HIMSSCast: Leveraging Care Networks Toward Humanizing Healthcare
ONC's Latest Rules Give Way to Greater Data Sharing, but Quality Issues Remain
Plans to repeal and replace ACA spur protests around the country
Protestors gathered in Portland, Maine and descended on Maine Senator Susan Collins’ office, filling her hallway to speak out against the proposed plans from the incoming Trump administration to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Michael Rawdan: more options for the patient makes a better fi...
With high deductibles making patients more responsible for higher portions of their medical bills, failing to give them viable payment options could be costly for an organization's bottom line. St. Luke's Health System has plans to address that. WATCH MORE: https://goo.gl/Y27mNo
Analytics use essential to keep healthcare vendors accountable
Neville Zar, senior vice president at Steward Healthcare, is bullish on keeping the health system's slate of vendors accountable, using a host of tools including analytics platforms to measure the performance and the reliability of their services. WATCH MORE: https://goo.gl/qBomg9
Jennifer Andersson: Improvements in culture beget better colle...
According to Jennifer Andersson, Director of Admitting and Registration at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Health Care, the secret to improving billing and collections starts with creating a staff culture that puts the patient experience first. WATCH MORE: https://goo.gl/qyoXhY
ACA repeal and replacement likely "a long term ...
Jeff Coughlin, senior director of state and federal affairs at HIMSS, said the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump will most certainly usher in changes for healthcare. WATCH MORE: https://goo.gl/LfntTH
Prepare for MACRA
The scope of changes in #MACRA has organizations concerned they may not be prepared once implementation begins. WATCH MORE: http://goo.gl/DUS1jj
Analyzing the Medicaid expansion population
Katrina Miller and Esther Lee of L.A. Care Health Plan discuss the challenges of managing the data from the Medicaid expansion population and collaborating to define it.
James A. Colbert, MD on reducing cost through high-value refer...
"There can be a snowball effect, where you have more and more costs that often could have been prevented by just doing better primary care." says James A. Colbert, MD, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, as he discusses how data analytics can help healthcare organizations develop high-value referral networks for specialty care and subsequently reduce costs.
Bert Zimmerli, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Intermountain Healthcare, enthuses about wireless technology, sensors and connected health as they pertain to the growing focus on revenue cycle management in healthcare. >> http://ow.ly/MTIEv
Jeffery D. Hurst, SVP Finance at Florida Hospital, describes changes in revenue cycle management at his organization, including a focus on analytics and driving patient engagement.
Lowering costs by design
MaineGeneral Health's cutting-edge new hospital regionalizes healthcare for the area and features many innovative design elements which promise cost savings for the future.