Medicaid expansion programs, newly covered individuals under healthcare insurance exchanges, the rise of big data, and shifts in healthcare delivery models have influenced emergency department and hospital utilization. Some 38 percent of healthcare organizations indicated that utilization of healthcare services has increased at their facility as a result of expanded health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Nearly 86 percent of healthcare organizations have a program to reduce avoidable healthcare utilization, according to the new survey on Reducing Avoidable Healthcare Utilization Survey by the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN). The majority of healthcare organizations focus their efforts on reducing avoidable hospitalizations, with 78 percent of healthcare organizations reporting they have a program aimed at this task.

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1. Violence and Its Effects on Healthcare Service, Access, and Strategies
   
   
2. Fiscal Year 2022 Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule
   
   
3. Assessing Social Determinants of Health: Screening Tools, Triage and Workflows to Link High-Risk Patients to Community Services
   
   
4. Making the Case for Adjusting Quality Measures for Social Risk Factors
   
   
5. Innovative Community Health Partnerships: Clinical Alliances to Reduce Health Disparities in Underserved Populations
   
   
6. Virtual "Urgent Care" May Lead to Higher Rates of Downstream Follow-Up Care, Study Suggests
   
   
7. Remote Patient Monitoring for Chronic Condition Management: Leveraging Technology in a Value-Based System
   
   
8. Data Shows Missed Medical Appointments Due to COVID-19 Have People Worried About Their Health
   
   
9. Comfort Care Beneficial for Hospitalized Stroke Patients, Yet Disparities in Use Persist
   
   
10. Care Coordination: Telephonic Interventions Drive Improvements in Clinical Outcomes and Care Quality
    
    
11. 3 Embedded Care Coordination Models to Manage Diverse High-Risk, High-Cost Patients Across the Continuum
    
    
12. Hospitalizations, ER Visits Reduced by 42% for Children with Asthma through Asthma Care Project
    
    
13. Urgent Care Centers Deter Some Emergency Department Visits, But Costs Remain High
    
    
14. BIDMC To Pilot New Clinical Search Tool With Goal of Improving Clinician Ability To Search Patient Records
    
    
15. Telehealth and Urgent Care Centers Showed Largest Growth in Utilization from 2018 to 2019, among Venues of Care Studied
    
    
16. Movement To Advance Care in the Home Growing
    
    
17. Public-Private Collaboration is Key to Securing Long-Term Care Financing for Middle-Income Americans
    
    

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