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Webinar
Revolutionizing Healthcare: Harnessing AI for Digital Transformation and Greater Clinical Impact
This webinar will explore the clinician’s perspective of the necessary and sufficient criteria to implement and optimize an AI-model into daily use.
Success Story
Rural Georgia-based ACO Reduces Avoidable Admissions by 4% Using Prescriptive AI to Focus Proactive Care on the Most Impactable Patients
Learn how a rural MSSP ACO with limited resources and small teams spread across the region reduced avoidable admissions amongst a challenging population.
Industry Article
Industry Article
AI in Healthcare – Enhancing Treatment Plans, Engaging Patients, and Impacting Patient Outcomes
A lot of the buzz around AI is about the potential that it holds.
Success Story
CONFIDENTLY TRANSITIONING TO VALUE-BASED CARE: HOW A PHYSICIAN-OWNED MULTI-SPECIALTY PRACTICE REDUCED COSTS BY $1.5 MILLION WHILE GROWING REVENUE
Nicole Krenik, Clinical Manager for Care Management at Mankato Clinic describes how they deployed Lightbeam’s Deviceless RPM, CareSignal, to engage high and rising-risk patients, improve clinical outcomes, and drive CCM revenue.
Webinar
SDOH AND STARS: NAVIGATING FUTURE REQUIREMENTS FOR HEALTH PLANS
Join Erin Page, President of Government Value-Based Programs at Lightbeam Health Solutions, as she discusses how the payer landscape is evolving, what can be done now to prepare for the changes to STAR weights, and how SDoH elements will continue to impact the payer space in the future.
Success Story
CONNECTING CLINICAL CARE TO SOCIAL NEEDS: HOW LIGHTBEAM HEALTH SOLUTIONS ENABLES AUGUSTA HEALTH TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE IN THEIR COMMUNITY
This case study demonstrates how Augusta Health uses Lightbeam’s care orchestration solution suite to improve patient outcomes and lower the total cost of care.
Webinar
MAXIMIZING HEALTHCARE EFFICIENCY: HOW DEVICELESS REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING SAVED A PHYSICIAN-OWNED PRACTICE $1.4 MILLION
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn from Mankato Clinic leaders and discover the integrated workflow they created to deliver proactive chronic disease monitoring to thousands of Medicare patients and bend the cost curve.
Success Story
CREATING A VIRTUOUS CYCLE IN VALUE-BASED CARE: ESSE HEALTH'S PROACTIVE CARE IMPROVES MEDICARE OUTCOMES & STAFF SATISFACTION
Learn how Esse’s focus on proactive care led to a virtuous cycle yielding reduced CHF and COPD ED utilization, better chronic disease management, and staff satisfaction.
Success Story
OSF Engages 17,000 Medicaid Patients in RPM, Aligning Cost & Intensity of Care Resources with Patient Risk
Download the case study to learn how OSF’s Deviceless RPM workflows swiftly aligned Medicaid patients with the resources they needed based on their risk and intensity of care to improve health outcomes and ensure patient satisfaction.
Webinar
CREATING A VIRTUOUS CYCLE: PROACTIVE CARE IMPROVES OUTCOMES & STAFF SATISFACTION
Esse Health’s leaders will describe how they deployed technology to proactively pinpoint patients needing support which enables its care teams to work at the top of their clinical licenses.
Webinar
REALIZING THE QUADRUPLE AIM IN VALUE BASED CARE
Value-based care experts, Erin Page and Dr. Kent Locklear will cover the 4 key pillars to a winning value-based care strategy and how they connect seamlessly to achieve the quadruple aim.
Webinar
COMMUNITY CARE PLAN SCALES DEVICELESS RPM® TO RISING-RISK MEMBERS
View the on-demand webinar to learn how Community Care implemented Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring as an integral part of their virtual care strategy.
Success Story
AMGA- HOW CARLE HEALTH'S AUTOMATED WORKFLOWS IMPROVE STAFF CAPACITY
This case study shows how healthcare organizations can learn from Carle Health’s experience and improve efficiency while improving quality.
