Healthcare Finance Staff
Social media tools may prove an effective way to boost participation in online health programs, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School.
As it seeks to expand its suite of clinical solutions for unified patient information management (UPIM), NaviNet, the biggest healthcare communications network in the country, has acquired Prematics, a provider of mobile care management solutions.
To best meet the goals of optimized, coordinated patient care and also help curb costs, physicians should be at the center of accountable care organizations (ACOs), the American Medical Association told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in a Dec. 2 letter.
What with many healthcare entities already so far behind on both HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 implementations as to render industry timelines almost worthless, WEDI and NCHICA reworked their recommendation.
Laura Winner, Director, Lean Sigma Program, Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
Susan Turley, CFO, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, McAllen, Texas
Mary Hatch, CFO, Dixie Regional Medical Center, St. George, Utah
James Lee, CFO, Adventist HealthCare, Rockville, Md.
Chrissy Yamada, CFO, Evergreen Healthcare, Kirkland, Wash.
If healthcare reform was the storm of 2010, then the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would be the lightning rod.