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| Nov 21, 2025 | Why Faster Prior Authorizations Won’t Fix Healthcare’s Real Issues | Russell Graney, Founder and CEO of Aidin
Few phrases raise blood pressure among doctors and patients like “prior authorization.” Ask any clinician and you’ll hear the same story: delayed treatments, endless back-and-forth, and vulnerable in... |
| May 24, 2024 | Why It’s Time to Go on the Offensive with Healthcare Cybersecurity | Brian Montgomery, Expert Security Engineer, Altera Digital Health
Being an avid soccer fan, player, and coach, I’ve heard countless times that “the best defense is a good offense.” As a cybersecurity professional, the concept of taking acti... |
| Oct 26, 2023 | Why Telehealth is Vital for Addressing the Children’s Mental Health Crisis Affecting Emergency Departments Nationwide | The mental health crisis among children and youth is on the rise, as is glaringly evident in gridlocked emergency rooms around the country. Schools, communities, and clinics have also seen an influx of youth with mental health conditions su... |
| Oct 25, 2023 | Long-Term Staffing Benefits When Using Locum Workers | Carl Williams, Tech Times 25 October 2023, 12:10 pm
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Locum employment is often seen as a short-term solution. Since workers can set their schedule based on their desires or preferred outcomes, it could be seen as a high ... |
| Oct 20, 2023 | Healthcare-staffing startup Nomad Health just slashed its workforce for the second time this year | Healthcare job marketplace Nomad Health slashed its workforce in October, its second round of cuts this year. Nomad Health This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Sep 14, 2023 | How Telehealth Can Combat Clinician Burnout | Guy Friedman, Co-Founder and CEO of SteadyMD
The crisis of clinician burnout is worsening.
Clinicians are feeling stressed, overworked and underappreciated. Some are responding by leaving healthcare or cutting back on hours. Nearly 334,000 ... |
| Sep 1, 2023 | New York's largest health system is pushing into generative AI with help from a former Amazon exec and a $100 million venture partnership | Mark Michalski, the CEO of Ascertain. Ascertain This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Aug 3, 2023 | Former Sen. Max Baucus: Breakthrough Alzheimer’s drugs are out of reach for many in rural states like Montana | New treatments are delaying the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, giving people aging with memory decline the potential to live independently longer. But this benefit can only be fully realized if we ensure equitable access to care. Medic... |
| May 2, 2023 | Long waits to see a doctor are a public health crisis | In 2004, the physician search firm Merritt Hawkins first issued their Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times. That year, the national average wait to get in to see a new physician was 21 days, an unacceptable amount of time to wait to a... |
| May 2, 2023 | Things to do
Things to do | 10 things to know about older workers and the labor shortage | This week’s column addresses older workers, who are often perceived as an undervalued segment of the labor force. This lack of recognition was recently upended by a Wall Street Journal headline: “Bosses Want Hard Workers – So They are Hirin... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Moderna’s CEO Bancel Suggests That Lower Demand For The Covid-19 Vaccine Is A Justification For Quadrupling Of The Price | WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 22: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie ... [+] Sanders (I-VT) (L) greets Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel before he testifies to the committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capi... |
| Mar 5, 2023 | Professional Identity in Nursing: We Need It Now More Than Ever! | During the early days of the pandemic, streets across the country were filled with cheers and banging pots as we all celebrated our heroic nurses on their way home. While those days in 2020 uplifted many frontline workers, we’ve unfortunate... |
| Feb 14, 2023 | Doing More with Moore: Biotech’s Tech Moment | Eroom’s Law (the backwards Moore) is the often cited, and arguably inaccurate, observation that drug discovery gets slower and more expensive over time. It’s certainly a slog, but R&D efforts have yielded 378 new FDA-approved drugs betw... |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Outpatient healthcare services and facilities set for enormous growth | The aging U.S. population is driving demand for outpatient healthcare services facilities, reinforcing the stability of medical office assets
CHICAGO, Feb. 8, 2023 – Although they comprise only 30% of the U.S. population, the 55+ populace ... |
| Feb 7, 2023 | Specialty Pharmacy Needs a Shake Up to Help the Chronically Ill | For anyone suffering from a debilitating or life-threatening disease, the experience of procuring specialty medications is like having a second job. You are your own advocate working in a draconian system that was developed as a business, n... |
| Feb 3, 2023 | The housing shortage is the root of all of America's problems | Getty
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| Feb 1, 2023 | If You Want To Be A Truly Inclusive Leader, Take A Few Simple Pointers From The New White House Chief Of Staff | Jeff Zients, the new White House Chief of StaffGetty Images |
| Dec 27, 2022 | CMS Has The Clout To Significantly Improve Health Care Delivery, But Fearing Political And Legal Backlash Has Settled Instead For Band-Aids | US President Joe Biden signs an executive order intended to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, ... [+] after delivering remarks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 5, 2022. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Healthcare Needs the Quintuple Aim | Covid-19 shined a global spotlight on health equity. Racial and ethnic marginalized groups, the elderly and individuals living in poverty experienced higher rates of infection, morbidity and mortality from Covid-19. Far from an anomaly, the... |
| Oct 6, 2022 | As the economy teeters, many Americans are in 'wait and see' mode on big life decisions like moving and having kids | Inflation and slower growth has Americans feeling awful about an otherwise healthy economy. DjelicS/Getty Images
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| Sep 20, 2022 | Anxiety screenings might become a routine part of healthcare | The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends regular anxiety screenings for adults under 65
With the percentage of people with mental health conditions on the rise, it's becoming obvious that there needs to be a better way to identify... |
| Sep 13, 2022 | New Contact Lenses Filter Out Blue Light | (Photo: Siora Photography/Unsplash)A new type of contact lens from Johnson & Johnson filters out blue light before it can hit the retina.