Webinar
AMGA WEBINAR: NAVIGATING MA RISK ADJUSTMENT CHANGES
Join experts from Lightbeam Health Solutions as they delve into the pivotal CMS HCC v28 model changes, outline the impacts across the entire enterprise, and explore strategies to proactively engage providers at the point of care.
White Paper
REALIZING SUCCESS IN ACO REACH
Healthcare organizations are constantly tasked to adhere to new measures of success and priorities.
Webinar
MIGRATING TO HCC V28: 5 KEYS TO SUCCESS
Join Medicare Advantage experts from Lightbeam Health Solutions as they delve into the pivotal CMS HCC v28 model changes, and provide strategies to proactively engage providers at the point of care to enable accurate and complete risk scoring.
Success Story
13 TEXAS HEALTH CENTERS IMPLEMENT DEVICELESS RPM TO IMPROVE ENGAGEMENT AND OUTCOMES AMONG VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
Discover how TACHC clinics leveraged Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring improve A1c by 1.3% and reduce systolic blood pressure by 8.28 on average.
Success Story
UTILIZING DEVICELESS REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING WITHIN A MEDICAID MANAGED CARE PLAN
Community Care Plan, a Florida-based Managed Care Plan, utilized CareSignal’s Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring to lower member risk levels across the continuum.
Success Story
HOW ESSE HEALTH SCALED DEVICELESS REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING TO MEDICARE ADVANTAGE MEMBERS RESULTING IN A $124 PMPM SAVINGS
Esse Health, one of the largest primary care groups in the Midwest wanted to improve clinical and financial outcomes among its growing population of Medicare Advantage members.
Industry Article
Ineffective TCM Programs are Keeping Patients in the Hospital
One area that is causing clinical and financial strain on organizations due to limited resources is transitional care management (TCM) programs.
Industry Article
The Keys to CentraCare’s Success as a Medicaid ACO
Rachael Lesch, R.N., M.B.A., executive director of population health and quality at Minnesota-based CentraCare, discussed her team’s approach to value-based care in the Medicaid space
Industry Article
Revolutionising healthcare with data management
Lightbeam Health Solutions’ Kent Locklear reveals how data and analytics can reduce burnout and lead to better staff support
Industry Article
Augmenting a Transitional Care Model With Artificial Intelligence Decreased Readmissions
Evaluate if augmenting a transitions of care delivery model with insights from artificial intelligence (AI) that applied clinical and exogenous social determinants of health data would reduce rehospitalization in older adults.
Webinar
OSF HEALTHCARE SCALES DEVICELESS RPM TO RISING-RISK POPULATION
Learn how population health leaders can deliver enterprise-wide virtual care solutions to high- and rising-risk patients and leverage automated patient outreach to improve clinical and financial outcomes.
Success Story
EMBRACING HEALTH EQUITY AND SCALING POPULATION HEALTH: LESSONS FROM ESSE HEALTH AND UNITYPOINT HEALTH
As the healthcare industry continues its shift toward value-based care, increasing precedence is being given to health equity.
Industry Article
Reducing Avoidable Emergency Visits and Hospitalizations With Patient Risk-Based Prescriptive Analytics: A Quality Improvement Project at an Oncology Care Model Practice
Cancer-related emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations that would have been appropriately managed in the outpatient setting are avoidable and detrimental to patients and health systems.
Webinar
CONNECTING CLINICAL CARE TO SOCIAL NEEDS: HOW LIGHTBEAM HEALTH ENABLES AUGUSTA HEALTH TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE IN THEIR COMMUNITY
In this webinar, Clint Merritt, M.D., Chief Clinical Officer for Population Health at Augusta Health, and Christine DiNoia, BSN, RN, Director of Clinical Programs at Lightbeam Health Solutions, showcase how Augusta Health uses Lightbeam to achieve high quality care at a lower cost.
Webinar
HOW CARLE HEALTH’S AUTOMATED POPULATION HEALTH WORKFLOWS IMPROVE STAFF CAPACITY
This webinar will describe Carle Health’s process for creating workflows that combine automated technology and staff that can be easily scaled up or down as patient population sizes change; ensuring patient needs are met and health outcomes are improved.
