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Long-Term Health System Strategy: Are You Optimizing Your Lab as a Strategic Asset? Buy, Sell, Merge, or Outsource
Clinical labs affect 70 percent of medical decision making and touch every aspect of healthcare, according to the leader of a lab management and consulting firm. -
The 18 health systems Walmart sends its employees to for care in 2022
In an effort to rein in healthcare costs for its employees, Walmart sends them directly to health systems that demonstrate high-quality care outcomes, otherwise known as Centers of Excellence. -
A futuristic view of medical coding: 3M expert Nathan Carver weighs in on talent shortages and the promise of autonomous coding
Revenue cycle leaders need coding and billing to be compliant, accurate and fast. What are hospitals to do as the health care staffing crisis extends to coders, and bringing new coders fully up to speed can take six months to a year? -
Zero-trust email crucial to healthcare IT security, cybersecurity experts say
Healthcare is one of the most highly targeted industries for cyberattacks, according to SonicWall's 2022 Cyber Threat Report. -
Futura Healthcare Announces Acquisition of Leading Healthcare IT Solutions Provider
Futura Healthcare, a trusted industry partner delivering end-to-end healthcare advisory, consulting, and technology solutions, announced today their acquisition of Winola Lake Health IT. -
How smarter automation strategies can improve efficiency, lower cost of hospital collections — 4 takeaways
The pandemic has created intense cash flow pressures for many health systems. -
Agility will be key as healthcare transforms — 4 learnings
Over the last two years, healthcare organizations have been forced to become more agile and dynamic. For ongoing healthcare transformation to be successful, however, organizational agility must become the norm — not the exception. -
How Ochsner Health has created a review-based culture: 2 takeaways + 5 tips for a review-based culture
Your online reputation is critical to your practice's growth plan. The reason? Most patients start their healthcare journeys by reading online reviews. -
Transforming patient care through a financially viable da Vinci robotics service line — 4 insights from Lee Health
Minimally invasive robotic surgery has evolved from ad-hoc acquisitions of robots by surgical departments to being part of an intentional programmatic approach designed to provide cutting-edge care. -
An advanced digital strategy and fresh approaches to revenue cycle operations: Healthcare leaders discuss the impact on patient satisfaction, operational efficiency and brand loyalty
Healthcare financial and operational leaders are grappling with major challenges like labor shortages, patient satisfaction and a proliferation of technology vendors to manage. Many leaders see the patient financial experience as ripe for transformation and believe that digital tools and new approaches to revenue cycle operations can help. -
Value-based care models: Common traps to avoid and setting up for success
During a May Becker's Hospital Review webinar sponsored by HOPCo, Wael Barsoum, MD, the company's president and chief transformation officer, shared insights about the most common reasons VBC models fail and how organizations interested in implementing these models can reconceptualize them. -
How healthcare can use the challenge of staffing shortages to remodel and fortify its foundation
Caught between the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic and care delivery models that have outlived their usefulness, healthcare is undergoing large-scale transformation — in terms of both staffing and models of care. -
HHS releases first climate and health outlook series
HHS and the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity released the first installment in its climate and health series May 6. -
Corporations unsure whether to wade into the abortion debate
Many organizations chose to stay silent when the Supreme Court's draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked, indicating a hesitancy of corporations to make a clear stand on the issue, reported The New York Times May 4. -
CVS reports 1.5M community health visits in Q1: 6 things to know
CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch discussed the company's expansion at a May 4 earnings call, revealing it is continuing to push into primary care and improve its digital offerings. -
Intelligent automation: 3 insights to unlock systemwide patient access
Intelligent automation — a tool leveraged across industries to accelerate and standardize workflows, solve staffing problems and elevate the user experience — has finally arrived in healthcare. -
6 ways Wexner Medical Center cut its emissions, improved sustainability
Columbus, Ohio- based Wexner Medical Center has made a concerted effort to reduce its emissions as a system, implementing waste reduction techniques, sustainable construction and local supplier sourcing. -
CVS Health's $2.3B net income in Q1: 14 things to know
CVS Health pulled in 11.2 percent higher revenues in the first quarter of 2022, seeing the largest growth in its health insurance business, according to the company's earnings report released May 4. -
Improving population health with intelligent automation: 3 insights
Failure to close care gaps can result in missed diagnoses, increased healthcare spending, and lower performance on value-based care contracts – yet reviewing patient charts to identify and validate care gaps is one of the most administratively burdensome tasks in healthcare. -
No-code tech and healthcare's new digital front door — 4 experts weigh in
From curbside check-ins and parking lot waiting rooms to telemedicine and virtual care, patients now expect consumer-like experiences from healthcare providers.
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