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What Is Cyber Insurance for Healthcare Organizations?
HealthITSecurity The healthcare sector has been a prime target for hackers over the last few years. Attacks have increased in sophistication, shifting at times from the obvious ransomware attacks to subtle, credential-stealing cyberattacks that hide in the...
How eConsults Can Offer a Virtual Care Connection to Specialists
mHealthIntelligence Using a telemedicine platform to connect primary care providers with specialists can improve care management and care coordination for patients. These services, called eConsults, can serve as a cost-effective way to expand access to...
Consumers, AI Will Challenge Health IT Infrastructure Leaders in 2019
HITInfrastructure As part of the healthcare industry’s ongoing transformation, health IT infrastructure is undergoing rapid change. Seamless, future-proof health IT infrastructure development will become increasingly important as the use of artificial...
Optimizing Healthcare Workforce Management for High-Value Care
RevCycleIntelligence Investing in high-quality clinicians and staff enables healthcare organizations to deliver the highest value care to their patients. But the growing physician shortage and the increasingly competitive healthcare industry are making it...
Integrating a Telehealth Platform into a Diabetes Prevention Program
mHealthIntelligence Telehealth technology is helping to improve care management and coordination for the estimated 30 million Americans living with diabetes. Now, providers are moving into connected care technology to help more than 84 million at risk of...
Complying with the HIPAA Privacy Rule During Emergency Situations
HealthITSecurity Emergency situations and natural disasters, such as hurricanes, pandemics, or mass casualties, can quickly overwhelm healthcare systems. The last thing on people’s minds in those situations is complying with the HIPAA Privacy Rule....
Data Analytics Add Value to Healthcare Supply Chain Management
RevCycleIntelligence Hospitals spend nearly one-third of their overall operating expenses on healthcare supply chain management. Buying supplies, equipment, and the latest innovations to support high-value care delivery is expensive, especially as hospitals and...
How Non-Clinical Staff Enable Patient Engagement, Care Coordination
PatientEngagementHIT Whether they are called patient navigators, advocates, coaches, or community health workers, non-clinical health workers are becoming increasingly important for patient engagement and care coordination. About half of all healthcare workers...
How Hospital Merger and Acquisition Activity is Changing Healthcare
RevCycleIntelligence As value-based reimbursement puts financial pressure on providers, healthcare organizations are striving for efficiency, cost control, and sustainability. An increasingly popular strategy to fulfill all these goals is to engage in hospital...
How Rideshare Companies Can Address Social Determinants of Health
PatientEngagementHIT Rideshare companies, such as Uber and Lyft, are cruising into the healthcare spotlight. As medical professionals focus on improving patient access to care and addressing the social determinants of health (SDOH), these rideshare services are...
Applying Automation Technology to Health IT Infrastructure
HITInfrastructure As healthcare organizations rely more heavily on technology to support patients and clinicians, the automation of health IT infrastructure can become a valuable strategy for reducing waste and improving performance. Automation can be...
Remote Patient Monitoring Brings mHealth Care Management Into the Home
mHealthIntelligence Remote patient monitoring programs have the potential to reduce chronic care costs and hospital readmissions and improve clinical outcomes by moving care out of the hospital or doctor’s office and into the home. Most of these programs...
Perils of Healthcare Phishing and What You Can Do About It
HealthITSecurity The old stereotype used to be that doctors didn’t work on Wednesday because they were out playing golf or fishing. Today, healthcare phishing is no joke to doctors, many of whom work on Wednesdays and weekends, or for other healthcare...
Addressing Healthcare Network Connectivity Challenges
HITInfrastructure Network connectivity is a critical piece of health IT infrastructure. As organizations continue to add connected medical devices and other IT tools to their digital environments, reliable networks are required to allow providers to interact...
Using Telehealth, mHealth Technology to Help Seniors Age in Place
mHealthIntelligence From innovative connected care platforms to the Internet of Things, telehealth is showing today’s seniors (and tomorrow’s soon-to-be seniors) how they can live out their golden years in their own homes. The projected surge in...
Defending Against Healthcare Ransomware Attacks
HealthITSecurity Healthcare ransomware attacks have become a security nightmare for many organizations over the last couple of years. Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents or limits users from accessing their systems, either by locking the...
Maximizing Provider Revenue with Payer Contract Management
RevCycleIntelligence Ensuring correct reimbursement in a timely manner is always at the top of a healthcare provider’s mind. But many provider organizations could be leaving money on the table with inefficient and infrequent payer contract management....
Hospital Utilization Management Can Reduce Denials, Improve Care
RevCycleIntelligence Utilization management in healthcare is commonly thought of as a strategy that payers employ to control resource use within physician offices and hospitals to keep healthcare costs down. However, hospital utilization management programs are...
Planning for Data Backup, Recovery in Health IT Infrastructure
HITInfrastructure Healthcare data backup and data recovery are critical components of every health IT infrastructure. The inability to access data is a serious issue in healthcare. Organizations constantly face the possibility of data breaches, ransomware...