Industry Article
The Ins and Outs of Remote Patient Monitoring
Divided into the many different avenues we need to be using in order to properly discuss RPM.
Case Study
BEHIND THE SCENES OF ONE OF THE LARGEST REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING IMPLEMENTATIONS AND EVALUATIONS IN THE U.S.
Discover how Midwest Health System transformed their care management strategy with Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring.
Case Study
HOW FIVE FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS ACROSS THE U.S. ARE TAKING ON DIABETES AND FOOD INSECURITY IN THEIR COMMUNITY
Discover how five free and charitable clinics across the U.S. transformed their social determinants of health (SDOH) strategy with Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring.
Industry Article
Boosting population health with increased patient engagement
How the merger between Lightbeam and CareSignal will help them assist more health systems to improve patient engagement and population health, as told by Jerry Shultz, president of Lightbeam Health Solutions, and Blake Marggraff, CEO of CareSignal.
Case Study
HOW PARAMOUNT HEALTH CARE UNIFIES TOP-OF-LICENSE CARE AND SCALABLE OUTREACH WITH DEVICELESS RPM
Using Deviceless RPM combined with a team of Health Educators, Paramount drove a 187% increase in successful connection rates for virtual interventions.
Industry Article
The Retail Revolution is Changing Modern Medical Care and Healthcare Organizations Need to Act Now
As patients and healthcare providers continue to navigate a post-pandemic world, we have begun to see an overlying trend — especially among the younger generation — that favors convenience and transparency in the way healthcare services are obtained.
Webinar
UNLOCKING HEALTH EQUITY WITH BIG DATA AND AI
Understanding health equity is vital to improving patient health outcomes and reducing avoidable utilization.
Industry Article
The Power of Data: Time to Use and Share It!
Strategic partnerships can help lead the way. As even the casual observer knows, we have a data-driven economy in the U.S. -- and healthcare is no exception.
Webinar
YOUR ROADMAP TO BUILDING A ROBUST HEALTH EQUITY PLAN TO SUCCEED IN ACO REACH
CMS will require every participating ACO to have a health equity plan in place to successfully identify, engage, and intervene with socially vulnerable populations.
Brochure
HOW DEVICELESS RPM IMPROVES HEALTH EQUITY & BRIDGES THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has made it clear that health equity will be a central focus for value-based care programs moving forward.
Webinar
OPTIMIZING REFERRAL MANAGEMENT TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY & PATIENT EXPERIENCE
Join us as we host a webinar with ReferralPoint highlighting the best strategies to streamline referral processes and effectively close the patient-provider loop.
Patient Impact Story
PROVIDING CRITICAL CARE FOR UNDERSERVED PATIENTS IN WESTERN MICHIGAN
Those affected by homelessness make up an incredibly vulnerable part of the population.
Industry Article
Social Determinants of Health: How to Drive Action From Data
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are entering the healthcare conversation more often these days for a reason.
Industry Article
Lightbeam scoops up Jvion to expand AI, SDOH analytics capabilities
Lightbeam expects the acquisition to further enhance and expand the company's proactive and preventive capabilities, bringing SDoH and health equity offerings to tens of millions of patients.
Industry Article
KLAS: 6 Vendors That Aim to Resolve Payer-Provider Friction
Payer-provider friction can result from a number of challenges, but payers are leaning on certain vendors to help bridge the gap.
Case Study
BHSH SPECTRUM HEALTH WEST MICHIGAN REDUCES SWING BED UTILIZATION BY 70% USING LIGHTBEAM ANALYTICS
BHSH Spectrum Health West Michigan contracted with Lightbeam in 2019 to help them deliver the right care to the right patients at the right time.
Webinar
THE COST OF MISSED PRESCRIPTIONS: HARNESSING THE POWER OF MEDICATION ADHERENCE INTELLIGENCE
Join Lightbeam and Surescripts for a discussion on how organizations can encourage medication adherence by adopting technological solutions.
Case Study
CHRONIC CARE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS HELP KOOTENAI CARE NETWORK REDUCE COSTS, IMPROVE OUTCOMES
Leveraging Lightbeam’s industry-leading analytics, Kootenai Care Network, a large, clinically integrated network that spans northern Idaho and Spokane, Washington, transformed their chronic care management programs into data-driven patient engagement campaigns.
