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Whether spoken or not, patients need organizations to do more, from helping them maximize their coverage to providing accurate estimates upfront. This guide explains how clearer billing processes can drive patient loyalty while building organizations' financial health.
Learning points:
- 4 steps to enhance patient financial processes while strengthening revenue
- Real-life examples of how healthcare organizations put these strategies into play and get results
- Tips for assessing automation solutions to support team productivity and less burnout
So, how do healthcare organizations succeed in balancing it all? By employing strategic processes, the right healthcare payments partner, and game-changing automation. This report details how to achieve clean claims, fewer denials and faster, fuller payments.
Learnings include:
- Claim management tactics that are proven to boost staff efficiency
- Tips for saving time on claim statusing
- Ways to prioritize denials with the highest likelihood of payoff
- Results health organizations across the U.S. are experiencing with automation
- Strategies for streamlining claim management workflows using advanced automation
Based on increasing revenue cycle work and a shortage of skilled workers, it is impossible to hire enough people or ask current employees to work harder.
It’s time to work smarter, not harder. What does working smarter in the revenue cycle mean? It means finding innovative ways to do more with less.
Download for best practices on:
- Developing a smarter revenue cycle and administrative strategy
- Cutting down on outdated manual processes
- Streamlining existing processes with intelligent automation
Learnings in this report include:
- How a successful partnership of people and technology generated millions of dollars in revenue from contract provider care.
- How contract physicians can integrate into a seamless workflow.
- How better vendor management ultimately yields benefits for patients.
New research conducted by the Harris Poll and DailyPay uncover the financial stresses impacting your frontline workers. Inform your strategy, improve patient outcomes and support the backbone of our healthcare system.
Learnings include:
- Top financial concerns affecting healthcare workers
- How these financial challenges can have a long-term impact on healthcare workers' future
- The simple change that could improve employee financial wellness
This report examines those challenges in detail and offers a look into how organizations can reduce their spending on contingent staffing.
Key learnings include:
- The staffing tools that give health systems a strategic advantage
- Why contingent nursing staff aren't always more expensive than FTEs
- New models of care and how organizations can staff them effectively
Retirement income security depends upon a series of decisions and actions over time — most fundamentally, the amount being saved, the investment allocation of savings, and then how to manage savings for income during retirement.
A few of the factors affecting retirement readiness are:
- Debt, particularly student loan debt
- Retirement plan leakage
- Retirement planning advice
Organizations have tried a myriad of ways to safeguard their staff's well-being, but burnout rates have fallen only slightly since peak levels seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. As health system leaders have learned, there's no one cause or solution.
But there are specific signs to watch for that can help leaders mitigate this challenge. This guide was crafted to equip hospital leaders with a one-stop-shop tool to spot early signs of burnout among their staff, adapt and intervene.
Key learning points:
- Spot early signs of burnout and learn the five-stage progression model
- How burnout manifests differently across organizations and individuals
- Organizational factors causing burnout and specific actions to address them
The challenges of the past few years combined with an already arduous schedule have many healthcare workers leaving their organizations, or the industry entirely, because of insufficient family care and education benefits.
To compete for and retain top healthcare talent today, organizations must offer an employee experience that meets their unique needs.
Download this guide to learn:
- The top contributors to healthcare employee burnout and turnover
- How to evaluate the right mix of care benefits to serve the unique needs of a diverse workforce\
- How offering family care benefits can have a profound long-term business impact
Find out in this comprehensive guide, which outlines benchmarking data on starting salaries, signing bonuses, production bonuses and other incentives. The report also includes a detailed analysis of trends shaping the competitive healthcare market for recruiting physicians and APPs.
Download the report to learn:
- Key market trends affecting physician and APP recruiting
- Strategic insights to refine recruitment packages
- Best practices for establishing recruiting programs and parameters
With this context, it's clear that now is not the time for healthcare leaders to take their foot off the gas when it comes to reducing burnout. CareCredit’s whitepaper, Recognizing Burnout in Healthcare Staff and Ideas for Addressing it, offers insights and potential strategies that can help improve job satisfaction and retain healthcare employees.
