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Analysis: Key Considerations for Success in VBID
This document summarizes the hospice network requirements outlined in the VBID Request for Applications. More importantly, we offer guidance on what it may mean to the members of the Collaborative and some recommendations for engaging Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) in your markets.
Comparative Performance of a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and Logistic Regression (LR) Model to Predict Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) among Youth Post-Diagnosis with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)
Preventing dangerous and costly episodes of DKA is a goal of diabetes care, but clinicians currently lack the tools to predict DKA events. This study sought to compare performance characteristics of an RNN model with that of a LR model to predict hospital admission for DKA in the next 180 days.
Getting Better Short: (Video) Dr. Martha Twaddle shares the history and future of palliative medicine
Dr. Martha Twaddle is the Waud Family Medical Director of Palliative Medicine & Supportive Care at Northwestern Medicine. She has played an integral role in moving the practice of palliative care "upstream" to improve patients' quality of life, and assisted with defining these guidelines through her work with the National Consensus Project. Watch the full-length interview here.
Getting Better: (Podcast) Dr. Martha Twaddle shares the history and future of palliative medicine
Dr. Martha Twaddle is the Waud Family Medical Director of Palliative Medicine & Supportive Care at Northwestern Medicine. She has played an integral role in moving the practice of palliative care "upstream" to improve patients' quality of life, and assisted with defining these guidelines through her work with the National Consensus Project.
Getting Better: (Video) Dr. Martha Twaddle shares the history and future of palliative medicine
Dr. Martha Twaddle is the Waud Family Medical Director of Palliative Medicine & Supportive Care at Northwestern Medicine. She has played an integral role in moving the practice of palliative care "upstream" to improve patients' quality of life, and assisted with defining these guidelines through her work with the National Consensus Project.
Getting Better: (Podcast) “Telemedicine isn’t a compromise” with Dr. Michael Fratkin of Resolution Care
Dr. Michael D. Fratkin, founder of Resolution Care, discusses why telemedicine is more than just a tool for reaching remote patients - it’s an opportunity for establishing rapport and making connections.
Getting Better: (Podcast) Delivering Palliative Care in NYC during the COVID-19 Pandemic with Dr. Dana Lustbader
Dr. Dana Lustbader is board certified in critical care, internal, and palliative medicine and is a distinguished leader in the palliative care community. In this conversation, she shares her experiences delivering care during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.
Getting Better (Video): Telemedicine Isn’t a Compromise with Dr. Michael Fratkin
Dr. Michael D. Fratkin, founder of Resolution Care, discusses why telemedicine is more than just a tool for reaching remote patients - it’s an opportunity for establishing rapport and making connections.
Getting Better (Video): Delivering Palliative Care in NYC during the COVID-19 Pandemic with Dana Lustbader, MD
Dr. Dana Lustbader is board certified in critical care, internal, and palliative medicine and is a distinguished leader in the palliative care community. In this conversation, she shares her experiences delivering care during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.
Whitepaper: Strategies for Prioritizing Outreach to Prevent COVID-19 Related Hospitalizations
With the risk of COVID-19 overwhelming hospital systems, many healthcare organizations are considering how best to use their existing resources (primary care providers, advanced practitioners, nurses, care managers, etc.) to help prevent COVID-19 related hospital admissions.
Blog: COVID-19 Resources for Palliative Care Providers
We’ve compiled resources from hospice and palliative care leadership organizations and authorities, in the topics that are most pertinent right now.
Podcast: Using Data for Serious Illness Care
Listen to Cyft’s VP of Clinical Improvement, Caitlin Brennan, as she explains how the combination of data and value based payment models can help improve care for people with serious illness.
Data Science Discussion: End-to-End Healthcare AI Pipelining
Being able to build state-of-the-art models regularly is much harder and takes much longer if you don’t have a robust repeatable pipeline to process your data. This gets even more unwieldy if you’re trying to do that in a team, where one giant notebook doesn’t cut it.
Analysis: Progress and Barriers Bringing Palliative Care to Medicare Advantage Populations
As a nurse practitioner in palliative care, I am excited. The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) both celebrate their 20-year anniversaries this year.
Video: Turning Data into Better Surgical Care
See how Cyft is turning data into better surgical care.
Podcast: Practical Advice for CMIOs about Artificial Intelligence
Do you think Amazon purchases a 3rd party machine learning tool to tell them what books you might want to order? No. So why do we expect 3rd party algorithms to solve our core business problems in healthcare?
Blog: The inconvenient truth about “The ‘inconvenient truth’ about AI in healthcare”
AI is used as an example of a capability hindered by the lack of access. But of course, lack of access causes greater harm than just slowing AI adoption.
Blog: AI: What Is It and How To Use It To Improve Care
Grand Rounds by Cyft CEO Dr. Leonard D'Avolio at Children's Mercy Kansas City.
Blog: Analytics Does Not Equal Improvement
Dr. D’Avolio spoke at BrightHealth’s client conference on the difference between traditional analytics and the need for performance improvement in value-based care.
Podcast: Moving to Probabilistic Operating Models with Len D’Avolio
In this episode of the In Context podcast, we welcome Len D’Avolio. In his conversation with Kathryn Hume, they talk about what does and doesn’t work in helping companies shift from a deterministic to a probabilistic operating model through the lens of the healthcare industry.