Patient Engagement: Establishing Patients as Partners in Care
Dorothy Fisher, MD, writes that successfully engaging patients requires thinking like them and offering robust resources and service choices.
Consumer Engagement in the Wake of the Election
At a time of potential turmoil in health care, organization leaders must be more mindful than ever of the need to earn consumers’ trust.
Developing New Ideas to Improve Children’s Health
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has established an innovation infrastructure for converting employees’ ideas into products and services that improve care.
How to Assess Cultural Fit in a Merger
One health system used a structured cultural assessment to guide its decision making heading into merger talks.
Bundled Payments for Self Pay Patients
Consumers are gaining access to a true healthcare marketplace as hospitals and physician groups offer discounted bundled-payment services for patients with no insurance or high deductibles.
Expert: Outlook for Value ‘Quite Unknown’ Under New President
Robert Berenson, healthcare industry expert, says the healthcare value movement still has a ways to go to realize its full potential.
Patient Friendly Billing E-Bulletin: January 2017
View the contents of HFMA's Patient Friendly Billing E-Bulletin January 2017 issue.
Webinar: Key Healthcare Trends Will Continue Under Trump
Amid many likely changes in healthcare policy under the Trump administration, the transition to value-based care and the need to be innovative in care delivery and business processes will continue.
Cybersecurity: An Enterprise Risk Issue
Providers require a strategy to safeguard themselves against the growing threat of cyberattacks that could compromise the security of protected health information and even put patients’ health at risk.
Treating the Mind and Body as One
U.S. health plans are pursuing ways to integrate behavioral health care and primary care with the goal of improving care for patients with mental health conditions.