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Reflecting on 'The Best Day of the Year': FUSE 2024
Earlier this month, we celebrated Fuse 2024, The Garage's most anticipated event of the year. This annual tradition, which dates back to The Garage's inception, was held at the beautiful Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida.
How the Quintuple Aim and a Digital-first, Data-first, Platform-Based, Human-Centric Architecture will Shape the Future of Healthcare
With the pandemic bringing ongoing healthcare issues to the forefront, solutions beyond traditional healthcare processes have been encouraged to fight these hardships head-on and solve for health equity, which is the only way healthcare can be truly transformed.
Empowering Quintuple Aim: Embracing a Digital-First, Data-First, Platform-Based, Human-Centric Architecture
The healthcare industry has been facing mounting challenges, including rising costs, access disparities, workforce burnout, and fragmented care delivery, which call for urgent solutions. Increasing investments, inefficiencies, and preventable errors contribute to ballooning costs, while fragmented care delivery leaves patients having to navigate these disjointed systems.
Why the Quintuple Aim is Essential for Transforming Healthcare for Good
It's no secret that healthcare has challenges - from rising costs, disparities in access, workforce burnout, and fragmented care delivery; the obstacles that are plaguing healthcare are multifaceted. With these challenges comes an urgency to fix them.
Reflecting on NAACOS 2024 Spring Conference: ACOs and the Future of Value-Based Care
Our crew recently visited the NAACOS 2024 Spring Conference and noticed a stark contrast from our last visit. There was more of a willingness to adopt value-based care at the conference, and key themes emerged, highlighting both the progress that has been made since the first batch of MSSP ACOs started on April 1, 2012, and the challenges that lie ahead. Here are the key reflections we took away from NAACOS.
Our Reflections from ViVE 2024: Healthcare Hot Topics & its Latest Trends
We recently attended ViVE 2024 in Los Angeles, California, which gave many industry leaders, innovators, and changemakers the opportunity to come together and have the conversations needed to make a transformative impact in healthcare.
The Underutilization of Z-Codes in Documenting Social Determinants of Health: A Missed Opportunity in Healthcare
When it comes to the evolving healthcare landscape, it has become increasingly important that we understand and address social determinants of health so we can achieve health equity.
The Garage's Founder & CEO Top 5 Predictions for the Healthcare Industry in 2024
As we reflect on the lessons learned in 2023, it's time to look ahead and anticipate the changes that will shape the healthcare industry in 2024.
Navigating CMS' HCC Version 24 to Version 28 Updates and its Impact on Value-Based-Care
The transition from Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) Version 24 to Version 28 is bringing significant changes that will impact Medicare programs and other value-based care programs.
How Bridge is a Decision Intelligence Platform Driving Better Population Health Management for Value-Based-Care
In today's rapidly evolving needs of the healthcare industry, effective population health management is more vital than ever. With the healthcare industry grappling challenges such as rising costs, an aging population, and the ongoing impact of workforce shortages, it's clear that traditional fee-for-service approaches in healthcare delivery are no longer sufficient.
The Garage Plans to Add in 40 More Measures by End of Year for HEDIS NCQA Certification
The Garage's Bridge platform has achieved NCQA HEDIS Certification with more than two dozen measures in the last 12 months and plans to add another 40 measures by year-end.
Empowering Quality Management with eCQM Certified Data-First Solutions
The proliferation of healthcare technology and data availability has opened new avenues in mental health clinical oversight, patient engagement paths, and support tools. Studies from 2023 have shown that 21% of U.S.
Tackling Mental Health with Digital-First, Data-First Approach
The proliferation of healthcare technology and data availability has opened new avenues in mental health clinical oversight, patient engagement paths, and support tools. Studies from 2023 have shown that 21% of U.S.
Top 5 Predictions for 2023
As an industry leader in healthcare technology innovation, we constantly reflect and evolve as the industry around us changes with the times. The pandemic has dramatically accelerated how technology reshapes a patient's journey.
Tiny Tasty Morsels
The Garage's decade of experience in working with evolving and high-performing value-based organizations has empowered us to define an approach on how to change healthcare for good.
The Future of Care is Collaborative
Leading with Data to Build a New, Collaborative Community Care Model
Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
According to the American Federation for Suicide Prevention, 130 Americans die by suicide each day. Suicidal thoughts can affect just about anyone regardless of age, race, gender, or background and are often the result of an untreated mental health condition.
How ACOs Can Lead the Way in Adoption of Population Health Tools
As healthcare payers, providers, patients and thought leaders consider ways to reduce the cost of care and improve outcomes, accountable care organizations (ACOs) have emerged as a viable model to achieve those goals.
Community Hospital Strategies for Population Health
With all eyes on COVID-19 and the herculean efforts and sacrifices made by our caregivers and healthcare institutions, the quickly shifting ground beneath community hospitals may have gone largely unnoticed.
