Working with Physicians to Improve Documentation
Getting high-quality documentation requires understanding physicians’ priorities, their thinking styles, and the time pressures they work under. Demonstrating how documentation can improve patient care is key to motivating physicians.
Employee Wages and Rising Drug Equipment Prices Present Cost Challenges
Wages and benefits account for almost 60 percent of inpatient hospital costs, reflecting the importance of people in the care process.
A New Approach to Support Staffing in Physician Practices
Organizations should adapt support-staffing levels for physician practices using a comprehensive approach, including a variety of factors such as provider mix, productivity, and the level of patient access.
The Cost of Delaying the Move To Value Based Care
Using a calculator tool, healthcare finance leaders can project the costs and benefits of value-based care under different scenarios and make the case for what their organizations have to gain—or lose—by delaying or adopting value-based strategies.
Examining the Economic Impact of a Physician Shortage
The changing regulatory environment in health care adds even more urgency to a looming physician shortage that will continue to impact health care and its delivery over the next decade.
What Hospitals Should Look for When Acquiring or Partnering With ASCs
Hospitals and health systems can benefit from partnerships with or acquisitions of ambulatory surgery centers as a means to meet the requirements of value-based care.
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.