Key learning points:
- A high-level overview of the current state of burnout in healthcare
- Survey results that assess what employment factors staff value most
- Best practices to consider to help reduce burnout & retain employees
1. CareCredit Staff Burnout Survey, May 2023. CareCredit is a Synchrony solution.
To make personalized cancer care more accessible, organizations may consider effectively leveraging genomic testing, which can help identify potential clinical trial options and inform treatment alternatives.
This brief report outlines some ways organizations may make genomic testing more accessible to physicians and patients keeping cost-effectiveness and patient outcomes top of mind.
Key learning points:
- Designing a comprehensive genomic testing program that could expand patients' access to cutting-edge care & improve financial results
- Persistent challenges that prevent change and potential ways to address them
- Good practices to integrate genomic testing into care pathways
Key learnings:
- Why the Direct-to-Employer (DTE) model is increasingly valuable for self-funded employers in managing cardiovascular disease (CVD) costs and improving employee health outcomes.
- How to build and scale DTE cardiovascular health programs using advanced diagnostics, real-time health data, and targeted interventions to drive impactful, measurable outcomes for self-funded employers and employees alike.
- Discover how leveraging advanced diagnostics capable of providing real-time insights into employee cardiovascular health can help optimize cardiovascular health programs, enabling proactive intervention without relying solely on retrospective claims data.
New developments in AI are enabling health systems to improve operations by identifying the right treatments faster, reducing cumbersome administrative tasks and streamlining research and development to innovate for the future.
Download this report produced by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services to understand how these efforts drive greater business value and outcomes and learn:
- Insights into Northwell Health's AI-driven digital transformation
- How AI is driving increased annual returns for healthcare companies
- What factors to consider when building an enterprise AI strategy
While retrospective review is a key part of risk adjustment, some organizations are seeing benefits in emphasizing prospective risk adjustment as part of a holistic strategy. This e-book explores how prospective strategies can streamline care gap closures, reduce administrative burdens and drive cost savings for payers.
Insights include:
- Using prospective risk adjustment to make better predictions
- Technology that proactively identifies care gaps
- How digital integration enables more efficient care gap closures
Addressing care experiences and beneficiaries' perceptions is not simple, however. This guide outlines key obstacles in educating, communicating and connecting with Medicaid beneficiaries and strategies organizations can use to overcome these challenges.
Learnings include:
- Perceptions that Medicaid beneficiaries have toward their healthcare providers and health plan
- How factors like limited English proficiency and cultural norms impact engagement with healthcare
- Strategies and tips to address whole-person health through empathetic digital communication
To realize CM's full potential, health plans need technologies to reach members in a variety of ways when health events happen — with contextual awareness and personalization, as well as the ability to adapt as new information becomes available. New research also shows that health plan leaders expect CM transformation to empower their organizations to build guided health journeys, engage more members, improve efficiencies and reduce the burden on CM teams.
Read this white paper to learn more about:
- Why health plans need timely, data-driven, multi-channel engagement
- The building blocks currently available for transforming CM
- The critical next steps to starting CM transformation
But research shows most plans lack the sophisticated digital technologies necessary to leverage more of the data they already have. Better tech can help health plans scale care management programs to better support high-risk members and proactively engage rising-risk members before they become high-risk.
Read the whitepaper to learn more about:
- How health plans can build strategic extensions of care management programs with digital tools to reach more members across all risk profiles and increase their participation.
- Why it's critical for health plans to strategically leverage more data types and harness advanced analytics to create contextual awareness that enables personalized care management.
- How health plans can optimize medical costs, reduce administrative expenses and improve outcomes with digital care management.
Artificial intelligence offers life sciences companies a transformative advantage, enabling them to reimagine operations, streamline research and development, expand patient access to clinical trials and accelerate time-to-therapy.
This whitepaper explores the key challenges and opportunities for healthcare organizations entering the new era of AI. Learn practical steps for building a robust AI strategy that unlocks lasting benefits — from improving patient experience to driving significant cost savings through intelligent automation.
Learn how AI can help life sciences organizations:
- Harmonize information from the EHR, claims databases and social platforms
- Automate manual tasks such as answering questions around efficacy and indications
- Auto-match eligible participants with trials
Partnerships between HR and pharmacy are mutually beneficial. They can increase employee understanding and engagement in pharmacy programs.
