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Beyond COVID-19: Telehealth, Partnerships, Member Engagement
HealthPayerIntelligence While the coronavirus pandemic which gripped the nation in March 2020 is still in force, payers are beginning to look to the future as the nation emerges from crisis mode. Many uncertainties still hang in the air regarding the trajectory of...
How COVID-19 Is Changing Pharmaceutical Research and Development
PharmaNewsIntelligence The climbing death toll of the coronavirus is pushing the pharmaceutical industry to respond quickly, and for many, only a vaccine or effective treatment options will help them return the world back to some semblance of normalcy. For more...
COVID-19 Gives Providers a Blueprint for New Telehealth Strategies
mHealthIntelligence It’s been said, rightly and tragically so, that it took a pandemic to prove the value of telehealth to the American healthcare system. As health systems and hospitals adjust their workflows to deal with the coronavirus pandemic,...
Insights into HHS COVID-19 HIPAA Waivers and Lasting Implications
HealthITSecurity The nationwide public health emergency brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak has led to several Good Faith HIPAA waivers from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office for Civil Rights. The waivers aim to fuel data sharing...
How COVID-19 Imperiled Physician Practices, And How to Save Them
RevCycleIntelligence Some have heard the ringing of the death knell for physician practices for years now. Mergers and acquisitions, industry consolidation, value-based care, and the growing presence of private equity firms in healthcare have all threatened the...
The Building Blocks of an Effective Coronavirus Response Strategy
HealthPayerIntelligence Payers are in a unique position to respond to many aspects of the coronavirus from payment of testing and treatment to community education. But there is no playbook for appropriate or effective responses. In such unique circumstances, payer...
How Artificial Intelligence Is Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management
RevCycleIntelligence Prior authorizations are one of the most burdensome aspects of revenue cycle management. In a survey of 1,000 practicing physicians conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA), 86 percent of doctors described the burden of prior...
Integrating Social Determinants of Health into the EHR
EHRIntelligence It’s now considered common knowledge that providers need to address a patient’s social determinants of health. These factors such as an individual’s financial situation, ability to get healthy food options, and access to...
How Coronavirus Sparked Industry Collaboration, Team-Based Care
PatientEngagementHIT Healthcare is facing a never-before-seen global health crisis with the coronavirus outbreak, with infection rates on a meteoric rise. But at the same time, healthcare is seeing something else that’s unprecedented: a massive...
Can Multi-Factor Authentication Help Healthcare’s Security Posture?
HealthITSecurity Microsoft has found multi-factor authentication (MFA) blocks 99.9 percent of automated cyberattacks on Microsoft platforms, websites, and other online services. As hackers continue to target user credentials and email compromise, providers...
4 Key Strategies for Accountable Care Organization Success
RevCycleIntelligence The passage of the Affordable Care Act sparked many innovative care delivery and payment reform models. One unique model that emerged from this trend was the accountable care organization (ACO). In this model, groups of doctors, hospitals,...
Evaluating Cyber Readiness, Vulnerabilities with Pen Testing
HealthITSecurity Healthcare suffers with a unique endpoint challenge: a host of vendors, legacy systems, and an ever-increasing list of connected devices. But even with what it may deem a secure network, the threat landscape also continuously adds new...
Smart Hospitals Making the Future of Patient Experience a Reality
PatientEngagementHIT When Alpa Vyas first asked patients at Stanford Health Care what they would like in a smart hospital room, she was almost certain they’d want to see a digitized care itinerary. “You can imagine if you’re an inpatient and...
Entering the Next Phase of Value-Based Care, Payment Reform
RevCycleIntelligence “What healthcare providers really want is to do is the right thing for their patients. They just need sustainable financial support for doing that,” health economist Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, said at the start of an interview...
School-Based Telehealth Makes Health a Priority for Teachers, Providers
mHealthIntelligence It’s time to add another subject to the school curriculum: telehealth. In schools across the country, the nurse’s office is being turned into a telehealth station, offering on-demand access to care providers for that nagging...
How Medicare Advantage Is Leading Payers to Adopt Value-Based Care
HealthPayerIntelligence As America strives for positive changes to the healthcare system, it may find the greatest advancements for value-based care in Medicare Advantage plans. Over 90 percent of healthcare payers in a small Health Care Payment Learning...
Filling Healthcare Security Staffing Gaps with Virtual CISOs, Students
HealthITSecurity In 2017, a damning report from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force revealed the troubled state of healthcare security staffing: three out of four organizations were operating without a...
Healthcare CFOs Look Forward to Value-Based Care, Consumerism
RevCycleIntelligence Chief financial officers are an organization’s financial gatekeeper, looking back at data to understand company performance, set and keep budgets, manage risk, and track cash flow. While these lookbacks ensure the company remains...
Ridesharing Services Help mHealth Programs Improve Care Coordination
mHealthIntelligence Healthcare providers are finding that ridesharing services can prevent missed appointments and boost patient morale and realizing additional benefits beyond access to care and patient satisfaction. As part of their mobile health programs,...
