Resources
How Peer Consultants Make Healthcare Better
Alliant Health Solution’s peer consultants utilize their expertise to improve patient outcomes, foster continuous improvement in health care and creating a culture of accountability and excellence. Our peer reviewers conduct review activities which uphold national standards of care and help us protect patient safety while improving the quality of health care. As invaluable collaborators […]
Provider Benefits of Encouraging Annual Wellness Visits
Despite their value, Medicare annual wellness visits are healthcare services that are underused. A Medicare annual wellness visit can provide an important opportunity to assess a range of factors, including functional status, health risks, cognitive function and health indicators such as blood pressure. The visit can also be a good time to coordinate care and […]
How Alliant is Supporting Nursing Homes During the COVID Pandemic
COVID-19 has impacted thousands of nursing homes throughout the United States. The impact has led health experts and the federal government to call on increased data reporting from nursing homes and long-term care facilities. From the appropriate use of PPE to hand hygiene procedures, Alliant has been providing long-term care facilities additional guidance from the […]
How the End Stage Renal Disease Networks are Bridging the Gap Between Dialysis and Transplant Facilities
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) selected Alliant Quality through its affiliates to provide quality improvement and interventions for the Medicare ESRD program. The Alliant Quality ESRD Network affiliates include: Network 8, Inc. (ESRD Network 8) serving Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee End Stage Renal Disease Network of Texas, Inc. (ESRD Network 14) serving Texas […]
How COVID-19 is Triggering an Increased Need for Behavioral Health Services
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), 43.8 million adults experience mental illness in a given year and one in five adults in America experience a mental illness. As a result of COVID-19, additional behavioral health concerns such as loneliness, depression and anxiety are on the rise. Tune in as Alliant's behavioral health […]
The Emergence of Telemedicine in Primary Care
Telehealth and telemedicine have emerged as the new way to do healthcare. They are now a must-have for both healthcare professionals and patients during these uncertain times the COVID-19 pandemic has created. Based on a survey by Sage Growth Partner (SGP) and Black Book Market Research, 59% percent of those surveyed reported they are more […]
How Alliant Uses Information Technology to Help Make Health Care Better
Alliant Health Solutions is anchored in being clinician led, technology driven and customer focused. Tune in as Alliant's Chief Information Officer, John Slaughter shares how and why technology is a key strategy in providing solutions to health care challenges.
The Differences Between Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis
Dialysis is defined as a treatment that takes over kidney functions when those organs stop doing their jobs. Patients need dialysis when they develop kidney failure or end stage renal disease (ESRD). For dialysis patients, kidney failure can be treated by either hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. Tune in as Texas-based nephrologist and Alliant board member, […]
Why Data Matters – The Top Three Ways Data is Critical to Our Work
Alliant is a data driven, clinically led company with a mission to make health care better. We provide data to our partners to help them achieve their goals. Tune in as the chief data officer of Alliant Health Group, Dr. Kimberly Rask, shares the top three ways that data is critical to our work.
The Impact of Community Coalitions
A Community Coalition is an alliance of organizations, groups, and agencies that come together to work toward a common goal, such as reducing avoidable hospital readmissions. Listen in as Linda Kluge, Alliant Health Solution's Executive Director of Alliant Quality, speaks about community coalitions and how they make an impact in improving the quality of health […]