Download the report to learn:
- Five best practices for pharmacy leaders to collaborate with HR for program adoption and employee wellness.
- How a large, nonprofit health system partnered pharmacy and HR for improved pharmacy utilization and increased plan savings.
*Internal RxBenefits hospital survey, 2024. Sample size of 101 respondents.
While healthcare organizations have been using RPM for some time, there is a plethora of new opportunities to better engage patients and drive improvements in care. This exclusive report offers fresh insights on how RPM technology can reduce hospital readmissions, boost patient satisfaction and deliver measurable cost savings. Learn from real-world case studies of health systems that have successfully deployed RPM to improve care and scale solutions.
Key learning points:
- The latest advancements in RPM technology and tips to find the right solution
- Best practices for successful deployment and patient engagement strategies
- How two health systems reduced readmission rates and achieved substantial savings
These many disparate challenges often require customized solutions. Achieving success across aims is increasingly difficult in the absence of a cohesive operational framework.
Read this report to learn:
- 3 principles of exceptional operational performance
- How to improve both staff efficiency and patient flow
- The 7 elements of a successful operational system integration
When organizations can leverage the data that directly affects them, they can advance patient care, optimize resources and positively influence their bottom line. Download this report to learn how to navigate the healthcare data ecosystem for healthcare performance improvement.
Insights include:
- How to identify data that can help your organization
- How AI can support speed-to-value improvement
- How to transform data into actionable insights
In a recent Becker’s Healthcare advisory call sponsored by RevSpring, healthcare leaders discussed how their organizations are deploying technology solutions that keep empathy and the patient experience top of mind.
Advisory call attendees included senior finance, strategy and digital leaders from hospitals and health systems across the country, including Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health, and Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System.
Some of the key takeaways:
- The patient experience has expanded beyond clinical interactions.
- Understanding patient preferences is critical to providing a positive patient experience.
- Healthcare organizations are striving to blend technology with the human touch.
- Respecting patient preferences on a consistent basis is a hallmark of leading healthcare organizations.
Read the case study to learn how using EngageCare self-service technology to transition administrative and financial tasks to patients helped Wayne improve patient safety, reduce no-shows and increase staff efficiency.
Download a copy of the case study to learn how Wayne:
- Reduced denials 80 percent
- Decreased no-shows and cancellations, saving revenue
- Reallocated staff and eliminated need to fill 5 vacant positions
At the Becker's Supply Chain Leadership Virtual Forum, six healthcare supply chain experts discussed their systems' supply chain transformation efforts and shared how supply chains can become a strategic asset when bolstered by the power of data, standardization and process efficiency. This report offers seven takeaways from the discussion.
Key learnings:
- How labor challenges are affecting supply chain teams
- Top priorities for healthcare supply chain leaders in 2022
- The key to successful supply chain transformations
Results include:
- A coordinated experience across conditions for people living with both diabetes and hypertension Multiyear impact on clinical diabetes measures, including reduced HbA1c levels and a fewer hypoglycemic readings
- Measurable impact on systolic and diastolic blood pressure rates among those with uncontrolled hypertension
- Reduced spending incurred through medical care, emergency room visits and pharmacy costs associated with managing chronic conditions, resulting in a positive ROI
Learn how eight organizations across the country have used technology and collaboration to achieve the following:
- 61 percent reduction in opioid prescriptions
- 32 percent reduction in opioid deaths
- 50 percent decrease in emergency department visits for patients with high utilization patterns
- $34 million in cost savings
This downloadable whitepaper will cover:
- Four proven strategies for addressing the opioid epidemic on an organizational and community level
- Statewide efforts to reduce opioid prescribing and use, including implementation of seven best practices for prescription opioids
- How collaboration helped achieve measurable results outside opioids — including decreased ED visits and significant cost savings
This whitepaper explores how four health systems overcame OR inefficiencies through AI-powered software, change management, and tailored strategies that go beyond quick fixes. Each case study showcases specific approaches and technologies that health systems used to optimize workflows and staffing, addressing long-term structural needs and capturing new revenue.
Featured health systems:
- The University of Kansas Health System (Kansas City)
- Cone Health (Greensboro, N.C.)
