Plenty of M&A deals look great on paper but ultimately fall apart in the post-deal integration phase. Here are the biggest pitfalls healthcare executives and stakeholders on both sides of a deal need to consider when managing this critical phase of the process.
While healthcare is often taken for granted in urban communities, many rural populations struggle to access care. Here’s how one healthcare organization addresses rural impediments and their effects on health.
Here are 4 key ways healthcare executives can leverage community resources to strengthen the availability of tools that support recovery from opioid addiction.
You have a highly trained, hardworking and fundamentally altruistic workforce. Don’t squander it.
Community-based palliative care in the patient’s home improves care quality as well as increases satisfaction with the healthcare experience.
According to research-backed statistics, telepsychiatry improves the behavioral health outlook for today’s veterans.
Five surprising updates about one of healthcare’s top trends.
Executives from diagnostics, payer, pharma, and patient care companies recently got together to share stakeholder insights on outcomes-based contracting.
How would you define a specialty pharmaceutical? Chances are, it’s different from the way another healthcare executive would define them.
As payers work to avoid costly readmissions, some organizations are experiencing great success by leveraging virtual care communication platforms.
Tecentriq and Keytruda may also be eventually approved as adjuvant therapies.
HACs continue to burden the healthcare system.
Home non-invasive ventilation supports longer lives, fewer readmissions, and lower costs than other devices, based on findings of a KPMG study.
Tackling SDoH issues requires efforts beyond traditional healthcare roles.
Coming up with the benchmarks for measuring and rewarding quality and efficiency and finding the right provider partner are only part of the battle. Don’t forget about compliance with state and federal requirements.
Here are ways healthcare providers could improve online ratings and better connect with their customers.
As we look to the next year we can expect to see a few of these challenges settle, while others will continue to make headlines. Here are three things healthcare executives should watch.
Four things healthcare executives need to know about patient leakage, and four ways they can fix it.
To help ensure your healthcare organization doesn’t get left behind, we’ve assembled the top six challenges the industry will face in 2019.
Learn how analytics can be leveraged to hyper-target members for health reminders.
Privacy laws, technology speed bumps, and regulatory red tape all add to the problem that is communication in healthcare. Find out how you can advance your communication game at every level.
Next year will bring many changes to healthcare. Here’s how leading hospitals will stay ahead of the curve when it comes to increasing patient engagement.
Maintaining provider data has been a longstanding challenge within the healthcare industry. CAQH identified five challenges among health plans and groups and a new solution.
The behavioral healthcare delivery system is broken. Fixing it requires rapid, radical innovation that is supported and facilitated on a national level and includes both public and private innovation.
The behavioral healthcare delivery system is broken. Fixing it requires rapid, radical innovation that is supported and facilitated on a national level and includes both public and private innovation.
Implementing a value-based model requires much more than simply changing the payment methodology.
Here are certain facts that every executive responsible for managing populations at risk for prescription drug misuse should know as they make policy decisions affecting patient care and financial management.
The Five-Star Quality Rating System isn’t just a mechanism to improve the patient experience; it has also changed the industry from an insurer’s perspective. Here are three ways to buy into the CMS rating system as a means to continuous improvement.
As the industry continues to look for strength in scale and strategic push toward ever-increasing verticalization, large-scale industry mergers and acquisitions will continue to be the norm during 2019-this and other 2019 predictions based on the digitization of healthcare.
Managed care organizations need to look at how they can better manage their provider data-or risk getting left behind in a pile of spreadsheets.