Video: The Cost of Care: ACOs, Medicaid, and Value-Based Care
Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy and Omnicell, provides insight into the future of ACOs, Medicaid, and value-based care.
Predictive Analytics and the Future of Health Care
Aurora Health Care has decreased admission rates for patients with heart failure and COPD using a predictive-analytics tool, writes Sylvia Meltzer, MD.
AvaSure: Using Video Monitoring to Improve Patient Safety and Achieve Cost Efficiencies
Brad W. Playford, founder and CEO of AvaSure, discusses the value and benefits of virtual patient monitoring.
Augmenting Price Transparency With New Strategies
Taking the right approach to designing healthcare benefits and provider networks could enhance price transparency in a way that allows healthcare consumers to become smarter shoppers.
Community Paramedicine: A Value-Oriented Strategy
Community paramedicine is proving its worth as a bridge between primary care and emergency care and a way to fill gaps in the underlying healthcare infrastructure.
Readmission Rates: Not a Sound Quality Reporting Indicator
Rose Rohloff describes how healthcare organizations must track the right data to determine whether reduced readmissions truly mean an increase in quality.
Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices: Put People First
Health systems that acquire physician practices can take steps to mitigate issues with referrals, compensation, and other aspects by never forgetting the human side of the transaction.
One-Stop Shopping for Healthcare Services
As consumerism gains traction in health care, health systems are borrowing the imperatives of the retail industry, including by consolidating and reorganizing their services into central locations.
Progress Via Collaboration
Philadelphia-based Independence Blue Cross and Penn Medicine have collaborated with a venture accelerator to launch a slew of healthcare startups, learning key lessons along the way.
Not Yet Free from Harm
Tejal Gandhi addresses ways healthcare organizations can pursue the goal of greater patient safety.