- OhioHealth (Columbus)
- Oregon Health & Science University (Portland)
Gain actionable insights to help your organization boost OR potential, enhance clinical outcomes and achieve sustainable financial growth.
Cardiac telemetry has a significant influence on patient care and financial performance. Telemetry overutilization can result in longer hospital stays, unnecessary testing and increased costs.
Download this whitepaper to learn how adjusting cardiac telemetry workflows can help enhance patient safety and operational efficiency.
Learnings include:
- How to reduce non-actionable alarms and alarm fatigue
- How to streamline communication and create integrated telemetry workflows
- How to decrease patients' time on telemetry and free up resources
In this whitepaper, two cybersecurity experts discuss how health systems can take a more proactive approach to mitigate cyber threats and create a safer environment for clinicians and patients.
Key learnings:
- Why compliance alone isn't enough to protect your systems
- Actionable steps to strengthen your security and safeguard data
- How AI and partnerships enhance threat detection and response
Three key learning points from the white paper include:
- An overview of the challenges healthcare providers experience due to manual, time-consuming processes.
- Why integrating technology, such as AI and automation, can streamline UM workflows and enhance decision-making.
- Why collaboration between payers and providers is essential for successful UM implementation.
However, most hospitals still overlook a critical aspect that can reduce the burden on both clinical staff and IT teams: the printing infrastructure within their EHR systems. This brief report offers leaders practical tips on how to address inefficiencies to improve resource management, enhance security and streamline workflows.
Key learning points:
- The value of reducing print-related tasks
- Enhance security and reduce risks of HIPAA violations
- Minimize wasted time and resources
To learn more about the current state of healthcare interoperability and what the future holds, Becker's Healthcare recently spoke with two interoperability experts from Oracle Health. This report contains insights from those conversations.
Learnings include:
- What interoperability looks when 'built right'
- Opportunities to address clinician cognitive burden through improved interoperability
- Why patients need greater access to their health data
Becker's Healthcare recently spoke with three network and security experts about how healthcare leaders can identify and address cybersecurity risks as the device and delivery ecosystem grows.
Key learnings include:
- How to counter cyber threats with a layered security approach
- The commons issues associated with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies
- The security advantages of company-owned device programs
To minimize the impact on billing, reimbursement, quality reporting and patient care, payers must aim for greater specificity and exchange of healthcare data.
Download new research to discover:
- How precise documentation helps to improve the bottom line
- Why losing data specificity affects patients at individual and population levels
- The benefits of feedback loops between revenue teams and care providers
This new report, produced by IDC Custom Solutions, shows how to increase ROI with AI-powered care management:
Four key takeaways:
- Close care gaps: Make things smoother and cut out the inefficiencies.
- Adhere to quality measures: Enhance the quality of service for better results.
- Boost member engagement and retention: Create solid relationships to bolster loyalty.
- Get the risk scores right: Make informed decisions with precise data.
Strengthen your programs with a strategy that covers all bases.
In response, many health systems and hospitals have turned to AI to fundamentally change how work gets done.
From scheduling to appointment reminders to registration, this guide shares how organizations are leveraging AI to personalize patient engagement at scale, automate manual workflows on behalf of staff, and empower caregivers to work at top-of-license.
In this guide, you’ll learn:
- The hidden cost of call center inefficiencies
- Best practices for improving patient access that doesn’t require hiring more staff
- How North Kansas City Hospital & Meritas Health and MUSC Health use AI-powered automation to drive new patient appointments and close care gaps
Front-line teams are the ones that are forced to carry the burden by pulling off daily heroics to address the ever-changing demands, only to repeat the cycle again the next day. But health systems around the nation are breaking out of this cycle with AI-powered innovation that improves nursing coverage, patient access and EBITDA.
This whitepaper contains a number of real-world case studies, including:
- How UCHealth (Aurora, Colo.) decreased overall time to admit by 16%
- How a leading Florida health system reduced average length-of-stay by 13 hours
- Hendrick Health system reduced order to discharge time by 22% and ED boarding Time by 49%
Clinical teams are using it to augment virtual sitting and make fast, informed decisions that lead to better outcomes. This is especially important as hospital and health system leaders strive for care excellence amid regular staffing shortfalls.
