Exploring Gender Variance Trends Among HIT Professionals
Rachel Marano, co-founder and managing partner at a national HIT consulting firm, says her awareness of gender disparity in the HIT field prompted her to take a hard look at gender-related trends in her company's 2017 Healthcare IT Market Report.
Diversity and Inclusion Programs Enable High-Quality Health Care
Are current organizational efforts to close diversity and inclusion gaps in health care enough? These gaps affect not only healthcare providers, but the patients they serve, says Adewale Soluade, assistant vice president of corporate inclusion and diversity manager at Commerce Bank.
Cultivating Cultural Dexterity Helps Companies Flourish
HFMA Career Coach Joe Abel takes a look at how being dexterous and deft can help healthcare organizations embrace diversity and inclusion initiatives.
INNOVATION IN PRICE TRANSPARENCY
This article was excerpted from a Leadership digital exclusive. For much more, see hfma.org Leadership PriceTransparency. Showing patients how costs vary by provider and facility may not be enough to improve value across the board. But coupling new benefit and
The New Knowledge Matchmaker
The latest AI applications in health care offer clinical options by pairing the most relevant evidence to individual patients based on their clinical and life context.
Integrating Behavioral Health Care and Primary Care
Various obstacles historically have prevented the integration of behavioral health care with primary care—but stakeholders see the tide turning, as they discuss in the latest installment of HFMA’s Healthcare Challenge Roundtable.
Virtual Visits Come of Age
More organizations are launching virtual visits for outpatient care as a means of lowering the cost of delivering care, improving patient outcomes, and boosting physician satisfaction with their jobs.
How Consolidation Is Reshaping Health Care
Ongoing trends have challenged healthcare stakeholders to improve care delivery by reducing clinical variation, while also increasing their access to capital. As a result, consolidation has become a defining factor in business models.With national healthcare expenditures increasing from 12.5 percent
Obstacles Remain for Team Based Care
Some allied health professionals see state laws as the biggest hindrance.The growing use of team based care continues to run into legal and regulatory hurdles, industry advocates say. Shawn Martin, senior vice president at the American Association of Family Physicians,
Incorporating Value in Behavioral Health
Healthcare stakeholders increasingly are taking steps to improve behavioral health care with an eye toward lowering costs, improving care quality, and improving the health of populations.