Industry Article
Four Ways Healthcare Leaders Can Respond to The Retail Revolution
The healthcare industry is undergoing an evolution towards retail service, driven in large part by the growing influence of consumers in the marketplace.
Industry Article
Avoid the Digital Trap: Care management tools to improve, not impede, patient and provider well-being
Healthcare staffing shortages and burnoutare now much more than a media or talking point.
Webinar
ANNUAL WELLNESS VISITS: THE GATEWAY TO PROACTIVE PATIENT ENGAGEMENT
Join Lightbeam’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kent Locklear, and Vice President of Clinical Transformation, Jessica Scruton, BSN, RN, CCM, as they outline how the AWV can engage patients in their care plans further and promote positive outcomes for both the patient and the organization.
Industry Article
Reducing Clinician Burnout with Better Care Management Tools
For many provider organizations, one way to address burnout begins with making clinicians’ lives easier by giving them the right technology to seamlessly access critical patient data at the point of care.
Industry Article
IT execs talk priorities and predictions for 2022
Patient and provider experiences have to be top-of-mind in the year ahead, with special attention to stressed hospital workers and underserved populations, healthcare vendor leaders say.
Industry Article
2022 Predictions – Final Thoughts
Our industry experts and thought leaders have shared their predictions for 2022 with us over the last few weeks.
Case Study
FLORIDA-BASED MSO REDUCES READMISSIONS BY 14% THROUGH TRANSITIONAL CARE MANAGEMENT
Readmissions are a costly medical event that have significant negative consequences on patients’ quality of life and wellbeing.
Industry Article
2022 Digital Health Predictions
As healthcare continues to emerge and innovate from the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, MGMA presents these 22 industy leaders and their insights and predictions on what medical practices should keep their eyes on for digital health in 2022.
Industry Article
Predictions for 2022 from Healthcare Executives
Healthcare executives look ahead to 2022 and the forces and events that will shape the American healthcare landscape.Amendola Communications compiled these comments from a variety of healthcare executives.
Industry Article
Aggregating Patient Data in an Ocean of Healthcare Information
With advances in how data is managed and communication is handled in healthcare, it might seem like the time physicians spend with patients has become more streamlined than ever.
White Paper
THE SECRET SAUCE: 4 WAYS STRATEGIC ADVISORS BOOST VALUE-BASED CARE RESULTS
Our latest whitepaper details how strategic advisors are often the secret sauce for driving success in value-based care.
Industry Article
How care management tools can mitigate clinician burnout
Healthcare staffing shortages exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic have intensified an already serious problem in healthcare: clinician burnout.
Industry Article
Successful Population Health Management Hinges on Efficiency
The key to efficiency under value-based care models is a strategic approach to risk stratification.
Industry Article
What ACOs should do now that CMS won’t extend the Next Gen ACO model through 2022
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) were understandably disappointed in mid-May when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that its Next Generation ACO Model would not be extended into 2022.
Industry Article
Tackling Common Care Management Risks
When organizations launch care management programs with an investment of time, staffing and technology, they often see some quick wins.
Industry Article
Key Medicare Advantage plan changes practices need to be aware of
Good news on telehealth coding, but lifting of EFRD restrictions will present financial challenges.
White Paper
WHITE PAPER – OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF MODERN HEALTH INTEROPERABILITY
Our latest whitepaper detailing the difficulties many healthcare organizations face when trying to get their interoperability strategies off the ground.
Ebook
EBOOK – MEDICARE ADVANTAGE
For years, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have been managed by what is visible and actionable, leaving behind many opportunities to transform organizations, payers, and other MA contract holders from the inside out.
Industry Article
How to simplify and improve physician referrals with data
There’s nothing wrong with traditional referral methods but decision support technology can help simplify the referral process for both physicians and patients.
Webinar
CARE MANAGEMENT 101 – THE FUNDAMENTALS
Join us on May 5th as Lightbeam’s VP of Clinical Strategy, Shelley Davis, MSN, RNC, CCM, discusses how to build a strong foundation for care management programs.
