Healthcare Finance Staff
When I attended the Building Owners and Management Association (BOMA) International’s Medical Office Buildings & Healthcare Facilities conference in Atlanta in early May, one word I heard repeatedly was “decentralization.” One healthcare executive after another spoke to the audience of mostly healthcare real estate professionals about their evolving real estate strategies, which focused heavily on offering patient services in locations other than the main hospital campus and at times other than the traditional 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. office hours.
With the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expected by the end of this month, more and more policymakers, healthcare experts and stakeholders are becoming vocal about their predictions of the outcome.
The California HealthCare Foundation and a group of innovators have released a technical prototype and road map for states and the federal government to create a health insurance exchange.
While many private payers across the country have rushed to launch payment initiatives wrapped around healthcare delivery models like ACOs and patient-centered medical homes, Washington-based Premera Blue Cross has found success via its unique payment model it calls Global Outcomes Contracting.
A panel of experts gathered at the 2nd International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy in Washington, DC on Wednesday all seemed to agree that the stakes are high when it comes to electronic medical records and privacy.
To date, 32 organizations across the country are participating in the Pioneer ACO initiative, hoping to inspire others in their regions to follow suit. As the benefits of adopting this model become clear, more organizations are looking to explore the possibility of becoming an ACO.
A picture is worth a thousand words, the old saying goes. Today, HealthInfoNet, Maine's statewide health information exchange, is launching a pilot that will put both images and words at the fingertips of healthcare providers -- the better to make the right decisions for their patients.
Many healthcare providers are nervous about using the cloud, but that may change soon. Stanton Jones, an analyst in emerging technology at Information Services Group (ISG), says when companies use the cloud, they speed up.
The state's political leaders appear to be striving for a status quo wherein a large number of citizens lack health insurance or the means to obtain it. Will that spark a shift among voters during the upcoming November elections?
Healthcare providers need health information exchange to be fully automated and easy to do in order to scale up sharing of patient data to improve care, according to Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for health information tcchnology.