Reconciliation (United States Congress)

Connie Announces Expansion of Flagship Medication Safety Tool to Protect Connecticut Residents

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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Connie , the State of Connecticut’s nonprofit health information exchange (HIE), marked another year of successfully leveraging a nation-leading innovative medication safety tool.

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  • Connie , the State of Connecticut’s nonprofit health information exchange (HIE), marked another year of successfully leveraging a nation-leading innovative medication safety tool.
  • Utilized by healthcare providers across the state who collectively serve more than 4.5 million patients, the tool’s demonstrated impact has paved the way for expansion of the program.
  • The Medication Management tool — developed by Connie based on the work of the Medication Reconciliation and Polypharmacy Work Group, per Connecticut General Assembly’s Special Act 18-6 — empowers healthcare providers not only by storing medication data and advancing deduplication processes, but also dispatching critical information to the point of care.
  • “Developing the tool to realize the vision of the Best Possible Medication History workgroup into a functioning Medication Management tool exemplifies what’s so great about Connie,” said Searls.

ISMP Announces Three Additions to 2024-2025 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals

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Thursday, February 22, 2024
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PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Feb. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare organizations deciding on where to focus their medication safety efforts over the next two years now have updated recommendations from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). ISMP has released its 2024-2025 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals to identify recurring problems that continue to cause fatal and harmful errors despite repeated warnings and mobilize widespread national action to prevent them.

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  • ISMP has released its 2024-2025 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals to identify recurring problems that continue to cause fatal and harmful errors despite repeated warnings and mobilize widespread national action to prevent them.
  • ISMP's Best Practices help hospitals and health systems decide where to focus their medication safety efforts.
  • This year's list includes new Best Practices on preventing wrong-route errors with tranexamic acid, errors at transitions in care, and mistakes with vaccines in inpatient and outpatient settings.
  • "ISMP encourages hospitals and health systems to review this latest set of Best Practices and make implementation a priority," says Christina Michalek, BS, RPh, FASHP, Director of Membership and Patient Safety Organization (PSO).

Improving the Patient Experience With AI-Powered Medication History That Helps Streamline Admissions at Southlake Regional Health Centre

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Health technology pioneer DrFirst Healthcare Innovations has partnered with Southlake Regional Health Centre to pilot a ground-breaking new initiative to modernize how hospitals collect and confirm patients' medications within their MEDITECH Expanse electronic health record (EHR). Using DrFirst's MedHx powered by SmartSuite, Southlake clinicians now have instant access to information about patients' prescriptions directly from participating community pharmacies and the Ontario provincial drug information system, helping to improve the medication reconciliation process, reducing time spent on these activities by 64% overall, based on data DrFirst compiled during the pilot.

Key Points: 
  • Medication reconciliation is a vital patient safety practice that helps avoid medication errors and hospitalizations while lowering the length of stay.
  • In hospitals and health systems, medication reconciliation is performed when patients come to the emergency department and at transitions of care including patient admissions and discharge and is an important element in hospital accreditation.
  • As part of the process, clinicians collect patients' medication history to inform prescribing decisions and avoid errors.
  • "Congratulations to Southlake for piloting this initiative with DrFirst that reduces the amount of time spent on medication reconciliation while improving its safety," said Nick Palmieri, regional sales director, Canada, MEDITECH.

Inovalon Customers Achieve Higher Performance on CMS Medicare Advantage Health Plan Ratings

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Monday, October 30, 2023
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Health plans that used Inovalon’s Converged Quality SaaS solution for more than two years achieved consistent improvements year over year.

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  • Health plans that used Inovalon’s Converged Quality SaaS solution for more than two years achieved consistent improvements year over year.
  • “Inovalon’s Converged Quality solution is at the core of the majority of health plans’ focus on clinical quality performance,” said Eron Kelly, President of Inovalon.
  • Inovalon customer Network Health earned 5 Stars, the highest possible rating from CMS, for its Medicare Advantage PPO plans.
  • The software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution has been developed in native cloud-based architecture, allowing for extremely scalable, high-speed compute performance to empower even the most advanced health plan’s quality performance goals.

Emory Healthcare and DrFirst collaboration aims to assist patients with medication adherence and affordability

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023
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"The collaboration with DrFirst will put patients first in enhancing medication prescribing and management, from an encounter with the clinician to picking up the prescription at the pharmacy," says Alistair Erskine, MD, chief information and digital officer for Emory Healthcare.

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  • "The collaboration with DrFirst will put patients first in enhancing medication prescribing and management, from an encounter with the clinician to picking up the prescription at the pharmacy," says Alistair Erskine, MD, chief information and digital officer for Emory Healthcare.
  • "These clinical solutions will assist our providers with their decisions in providing a higher level of care for our patients."
  • Emory Healthcare is using three medication management services offered within Fuzion by DrFirst, a software platform that uses clinical-grade artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline clinical workflows to boost workflow efficiency and medication adherence.
  • This increases medication adherence and means patients are less likely to abandon high-cost prescriptions at the pharmacy.