Download the guide to learn:
- The top three AI use cases in virtual care forward-looking CIOs
- How to combat staff shortages and better support your clinical team with AI-driven virtual care
- How to think about healthcare privacy and compliance in an AI world
Learnings:
- What information do health systems need to build the right cybersecurity strategy.
- Where health systems can turn to source best practices for developing processes.
- How health systems can apply strategy and process to establish a system of continuous improvement.
This eGuide will help you understand:
- The key concepts behind ML and common applications
- How it’s becoming more useful to people at all levels of organizations
In this eBook from Keysight Technologies, you will discover
- How automation can improve workflow management to help physicians and patients alike
- How AI-driven test automation helps your EMR become more interoperable and user-friendly
- Six critical tasks that can be optimized with robotic process automation
- The importance of testing both on-site and wearable medical devices
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These gaps pose serious risks to patient safety, operational continuity and legal compliance.
To mitigate these risks, leaders must shift from passive reliance on vendor attestations to active verification methods. This whitepaper outlines how to strengthen your vendor credentialing program, providing actionable insights to safeguard patient care and protect your organization.
Key learning points:
- Identifying hidden risks in vendor credentialing processes
- Best practices for enforcing compliance and ensuring accountability
- Strategies to mitigate operational, financial, and patient safety risks through more rigorous vendor oversight
Explore this new report to see how Florence, S.C.-based McLeod Health is using cloud-based technology to create more efficiency, control their inventory and gain actionable insights to improve revenue.
Key learnings include:
- How data can drive organizational speed and agility
- How to improve supply chain and clinical team productivity
- How to make informed purchasing decisions with automated reports
Download the report today to see how you can leverage data to achieve supply chain excellence.
You'll learn:
- The top 10 healthcare supply chain challenges.
- How AI is transforming procurement for 74% of healthcare with real-world examples.
- Best practices from the 92% of organizations achieving positive results with AI.
- Where human oversight remains crucial.
This whitepaper offers key insights from a leadership session at Becker's 9th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference, where executives discussed the potential for automation to draft claims appeals and ultimately improve denial rates and timely reimbursements.
Download to learn:
- The driving factors for significant increases in complex denials
- Best practices for streamlining the denial appeals workflow
- Real improvements in efficiency with AI in the revenue cycle
In the revenue cycle, AI and automation can make a significant difference. In a recent survey of hospital, health system and medical group leaders, 75% respondents who use AI in revenue cycle management see ROI.
Download this report to find:
- Real-world examples of AI applications in RCM
- Areas of focus for a successful AI strategy
- Which processes can benefit the most from AI and automation
To avoid disruptions in care and revenue, healthcare leaders need to prioritize cybersecurity across their organizations like never before. Especially in revenue cycle management, identifying security risks and making informed investments in protections are key.
Read this new report to hear from hospital and health system finance leaders on how they are bolstering their cyber defenses and learn:
- Why staff training and preparation are just as important as the latest tech
- What areas within RCM need special attention and protection
- How to choose the right partnership for RCM cybersecurity
Reducing this time-consuming process is a key priority for finance leaders, with many of them looking to automation, analytics and digital tools to lighten the load on their staff.
Download this new resource to gain actionable insights into how some hospitals have reduced their three-month budget cycles down to one week, and learn:
- Strategies and tips to streamline financial planning and decision-making
- How to create organizational buy-in and what obstacles are most common
- What data you need to look for and reporting tools to leverage
Realizing the potentially devastating impacts of cyberattacks is the first step in being prepared to fend off threats that can affect healthcare providers big and small.
This new step-by-step guide puts you in the driver seat with actionable insights and tips on what your organization can do to stay safe.
You'll learn:
- How to assess and address vulnerabilities at your organization
- How to create an efficient and viable response plan
- How to identify next steps that will keep you safe in the future
Hospital finance teams often have to do more with less, dealing with less-than-ideal workflows and delays in reporting. Many technologies today can help overcome and even resolve long-standing problems for healthcare finance teams. Improving financial processes through automation, creating efficiencies in reporting and assessing key performance indicators can be part of a hospital’s improved financial operation.
