Strategic Planning
As costs rise and patients shoulder an increasingly greater share of the financial burden, pressure has grown for healthcare to be more consumer friendly.
The work will focus on challenges including behavioral health, women and infant care, substance use disorder and avoidable emergency department visits.
Cigna said they believe the merger will close by year-end 2018, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
The technology is "getting closer to its breakout moment," says Deloitte, whose new survey finds healthcare organizations seeing "disruption" on the horizon and preparing to spend accordingly.
Despite a growing focus on loyalty, hospitals still have a ways to go to actually achieve it with patients and other consumers.
Amazon was cited for a number of reasons, including resources, influence, brand loyalty, convenience and a built-in distribution network.
Study hinged on a unique Communication and Resolution Program which led one system to a 66 percent reduction in legal claims filed among other gains.
Almost a quarter of healthcare security directors at hospitals think their facilities are unprepared for incidents involving a shooter.
Providers were more likely to anticipate savings than were payers, with 75 percent of provider execs foreseeing that kind of return, compared to 44 percent of payers.
David Hoke, who focuses on healthcare for the retail giant, said he's never seen anyone code empathy and for that reason warns developers against being seduced by AI.