Podcast
POP HEALTH PODCAST – WORLD HEALTH DAY | SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Lightbeam Clinical Transformation Advisor, Christine DiNoia, BSN, RN, and Clinical Engagement Manager, Shelley Davis, MSN, RNC, CCM, join Lightbeam Marketing & Event Coordinator, Laurel Derr, on the Population Health Podcast discussing this month’s topic: social determinants of health (SDOH).
Industry Article
Time and Goals Should Drive Your Post-COVID-19 Care Management Strategy
COVID-19 forced many health systems to reassess and reconfigure their care management processes and staffing models so that clinicians could better manage more of their acute, complex, and otherwise healthy patients remotely to limit in-person care.
Industry Article
How to Put Some Science Behind the Art of Physician Referrals
Medicine is both an art and a science. Some physicians would contend that science—specifically data science—has overtaken medicine and limited their ability to make decisions based on informed intuition and personal experience.
Industry Article
MGMA/Humana Report Underscores Impact of Deferred Care During Pandemic
There’s an urgent need for providers to understand where care gaps are growing as COVID-19 cases have resurged, according to the report's authors.
Podcast
POP HEALTH PODCAST – REFERRAL MANAGEMENT
Lightbeam Clinical Transformation Advisor, Alexis Edwards, BSN, RN, and Referral Management Operations Director, Matt Cheatham, join Laurel Derr on the Population Health Podcast discussing this month’s topic: referral management.
Case Study
VANGUARD MEDICAL GROUP REDUCES LEAKAGE BY 75% WITH DATA-DRIVEN REFERRAL MANAGEMENT
Vanguard Medical Group (VMG) is made of 10 primary and specialty care practices serving over 50,000 patients in the state of New Jersey. Like many medical groups today, VMG knew they had a problem with referrals going out-of-network and had no process to close the loop or measure the clinical and financial impacts.
Podcast
POP HEALTH PODCAST – PREVENTATIVE CARE
Lightbeam Clinical Transformation Advisor, Christine DiNoia, BSN, RN, and Clinical Engagement Manager, Shelley Davis, MSN, RNC, CCM, join Laurel Derr on the Population Health Podcast discussing this month’s topic: preventative care.
Webinar
MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE 2022 FINAL RULE
In this webinar, Lightbeam Product Manager, Cindy Dyer, reviews important takeaways from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) 2022 Final Rule.
Checklist
PHYSICIAN ENGAGEMENT CHECKLIST
The Physician Engagement Checklist, a collection of Lightbeam’s top solutions to arm physicians with the tools to help them improve their value-based care outcomes.
Industry Article
Knocking Down Data Barriers in Healthcare
Healthcare data is expanding at an exponential rate. Data compiled last year by Dell EMC shows health data grew an astounding 878% from 2016 to 2018, fueled in large part by the increasing use of telemedicine, wearable devices, and medical imaging.
Industry Article
COVID-19 and Physician Burnout: How Health Systems Can Help Reverse It
After months of being stuck at home, staying socially distant, wearing face coverings, and constantly washing your hands, do you suffer from “coronavirus burnout”?
Podcast
POP HEALTH PODCAST – DIABETES AWARENESS MONTH
Lightbeam Clinical Transformation Advisor, Christine DiNoia, BSN, RN, and special guest Constantine, join Laurel Derr on the Population Health Podcast discussing this month’s topic: diabetes and prediabetes. As November is Diabetes Awareness Month, they discuss the importance of managing patients with prediabetes to prevent them from converting to diabetes.
Webinar
HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR CLINICAL STAFFING MODEL
Join Lightbeam’s Vice President of Clinical Transformation and registered nurse, Jessica Scruton, BSN, RN, CCM, as she leads a conversation on the critical topic of maximizing staffing in healthcare organizations.
Webinar
MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: STAYING COMPETITIVE IN 2021 WITH CAHPS® UPDATES
Lightbeam Product Manager, Cindy Dyer, discussed how to improve Medicare Advantage (MA) Star Ratings and keep competitive with the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) survey.