The Airport Model: An Innovative Approach to Value-Based Healthcare
With a current total spend of $3.3 trillion that is estimated to balloon to $5.5 trillion by 2025, the healthcare industry is in the midst of an uncontrollable spiral-especially since $750 billion of the outlay is spent on duplicative or unnecessary services.
A Year-End Review: What We've Accomplished and Where We're Headed
The beginning of the year presents a prime opportunity to take stock of the previous year and look ahead to the new one. For accountable care organizations (ACOs), 2018 has been a year of growth.
Applying Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Focusing on Outcomes versus Architecture
There is a lot of buzz right now around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning-and the value of these next generation solutions in healthcare.
Single-click access: A new way to power population health
"Knowledge is power." That is such a commonly used quote that sometimes we forget the true value of its meaning. For The Garage, however, it is a superb expression of the reason behind everything we do.
What is your #ACOInspiration?
At The Garage, we often ask ourselves what inspires us to strive to develop the best population health management platform on the market. The answer - from across our executive leadership to our engineers and developers
Connecting Far-Flung Facilities Through PHM Tools Essential for National ACO
Like many Accountable Care Organizations with multiple locations, National ACO was in need of a single source provider to aggregate clinical and administrative data from multiple sources, providers and systems
3 ways to make your population health ecosystem more transparent
The population health ecosystem can be massive. When patients acquire more chronic conditions, their movement within the ecosystem is more active as they more frequently visit specialists, hospitals, rehabilitation therapists and skilled nursing facilities, among other providers.
What origami can teach us about population health management
My daughter and I were recently learning about origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. As we were working on designs together, I found myself becoming very frustrated.
3 reasons why population health data will be the new stethoscope
The stethoscope is synonymous with physicians and healthcare. This instrument, created about 200 years ago in France, hasn't changed much since it was created.
Helping you manage patients after they walk out the door
Perhaps the biggest risk accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other integrated organizations face to their care quality and financial performance is what happens when their patients walk out the door.
Cleaning up the population health management ecosystem for better care
Chief Platform Officer, Jessica Robinson, discusses how patients and providers are contributing to the improvement of the healthcare ecosystem
Guest blog: The Garage partners with Prime Accountable Care for better reporting just in time
Diane Blackburn from Prime ACO, talks candidly about her journey to partnering with The Garage and the impact it's had on her business, physicians and patients.
FUSE 2018 kicks off a year of explosive growth
Our CEO, Pranam Ben, discusses the most talked about topics covered at last month's FUSE and how they will impact healthcare in 2018.
Make telehealth a priority in 2018 to overcome SDOH
In follow up to our recent HIStalk article, our VP of Platform Management talks overcoming social determinants of health by incorporating telehealth into your array of services.
Take population health management beyond the EHR in 2018
As 2017 ends, it is time for all of us to reflect on our accomplishments and set goals for the coming year. To aid in that process, I would urge you to consider one idea for your organization in the next 12 months: Get rid of your electronic health record (EHR) system.
2018 ACO Wish List
As the holidays draw near, our VP of Product Management & Delivery, Jessica Robinson, highlights a few of the most sought-after items (or goals) on the top of many ACOs and CINs' wish lists this year
Show me the money: Tips for becoming a high-performance ACO
At the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS) fall conference in October, there was naturally a lot of discussion among attendees about managing patient populations.
Hot topics from NAACOS
The National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS) wrapped up its Fall 2017 Conference earlier this month in Washington, D.C, with reportedly more than 650 ACO leaders in attendance.
Q&A with the Boss: The Garage's Pranam Ben talks about BioReference partnership and what it means for you
On September 19, we announced that The Garage had formed a national partnership with BioReference Laboratories, an OPKO Health company and one of the largest commercial laboratories in the United States. For a closer look, we spoke with our founder and CEO Pranam Ben about the new partnership's short- and long-term impact and the opportunities this brings to providers and patients.
Apple Watch -Thinking beyond the hype
With the announcement of the new Apple Watch there is a lot of buzz and talk about the possibilities for further healthcare integration. The watch is able to collect basic information such as the user's pulse, calorie intake and quantity of steps, and share that data with Apple's HealthKit. This app, which is a standard feature of iOS 8, can store vital information and aggregate health data from various wearable devices...
How to Coordinate Care For Your Accountable Care Organization?
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) initiated a movement in healthcare towards community-wide coordinated care systems. Today, the majority of these new systems are recognized as Accountable Care Organizations (ACO). Their objective is to provide population-wide, ....
What's your Mobile IQ?
Enterprises have been blindsided by the rapid adoption of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets by consumers. Across the world customers are using their smartphone devices to shop for clothes, goods and accessories, make travel reservations and hotel bookings, read product reviews and browsing product catalogs on their tablet devices. They are paying for goods using mobile payment solutions like PayPal....
Three Critical Technology Components
Three Critical Technology Components of an ACO and What a CIO Can Do
