Business Strategy

As IT outsourcing surges, finding the right partner is key. Below are five questions that can get you there.

Eighty-six percent of nurses said supply chain workflows cause them stress and 85% said documenting supplies is challenging.

Engaging with payers in collaborative arrangements is critical for achieving quality outcomes at lower cost, while ensuring financial health for providers during good times and bad.

In this week's episode, Associate Editor, Briana Contreras spoke with Dr. Florian Otto, co-founder and CEO for Cedar, a complete healthcare financial engagement platform. Dr. Otto discussed the topic of compassionate billing and how this particular payment model is becoming triumphant over traditional healthcare payment models where patients are experiencing an increase in insurance deductibles and out-of-pocket medical expenses.

To say that Covid-19 has permanently transformed the meetings and events landscape would be stating the obvious, authors share in this opinion piece.

In this week's episode of "Tuning In to the C-Suite" podcast, Managed Healthcare Executive Senior Editor, Peter Wehrwein and Associate Editor, Briana Contreras, spoke with yet another Editorial Advisory Board Member for a segment of the "Meet the Board" series. The two had the pleasure of chatting with Meg Murray, M.P.A., founding CEO of the Association for Community Affiliated Plans, about her journey in healthcare, her organization and were able to look into some of her views about the ACA, equity and racism in healthcare and the Biden Administration’s effects on healthcare.

COVID-19 forced providers and health plans to hit the brakes on traditional approaches to managing care—and then continue the journey in another vehicle, at a pace that seemed to approach 100 miles per hour.

Briana Contreras, associate editor of MHE, spoke with Edmundo Gonzalez, CEO of Marpai Health, for this week's episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast. The two talked about the significance of AI and deep learning in healthcare and how they will benefit the self-insurance market.

The CDC estimates that on any given day, 1 in 31 hospital patients and 1 in 43 nursing home residents has a healthcare-associated infection, which is an infection that occurs while being treated in a medical facility.

There are three key facets that must be considered in order to meet the demands of an endemic - the ongoing acceptance of a baseline of COVID-19 infection rates that will be maintained for the foreseeable future.

In the four months between February and May, roughly 5.4 American workers lost their coverage.

In the post-pandemic future, we will likely see that hybrid patient care models are the norm. As hospitals and health systems plan for this shift, they’ll need to consider two critical factors.

The prevalence of a single, prominent, chronic condition among Medicare beneficiaries is staggering: fully one-third of all Medicare beneficiaries have diabetes. As a result, 3.3 million Medicare beneficiaries take insulin.

Briana Contreras, associate editor of Managed Healthcare, speaks with Linda Matthews, president of BioCare, a leading specialty distributor of life-saving therapies, in this week's episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast. The two discussed the evolution of these therapies over the last decade and most importantly how to expand and diversify a healthcare business.

Healthcare providers can consider these strategies when developing a plan to transition to more frequent in-office treatment.

Paying attention to the social determinants of health may be a powerful way of improving cardiovascular outcomes.

In this week’s episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast Briana Contreras, associate editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, spoke with David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems about four areas that must be addressed to improve the usability of health IT, address interoperability issues, and minimize clinician burden.

In this second part of a two-part article series, Curtis Gattis, CEO and co-founder of LeadingReach, discusses how healthcare organizations participating in risk-based contracting or value-based financial and care delivery models are currently facing major challenges with integrating, managing and tracking care coordination and communication capabilities within provider networks.

In this first of a two-part article series, Curtis Gattis, CEO and co-founder of LeadingReach, discusses how healthcare organizations participating in risk-based contracting or value-based financial and care delivery models are currently facing major challenges with integrating, managing and tracking care coordination and communication capabilities within provider networks.

Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems and a variety of other healthcare entities have been sending lots of text messages to patients. Reminders about appointment, prompts to take medications, health information updates — they are part of healthcare’s new enthusiasm for all things digital and remote.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of progress has been made toward a better future, but it’s clear there’s still significant room for improvement. While progress is made in one area, other issues that live beneath the surface bubble up. That’s certainly the case for the current state of mental health.

The healthcare system is facing an onslaught of patients with new and worsening conditions due the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is nowhere near ready to accommodate them.

Amid the nursing shortage, hospitals can create better working conditions through these three technology solutions.

Medicine is both an art and a science. Some physicians would contend that science—specifically data science—has overtaken medicine and limited their ability to make decisions based on informed intuition and personal experience.

The State of Texas remains to recover from the winter storm blackout back in February. While the state still has much rebuilding and catching back up to do by covering damages and other economic losses, new operations among the state's and nation’s healthcare providers are coming out of it.

Briana Contreras, associate editor of MHE, spoke with Sheila Talton, founder and CEO of Gray Matter Analytics, in this week's episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast. In the discussion, Sheila addressed the topic of how healthcare organizations are missing out by not actively expanding their efforts to seek out and fast track talented individuals across many minority populations, especially in the c-suite.

Dark skin is significantly underrepresented in medical literature and curricula, comprising an average of just 4.5% of images in medical textbooks. In response, clinicians of all licensures and specialties are often insufficiently trained to recognize disease patterns in patients of color. To confront this issue, Project IMPACT was created to raise awareness and adoption of educational and clinical resources and solutions that strengthen clinicians’ ability to accurately diagnose disease in black and brown skin and improve health equity.

The Covid-19 pandemic remains to leave challenges on our economies, well-beings and more. After a year of battling rising Covid-19 cases, other behavioral epidemics such as the tobacco, obesity and mental health epidemic seem to be sky-rocketing.

Now more than ever, dental providers are on the front lines of chronic disease. How? Before the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that older adults were more likely to visit a doctor than a dentist. Even though older adults with chronic conditions were more likely to have severe tooth loss than persons without chronic conditions, national data showed dental visits lagged behind medical.

MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with Bill Coletti, CEO, and Founder of Kith, a firm serving organizations in communication crisis and reputation management, in this week's episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite. Bill and Briana discussed how working with healthcare leaders during a crisis has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic, how leaders in the C-Suite can be prepared for a crisis and what to do in the journey post-crisis.