Podcast
POP HEALTH PODCAST – HEALTH LITERACY MONTH
Lightbeam Clinical Transformation Advisor, Christine DiNoia, BSN, RN, joins Lightbeam Marketing & Event Coordinator, Laurel Derr, on the Population Health Podcast discussing this month’s topic: health literacy. As October is Health Literacy Month, they discuss the upcoming flu season, educating patients, the COVID-19 vaccine, and more.
Webinar
IMPLEMENTING THE 21ST CENTURY CURES ACT: INSIGHTS FROM ONC NATIONAL COORDINATOR DR. DON RUCKER
Lightbeam is hosting a special guest for our next thought leadership webinar. Dr. Don Rucker, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)...
Success Story
AMARILLO LEGACY MEDICAL ACO REDUCES SKILLED NURSING FACILITY AND HOME HEALTH UTILIZATION BY OVER 15% IN ONE QUARTER
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and home health agencies (HHAs) have expanded opportunities for providers to treat patients outside of the inpatient care setting. Their efforts to offer more personalized care have resulted in substantial financial savings and quality improvements.
Podcast
POP HEALTH PODCAST – CANCER SCREENING AWARENESS
Lightbeam Clinical Transformation Advisor, Christine DiNoia, BSN, RN, joins Lightbeam Marketing & Event Coordinator, Laurel Derr, on the Population Health Podcast discussing this month's topic: cancer screenings. As September is both National Prostate and Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, they discuss the importance of getting patients in for preventative cancer screenings.
Webinar
TOOLS TO PREVENT PHYSICIAN BURNOUT
Join VP of Product Management, Celia Whatley, and Director of Integration Services, Brian Russell, as they discuss provider engagement and data quality.
Industry Article
Value-Based Conundrum: Balancing Short-Term Financial Recovery with Long-Term Goals
You have undoubtedly seen or even personally experienced the devastating financial effects that COVID has created for primary care providers (PCPs) across the nation.
Podcast
POP HEALTH PODCAST – NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION AWARENESS MONTH
Lightbeam Clinical Transformation Advisor, Christine DiNoia, BSN, RN, joins Lightbeam Marketing & Event Coordinator, Laurel Derr, on the Population Health Podcast discussing this month’s topic: immunizations. As August is National Immunization Awareness Month, they discuss the upcoming flu season, educating patients, the COVID-19 vaccine, and more.
Webinar
LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY TO ACHIEVE INTEROPERABILITY
Lightbeam Chief Technology Officer, Mike Hoxter, and Manager of HIE Implementations, Carrie Roth, are discussing how the use of technology to share patient information leads to enhanced communication, cooperation, and savings.
Industry Article
Behavioral health management crucial while combating COVID-19
One of the most comprehensive studies to date about hospitalized COVID-19 patients found that 94% had at least one chronic condition, while 88% had two or more.
Webinar
Creating Cohorts For Vulnerable Populations For Covid-19
Our focus since the coronavirus situation evolved is to identify and segment patients known to be the most vulnerable from the virus.
Industry Article
Chronic Care Codes Offer Greater Flexibility and Payment in 2020
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced chronic care management (CCM) services and the associated codes in 2015, the reaction was, to put it mildly, underwhelming.
Podcast
Pop Health Podcast – Start the Year Off Right with Healthy Living Practices
Start the Year Off Right with Healthy Living Practices Jessica Scruton, BSN, RN, CCM, rejoins Lightbeam Marketing & Event Coordinator, Laurel Derr, on the Population Health Podcast discussing this month’s topic of healthy living. As we’re in the peak of our New Year’s resolutions, it’s never a bad idea to learn new ways to improve...
Webinar
Coordinating Care with Skilled Nursing Facilities and Home Health Agencies
Join us as Lightbeam Senior Advisor Maha Salah-Ud-Din discusses how leveraging the right approach with SNFs and HHAs to manage patients in value-based contracts can lead to improvements in patient quality outcomes and reductions in unnecessary utilization and spend.
Industry Article
Kootenai Care’s Advances Around ACO Quality Measure Reporting
The leaders of Kootenai Care Network in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, have been making major advances in their ACO work, including in optimizing the collection and reporting of quality of care measures.