Read this case study to learn how Windsor, Vt.-based Mt. Ascutney Hospital leveraged technology to improve their finance department processes.
Learnings include:
- How simplified cost reporting help support better problem solving
- What processes the hospital streamlined and how those changes affected revenue
- Why automated data tracking is the key to success for multiple departments
This playbook outlines the key strategies finance leaders need to adapt to these changes. It details how to bring the necessary level of insight and analysis to this evolving role and drive business forward without sacrificing patient care and efficiency.
You'll learn:
- Key drivers of change in healthcare financial management
- Four considerations for financial leaders evaluating their readiness
- Why integrating clinical data into financial systems is no longer optional
The results indicate:
- Denials continue to increase.
- Providers say authorizations and incorrect information on claims are driving the rise in denials.
- Providers want to prevent denials versus just managing them.
Sample findings:
- 38% of respondents acknowledged that 10% or more of claims are denied.
- 46% of respondents say that missing or inaccurate data is one of the top three reasons for denials.
- 65% of respondents say that submitting "clean" claims is more challenging than before the pandemic.
Read the full report to see where the trends are leading.
This guide offers three actionable strategies for ASC administrators and revenue cycle executives to proactively address these issues.
You will learn:
- Technologies ASCs can use to augment their existing RCM infrastructure
- Guidelines to address increased scrutiny and compliance requirements
- Three key steps ASCs can take now to navigate the evolving landscape effectively
Key Takeaways:
- Control Over Patient Experience: Recourse financing allows healthcare providers to maintain direct relationships with patients, ensuring continuity in care and fostering trust throughout the financial journey.
- Risk Management and Revenue Clarity: By assuming responsibility for collections, healthcare organizations can enhance revenue predictability and streamline operational processes while safeguarding patient satisfaction.
- Compliance and Accountability: Emphasizing recourse patient financing aligns with evolving regulatory standards, promoting transparency and protecting vulnerable patients from potentially exploitative practices seen in non-recourse options.
Key learnings Include:
- The barriers rising out-of-pocket costs create and how providers can address them
- How an industry specific cost analysis can help you better understand patient concerns
- How to have productive conversations about care costs and the importance of when you have them in the patient journey
Rather than focusing on one piece of the puzzle, top-performing health systems are creating a holistic patient financial clearance strategy. This strategy includes leveraging front-end revenue cycle automation for results that make a difference.
In this report, readers will learn:
- How Cincinnati Children's rebuilt its financial clearance process
- The proven tactics that support a holistic financial clearance strategy
- Where workflow automation can drive the biggest payoff
- Fundamental pathways to follow for financial success
- Tactical approaches to ensure ongoing compliance
- Proven methods to maximize reimbursement potential
Key learnings:
- How practice owners can best position themselves in the market with a strategic buyer or private equity (PE) platform
- The value that an investment banker-led marketed process brings vs a non-marketed process
- Strategies to maximize personal wealth for physician owners through pre-sale and post-sale wealth planning
This report uncovers findings from a survey of 200 employees responsible for staffing the revenue cycle function at provider organizations, demonstrating how chronic staff shortages of non-clinical staff affect the revenue cycle at their organization. Before the pandemic, the situation was concerning. Now, it's unsustainable.
Download the report to learn where there are opportunities to address top challenges and position your organization for long-term stability.
Sample findings:
- 96% of respondents indicated that payer reimbursements, patient collections -- or both -- were affected by staff shortages
- More than 8 out of 10 respondents say the patient experience is worse due to staffing shortages
- 92% of respondents say new staff members make errors that negatively affect claims
But there are different reasons for pursuing RCM partnerships and very different approaches to partnership. Which approach and partners are best for your organization?
Here are insights from new research conducted with the Health Management Academy:
- 4 key reasons health systems pursue RCM partnerships
- 2 primary approaches to RCM partnership, and the key differences between them
- Factors to consider when vetting and evaluating RCM partnerships
- Why so many leading health systems are considering enterprise RCM partnerships
The key takeaway: RCM partnerships are necessary but they're not all alike. Understand the differences to make the best RCM decision for your health system.
