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Strategic growth with robotic surgery — 4 takeaways from Lehigh Valley Health Network
In an interactive session at Becker's 11th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable, James Miller, CRNA, president of the Northampton Region of Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network and senior vice president of the Lehigh Valley Institute for Surgical Excellence, discussed the importance of a robotic surgery program in a competitive healthcare market. -
The waiting game: new-patient appointment access for US physicians
Delayed care is inferior care. -
BJC, SSM enter joint laundry venture
BJC HealthCare and SSM Health, both based in St. Louis, have formed a new joint venture to build and operate a laundry facility. -
When Bad Timing Equals Bad Debt: How Providers Can Maximize Revenue by Monitoring Deductible Status
Conventional revenue cycle management (RCM) wisdom used to call for streamlining documentation and billing processes so that claims could be submitted to payers without delay. -
AKASA launches authorization advisor, first in a suite of generative AI assistants to optimize revenue cycle for healthcare providers
AKASA, the preeminent provider of generative AI (GenAI) solutions for the revenue cycle, today launched the first in a suite of AI assistants focused on optimizing revenue cycle management for healthcare providers. -
The power of effective communication: Strategies that drive patient engagement + proactive health management
Patient communication has never been more important. It has also never been more complex and challenging. The patient communication landscape continues to evolve, shaped by technological advancements, changing patient expectations and providers' aims for more efficient care delivery. Many tools now enable automated patient outreach. Yet even with these tools, it can be difficult to create an intelligent, coordinated flow of messages centered around a patient's specific needs or preferences. -
Cedars-Sinai expands to new global market
Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has expanded its international footprint to Singapore. -
Continuous improvement at Hartford HealthCare's infusion centers: Using data tools to increase capacity, decrease waste and improve patient experience
Infusion centers, like other complex clinical enterprises, face major operational challenges in managing increasing patient volume, efficient scheduling and resource capacity. -
Homeland Security warns hospitals of cyber, execution threats
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a new warning to healthcare institutions, alerting them to increasing threats on both digital and physical fronts, ABC7 reported March 4. -
Boost Your Hospital’s Bottom Line With These 4 Tips
Navigating tight margins is a challenge for many hospitals and health systems across the country. While some organizations are adapting to the changing post-pandemic dynamics and seeing an uptick in margins, many still face financial strains. -
5 Ways On-Demand Solutions Are Transforming Healthcare Staffing
Healthcare systems today face a variety of challenges, from budgetary constraints to staffing shortages. However, a shift is occurring as leaders turn to on-demand labor for sustainable solutions. -
Tackling Workforce Challenges Comes Down to People and Process
Healthcare leadership is grappling with significant workforce challenges, compounded by financial pressures that make it difficult to address these issues on a grand scale. With the number of individuals entering medical professions dwindling, the urgency to find solutions is palpable. The future is a common topic of discussion, yet few organizations are taking concrete steps to rectify the problem. Success lies in those who are willing to completely revamp their recruitment processes, with the goal of recruiting to retain. -
Transforming Burnout to Engagement
Clinician engagement is linked in the literature to improvements in all four corners of the Quadruple Aim: patient experience, patient outcomes, cost of care, and provider experience. -
Precision in practice: Understanding the crucial role of real-time data capture in ORs
Many hospitals and health systems face barriers in leveraging accurate, real-time data to support surgical capacity management. Yet, access to such data can unlock myriad benefits, ranging from enhanced operating room efficiency to better insight into OR availability, improved schedule coordination and smarter allocation of resources. -
The road to improvement: How CHRISTUS Health upskilled quality teams + boosted patient outcomes
The value of a quality department is reflected by its impact on quality and safety outcomes to stop harm upstream and prevent it from reoccurring. In times of budget and workforce reductions, sometimes the quality department’s effectiveness is not readily seen for what it is: a monitoring and performance improvement arm of the health system for cost avoidance and achieving top decile performance in healthcare. -
Realizing ROI from AI for surgical operations: The Baptist Health, Jacksonville story
Operating room (OR) utilization is a key revenue driver for hospitals and health systems. -
Why a hospital CEO fought for a glass building
"At the end of the day, you can't cut your way to a margin," Michael Mutterer, RN, told Becker's during a recent phone call. -
MEDITECH and Google on AI Collaboration for Meaningful Change in Healthcare
MEDITECH Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President Helen Waters and Global Director of Healthcare Strategy and Solutions for Google Cloud, Aashima Gupta, discuss joint AI projects and the role of collaboration in achieving healthcare transformation. -
Key insights from NRC Health's 2024 Experience Perspective report
Improving the experience of care is a key to improving health outcomes. Yet in a sea of competing priorities and information overflow, understanding where to start can be daunting. -
UChicago Medicine expands collaboration in China
The University of Chicago Medicine is growing its neuroscience partnership with Shanghai Blue Cross Brain Hospital in China.
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