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Opioid Epidemic, Part 1: The Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder and Impact of Distressed Communities
The opioid epidemic is a serious public health crisis that is affecting the nation’s social and economic welfare. In 2017, opioids were responsible for about 130 deaths per day, more than 47,000 yearly. Opioid prescribing rates are three times higher than they were in 1999 while opioid overdoses are an astounding five times higher. How did this happen? [...]
Rethinking Referrals to Post-Acute Care
In the wake of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), hospitals have drawn attention from policymakers as key partners in reducing the overall cost of care. Consequently, the effort has led to an enhanced focus on preventing readmissions and reducing unnecessary care. The ACA implemented several policy measures to hold hospitals accountable for what happens to patients post-discharge. [...]
CareJourney to Add 70m+ Medicaid lives to Network Advantage, CareJourney Index Products
Nov 7, 2019: CareJourney, a leading healthcare analytics company, announced today its plans to expand its products by adding data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS), pending CMS approval. [...]
Apple opens up its health records service to veterans with iPhones
Apple and the Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday that veterans can now access their health information on their iPhone via Apple’s health records service. “I applaud this commitment to opening up APIs in the spirit of current rule-making,” said Aneesh Chopra, the former chief technology officer of the U.S. [...]
Health care’s bipartisan religious movement: An interview with Aneesh Chopra
Aneesh Chopra was the first CTO of the United States. Since then, he has been involved with government initiatives including the President’s Strategy for American Innovation, Startup America, the Open Innovator’s Toolkit and Blue Button. Today, he’s President of CareJourney, an open data membership service building a rating system for [...]
Interoperability proposals could push HIEs toward new services
As HHS gears up to finalize long-awaited rules on interoperability and information-blocking, much of the industry has focused on their likelihood to spur a market of new patient-facing apps. But the rules will also open new opportunities for some longstanding interoperability players: health information exchanges. HIEs have been key players [...]
Those Who Switch, Part 2: Investigating Characteristics of Medicare Advantage “Switchers”
In the last post, we highlighted trends in the migration of beneficiaries between Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage in the United States. In doing so, we can understand why this is such a hot topic for so many of our members across various markets. We are regularly asked: What can we learn about Medicare Advantage populations [...]
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, approved late in the Obama administration and carried out in the Trump era, targets patients on the verge of developing diabetes. [...]
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 the payer perspective, their infrastructure must also be able to assess and compare provider cost and quality performance; share raw data [...]
UHS Case Study Webinar Recap: Improve Network Design and Management with Claims Data
Listen in as Mallory Cary, ACO Operations Director of Universal Health Services (UHS), one of the nation’s largest hospital management companies, and Abbas Bader, Director of Product Development at CareJourney discuss their collaboration on building better and more optimized networks using claims data and insights from CareJourney’s Network Advantage platform. [...]
Those Who Switch, Part 1: Understanding Geographic Trends in Medicare Advantage Enrollment
CareJourney’s Network Advantage platform is largely built upon the full Medicare fee-for-service claims dataset, but it is used by members to draw insights about population health and quality of care for all Medicare enrollees. While fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries are sometimes considered as two distinct groups, these populations are fluid, as beneficiaries can switch enrollments in any given year. [...]
Reflections on the Flywheel Effect of Government on Digital Health Tech | AcademyHealth
In this interview with Greg Downing, CareJourney President Aneesh Chopra reflects on 10 years since the HITECH Act and offers his thoughts on the role of transparency, patient data access, and interoperability in delivering better care. [...]