The Dawn of Digital Medicine
Last January Stephen Klasko, chief executive of Jefferson Health, which runs hospitals in Philadelphia, chatted to a bank boss. The financier told him that 20 years ago health care [...]
Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse
This cross-sectional study evaluates the persistence of chronic condition flags for 51 conditions over single-year and multiyear periods.
New Initiative Aims to Build a Model Open COVID-19 Patient Data Registry Network
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth, is supporting a collaboration between Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), CareJourney, and a network of health [...]
CareJourney partners with Microsoft Healthcare NeXT & Dartmouth Atlas on measuring risk of severe COVID-19
Healthaffairs.org recently published an article featuring the latest collaboration between Microsoft Healthcare NeXT and Dartmouth Atlas Project researchers aimed at measuring the risk of severe COVID-19 across regions of the U.S. CareJourney is a proud partner on this effort assisting with data and analysis to support parts of the report. [...]
Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures
This cross-sectional study assesses the association between end-of-life health care costs and fee-for-service Medicare spending and examines whether expenditures attributed to decedents have changed over time.
MedStar Health Launches New Interactive Heart Risk Calculator in Patient Electronic Health Record
MedStar Health has launched a new tool that automatically calculates a patient's risk of having a heart attack or stroke and displays it in their electronic health record with [...]
CareJourney data to be used in the recently awarded research grants for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Health Data for Action research program
CareJourney data will be used to study a range of issues, including care coordination and quality, cost-sharing and benefit design, maternal health, prescription drugs, and public health. In 2017, [...]
CareJourney’ data analysis featured in POLITICO’s Health Care article on the CMS Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)
POLITICO recently published an article that talks about the level of enrollment in the CMS Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and results thus far. According to the article, the program, [...]
Data Sharing and Interoperability: Payer-Provider Data Exchange in Successful Shared Accountability Models
To achieve success in APM implementation, payers and providers need to construct interoperable data architecture to store and transmit data from claims, electronic health records, and other sources. From [...]