By Mark Spinner – As hospitals face rising bad debt and revenue cycle workforce shortages, leading organizations are exploring new ways to ramp up patient financial engagement and efficiency. One out of four healthcare organizations report rising rates of bad debt and uncompensated care, a survey of healthcare finance leaders found.
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By Devin Partida – Technology is central to modern health care, including making comprehensive medical treatment equally available and accessible to everyone. Equity is a significant concern today, especially as data highlights persisting disparities among different demographics.
By Rose Watson – The ICU wing of your hospital only has 50% of its nursing staff, but all the beds are full. Downstairs, a full waiting room. Statistically, some most likely have COVID-19. Nurses are leaving, there are fewer new graduates, how do we break the cycle.
New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Colin Banas, MD Chief Medical Officer of DrFirst a company looking to unite the “Healthiverse” and shatter the silos in our healthcare data.
By David Navarro – The 21st Century Cures Act has adopted the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) standard to help further interoperability efforts and data sharing among providers and patients. We unpack the details around USCDI and look at how it is constantly changing as more data points and data classes are reviewed and added.
By Dan Matthews – The use of data and analytics can help healthcare become more accurate, efficient, and personalized to individual patient needs. At hospitals and individual practices, healthcare professionals are already collecting and using big data to enhance telemedicine, and optimize staffing.
New On Demand Healthcare Upside/Down: With guests Tessa Kerby, Senior Manager at ECG Management Consultants, and Vicki Lucas, PhD, president of Vicki Lucas LLC, Women’s Health Business Consultants. Tessa and Vicki explain why advancing women’s health services makes good business sense for healthcare organizations.
By Allan Max – Technology is helping health care practices in multiple ways. Telemedicine is one such aspect. Since the rise in Covid-19 cases in the US, more and more patients started opting for telemedicine. Even now, it is widely opted by a variety of patients.
By David Burda – Years ago, in a publishing galaxy far, far away, the healthcare business publication that I worked for as a reporter required each news story to be read four times. Every story got four “reads,” as we used to say. At each step, the story got worse as the next read compounded errors introduced and questions raised by the previous read.