Innovating to Care for High-Need, High-Cost Patients
Providers and health plans need to broaden their views to find and implement approaches that deliver greater value to the patient while ensuring the financial sustainability of the system.
Purchased Services Contracting Do’s and Don’ts
Carefully worded language in purchased service contracts can help healthcare organizations enjoy good relationships with business partners.
Offshore Versus Domestic Outsourced Coding Services: A Comparative Assessment
Although offshore outsourced medical record coding services are widely believed to a cost-effective outsourcing option, a recent study identified concerns that healthcare providers considering this option should address before moving forward.
Why Organizational Culture is Critical to Success
Effective leadership requires good communications skills as well as a strong vision.
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.
Pursuing an Integrated Approach to Pharmacy
This article looks at Premier’s work in helping health systems improve their pharmacy operations to be more integrated, cost-effective, and patient-focused.
Healthcare Workforce Shortage Worsening: Senators
May 22—Senators said this week that they are convinced a healthcare workforce shortage is worsening and federal action is needed to address it.
Sustained Performance Improvement Requires Culture of Excellence
By using a systematic approach to build a culture of continuous improvement and implement Lean principles, health systems can dramatically boost operational performance in quality, safety, and other domains.
Confronting the Loneliness Epidemic
CareMore Health’s Robin Caruso describes a new organizational initiative to address loneliness in at-risk patients.
Meeting Individuals with Mental Health Crises Outside the Hospital
A community mental health program in New Hampshire keeps 100 patients a month out of the emergency department.