Consumers, on the one hand, need increased support to understand their bills and figure out how to pay them. On the other hand, patients with more skin in the game are becoming more demanding about the quality of their customer experience.
These changes necessitate a new patient payment model that focuses on delivering convenience and clear communication to patients, driving both quicker payments and increased patient satisfaction.
Download this whitepaper to learn:
- The current state of patient collections, with data
- How to help patients take charge of their new responsibility
- How to identify hidden coverage
- How to increase the likelihood of quick, easy payment
Download the e-book to learn more about how health leaders can ready their organization for growth with forward-thinking strategies that include:
- Meeting the consumer on their terms
- Adapting to new competition
- The growing role of strategic partnerships
- Mastering the new indicators of growth
- Tracking the spend of the health care dollar
We asked physician management and healthcare organization leaders to share their strategies for overcoming the considerable challenges of this altered landscape. They offer 10 strategies for using data and analytics to better manage capacity, coordinate care and optimize revenues, including:
- Tracking real-time practice COVID-19 volumes
- Managing productivity and modifying physician incentive compensation
- Capturing charges efficiently and accurately at the point of care
- Improving throughput across the continuum
The white paper features expert views from:
- Dennis Deruelle, MD – Executive Director of Hospital Medicine, American Physician Partners
- Andrea Funk, RN, MEd, CPHQ – Vice President of Integrated Acute Care Operations, US Acute Care Solutions
- Derick D. Perkins – Founder and Managing Partner, Metis Advisors LLC
Before the arrival of COVID-19, specific environmental trends were challenging the healthcare industry, such as acquisitions of smaller health systems by larger health systems, clinician shortages and burnout. These trends had already created an urgent demand for clinical communication platforms (CCP) that would work securely across growing networks of diverse care provider organizations. The arrival of COVID-19 has applied untold new pressures to already strained systems.
In this white paper, you will learn about:
- The impact and cost of COVID-19 on healthcare
- How clinical collaboration platforms improved communication during COVID-19
- Where you will see cost savings from leveraging clinical collaboration platforms
- What to look for in a clinical collaboration platform in order to achieve savings
- How clinical collaboration platforms can help your organization increase efficiency and achieve return on investment
This white paper explores a modern framework to improve the quality and accessibility of primary care. By placing intentional focus on key components like care continuity, targeted patient engagement and omnichannel access, health systems can address primary care's most pressing challenges and pave the way for better outcomes and efficiency.
Key learning points:
- Principles for engineering a cohesive, high-performing primary care system
- Practical steps to leverage AI for primary care's most valuable tasks
- Strategies to create consistent patient experiences through unified data
This quick read breaks down the study's findings into digestible takeaways. Read to get insights on:
- The challenges of nursing documentation
- The power of automated documentation
- How to document a more complete history of patient mobility in the EHR
This whitepaper equips healthcare leaders with insights into the key risk factors, settings most prone to diagnostic mistakes and actionable strategies to mitigate these risks. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of why emergency departments are especially vulnerable and find practical tools for self-assessment and prevention.
Key learning points:
- Overview of the prevalence and drivers of diagnostic errors
- Top categories of diagnostic errors in the ED
- Best practices and tools to reduce diagnostic errors in the ED
Three key considerations should be top of mind for physicians as they rank risk factors and determine what treatment might be suitable: How severely is cancer affecting the patient? What is the patient's life expectancy? How does the patient feel about treatment?
This new research uncovers the importance of patient preference in treatment and what treatment options align best with different risk factors.
You'll learn:
- How to create a risk hierarchy to determine the best treatment
- New treatment options and their impact on patients
- The involvement of the patient in treatment
At Becker's 2024 CMIO Forum, leaders from these organizations discussed their innovative strategies for using EHRs to close critical gaps in care. They also shared insights into overcoming challenges and seizing opportunities during the research and pilot phases of their programs.
This whitepaper provides a summary of the discussion, featuring insights from:
- Gigi Dawood, DO, endocrinologist, UW Health (Madison, Wis.)
- Ralph Riello, PharmD, clinical pharmacy specialist, Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven, Conn.)
- Stephanie Saucier, MD, cardiologist, Hartford HealthCare (Hartford, Conn.)
