Operations
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending April 25, 2014.
Hospitals may have less control over readmissions than clinicians, administrators or federal regulators would like to believe, new research suggests, meaning that the readmissions penalties imposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may be inappropriate.
After years in the shadows, operations applications are about to step into the spotlight as hospital administrators shift their focus away from clinical IT applications.
Engagement is a big buzzword in healthcare these days. Every program seeks to achieve it; every provider wants to enhance it. But what is engagement exactly?
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending April 4, 2014.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a highly regarded teaching hospital in Boston, but in 2012, the hospital found out it had one of the highest rates of readmissions among Medicare patients in the country. That meant federal fines of more than $1 million -- and a lot of soul searching for the staff.
When it comes to using business intelligence tools, most medical practices have yet to graduate kindergarten. But a closer look at these BI systems suggests it's time to start using them to define trends in patient population and improve operational and clinical performance.
Healthcare providers are good at collecting data, but are they using it to make good clinical and financial decisions?
In a recent report, MedPAC identified the common traits of the nation's poorly-performing hospitals. These are traits that have a big impact on hospital financial performance and should be understood by all hospitals -- even if they aren’t performing poorly currently.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending March 28, 2014.