Strategic Tips for Aligning Case Management and Revenue Cycle
By Marty Callahan – Case managers have a challenging, high-stress job, but there’s one department that should always be on their side, and that’s revenue cycle.
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How NLP Reveals Social Determinants Data to Improve Population Health
By Elizabeth Marshall MD, MBA – It’s been a slow evolution, but Americans have finally begun to appreciate that patient health depends on much more than the healthcare that patients receive, with non-clinical factors such as social determinants of health (SDoH) playing a critical role.
Data Use: Who Should Control?
By Matt Fisher – Questions around the state of privacy for healthcare and other information are being left unanswered in many regards. Many services and tools fall outside the “traditional” healthcare realm, which means HIPAA and state-level legal protections focused on…
Trepidation about transparency (in healthcare prices)? Take a closer look.
By David Harlow – The recent Executive Order regarding health care price transparency has many folks in the health care industrial complex contemplating litigation aimed at highlighting ways in which the order may contravene existing law.
Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – July 2019
The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of July that we think deserve sharing again.
What Happens When Financial Toxicity Goes Mainstream?
By Casey Williams – Since we started discussing financial toxicity, there have been signs that the public is becoming more aware of the concept. Earlier this year, the New York Times published an article titled The Financial Toxicity of Illness that highlights what many of us already know…
What Hospitals Can Learn about Incident Detection from the Notre Dame Disaster
By Benjamin Kanter – On April 15, 2019, Notre Dame cathedral, the iconic and beloved monument, burned and was nearly lost in its entirety despite an enormously complex and expensive fire alarm system built exclusively to prevent such a disaster.
How Technology Can Improve Physician Performance Measurement
By Dr. James Occhiogrosso – It would seem logical that newly-minted physicians entering the medical workplace would expect that some level of performance monitoring would apply. However, this complex and ever-changing world of hospital and physician performance…
Doctor Alexa Will See You Now: Is Amazon Primed To Come To Your Rescue?
By Janet Rae-Dupree – Now that it’s upending the way you play music, cook, shop, hear the news and check the weather, the friendly voice emanating from your Amazon Alexa-enabled smart speaker is poised to wriggle its way into all things health care.