Children and Youth Solutions for Growing Communities Every community wants its children and teens to grow up healthy, supported, and ready to succeed. But too often, the programs meant to help them are fragmented and don't end up having the desired effect on improving outcomes. Schools, nonprofits, health clinics, and mentors all do important work,...
Reducing Barriers in Healthcare Access: How Connected Systems Open the Door to Better Care Healthcare access in the United States has improved in many areas, yet millions of individuals still face obstacles that prevent them from receiving timely, effective, and coordinated care. These barriers, ranging from data silos to fragmented care networks, create real challenges...
Empowering Personal Wellbeing: WCC’s Person-Centric Approach to Lifelong Success In an era where holistic health and sustained personal growth are paramount, the Wellbeing Care Community (WCC) platform by eTransX stands out as a transformative force. WCC embodies a person-centric philosophy that prioritizes an individual’s needs, fostering empowerment through integrated services that support lifelong success. By…
Cutting Costs and Boosting Efficiency: How WCC’s Community Integration Improves Lives – While Saving Time and Cost In today’s healthcare and social service landscape, organizations face rising costs and increasingly fragmented systems. The Wellbeing Care Community (WCC) platform by eTransX provides a transformative solution. By integrating five core functions Care Coordination, Referral Management, Community Information...
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the Opioid Crisis The current movie - The Man Who Invented Christmas - centers on the events that inspired Charles Dickens to write his famous book A Christmas Carol. In doing some additional research on this topic, I was struck by several interesting parallels between the characters and message...
MACRA MIPS Software platform MACRA is a game changer for providers. It represents the most significant change in healthcare payments since Medicare was introduced 60 years ago. The baseline for calculating MACRA payment adjustments starts January 1, 2017. The purpose of MACRA is to lead healthcare providers from a fee-for-service payment model...
Advanced Health Models: Healthcare’s Future? 05-11-16 by Richard Taylor, Director of Business Development for eTransX Inc. Recently, the Advanced Health Model workgroup of the ONC’s Health IT Policy Committee issued their initial findings and recommendations*. This workgroup, chaired by Paul Tang, MD, the chief innovation and technology officer at Sutter Health’s Palo Alto Medical Foundation,...
Is your HIT infrastructure ready for value-based healthcare? The CMS and Healthcare Transformation Task Force recently announced the rapid acceleration of value-based health care: A group of the nation’s largest healthcare systems and payers, together with purchaser and patient stakeholders, have announced the creation of a new private-sector alliance dedicated to accelerating the shift to...