Teva to Provide Second Round of Funding to Clinics in California, Florida and New Jersey as Part of $2 Million Commitment Through Community Routes: Access to Mental Health Care Program

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023
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The second round of funding to the clinics in Florida, New Jersey and California underscores the commitment by Teva and its partners to expand access to mental health resources.

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  • The second round of funding to the clinics in Florida, New Jersey and California underscores the commitment by Teva and its partners to expand access to mental health resources.
  • “Over the past year, free clinics serving the most vulnerable patients were able to use these resources as a force multiplier for good.
  • "Through this partnership, we are able to help address the rising need for community-based mental health care for uninsured and underserved populations."
  • Nicole Lamoureux, President and CEO of NAFC said, “It is imperative that we continue to prioritize investment into mental health and behavioral programs.

Devoted Health Achieves 5 out of 5 Medicare Advantage Star Rating for Florida and Ohio HMO Plans

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Monday, October 16, 2023
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Devoted Health , an all-in-one healthcare company for Medicare beneficiaries, delivering health insurance, access to high quality medical care, and a world-class service experience, today announced that its HMO health plans in Florida and Ohio were awarded a 5 out of 5 Medicare Advantage (MA) performance Star Rating for 2024.

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  • Devoted Health , an all-in-one healthcare company for Medicare beneficiaries, delivering health insurance, access to high quality medical care, and a world-class service experience, today announced that its HMO health plans in Florida and Ohio were awarded a 5 out of 5 Medicare Advantage (MA) performance Star Rating for 2024.
  • This marks the second consecutive year of Devoted’s Ohio HMO plan earning a 5 Star rating, and is the first 5 Star rating achieved by the company’s HMO health plan in Florida, Devoted’s longest-serving market.
  • Based on information received from providers, health plans, and member satisfaction surveys, the CMS Star Rating recognizes excellence in MA plan quality and performance.
  • With these results, Devoted has raised its overall Star rating across membership in Star eligible plans to 4.6, and 94 percent of all members in Star eligible plans are enrolled in a 4 Star, 4.5 Star, or 5 Star plan.

Fuzion by DrFirst Brings Radical Efficiency to Clinical Workflows and Safeguards Patients from Preventable Errors

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Thursday, October 5, 2023
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ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As hospitals and health systems face increasingly intense financial and staffing challenges, health tech pioneer DrFirst announced an enterprise-wide software platform that uses clinical-grade AI to streamline clinical workflows such as medication reconciliation and other elements of medication management.

Key Points: 
  • Fuzion by DrFirst brings together a broad set of capabilities that transforms medication-related processes, relieving staff burden and boosting patient safety and outcomes.
  • "As part of our migration from legacy EHRs to Epic, DrFirst solutions converted more than 9 million sigs [medication instructions] without clinician intervention.
  • Baptist Health also integrated other elements of Fuzion that drive medication adherence, including real-time benefit check and patient engagement tools.
  • In April 2023, the clinical-grade AI that powers Fuzion by DrFirst won Gold in the "Efficiency Through AI" category of the prestigious Edison Awards.

Velatura HIE Corporation and Premier Health Network Announce Launch of CareConvene in Georgia

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
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AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Velatura HIE Corporation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization of affiliated regional health information exchanges transforming patient care and public health through the interoperable exchange of critical information, and Premier Health Network, a physician owned clinically integrated health network of 523 providers, today announced the launch of CareConvene in the Georgia market, a critical milestone for the improvement of value-based care delivery in the region.

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  • AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Velatura HIE Corporation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization of affiliated regional health information exchanges transforming patient care and public health through the interoperable exchange of critical information, and Premier Health Network, a physician owned clinically integrated health network of 523 providers, today announced the launch of CareConvene in the Georgia market, a critical milestone for the improvement of value-based care delivery in the region.
  • CareConvene is a revolutionary transition of care workflow platform offered by Velatura HIE Corporation designed to improve clinical capabilities, reduce unnecessary inpatient hospitalization and eliminate avoidable hospital readmission.
  • The platform aids clinicians in the delivery of real-time delivery hospital notifications and provides novel digital tools to establish a 48-hour post discharge patient interaction.
  • “Premier Health is constantly striving to improve health outcomes, enhance the overall care experience for patients and providers alike, and reduce the need for costly and unnecessary readmissions,” said Geoffrey Mitton, MHA, Executive Director of Premier Health Network.

Making Care Primary (MCP) Model: Empowering Advanced Primary Care Providers in the Journey to Value

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023
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The Making Care Primary (MCP) Model is a multi-state primary care initiative designed to enhance access and quality of care while addressing key community priorities.

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  • The Making Care Primary (MCP) Model is a multi-state primary care initiative designed to enhance access and quality of care while addressing key community priorities.
  • Care delivery in this model encompasses three domains:
    Care Management: building support and services for care management and chronic condition self-management.
  • They need support in the form of wrap-around services , including behavioral health integrations, chronic care management, transitional care management, and advanced care planning.
  • For decades, primary care providers have acted as the quarterback of the healthcare system without matching payments for that effort.