Best Practices for Securing and Protecting Patients’ Financial Data
When we think about data breaches, attacks on major retailers often come to mind. Yet, between 2010 and 2015, criminal attacks on healthcare data increased by 125 percent. In 2016 alone, there were 329 significant data breaches exposing more than 16 million records.
What’s Behind an Innovative Tool?
A specialized department to help clinicians and researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital get their innovative ideas to market.
Henry Ford Health System Builds a Population Health Management Platform
The health system’s plan for value-based care involves centralizing core population health management functions and integrating data from multiple sources.
A Cost-Effective Solution for Strengthening Cybersecurity
Mary Chaput suggests captives as an underutilized solution to cybersecurity risks.
Progress Via Collaboration
Philadelphia-based Independence Blue Cross and Penn Medicine have collaborated with a venture accelerator to launch a slew of healthcare startups, learning key lessons along the way.
Trending Solutions for Rising Drug Prices
Understanding the efficacy of high-cost drug across large patient populations will help providers, payers, and pharmaceutical companies to understand the value of certain drugs and offer patients their life-saving value.
Achieving Dramatic Healthcare Savings With a 140-Year-Old Innovation: The Telephone
Mary Jane Konstantin discusses how the telephone provides a fast, cost-effective way for nurses to provide patient care.
Combining Data Across Care Sites Specialties and Provider Types for More Complete Cost Accounting
Adding professional services data to department-level costs can help hospital leaders understand all relevant costs in an increasingly value-focused environment.
Augusta University Health System Leverages Decision Support for Costing and Planning
By integrating case cost data with financial data in their decision support system, the health system can now gain a clear picture of the true cost of a single patient case.
The Self-Pay Compliance Problem: Payment Security
David King discusses the hospital’s role as “merchant” when patients use credit cards to pay for their care.