Operations and Other Technology

An Overview of RPA

Using software robots to perform repetitive, ongoing financial processes can improve efficiency, increase accuracy, and boost the overall well-being of a health system’s revenue cycle and other data management applications.

Jerry Bruno August 23, 2017

Robotic Disruption and the New Healthcare Revenue Cycle

Using software robots to perform repetitive, ongoing financial processes can improve efficiency, increase accuracy, and boost the overall well-being of a health system’s revenue cycle and other data management applications.

Jerry Bruno August 23, 2017

Thinking About Robotization: It’s More than Efficiency and Costs Savings

Healthcare leaders should consider the impact of robotics implementations on various stakeholders by using a risk and reward analysis.

William Marty Martin August 10, 2017

Five Lessons Health Systems Can Learn From Intuit

Increasing patient access to healthcare data can bolster population health management efforts for consumers.

Dinesh Sheth August 1, 2017

Virtual Visits Come of Age

More organizations are launching virtual visits for outpatient care as a means of lowering the cost of delivering care, improving patient outcomes, and boosting physician satisfaction with their jobs.

Lola Butcher July 19, 2017

What Finance Leaders Should Know About Cybersecurity Risks

IT security breaches can be costly: The average cost of a breached medical record is $158. Fortunately, finance leaders can help IT security teams protect against these unforeseen costs.

Laura Ramos Hegwer June 1, 2017

Best Practices for Securing and Protecting Patients’ Financial Data

When we think about data breaches, attacks on major retailers often come to mind. Yet, between 2010 and 2015, criminal attacks on healthcare data increased by 125 percent. In 2016 alone, there were 329 significant data breaches exposing more than 16 million records.

Gary Word May 19, 2017

What’s Behind an Innovative Tool?

A specialized department to help clinicians and researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital get their innovative ideas to market.

Laura Ramos Hegwer May 15, 2017

Henry Ford Health System Builds a Population Health Management Platform

The health system’s plan for value-based care involves centralizing core population health management functions and integrating data from multiple sources.

Laura Ramos Hegwer May 11, 2017

A Cost-Effective Solution for Strengthening Cybersecurity

Mary Chaput suggests captives as an underutilized solution to cybersecurity risks.

Mary A. Chaput March 30, 2017
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