How naviHealth is harnessing data to improve patient outcomes
Using the company's nH Predict tool, clinicians are better able to predict a patient's outcomes and generate a personalized post-acute care plan.
Healthcare organizations are advancing their tech initiatives in these areas
An EY survey of 347 physicians and healthcare executives found respondents have undertaken staff satisfaction-related projects and are planning initiatives around analytics.
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Discover the Most Effective Aquatic Therapy Programs in Chicago Suburbs
Incorporating aquatic therapy can enhance patient outcomes and shorten recovery times for health care professionals. In the Chicago suburbs, the demand for such programs is rising.
Advocating for clinical wearables, the new normal in healthcare
Clinical wearables have the potential to streamline healthcare industry costs and operations worldwide cannot and should not be ignored.
GE Healthcare and Hartford HealthCare launch 7-year collaboration
GE Healthcare and Hartford HealthCare are collaborating for the long-term to work toward solutions for faster, better care.
Gawande looks at the costly problem of wasteful care
Dr. Atul Gawande has done it again. Writing in the New Yorker, Gawande, a general surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, author and MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipient, painstakingly explains the “epidemic of unnecessary care” that bears much of the blame for the country’s runaway healthcare costs and preventable deaths. Gawande also looked […]
Cigna chief medical officer says ‘gap of hopefulness’ separates FDA approval & reimbursement
Cost effectiveness and outcomes drive value for payers, Cigna‘s Chief Medical Officer Alan Muney said. While some medical device companies assume an FDA approval will mean a definite reimbursement nod from payers, these two forces drive a sometimes wrongheaded “gap of hopefulness” for the industry. (See his discussion of why device companies need to think […]
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RCM Outsourcing: Balancing Human Expertise & Smart Technology
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
Of course hospitals make money from complications!
A new JAMA article (Relationship Between Occurrence of Surgical Complications and Hospital Finances) by a variety of health care wonks including some of my former Boston Consulting Group colleagues demonstrates that hospitals make more money when surgical patients have complications. The article is useful in that it documents the extent of the situation but the [...]