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Healthcare information technology
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How Health Information Technology Is Impacting the Practice of Case Management

BY GARRY CARNEAL, JD, MA, AND PAT STRICKER, RN, MEd

With the rise of digital health and the impact of the COVID pandemic, these and other forces have changed almost every phase of healthcare in recent years. How case managers interface with their patients and the tools they use to do so is one prime example of the changing landscape. The arrival of telehealth and the constant opportunity to use emerging technology applications only adds to the complexity and excitement.

Value-based care
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The Journey of Value-Based Purchasing: Opportunities and Challenges

BY GARRY CARNEAL, JD, MA

Over the past decade, many healthcare payers have sponsored “value-based purchasing” initiatives that directly or indirectly impacted case management programs. Value-based purchasing (VBP) programs are designed and implemented by government agencies, employer groups and others to promote both quality and value.

Technology
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Artificial Intelligence Will Redesign Healthcare

BY DR. BERTALAN MESKÓ, MD, PhD In June 2021, I gave a keynote speech at the CMSA 2021 Virtual Conference, concentrating on how automation, most notably artificial intelligence, will affect care in medicine. This article was explicitly rewritten as a follow-up to that speech. Artificial intelligence in healthcare has incredible potential.…

President's Message
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Health Trends and Technology

BY COLLEEN MORLEY, DNP, RN, CCM, CMAC, CMCN, ACM-RN This month’s theme is Healthcare Trends, with a special emphasis on technology. Technology…does anyone remember when a pager was the height of technology in healthcare? When electronic medical records gave us the ability to see (much less read) all the care team…

COVID-19
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COVID and Case Management Before and After

BY PATTI GRADY, MSSL, RN, CCM, CCP, CMCN COVID has brought significant change to case management practice in Texas as well as the entire country. The first wave of COVID drove dramatic increases in COVID hospitalizations and increased utilization for those patients. Many healthcare systems struggled with bed capacity, equipment and…