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The most important developments hospital finance and operations executives should understand heading into 2018.
HIMSS Revenue Cycle Improvement Task Force seeks stories on the patient financial experience to present a gap analysis for the next innovation.
Health insurers benefit from lower corporate taxes but repealing the individual mandate will spike uncompensated care costs and stick hospitals with tighter operating margins, less cash flow.
With a significant rise in the prevalence of the geriatric population worldwide, telemedicine services are expected to go through favorable demand in coming years.
The demand put pressure on medical labor markets and underscoring the likelihood of increasing physician shortages.
In a pilot program at the San Francisco Health Network affiliates, coordinating care with basic email lowered readmission rates by 58 percent.
KPMG and Leavitt Partners new survey found that health and life sciences organizations intend to invest in analytics and digital technologies that advance the shift from volume to value-based care.
Physician groups want risk-bearing models and the ability to offer Medicare Advantage plans to level playing field with health systems.
David Blumenthal, current CEO of Commonwealth Fund also wonders if the recent CVS-Aetna and UnitedHealth-DaVita Medical Group mergers foretell the end of traditional hospitals and nursing homes.
The platform uses blockchain and secure computation to allow payers, providers and life science companies to engage in patient-centric value-based contracts.