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Passport Health Plans care programs for Medicaid beneficiaries has been able to show a cost savings of $191 million for the state of Kentucky in the eight years its been in operation.
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Philadelphia-based Keystone Mercy Health Plan/AmeriHealth Mercys PerforMED, an intensive case management program for high-cost members receiving publicly funded health care, resulted in an adjusted savings of between $80 and $115 per member per month in the first six months.
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Health plans are coming up with innovative ways to coordinate care for the countrys Medicaid beneficiaries, a population whose challenges include almost as many social issues as medical ones.
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Drawing on 20 years of quality improvement experience, MPRO, Michigan's Health Care Quality Improvement Organization, is bringing together hospitals, home health agencies, and physician practices to come up with solutions to communications barriers between providers, with the ultimate goal of improving the outcomes for the state's cardiovascular disease patients.
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When Jackson Health System in Miami started its first hospital-based disease management program in 1995, the case management department was able to show that the hospital saved $5 for every dollar the hospital spent on case managers in the disease management program.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has announced the 2006 National Patient Safety Goals and related requirements for each of its accreditation programs, with new requirements for safely handing off patients from one caregiver to another.
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The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in Chicago offers extensive guidelines for reducing the various risks associated with e-mail use in health care.
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Take two aspirin and e-mail in the morning creates serious risk
First of two parts on risk and e-mail
E-mail is becoming increasingly common in health care, but chances are your policies and procedures have not kept up with the serious risks that can be created when people send e-mail without stringent safeguards.
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Meghan Dierks, MD, MS, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Clinical Decision Making Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge, offers an outline of what information should be exchanged in an ideal patient handoff.
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Patient handoff is a high-risk time that many health care workers dont handle as well as they should, cautions Meghan Dierks, MD, MS, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Clinical Decision Making Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge.