Business Strategy

An industry-wide shift toward consumerism and value-based care reflects modern consumers’ desire for transparency around their healthcare coverage. In order to meet these heightened expectations, insurers must adapt and identify new ways to educate, engage and support members who are taking ownership of their options.

Healthcare workers, residents of long-term care facilities, and many public leaders have been the first to receive a Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S., but it’s essential to consider disadvantaged communities for phase 2 of vaccine deployment.

How sharing patient info improves care and streamlines provider processes

By using proactive care approaches for mental health, we have a tremendous opportunity to provide better care, reduce costs, and improve quality of life for millions.

For practitioners, there are real and unsettling questions as to what awaits in the future. Practitioners will find a new and evolving landscape is searching for liability insurance for 2021 and beyond.

With the number of PCPs declining, health plans can come in to support PCPs and play an active role in improving overall health literacy.

MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with Amy Dirks Stevens, EVP of Digital Strategy Performance and Practice Lead at AVIA health, for this week's episode of Tuning Into the C-Suite. The two talked about automation in health systems and how it can be a solution to challenges such as budget issues and creating more efficiency in the workplace. Also discussed were areas where health system leaders can begin to leverage artificial intelligence.

In this week’s episode, MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with Anthony Gabriel, M.D., MBA, chief operating officer at Radiology Partners. Anthony shared the importance of health entities having physicians in the C-Suite, or executive levels in their health organizations, as Radiology Partners does. He and Briana also discussed what type of training a health professional needs to get to this level and some decisions he’s made as a health professional in the C-Suite.

MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with Matthew Michela, President and CEO of Life Image, the world’s largest medical evidence and image exchange network. The two delved through the specific steps each type of healthcare organization - from health systems, payers and IT companies - must follow to comply to meet the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) new interoperability and patient access rules.

Healthcare HR professionals—if they haven’t already—must reshape the workplace each and every day by focusing intently and with new eyes on what matters most during this ongoing pandemic: employees.

In this week’s episode of Tuning Into the C-Suite, MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with Denise Basow, president and CEO of Clinical Effectiveness at Wolters Kluwer. Briana and Basow discussed the importance of uniting prescribers and pharmacists at the point of care and how this form of care can create more efficient and effective operations within health systems.

William Shrank, MD, MPHS, Humana’s chief medical and corporate affairs officer, said value-based care underscores the need to take a more holistic view of health.

Insights from MGMA’s data report tracks key performance indicators and best practices for optimizing patient access and sustaining financial viability through the pandemic.

Battling racial bias in the workplace. How implementing an inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility training initiative can lead to better results in racial disparities within healthcare and beyond.

In recent decades, many companies have adopted the maxim, “Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.” From the ability to focus on the core of their business to gaining outside expertise to boosting their quality of service, there are many reasons outsourcing may be appealing to an organization.

Hiring an interim executive has long been thought of as a band-aid solution on the heels of an unexpected resignation or a way to give a potential new leader a trial run before committing. But with more businesses and health organizations taking on flexible staffing approaches combined with the ups and downs of the economy over the past 15 years, companies have realized the financial and strategic benefits of engaging an interim executive rather than seeking to make an immediate permanent hire.

Health systems are struggling as a result of the reduced activity of elective procedures, the loss of health coverage for many employees, and the resultant drop in billings. According to this article, there are seven approaches recommended for immediate consideration to increase revenues and stanch losses.

The COVID-19 pandemic has tested every healthcare executive’s ability to adjust — and adjust again. From mid-March through summer and now early fall, the ups and downs of the outbreak have occurred at a furious, unpredictable cadence.

Editorial piece by Managed Healthcare Executive's Editorial Advisory Board Member, Lili Brillstein. Brillstein is a nationally recognized expert on value-based care and the CEO of BCollaborative, a healthcare consulting company.

The pandemic has had dramatically different consequences for the finances of payers and providers.

Workplace stress is an inevitable part of business, but when stress gets out of hand, it’s bad for business and the people who do the work.

In this week’s episode of Tuning Into the C-Suite podcast, MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with Sebastian Seiguer, CEO of emocha Mobile Health. The two talked about the key health challenges schools are facing as some are reopening across the country for the '20-'21 school year, how telehealth services like emocha are successfully using telehealth to open schools in a Return to Learn program, and paths forward for our nation’s largest school districts.

Integrated Benefits Institute study finds increased screenings for depression and detection of chronic conditions before symptoms present could have greatest impact on disability costs.

In this week’s episode of Tuning Into the C-Suite, Briana Contreras of MHE chatted with CEO of Interim HealthCare, Jennifer Sheets. She and Jennifer discussed how COVID-19 has impacted the demand for home care, how hospitals can partner with the operation and how new pursuits in healthcare will affect home care in the future.

Because COVID-19 has put the gesture in a different light, healthcare executives are coming up with other ways to greet people.

Dr. Karen Vloedman shares her learnings that will help inform best practices to assist payers and provider groups when preparing for and navigating the CoVID-19 pandemic.

Briana Contreras speaks with Dan Knecht, Vice President of Clinical Product at CVS Health about telehealth, patient access, CVS minute clinics and Path to Better Health.

Providers are under immense financial pressure because of COVID-19. More than ever, health systems, hospitals and physician practices are assuming the role of a bank, financing the cost of healthcare.

Senior Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer for Optum Rx and member of the Managed Healthcare Executive® Editorial Advisory Board, David Calabrese, provides his commentary on the future of pharmacy care services after the coronavirus pandemic.

Companies are using rewards and ‘gamification’ to encourage patients to take their pills as prescribed.