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Volume 3 Issue 26 Engaging Patients and Managing Population Health During a Pandemic—and Beyond In an article published on IBM.com, Excela Health’s value-based performance team shares how the organization’s sound strategy helped close gaps in care during its COVID-19 response and will enable expanded outreach efforts going forward. A key part of our value-based health strategy is to engage with patients and deliver messages effectively. Traditionally we have used Phytel Insight and Phytel Coordinate to help engage our patients. While COVID-19 did not change this tenet, the disease certainly changed what our patients needed to hear from us. For example, we began using telehealth extensively – within one week we had most physicians across the system using it. It enabled us to provide clinical support to patients, whether it was to address COVID-19, chronic disease management, pre-visit planning sessions, other health concerns or even wellness checks. Read more here.
Excela Health Employee COVID-19 Vaccine Survey Per the CDC, the COVID-19 vaccine will be distributed to healthcare workers along with high risk patients (skilled care residents primarily) in the next several weeks. To allow us to plan for distribution at Excela, it would be a tremendous help if you would take the COVID-19 vaccine survey. The results of the survey will allow us to thoughtfully plan and safely distribute the vaccine. We anticipate that individuals will need to be scheduled for an appointment to receive the vaccine, much like was done for flu shots this year. If you are a provider receiving this survey and DO NOT have an employee number, please enter 111111 as your employee number. All members of the medical staff should select Westmoreland as their location and the Department of Medical Administration when completing the survey. Please complete the COVID-19 vaccine survey by December 4. Take the survey here.
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