Predictive Analytics: A Prescription for a Better Patient Experience
As the patient experience becomes a bigger part of the healthcare picture, providers may find predictive analytics useful in assisting patients making healthcare decisions.
Video: Key Points of Focus for Hospitals: CMS Strategy, Bundled Payment, and Cost of Care
Larry Goldberg, principal, Larry Goldberg Consulting, takes a look at bundled payments, quality outcomes, and the cost of providing services.
Yale New Haven Hospital Homeless Patient Screening Tool
Yale New Haven Hospital asks specific housing-related questions to determine whether patients are homeless.
Engaging Physicians in Financial Planning and Performance Improvement
Healthcare organizations should designate and engage physician leaders as they undertake value initiatives.
Why Independence Assessments Still Matter
Daniel M. Grauman discusses the importance of an independence assessment amongst merger activity.
Treasury Functions for Strategic Value
Healthcare leaders can examine the treasury functions that are in play in their organizations and shore up the weak points.
E&M coding levels for hospital EDs, 2013-15
Hospitals should analyze coding patterns in their use of E&M APC codes and compare them with national coding trends to understand the extent that their coding practices conform with industry norms.
Pausing to Reflect on What Matters Most
Although HFMA is undertaking many changes to keep up with the times, the values that set the association apart will never change.
Group Health Cooperative’s Effective Use Patient Decision Aids: Key Success Factors
The effective use of patient decision aids is exemplified by an approach implemented by Group Health Cooperative in Seattle (now a part of Kaiser Permanente).
Patient Engagement: A Missing Piece to the Value Puzzle
Healthcare organizations face a pressing need to meet the needs of the top 5 percent of the population who account for 50 percent of the nation’s healthcare cost.