Strategic Planning
Health IT shops don't have to choose between the two. A senior IT project manager explains how hospitals can make them both work together.
The new nonprofit plans to give people more control and greater transparency into their healthcare to improve satisfaction and drive down costs, executives said.
Software that fails to take the human element into account can lead to poor results among users and dissatisfied patients alike.
ATM's interoperable functionality has been a benchmark for EHRs and now, they're making progress toward a similar interoperability says Cedars-Sinai chief clinical transformation officer Scott Weingarten.
The health systems touted the benefit of better leverage to negotiate deals with insurers when the proposed merger was announced in August.
The mutual decision to enter into a definitive agreement is the next step toward CNE becoming part of Partners HealthCare.
Health system's marketing team uses data to target higher-paying commercially insured consumers to balance growing Medicare demographic.
As the flu keeps hitting emergency rooms and inpatient stays, hospitals that have reached capacity are using ambulance diversions.
The growth in expenses is attributed largely to rising prices for emergency department visits, surgery and prescription drugs.
The Virginia provider says Anthem is paying significantly lower rates than it is for other hospitals in the area.