Strategic Planning
No matter what system is used for communicating patient information between physicians, it should be routinely assessed for deficiencies.
Walgreens said it is cutting ties with two accountable care organizations, though the nation's largest pharmacy chain has also launched a new partnership on the West Coast to help manage ACO patients.
The expansion of insurance coverage to some 10 million individuals in 2014 has implications for the growth rate in national health expenditures and on health workforce requirements. While there is broad agreement that spending and utilization will be pushed upward, there is much debate about the amounts.
As 2014 winds down, we've taken a look back at some of the biggest stories in healthcare finance in the past year. See what you may have missed.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare has named Lori Ritchey-Baldwin chief financial officer after serving as vice president of finance for the past two years
Between online marketplaces for Social Security numbers and data hijackings at Sony and critical access hospitals, catching and preventing fraud has never been more important or dependent on technology.
Last week's initial public offering for biotech company Juno Therapeutics could pay dividends for several Seattle-based healthcare providers as the company brings its cancer treatments to market.
Most healthcare organizations offer benefit programs aimed at keeping workers in both good physical and mental health. But less common are healthcare employers that can prove those same programs actually save the organization money.
Why has healthcare lagged so far behind information technology in terms of innovation? Focusing on that question will allow us to move beyond our endless squabble over how many people have an insurance card in their wallet.
More than $665 million will be distributed to states around the country to test new service and payment models, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday.