Revenue Cycle Departments Increase Productivity
A two-year rise in revenue cycle department productivity is attributed to outsourcing and staff ability to handle more claims in less time.
The Impact of Duplicate Patient Records on Revenue
Duplicate patient records have a negative impact on value-based payment strategies as well as staff productivity and patient satisfaction.
Have Hospitals Done Enough to Reduce Costs?
John Johnston describes the need for a meaningful, long-term plan to cut costs.
Reimagining Cross-Continuum Relationships
This article examines how DHG Healthcare partnered with a health system to improve care coordination for hip replacements due to fracture.
Palliative Care in the ED Improves Value
Although implementing palliative care processes in the ED is challenging initially, such care can reduce avoidable costs and unnecessary suffering.
How Medicare Advantage, Medicaid Managed Care Plans Can Improve Quality Reporting
Integration of risk, quality, and care programs is among the steps that can help health plans in the government-sponsored healthcare space lower the burden of accurately documenting and reporting quality metrics.
Q&A: Value-Based Payment Models Require New Workforce Approaches
Newer models provide an opportunity to use staffing strategies to fill in care gaps in a way that enhances healthcare quality, leaders say.
Value-Based Care Requires More Versatile Talent
As the lines between health plans and providers blur in today’s integrated healthcare organizations, leaders recognize the benefits of sharing and developing talent across traditional organizational and industry boundaries.
Using dashboards to improve productivity
Whether implementing dashboard software or developing dashboards manually, organizational culture, audience size, and customization are critical to success.
Another Innovative Strategy: Create Your Own Drug Company
The primary goal of Intermountain Healthcare’s not-for-profit generic drug company is to help patients by eliminating drug shortages.