As we start getting closer to the holidays, we approach fall and winter, 2 seasons of the year that include more risks of morbidities, including the time they refer a to as the 'tripledemic' which is risk for cold, flu, and Covid! With research services from Population Health & Informatics, there will be less risks for all of us, including people who may be immunodeficient because the safeguards to protect those will be provided, also!

Population Health & Informatics has the mission of helping people extend their life expectancies by providing evidence-based research of ways that people can personalize their lives voluntarily and safely. Our services include one-on-one coaching services, presentations, and feedback to improve services provided at medical facilities. With our services, we can improve patient-provider relationships, improve the quality of care provided at hospitals, decrease the health care costs, decrease the number of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), and decrease insurance costs!

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Workflow optimization is one of our most popular services. The goals of workflow optimization are to minimize waste and maximize the way each workflow that is being optimized. Our services have optimization for organizations that have no workflow at all, as well as organizations that have a workflow that just needs to be optimized. Some of our optimization comes directly from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.

With Population Health & Informatics, each patient or person has the opportunity to receive personalized information to help extend their lives. Commonly, it is done through a one-on-one meeting via Microsoft Teams or a Zoom meeting where we can discuss the life challenges, if there are any morbidities or comorbidities, and what your wishes are. From there, we perform evidence-based research to provide evidence-based information to each person so they are able to personalize their health plan accordingly.

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Secondly, we would like to say that Population Health & Informatics (PH&I) helps decrease the amount of medical malpractice cases, the cost of health care, the cost of health insurance, the number of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), the number of hospital-acquired conditions, and decreases the number of potential patients that may have fear of getting an illness while in the hospital, which can be nosocomial or community-acquired, depending on the length of time it takes to develop.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) which was implemented to prevent patients from being readmitted to the care center with the same diagnosis (CMS, 2023; Draegan Report, 2022). Roughly 9 of 10 (90%) of care centers have been penalized at least once (Rau, 2021). Only 219 care centers were documented to not have been penalized for the 3% reimbursement reduction. The 6 conditions and procedures that the reimbursements are for include chronic obstructive pulmonary disorders (COPD), acute myocardial infarctions (AMI), pneumonia, heart failure, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, total hip arthroplasty (THA), and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) (CMS, 2023; Rau, 2021). The penalties have saved the government about $521 million since 2013. We will perform the research to provide care centers with the information they need to implement the changes to qualify for the Medicare reimbursement.

CMS (2023, September). Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality/value-based-programs/hospital-readmissions

Draegan Network (2022, March 17). The U.S. Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). https://youtu.be/mwRrKM83CVQ

Rau, J. (2021, November). 10 Years of Hospital Readmission Penalties. https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/slide/10-years-of-hospital-readmissions-penalties/