Webinar
Addressing Behavioral Needs and Social Determinants of Health
Join us as Lightbeam Advisor Kelly Kolepp discusses how leveraging the right approach with the right data will help confront the behavioral needs and social determinants that prevent patients from receiving proper care.
Podcast
POP HEALTH PODCAST – SEASONAL DEPRESSION
Pop Health Podcast – SEASONAL DEPRESSION On this episode of the Population Health Management Podcast, we have Jessica Scruton, BSN, RN, CCM joining us to discuss seasonal depression in light of the colder, grayer weather that comes with winter. According to Johns Hopkins, seasonal depression, or “seasonal affective disorder,” affects approximately 10-20% of the entire...
Podcast
Pop Health Podcast – Diabetes Awareness
Pop Health Podcast – Diabetes Awareness On this episode of the Population Health Management Podcast, we have Jessica Scruton, BSN, RN, CCM joining us to discuss the importance of diabetes management in honor of Diabetes Awareness Month. Did you know that there are four types of diabetes? How about the fact that you can be...
White Paper
White Paper – Data-Driven Solutions Providers and Payers Need for Value-Based Care Alignment
Despite the best efforts of public and private payers, as well as many healthcare organizations, value-based care is stalling. That is the conclusion of a recent survey of primary care physicians and health plan executives. The reason? According to 57% of the insurance executives surveyed, physicians lack the necessary technologies for success in value-based contracts....
Success Story
Penn Medicine Princeton Health Reduces Inpatient Admissions 15% using Care Management
As healthcare reimbursement moves towards value-based models, Princeton has deployed new technology to reduce unnecessary spending and improve patient outcomes. Since implementing Lightbeam’s Population Health Management Platform, Princeton has found success by introducing new workflows that align operational strategies with high quality care.
Webinar
New CMS Primary Care Initiatives
Join us as Dr. Kent Locklear, Chief Medical Officer for Lightbeam Health Solutions, provides an Innovation Center briefing on five payment model options that fall under two new CMS primary care initiatives: Primary Care First and Direct Contracting.
Industry Article
Population Health: Upstream, System Wide, and Community Wide, Across U.S.
Healthcare leaders are moving forward as never before to integrate new elements into their population health initiatives—and they’re showing results.
Success Story
How Healthcare Leaders Are Re-envisioning Data Integration and Care Management
In 2017, Fort Myers, Florida–based Millennium ACO earned more than $29.7 million in shared savings through the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), making it the No. 1 performing ACO for percentage of shared savings, according to orga- nization leaders. In fact, for five years running, Millennium ACO, which has 56,000 attributed patients, has earned shared...
Webinar
Coordinating Care with Skilled Nursing Facilities and Home Health Agencies
Join us as Lightbeam Senior Advisor Maha Salah-Ud-Din discusses how leveraging the right approach with SNFs and HHAs to manage patients in value-based contracts can lead to improvements in patient quality outcomes and reductions in unnecessary utilization and spend.
Webinar
Engaging and Managing Patients with Complex Care Needs
While physician participation is vital, convincing patients to act on information is the real objective of any campaign.
Success Story
Population Health: How Healthcare Leaders Are Re-envisioning Data Integration and Care Management
Millennium ACO earned more than $29.7 million in shared savings through the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), making it the No. 1 performing ACO for percentage of shared savings, according to organization leaders.
Podcast
Pop Health Podcast – Gaining Patient Buy-In for Chronic Care Management
Medicare patients who have two or more chronic conditions account for 93% of total Medicare spending.
Webinar
Top 3 Strategies for Building Your Proven Blueprint for Pathways to Success
Join us as Daniel Marino, MBA, MHA, Managing Partner for Lumina Health Partners, and Maha Salah-Uh-Din, MPH, Senior Advisor for Lightbeam Health Solutions, present the top three strategies for building a proven blueprint for success under CMS’s ACO Pathways to Success program.
Webinar
New CMS Primary Care Initiatives
Join us as Dr. Kent Locklear, Chief Medical Officer for Lightbeam Health Solutions, provides an Innovation Center briefing on five payment model options that fall under two new CMS primary care initiatives: Primary Care First and Direct Contracting.
