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Community Health Systems, one of the largest publicly-traded hospital systems in the country, and Cleveland Clinic have announced a strategic alliance aimed at allowing the two organizations to share clinical information to improve care and operational efficiency.
The proliferation of mobile devices in healthcare has been a boon for medical professionals as the portability of smart phones, tablets and laptops keep them connected from wherever they might be at any given time. This convenience has allowed clinicians to correspond, check patient statuses and review vital data to make critical decisions while at home, in transit or at a remote site.
The HIPAA Privacy and Security Omnibus final rule – issued by HHS on Jan. 17 – should bring some long-awaited clarification and certainty to marketing, fundraising and other aspects of safeguarding and using health information.
How are the financial regulations associated with the Affordable Care Act changing the landscape of hospital business offices?
Your organization likely will experience a data breach of some kind. And when it does, people will want to know, what you were doing to prevent one, and how you are going to respond.
At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, in January executives from Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealth Group joined roughly 2,500 other corporate and government leaders from around the world to detail the concept of aligned incentives, called "resilient dynamism," which has emerged across industries.
With 30 million new customers who will be shopping for and buying insurance products starting in October, health insurance companies need to finds ways to change their business model to one that is more focused on the consumer, as opposed to their traditional business-to-business relationships. Jean-Pierre Stephan, management consulting lead for the Health Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Practice at Accenture, recently spoke to Healthcare Finance News Senior Editor Chris Anderson about the challenges awaiting insurers as they make this transition.
Emergency medicine has been plagued in recent years with problems like physician shortages and diversion, or turning away ambulances because of overcrowding. One solution being used in many areas to reduce congestion and cut costs is the employment of nurse practitioners.
Health IT's hallowed bipartisan support ostensibly survived the presidential election and, subsequently, the fiscal cliff debate – but as the budgetary battles trudge on in Washington that fate is not so guaranteed as it once seemed.