This past week I attended the HIMSS Pop Health Forum in Boston MA.
Our OneView Hospital Quality and Physician Quality product was showcased by Northwestern Vermont during the Care Coordination track with a presentation on Wellness, Population Health, and Community-Based Programming.
Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, Vermont was one of the first healthcare organizations to upgrade to MEDITECH 6.16. Jodi Frei was the project manager and helped lead the Northwestern Medical team with their transition to 6.16 MEDITECH Web.
Northwestern partnered with Acmeware to helps manage their patient populations inside the organization using our OneView Hospital Quality product.
A few years ago Northwestern Medical Center took the initiative to connect local primary care physicians, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, their state HIE, and three different ACOs to establish a Regional Clinical Performance Counsel. This group reviews performance indicators and trends (by ACO, payor, clinic, chronic condition, and other measures) and develops targeted treatment strategies for at-risk populations.
The OneView Hospital and Physician Quality software allow them to more precisely target their programming for maximum effectiveness, leveraging the partnerships and programs they’ve developed to better manage their patient populations inside the organization and out in their communities of care.
The forum included great speakers and presentation content. James Bell from the Michigan Public Health Institute gave an incredible presentation on provider engagement with patients and how critical it is to become aware of all the methods for engaging patients. How to effectively use technology for engagement. He referred to this as engaging patients through IT wrap around care, across all care.
If you are attending the Becker's Hospital Review Annual IT and Revenue Cycle Conference in September, Jodi and I will be presenting on Revenue At Risk: Understanding Financial Impacts of Quality Reporting and revenue cycle optimization tools and strategies for success.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