- Lori Siegel, MD, rheumatologist, Illinois Bone & Joint Institute (Chicago, Ill.)
This dream is increasingly becoming a reality as hospitals and health systems invest in technologies that are tailor-made for nurses' needs. This whitepaper outlines how AI-based tools can significantly lighten nurses' documentation workload, allowing them to spend more time and energy on their primary calling: providing compassionate patient care.
Learn how your organization can:
- Successfully implement and gain nurses' trust in AI-driven documentation tools
- Facilitate real-time documentation for nurses
- Empower nurses with more time for direct patient care
Last year, nearly 13,000 physicians participated in the American Medical Association's Organizational Well-Being Survey. Their responses reveal key opportunities for health system leaders to align their well-being initiatives with physicians' actual needs. This two-page report gives leaders a breakdown of the current state of physician well-being and offers insights to guide burnout prevention strategies.
Key learning points:
- The latest data on physician burnout, job satisfaction, job stress and retention
- Data-driven areas of focus to mitigate burnout and craft a strategy for long-term success
- Resources to support health systems in putting physicians' insights into action
This checklist will help you select a healthcare linen and laundry provider that adheres to the rigorous standards set by the Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC). Find out if you're asking your linen provider the right questions to ensure an optimal, clean environment for everyone.
Insights include:
- Guidelines to be aware of
- Other standards and regulations to follow
- Practices to consider in delivering safety and cleanliness
The 2024 State of Healthcare Collaboration survey — conducted by Becker's Healthcare and TigerConnect — aimed to better understand the communication landscape in healthcare by surveying nearly 200 clinicians and clinical leaders (including chief nursing officers and chief medical officers). This report offers a nuanced breakdown of the survey findings and includes the cumulative survey data.
Key learnings:
- What the seven types of communication inefficiencies are, and how they create communication noise
- Why many c-suite leaders are unaware of the negative impacts of communication inefficiencies at their organization
- How health system leaders can improve care delivery by identifying and addressing communication inefficiencies
Becker's Healthcare recently conducted a survey with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals to learn more about the treatment of rare diseases and the role of health systems' pharmacy operations.
Respondents said when it comes to identifying and treating rare disease patients, it is important for health systems to recognize there is more than one "right" approach to care. It is essential to look beyond the lens of the specialty pharmacy alone and consider more broadly what is best for patients, as well as the health system.
The results of the survey are summarized in a short but comprehensive whitepaper.
Key topics covered in this whitepaper:
- Increased education is key to improving rare disease diagnoses
- A flexible approach to administering rare disease therapies
- How the buy-and-bill model for rare disease treatments supports the Quintuple Aim
- Key requirements for optimized operational care pathways for patients with rare diseases
Becker's ASC Review recently spoke with three experts about women's health procedures in the ASC and how innovative pain management products are transforming the patient experience. This whitepaper offers a summary of the conversation.
Key learnings:
- ERAS protocols for women's health procedures
- The benefits of same-day discharges for patients and providers
- Upcoming reimbursement changes for non-opioids like EXPAREL
Key points that readers will learn include:
- The clinical and financial impact of alarm fatigue and these adverse patient conditions
- How continuous clinical surveillance is different from patient monitoring and alarm management and focuses on mitigating non-clinically actionable alerts and notifications
- Published results that hospitals have achieved with continuous clinical surveillance
Dental practices need to collect pertinent patient data, analyze it and determine what satisfaction looks like for their patients. Next, dental practice leaders must act on this information to drive measurable improvements in the patient experience, which will ultimately support faster growth and higher revenues.
Download this exclusive four-step guide to learn how to use patient feedback to your advantage.
Insights include:
- How one large European dental group leverages patient feedback to deliver personalized coaching for dentists
- How to involve your staff in the process and improve the patient experience
- How to choose what surveys and feedback tools work for you
- How to advance your insights and create actionable items for growth
One multispecialty DSO with more than 180 locations was able to save about $3 million annually by executing a strategic procurement initiative that drove savings towards their bottom line and increased ordering efficiencies among their practices in the process. This was all done while maintaining physicians' and clinicians' autonomy regarding clinically sensitive items they have access to.
Download the case study below to learn how SourceClub helped this multispecialty DSO save millions and achieve success
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