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While AHIP Institute's session programming takes on most of the major and timely topics of the industry both in its general sessions and concurrent sessions, it also provides attendees who are early risers with highly focused information during its Networking Breakfasts program.
With technology playing a bigger and bigger role both in how healthcare is delivered to populations as well as where it is delivered, AHIP Institute 2012 will present a general session at 10 a.m. Thursday called "Brave New World of Health Care: At the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Delivery System Transformation" to help attendees better understand how emerging technologies are transforming the face of the industry.
This past March, Texas Children's Hospital in Houston opened its Texas Children's Hospital Pavilion for Women after recently expanding a new West Campus in an effort to meet growing needs and a shift in population base. And with this growth came an excellent opportunity to streamline the system's supply chain.
Around 3,000 executives from the health insurance sector and related industries will converge beginning Wednesday in Salt Lake City for AHIP Institute 2012. This year's event is sure to be lively considering the impending Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act and the upcoming presidential election.
Insurance companies are faced with myriad challenges in today's market, not the least of which is finding how they will both upgrade their IT infrastructure and organizational capabilities in order to effectively execute new payment models.
To help organizations develop a solid framework for these changes, enterprise-class software company HealthEdge will present a session, "Five Steps to Market Reinvention: Supporting ACOs, Exchanges and Other Reform Initiatives," at 7:00 a.m. on Friday at AHIP's Institute 2012.
The recipients of 81 new Health Care Innovation Awards were announced last week by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
The American Medical Association's fifth annual National Health Insurer Report Card shows that the number of medical claims paid incorrectly by the nation's largest health insurers was cut in half last year, down to 9.5 percent of claims.
Creating specialized hospital units for elderly people with acute medical illness could reduce national healthcare costs by as much as $6 billion a year, according to a recent study by University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers.
Harvey Riceberg, inpatient pharmacy supervisor at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada tells Healthcare Finance News Editor Rene Letourneau how the organization saved $750,000 in drug waste costs by implementing a new technology into their drug administering process.
Last week, Kimberly-Clark Health Care announced the four recipients of the second-annual HAI WATCHDOG Awards, created to recognize the efforts of healthcare professionals working together to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).