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LAS VEGAS - The key to creating a learning health system is to establish a technological framework for clinical study that engages patients at a more direct level, according to Thomas Carton, MD, director of health services research and principal investigator at REACHnet.
As the way hospitals and other healthcare providers get paid undergoes dramatic changes under value-based reimbursement, there is growing importance surrounding the revenue cycle operations. On Monday, HIMSS Media held its third Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit, hosting a standing-room-only crowd at the HIMSS16 conference. Below are some of the insights shared on Twitter during that event.
Shawn Griffin, MD, chief quality and informatics officer for Houston-based Memorial Hermann Physician Network, posed a question Monday at the Volume to Value-based gathering at HIMSS16, illustrating what he says should be the key driver in any system's move from volume to value-based payment.
LAS VEGAS - Providers may be pleasantly surprised by new payment models when they learn how much they would have been paid had they participated, according to Rene Cabral-Daniels, CEO of the Community Care Network of Virginia.
LAS VEGAS - Health information exchange is an essential tool to support the transition to value-based payment models, according to Alex Baker of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who gave an overview of federal initiatives and how states, hospitals and physicians can benefit from the innovations, during HIMSS16 in Las Vegas.
LAS VEGAS - Experian Health, a technology vendor that specializes in automating and integrating revenue cycle and patient care coordination, has announced at HIMSS16 that it has adopted the brand Experian Health across its entire portfolio of healthcare businesses.
While startups and other corporate evangelicals may think it's better to fail fast, innovation models in healthcare would do better to establish a culture of learning instead of one that celebrates failure, according to Todd Dunn, director of innovation at Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare.
The head of Aetna Inc., the nation's third-largest health insurer, said he supports insurance exchanges, even though he questioned their sustainability earlier this month and lost money in the marketplaces last year.
It's an big week for Healthcare Finance News and Healthcare IT News as we cover the Himss16 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada!
McKesson, a healthcare services and information technology company, has released an online tool that provides information needed to identify purchase trends and evaluate the impact of price fluctuations.