Predictive Analytics: A Prescription for a Better Patient Experience
As the patient experience becomes a bigger part of the healthcare picture, providers may find predictive analytics useful in assisting patients making healthcare decisions.
Linking Professional Fee and Facility Fee Data to Get the Big Picture
Matching patient and encounter data helped one Vermont hospital overcome the challenges of working with two different billing systems for its facility and physicians.
Improving Outcomes Using Social Determinants of Health
Rick Ingraham describes how patients’ social factors can help healthcare providers improve the quality of care.
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.
Leveraging the Cloud for Efficiency and Savings
Healthcare organizations seeking secure, efficient access to information need look no further than the cloud.
Transforming Healthcare Analytics to Manage Costs
Healthcare providers must transform how they analyze and use data by applying today’s improved data analytics techniques if they are to meet the requirements of value-based care of improved quality and reduce costs.
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.
How South Shore Health System Protected Revenue During an EHR Transition
South Shore Health System created a formal revenue integrity department to mitigate revenue loss during its EHR transition and to monitor and track progress after implementation.
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.
Finding Success with Provider-Sponsored Health Plans During Uncertain Times
Community Health Choice, a provider-sponsored health plan started by Harris Health System, has grown its marketplace membership from 300 enrollees to 150,000 over four enrollment periods. Despite uncertainty about the future of federal healthcare laws and the marketplaces, the health plan says that it may still experience growth in 2018.