Patient Engagement
Patient consent is a huge part of what South Western Sydney Primary Health network does, with 20,000 now connected through iRAD, says Nick McGhie, the organization's digital health and data manager.
This could also improve outcomes for racial and ethnic minority groups, who generally have higher rates of hypertension.
MA patients typically see fewer avoidable hospitalizations and readmissions and lower rates of high-risk medication use.
The proposed rule will also purportedly improve access to behavioral healthcare and make prior authorization more transparent.
The three in five people who were offered and who accessed their online record or patient portal last year was a 50% increase over 2020.
Lack of transparency limits the ability of regulators to monitor prices and of employers and patients to impose market discipline on prices.
Health equity is being brought into the chapter's current events, says Elise Kohl-Grant, cochair of the programming committee at the chapter.
The larger ACA plan footprint will bring access to affordable benefits to more than 60% of the eligible population, UHC says.
Data sets can be integrated into population health stratification to discover health equity issues that are preventing access to care, says Lynn Carroll, COO of HSBlox.
Having a central repository for consent would promote both interoperability and health equity, says Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change Institute.