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Accelerating Healthcare Transformation – The Incumbent Organizations are Center Stage
The disconnected nature of our healthcare system often lets patients down, contributes to physician burnout, and yields subpar outcomes to the point that getting quality, affordable, and timely care can sometimes feel impossible. -
Why Hospitals Need to Enable More Healthcare at Home Services
The healthcare landscape is undergoing a significant transformation, with healthcare at home emerging as one of the fastest-growing segments. To adapt to this shift and offer a comprehensive range of services, hospitals need to enhance their strategies and simultaneously forge partnerships with companies with expertise that successfully extend care into patients' homes. -
Paper refunds are out: How automation boosts patient experience + provider efficiency
Patient refunds from providers are on the rise. Unfortunately, refund processes tend to be manual, complex and time-consuming for both providers and patients alike, with traditional paper-based methods no longer matching the needs of consumers. -
Healthcare executives roundtable on cyber threats
Digital transformation is well underway in healthcare. But this transformation has brought an increase in number and type of cyberthreats, which pose significant risk to an organization's revenue, brand, patient safety and more. These threats have in turn led to an increased focus on cybersecurity. -
Fundamentals First: The reaffirming value of embedding a human-centric approach across the entire care continuum
With technology-driven innovation having become routine and expected across the healthcare ecosystem, a human-focused approach to innovation can be a great differentiator. -
Ensemble Health Partners welcomes more than 650 new associates from full outsource partners in Q1
Ensemble Health Partners (Ensemble) announced it has welcomed more than 650 new associates to its team from expanded full revenue cycle outsourcing partnerships with Adena Health System, Valley Health System and Roper St. Francis Healthcare in the first quarter of 2023. -
As labor shortages create financial + quality pressures, hospitals are turning to virtual support strategies and better connectivity
Hospitals, especially those serving rural areas, are facing major economic challenges and labor shortages. The current cost of contract staff is unsustainable. In addition, analysts anticipate that by 2025, 47 percent of the healthcare workforce may leave the profession. -
'Health system' is out; here's what comes next
Hospitals evolved into health systems over the last several years with multiple care sites and expanded focus on health and wellness. Millions of dollars were spent in rebranding and strategy to become "health systems." -
LeanTaaS and Siemens Healthineers Announce Strategic Relationship to Optimize Hospital Operational Performance
The two companies will collectively drive outcomes and efficiency to help health systems achieve and sustain peak performance in the dynamic U.S. healthcare market. -
Turning unruly data into valuable insights: the holy grail or achievable?
Let’s define "Data Strategy” as the method for effectively using objective facts to make better decisions. In reality, it’s less about the data than it is about the insights derived from that data. This obstacle has significantly challenged healthcare organizations. We’ve all seen the studies showing data-driven organizations grow faster, are more profitable, and have a faster time to market. Why does gaining insights from data seem to take so long? As one executive said to his analyst, “if the data you end up publishing goes against my gut, I’ll probably just go with my gut.” -
Connecting hospital rankings and outcomes: How to leverage rankings to achieve higher quality care
A common managerial expression is, "You can't improve what you don't measure." This is particularly true in healthcare. The focus within healthcare on safety, quality, equity and cost leads to numerous measurements. A challenge that healthcare leaders face is using the data collected through measurement initiatives to drive improved reliability and care. -
States set to lift COVID rules April 3: How hospitals are adapting
States across the U.S. rolled out healthcare worker vaccination and masking requirements since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, three years later, California, Washington and Oregon plan to end certain requirements, effective April 3, allowing hospitals and health systems to develop and implement plans consistent with CDC and other guidance based on their needs and local conditions. -
Novant lays off 50, including executives
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has laid off about 50 workers, including multiple C-level executives, the health system confirmed to Becker's March 29. -
MetroHealth CEO: $1B campus transformation 'not on the back burner'
New MetroHealth CEO Airica Steed, EdD, RN, told cleveland.com in a recent interview that she is supportive of the Cleveland-based health system's $1 billion "hospital-in-a-park" vision as she conducts due diligence on plans. -
How Sharp Memorial Hospital modernized its ED workflows and communications
When inefficient workflows and antiquated communication tools are added to an already-stressful emergency department (ED) environment, physician burnout increases, and both staff and patient satisfaction plummets. -
Solving the DME ordering puzzle: Leading health systems share how ePrescribing improves DME ordering processes, increases clinician satisfaction, and accelerates discharges
When patients need durable medical equipment (DME) such as wheelchairs or oxygen, the required documentation can be immense. -
Health system bucks industry norms, names majority female leaders
The average healthcare leadership team is 25 percent female. But at Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health, women hold nearly 55 percent of the senior leadership roles. -
Deriving more value from the role of strategy in healthcare
Ask any number of healthcare leaders about the role of strategy or the process of strategic planning in their organization and you’re likely to get a wide range of answers. -
6 Strategic Benefits to Advancing Hospital Care at Home
Consumers are settling back into their busy lives, reinforcing their desire for convenient healthcare services and virtual care options. As healthcare organizations contemplate, “What’s next?” consumers may already have the answer. -
The End of the Public Health Emergency: 3 Things on the Health Payments Horizon
During the past few years of the pandemic, we’ve seen considerable changes in the healthcare payments landscape. Now, with President Biden announcing a decision to end the public health emergency (PHE) in May, more changes are on the horizon.
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