To navigate the integration process successfully, healthcare executives must take steps to best align their people with the vision for the newly combined organization.
The standard must highlight evidenced-based practice, such as proven treatments to manage diseases.
Electronic signature pads save money and reduce paper waste at health systems.
Healthcare executives are highly visible. Leaders must recognize the risk and take steps to ensure their safety and protect the organization.
There are five steps healthcare systems can take to improve their procurement processes to unlock new cost savings in the supply chain.
The researchers also sought to learn whether any particular patient group had worse outcomes from COVID-19 than other vulnerable populations.
The healthcare industry needs creative solutions that focus on attracting more students into nursing.
Without AI, no healthcare organization is going to be able to keep up with the amount of clinical documentation as more healthcare data is generated and jobs go unfilled.
CMS is moving to a value-based reimbursement program for home health agencies. This change represents a generational opportunity for agencies to implement new models of in-home care.
To remain independent and relevant, mid-sized insurers must seek meaningful alliances with like-minded organizations.
Balancing increasing demand, workforce challenges and new technology with a new model of whole person care.
There’s a lot of mythology and ignorance around what women want in the healthcare marketplace. Finding the truth means looking deeper, and more critically, into unmet needs.
Moving healthcare home is just part of the growing personalization of healthcare that has been made possible by advancements in technologies that seamlessly connect a patient to their care team.
Medicaid, which offers coverage to nearly 80 million Americans, has evolved far beyond basic care toward whole-person care. The program could use more entrepreneurs.
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven healthcare organizations, even in a crisis, need to tirelessly forge ahead with innovation to be successful. Senior-level healthcare executives need to follow the macro-trends driving the industry forward.
By making the care process more efficient, technology can relieve administrative burdens, help clinicians participate more fully in integrated, patient-centered care and refill depleted practice coffers.
With these action items, providers can realistically take steps and make an impact on the overall picture of health equity.
To remain independent and relevant, mid-sized insurers must seek meaningful alliances with like-minded organizations.
While the financial pressures facing hospitals are vast, there are clear steps that can be taken to improve operational efficiency and strengthen margins.
With better, unbiased data, hospitals can gain insights that will help drive improvements in pharmacy spending.
Many leading health systems have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technology to schedule surgeries more effectively.
In the last week of 2023 and the first two weeks of 2024 alone, 4,810 people 65 and older lost their lives to covid — a group that would fill more than 10 large airliners.
A new CVS Health initiative uses a localized approach to increase mental health care accessibility and affordability, particularly for vulnerable populations like young adults and people of color.
Patients have come to expect fast, convenient and safe care when and where they want it.
Services such as Buy Now, Pay Later and Pay-Over-Time are helping people afford healthcare services that were out of reach, Austin Talley writes.
According to Pew Research, 96% of Americans own a cell phone and 81% have a smartphone, which are the devices they use to communicate and access information on a daily basis.
Health systems need to invest in top talent and utilize AI tools to protect their organizations.
Organizations focus on training employees against social engineering attacks. But they risk leaving themselves open to attacks that exploit network software vulnerabilities.
The convergence of technological advances with a heightened demand for personalized, flexible approaches to care, forms the basis for the future of life sciences.