Quality and Safety
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham, Pa., has announced a partnership with Philadelphia-based InstaMed to offer healthcare providers payment assurance through InstaMed's healthcare payments platform.
Janet Estep is president and CEO of NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association, a not-for-profit trade association that oversees the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network, one of the largest electronic payments networks in the world. Estep recently took time from here schedule to discuss how NACHA can support the healthcare industry’s efforts to create an effective electronic claims and payment system
Dr. Benn Kosynski, PhD, from Emory University is a fascinating professor. His work has pretty much defined “inter-organizational systems” or IOS over the past two decades.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded $34 million for projects focused on preventing healthcare-associated infections.
Technology company Pitney Bowes has seen results from an initiative to stabilize its employees' adherence to their medication treatment regimens, according to a study published in November's Health Affairs.
During a recent exchange with sixteen national firms that offered a multi-stakeholder perspective, an interesting question surfaced: what is the “healthcare financial network”? Besides being characterized as critical infrastructure by Homeland Security, deemed the target of government reform in the Affordable Care Act and impacted by 5010 compliancy and ICD-10 transformation, well, what is it?
With all that’s going on in the arena of healthcare reform, one wonders whether hospitals have the time to properly manage their doctors.
For healthcare organizations that don’t have a firm grasp on social networking, that unflattering Twitter comment or Facebook photo is just the tip of the iceberg.
Patients treated at five-star-rated hospitals had a 72 percent lower risk of dying compared to those at one-star-rated hospitals, according to a study by the healthcare ratings organization HealthGrades.
Zynx Health is lending its clinical decision support tools to the push for accountable care organizations in a pilot project with five healthcare organizations from across the nation.