Business Strategy

Voice user interfaces could make healthcare more efficient and effective.

Casey Ross, national technology correspondent for STAT, explains during a February 13 webinar, the benefits of AI in healthcare and how it must demonstrably improve outcomes for patients.

When it comes to solving your revenue cycle management challenges, your solutions are closer than they appear.

The collaboration will open new opportunities in the care experience by enabling healthcare organizations to automate the delivery of dynamically rendered, personalized and time-sensitive digital content across the clinical and operational aspects of a patient’s care journey.

Weekly news from the healthcare C-Suite.

Inaccurate forecasting of the time needed with patients can result in many negative effects, starting with a basic inability to accommodate for individual patient variability. 

2020 wellness survey finds employees want more health programs, but few employers are offering them.

Health professionals are sharing what healthcare is becoming and what they believe it will become in the future.

Trump administration hints that it may agree and is considering a broader scope of practice for nurse practitioners and physicians.

Data security is just one part of it. Payers also need to deliver an excellent member experience to create and maintain trust.

Twenty percent of seven in-network elective surgeries for a large national insurer resulted in a “surprise” out-of-network bill; averaging at $2,011.

Here’s a look at what payers and providers can expect to occur, why each change is occurring, and how payers and providers can prepare for each change.

Managed Healthcare Executive surveyed hundreds of healthcare leaders and professionals to collect information on how their organizations are affected by technology. This year’s survey displays data focusing on healthcare organizations’ current status, patient access, data collection, communication, and future with technology.

Healthcare professionals share the investments’ health organizations are making and why.

More consumers are purchasing short-term limited duration insurance plans-which will likely have long-lasting effects to consumers and the insurance market as a whole.

Employer-sponsored insurance keeps many working.

How cancer patients can better organize around their cancer care plans in a more redesigned system.

The top technologies for 2020 aren’t new, but they are on the cusp of moving into broader use in healthcare.

Ranks have swelled between 2010 and 2017 partly because of access to online learning.

Although commenting on the Proposed Rule is closed, if finalized, the Proposed Rule would have a significant impact on the way hospitals and physicians structure future compensation arrangements.

In first year of operation, CareMount ACO physicians reduced costs while improving care.

New plan from CVS Caremark eliminates member cost as a barrier to medications without raising costs for benefits, premiums or deductibles.

Patients' use of referrals has declined by 44% in the past year, and they now use an average of three different online sources to find a doctor, according to Doctor.com's annual consumer survey report. 

Script.AI, healthcare IT solution, is bringing transparency to the prescription drug market and finding 46% savings opportunities for payers.

Cleveland Clinic and GYANT partner to digitally transform the post-discharge process through engagement which helps patients stay in touch with their providers and offering a more efficient patient and caregiver experience.

Some of the biggest trends this year that will affect the healthcare workforce.

Crowding of the emergency department can often affect health outcomes for patients and even contribute to patient readmissions, creating a vicious cycle for an already troubling crowding problem. 

Michael J. McGuinness and Aarthi Belani share how convergence transactions pose challenges such as distinct regulatory regimes, potentially incompatible corporate cultures, and differing expectations for executive compensation, while working out these alliances.

Of the $350 billion widely cited as the cost of administrative complexity, $40.6 billion is spent on eight business transactions.

The rule requires providers to disclose any affiliations they have had with a current or former Medicare provider that has been in an act identified as a risk of fraud, waste, or abuse.