraging technology to improve outcomes for this population. Some challenges include: ✖️ Limited Access to Dental Care: Many dually eligible individuals face barriers to accessing dental care, such as cost, transportation, and lack of available providers in their area. ✖️ Data Challenges: Collecting and analyzing data on dental care utilization and outcomes for dually eligible individuals can be difficult, hindering efforts to improve care coordination. Ensure Data Solutions offers an innovative dashboard that streamlines data collection and provides actionable insights into performance. Our specialized tools automate data collection for Medicare and Medicaid health plans or providers, ensuring accuracy and efficiency. Additionally, our Service & Health Assessment solution gathers valuable information to optimize existing processes. Here’s how we can help: ✔️ Data Collection: Our tools streamline and automate data collection, enhancing accuracy and reducing complexity. We offer custom-designed survey and assessment questions, as well as scoring interpretation and stratification. ✔️  Improve care coordination: Develop tools and workflows to enhance communication and collaboration between dental and medical providers. ✔️ Identify gaps in care: Analyze patient data to identify gaps in dental care, such as missed appointments or preventive services. Our EnsureQual© module enables providers and health plans to monitor patient engagement through dental surveys and improve quality measure outcomes. These dental screening assessments gather valuable information from patients to drive higher-quality care. By partnering with Ensure Data Solutions, healthcare organizations can effectively address the challenges faced by dually eligible individuals and improve the overall quality and accessibility of dental care. source: https://lnkd.in/gvkbDVfs Contact us to learn more: ⤵️

Documentation is data. Data is power. Help provide nuance to an issue that can further improve patient care, outcomes, and the profession’s integration into healthcare.

EMS documentation is critical for many reasons, and also can be seriously lacking...again for many reasons. If you touch an EMS chart in any way, please take 10 minutes to complete this survey to inform what is likely to be another informative and landmark report from PWW Advisory Group to advance this subspecialty.

A recent report from KFF Health News indicates that Medicare Advantage quality bonus payments are projected to reach $11.8 billion in 2024, despite a slight decline from last year. The expiration of COVID-19 pandemic-era policies has contributed to lower star ratings, resulting in reduced bonus payments. Their analysis highlights trends in bonus payments to Medicare Advantage plans, enrollment in bonus status, and variations across plan types and organizations. Challenges include: ✖ Complex Quality Measures: The numerous quality measures evaluated in Medicare Advantage can be overwhelming, complicating performance tracking and improvement. ✖ Operational Inefficiencies: Many plans face inefficiencies, high costs, and suboptimal resource allocation, hindering quality improvement efforts. How We Can Help: ✔ EnsureStars© Module: ▫ Provides a comprehensive Medicare Advantage STARS dashboard, including a star measure optimizer and scenario planning for ratings. ✔ EnsureQual© Module: ▫ Our certified platform ensures accurate calculations, user-friendly dashboards, and optimized measure stratification for effective quality improvement. ▫ Facilitates collaboration between payers and providers to close care gaps. ▫ Conducts mock Stars program surveys to assess performance against benchmarks. ▫ Increases the likelihood of receiving payer program bonuses based on mock survey results. ▫ Allows primary care providers to administer SNP HRA surveys, enhancing SNP Care Management star measure outcomes. ✔ EnsureRS© Module: ▫ Predicts risk scores before regulatory agencies accept coding information. ▫ Forecasts risk scores based on suspected but unrecorded conditions. ✔ EnsureVault© Module: ▫ Offers Data Warehouse as a Service, manages KPIs, generates outbound data sets, creates CMS Audit Universe files, and monitors key metrics. ✔ EnsureCM© Module: ▫ Focuses on managing patient populations’ health outcomes through triggers from predictive models, with automated notifications to providers for clinical events. ▫ Monitors patient engagement by leveraging EMR care events through FHIR connectivity. Our data analytics solution is designed for Medicare Advantage plans aiming to improve quality scores, expand market share, and provide exceptional care. By utilizing our platform, healthcare professionals can make data-driven decisions, identify improvement opportunities, and benchmark performance against industry standards. Source: Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Payments Will Total at Least $11.8 Billion in 2024 | KFF Contact us below ⤵️

Attention MIPS Providers! 📢 November is your last chance to wrap up your MIPS reporting for 2024 with confidence. Get our step-by-step November MIPS checklist to ensure data accuracy, apply for exceptions, and optimize your final score! Let's finish the year strong – don’t leave points on the table! Read more & ensure MIPS success] #MIPSReporting #HealthcareCompliance #QualityCare"

#100DaysOfCode Day 7 - Goal: With the initial planning phase of my e-health patient registry project complete, the following phase involves the development of the application's foundation. That is to say, over the following week I aim to produce the basic code required for the application's front-end, back-end, and database. Today I shall begin writing the sequence of queries for generating the database as designed in the previous week.

EDI can get out of hand quickly - using a healthcheck to maximize potential can be a game changer.

Today is the day for HCPCS code updates. Took you by surprise? Bookmark our code calendar now to keep on top of all regulatory code release dates for this year. https://bit.ly/3v65LUY #HealthIT #MedicalCoding #HCPCS