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.
The present and bright future of cholesterol treatments.
Each hospital and health system-and insurer-has unique circumstances, but there are several common approaches that are likely to help curb the growth in drug costs.
Runaway drug costs call for a new approach to care management, such as a different way of thinking about managing the health of the employee population.
Loneliness leads to more healthcare utilization and decreases the likelihood of a positive health outcome post-hospital discharge-but it is underappreciated and rarely well addressed by the healthcare community.
Access to broad snapshot of the patient’s pharmacy and medical data can help spot and address drug misuse.
The next best moves for Amazon, Apple, and Google in the transformation of healthcare.
Noticing that ED use was rising, 250 PCPs set out to drive down inappropriate visits.
When addressing social determinants of health, healthcare execs are focusing on two critical factors that can benefit those social determinants: well-curated networks and technology.
Despite heroic efforts by hospitals across the country, the healthcare supply chain has struggled in the fight against COVID-19.
Healthcare leaders reveal their top challenges to managing chronic care.
CMS’ most popular episode-based payment initiative requires careful internal analysis of costs and competencies, and recognition of improvement levers.