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Using Social Determinants to Promote Health Equity During a Crisis

HealthITAnalytics Across the healthcare landscape, it is widely understood but rarely confessed that not all care is delivered equally.  In an ideal world – or just a fairer one – the medical industry would be able to seamlessly address an...

Insights into HHS COVID-19 HIPAA Waivers and Lasting Implications

HealthITSecurity The nationwide public health emergency brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak has led to several Good Faith HIPAA waivers from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office for Civil Rights. The waivers aim to fuel data sharing...

How COVID-19 Imperiled Physician Practices, And How to Save Them

RevCycleIntelligence Some have heard the ringing of the death knell for physician practices for years now. Mergers and acquisitions, industry consolidation, value-based care, and the growing presence of private equity firms in healthcare have all threatened the...

The Building Blocks of an Effective Coronavirus Response Strategy

HealthPayerIntelligence Payers are in a unique position to respond to many aspects of the coronavirus from payment of testing and treatment to community education. But there is no playbook for appropriate or effective responses. In such unique circumstances, payer...

Could COVID-19 Help Refine AI, Data Analytics in Healthcare?

HealthITAnalytics In the months since COVID-19 has evolved from a blip on the world’s radar to a full-blown global health crisis, the virus has managed to shine a glaring light on some of healthcare’s most foundational cracks.  Gaps in care,...

How Artificial Intelligence Is Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management

RevCycleIntelligence Prior authorizations are one of the most burdensome aspects of revenue cycle management. In a survey of 1,000 practicing physicians conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA), 86 percent of doctors described the burden of prior...

Integrating Social Determinants of Health into the EHR

EHRIntelligence It’s now considered common knowledge that providers need to address a patient’s social determinants of health. These factors such as an individual’s financial situation, ability to get healthy food options, and access to...

How Coronavirus Sparked Industry Collaboration, Team-Based Care

PatientEngagementHIT Healthcare is facing a never-before-seen global health crisis with the coronavirus outbreak, with infection rates on a meteoric rise. But at the same time, healthcare is seeing something else that’s unprecedented: a massive...

How Machine Learning is Transforming Clinical Decision Support Tools

HealthITAnalytics In the era of value-based healthcare, digital innovation, and big data, clinical decision support systems have become vital for organizations seeking to improve care delivery. Clinical decision support (CDS) tools have the ability to...

Can Multi-Factor Authentication Help Healthcare’s Security Posture?

HealthITSecurity Microsoft has found multi-factor authentication (MFA) blocks 99.9 percent of automated cyberattacks on Microsoft platforms, websites, and other online services. As hackers continue to target user credentials and email compromise, providers...

4 Key Strategies for Accountable Care Organization Success

RevCycleIntelligence The passage of the Affordable Care Act sparked many innovative care delivery and payment reform models. One unique model that emerged from this trend was the accountable care organization (ACO). In this model, groups of doctors, hospitals,...

Putting the Pieces Together for a Successful Predictive Analytics Strategy

HealthITAnalytics If the evolution of the healthcare industry were a jigsaw puzzle, then predictive analytics would be the last pieces put into place.  For years, experts have talked about the potential for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and...

Evaluating Cyber Readiness, Vulnerabilities with Pen Testing

HealthITSecurity Healthcare suffers with a unique endpoint challenge: a host of vendors, legacy systems, and an ever-increasing list of connected devices. But even with what it may deem a secure network, the threat landscape also continuously adds new...

Smart Hospitals Making the Future of Patient Experience a Reality

PatientEngagementHIT When Alpa Vyas first asked patients at Stanford Health Care what they would like in a smart hospital room, she was almost certain they’d want to see a digitized care itinerary. “You can imagine if you’re an inpatient and...

Entering the Next Phase of Value-Based Care, Payment Reform

RevCycleIntelligence “What healthcare providers really want is to do is the right thing for their patients. They just need sustainable financial support for doing that,” health economist Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, said at the start of an interview...

How Medicare Advantage Is Leading Payers to Adopt Value-Based Care

HealthPayerIntelligence As America strives for positive changes to the healthcare system, it may find the greatest advancements for value-based care in Medicare Advantage plans. Over 90 percent of healthcare payers in a small Health Care Payment Learning...

Providing Holistic Preventive Health with Advanced Primary Care

HealthITAnalytics Primary care has the potential to transform the healthcare industry by improving patient outcomes and reducing overall spend on healthcare services. Study after study shows that value-based care, population health management, chronic...

Filling Healthcare Security Staffing Gaps with Virtual CISOs, Students

HealthITSecurity In 2017, a damning report from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force revealed the troubled state of healthcare security staffing: three out of four organizations were operating without a...

Healthcare CFOs Look Forward to Value-Based Care, Consumerism

RevCycleIntelligence Chief financial officers are an organization’s financial gatekeeper, looking back at data to understand company performance, set and keep budgets, manage risk, and track cash flow. While these lookbacks ensure the company remains...