Trending Toward Home Care: Is Our Health System Ready?
The advancement of telemedicine and home-based technology presents both opportunities and challenges with respect to improving health care and making it safer.
Closing the Gaps in Value-Based Care
Jeffrey Springer describes five steps in the evolution of value-based care.
3 Rural Hospital Challenges and Solutions in the Brave New World of Value
Artesia General Hospital is tackling common rural health challenges by developing new relationships with established regional providers and supporting clinician EHR concerns with an end-user feedback program.
Pursuing Your Passion: Advice for Healthcare Finance Leaders
Carol Friesen, FHFMA, MPH, reminisces about her experiences as 2017-18 Chair of HFMA and shares ideas and insights gleaned from her “HFMA leadership journey.”
What Is Driving Total Cost of Care?
A recent study identifies key factors that may be influencing total cost of care in the United States and provides recommendations for addressing those factors.
Responding to a Changing Healthcare Environment
Aligning incentives among providers and exploring telehealth opportunities are two ways in which hospitals and health systems can respond and adapt to a changing environment.
Value: The Way Forward
Value-based payment won’t bend the cost curve unless healthcare organizations commit to fundamental change. Not everyone will come out whole.
Reimagining Cross-Continuum Relationships
This article examines how DHG Healthcare partnered with a health system to improve care coordination for hip replacements due to fracture.
Emergency Department Visits Drop, Nonurgent Use Rises: CDC
April 23—Amid increasing efforts by private and public payers to rein in emergency department (ED) spending, recent federal data showed divergent trends between overall visits and nonurgent visits.
Amazon in Health Care? Yawn . . .
The recently announced Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JPMorgan Chase affiliation has been widely discussed an important development in health care, but it would not likely have enough control and leverage to bring about meaningful change.