Webinar
How to Align Clinical Operations with Value-Based Care
Join us as our in-house Clinical Transformation Advisor Jessica Scruton, BSN, RN, CCM, discusses how to implement successful care management programs and report on outcomes effectively.
Webinar
Addressing Behavioral Needs and Social Determinants of Health
Join us as Lightbeam Advisor Kelly Kolepp discusses how leveraging the right approach with the right data will help confront the behavioral needs and social determinants that prevent patients from receiving proper care.
Webinar
Engaging and Managing Patients with Complex Care Needs
While physician participation is vital, convincing patients to act on information is the real objective of any campaign.
Webinar
Coordinating Care with Skilled Nursing Facilities and Home Health Agencies
Join us as Lightbeam Senior Advisor Maha Salah-Ud-Din discusses how leveraging the right approach with SNFs and HHAs to manage patients in value-based contracts can lead to improvements in patient quality outcomes and reductions in unnecessary utilization and spend.
Industry Article
A Holistic View of the Patient Enables Risk-Based ACO Success
Implementing an enterprise data warehouse enabled Millennium Physician Group to give providers a holistic view of their patients, resulting in ACO success and shared savings.
Industry Article
Why a Holistic View of Patient Data is Crucial in Pop Health
Population health management is a core competency of an accountable care organization or a clinically integrated network that aims to succeed under value-based reimbursement.
Industry Article
Why Analytics is Key to Success in Population Health Management
Healthcare organizations involved in value-based care are trying to bend the cost curve by aggressively managing high-cost, high-need patients while eliminating waste and inefficiency without sacrificing quality.
Webinar
Proven Strategies and Models for Succeeding with Downside Risk
Learn from Millennium Physician Group, a top-performing ACO, who has extensive experience across the risk spectrum managing Track 1 and 3 MSSP ACOs.
Success Story
Breast Cancer Early Detection
Mohawk leverages Lightbeam’s Population Health Management Platform to manage their employee population and identify patients that may benefit from care management and preventative services.
Industry Article
Why a Holistic View of Patient Data is Crucial in Pop Health
Population health management is a core competency of an accountable care organization or a clinically integrated network that aims to succeed under value-based reimbursement.
Industry Article
AI and Blockchain Will Help Hospitals Adapt to Value-Based Care
Healthcare is in the midst of a financial shift: Value-based care is rising to the fore and hospitals simply have to share more of the financial risk. That means financial information systems must adapt to the new environment.
Industry Article
A Holistic View of the Patient Enables Risk-Based ACO Success
Implementing an enterprise data warehouse enabled Millennium Physician Group to give providers a holistic view of their patients, resulting in ACO success and shared savings.
Podcast
Voices In Value-Based Care: Mark Kirschbaum On Implementing Analytic
Voices in Value-Based Care: Mark Kirschbaum on Implementing Analytic Tools Host Beth Houck talks to Mark Kirschbaum from Maury Regional Hospital on implementing analytic tools and lessons learned. Want to stream our station live? Visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com. Want to listen on your iPhone? Say “Hey Siri, search for HealthcareNOW Radio” and please be sure to rate...
Industry Article
Leaders Leverage IT to Support a Groundbreaking Mental Health Population Health Model
The clinician leaders at Partners in Recovery, a behavioral healthcare services agency serving Medicaid and Medicare patients in the Phoenix area, are leveraging IT to help create major breakthroughs in patient outcomes.
Industry Article
Lightbeam Health Solutions Debuts New Pop Health Platform
The latest version of the platform aims to help with end-to-end management for high-risk and high-cost patients, said a company executive.
Industry Article
Reducing Inpatient Admissions 15% Using Care Management
A case study about how tech helped Princeton reduce inpatient utilization by 5 percent and decrease expenditures in post-acute care by 12 percent since it began with the MSSP program.
eBook
eBook – 6 Strategies to Thrive in VBC
If providers want to thrive in the new era of healthcare reimbursement, they must understand the concept of value-based care. One thing we all know is that where there are new challenges, there are opportunities to thrive.