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The leaders of Ochsner Health System, the 46-hospital integrated system based in New Orleans, on Sep. 4 announced the creation of a new program as an element in its cardiometabolic care program: comprehensive weight management care.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Healthcare InnovationJoseph Biggio, MD, system chair and service line leader for women's services and system chair for maternal fetal medicine at Ochsner Health, discusses some of the main innovations within Ochsner’s Connected Maternity Online Monitoring (Connected MOM) program that led to its HHS Hypertension Innovator Award.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON American Journal of Managed CareFor many Americans, the point of entry to the health care system is their internist, whose main job is the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illnesses that affect adults. But before they even set foot in their internist’s office, just about all of them have been bombarded by aggressive product marketing, misinformed opinions on social media and various other socio-cultural forces that can undermine their health and the patient-physician relationship. One of internists’ biggest challenges is therefore ensuring patients look to them first for health education.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON American Medical AssociationOchsner Digital Medicine has teamed up with AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana to offer digital medicine services to the health plan's members. Utilizing remote patient management (RPM), Ochsner Digital Medicine and AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana will work together to help members with certain chronic conditions better manage their health and improve their quality of life.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Yahoo FinanceDr. Olabode Agaja, a pediatric sports medicine physician at Ochsner Health in Jefferson and Destrehan, works with patients from toddlers to 25-year-olds. He says the key is getting injuries checked out so that they don't progress to require intervention rather than ignoring the pain and it escalating into something more serious.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON The Times PicayuneLetters were being mailed on Monday to about 66,000 patients in New Orleans, notifying them that the debt they collectively owe to Ochsner Health — roughly $59 million in unpaid bills for doctor visits, hospital stays, medical procedures and other services, some of it dating back years — has been erased.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON The Times PicayuneHealthcare organizations are increasingly drawn to ambient AI as a means of quietly and unobtrusively capturing the doctor-patient conversation.
Ochsner Health recently announced a partnership with Deepscribe to make its ambient clinical documentation tool available on the Epic EHR platform to clinicians in the health system’s 46 hospitals and 370 health and urgent care centers. And Kaiser Permanente has unveiled a deal with Abridge to make a similar AI tool available to clinicians in 40 hospitals and more than 600 sites across eight states and Washington DC.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON HealthLeaders MediaDespite rising pharmacy costs, Ochsner Health has grabbed a healthy return on investment after expanding its remote-patient monitoring program, according to an Aug. 12 article from the American Medical Association.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Becker's Hospital ReviewThe remote-patient managing programs at Ochsner Health have done such an excellent job of keeping patients healthy that, for those enrolled under value-based care, risk-based contracts, the New Orleans-based, physician-led system has seen a 3-to-1 return on investment (ROI).
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON American Medical Association