Blue light is a form of high-energy light that sits just after ultraviolet light on the visible el... |
| Jul 24, 2022 | 7 Strategies To Reinvent Your Career | There's never been a better time to reinvent your career. getty |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Now is not the time for Congress to further cut hospitals’ Medicare payments | As the U.S. slowly emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, hospitals hope get back to some semblance of normal. That won’t be possible with the 1% cut in reimbursement rates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that is slat... |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Why Digital Transformation Is Imperative to Combat Healthcare’s Labor Crisis | Juan Pablo Segura, Co-founder of Babyscripts
As the coronavirus pandemic first spread across the globe, health systems turned to technology and virtual care while focusing their efforts on COVID-19 and its consequences. Physicians deployed ... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | Iodine Software: Understanding AI and Its Applications Across Health Care
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| Feb 7, 2022 | Mimecast : Healthcare's High Risk of Brand Impersonation | As employees get smarter about spotting common cyberattacks, hackers keep getting more creative. One of the more sophisticated types of attacks is brand impersonation, in which attackers pretend to be a well-known brand in an effort to get ... |
| Jan 21, 2022 | InnovaHealth Partners discusses healthcare market trends and landscape with Eric Larsen from the Advisory Board Company on newest webinar | We are pleased to share the replay of our latest webinar, InnovaHealth Partners Talk Live Eric Larsen from the Advisory Board Company, on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. The discussion was hosted by Dr. Toby Cosgrove, former CEO of Cleveland Cli... |
| Jan 6, 2022 | CancerIQ Expands Platform and Leadership to Support Population-Wide Precision Cancer Prevention | CHICAGO (PRWEB) January 06, 2022
CancerIQ, the first and only comprehensive precision cancer prevention solution, has enhanced its platform and added new executive talent to meet the massive demand for more efficient and innovative cancer p... |
| Dec 23, 2021 | 01-18-22: InnovaHealth Partners Talk Live with Eric Larsen of The Advisory Board Company | Please join us for a 30-minute discussion, followed by a Q&A session, featuring Eric Larsen, President of The Advisory Board Company, Dr. Toby Cosgrove, former CEO of Cleveland Clinic and our firm’s Senior Partner, and Tim Berkowitz, ou... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | 10 tech and startup trends we didn’t see coming in Delaware in 2021 | Not much has been predictable in the last couple of years of social calamity, economic instability, climate catastrophe and a continuing pandemic.
2021 started off with an attack on the US Capitol, and that pretty much set the tone for Year... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Time is Money in Healthcare Administration. How Much Are You Losing? | Eric Demers, CEO of Madaket Health
Administrative complexity is a billion-dollar problem, riddled with human-led, hand-done steps that simply don’t need to exist.
In a given year, approximately a quarter to one-third of our healthcare spend... |
| Oct 14, 2021 | Necessary tools for nursing | We are only beginning to truly recognize the lack of real personal mental protection for nurses and hospital staff from the very real dangers of compassion fatigue and burnout — a problem that has been present for much longer than it has be... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | A fast food franchisee consultant is telling owners that they must require vaccinations for workers: ‘It’s about staying open’ | A fast food franchise expert says that restaurants should require employees get vaccinated.
Cooks and cashiers have some of the most dangerous jobs during the pandemic.
Franchisees need to keep up high sales volumes to remain profitable.
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| Aug 11, 2021 | Will the doctor-patient relationship survive as primary care gets distrupted? | Most companies still allow patients to develop long-term relationships with a primary care physician
While there are plenty of new startups emerging to disrupt primary care, the idea is still pretty new. In fact, many of these companies hav... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | Amazon Delivers Healthcare
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Amazon is maneuvering to become a dominant player in direct-to-consumer (D2C) healthcare services, beginning with its online pharmacy and telehealth services for its employees. It may acquire more healthcare delivery outle... |
| Jul 12, 2021 | Moderna confronts a $100 billion question | Hello,
Welcome to Insider Healthcare. I’m Zachary Tracer, and today in healthcare news:
We examined Moderna’s transformation, and what comes next;
The head of the FDA is calling for a probe of her agency’s decision to approve Aduhelm;
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| Jun 16, 2021 | Discharged into debt: A chronic diagnosis | It is impossible to discuss healthcare without acknowledging the severe financial burden placed on consumers. Financial hardship is practically woven into the DNA of the US healthcare system. Today, medical debt is the number one cause of b... |
| Mar 8, 2021 | Evaluating Current Hospital Compliance Programs Could Save Millions | CEO of Protenus, leveraging AI to reduce risk and improve patient trust for healthcare systems across North America. |
| Feb 18, 2021 | Here’s why a surprising number of healthcare workers are rejecting COVID-19 vaccines despite having witnessed the immense suffering of the pandemic | A nurse administering a dose of the Moderna vaccine in Los Angeles. Twenty to 40% of frontline workers in Los Angeles have refused a shot. Mario Tama/Getty Images
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is above average for healthcare workers.
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| Feb 17, 2021 | Here’s why a surprising number of healthcare workers are rejecting the vaccine, despite having witnessed the immense suffering of the COVID-19 pandemic | A nurse administers a dose of the Moderna vaccine in Los Angeles, California. Between 20 and 40% of frontline workers in Los Angeles have refused a shot. Mario Tama/Getty Images
Vaccine hesitancy is above average for healthcare workers work... |
| Jan 25, 2021 | Universities Prepare For New Strains Of The Coronavirus | U.S. universities are just beginning to see cases of the new B.1.1.7 mutation of the coronavirus.getty |
| Nov 30, 2020 | In Australia, The Future Of Telemedicine Is Here | getty |
| Nov 25, 2020 | As the pandemic shatters Americans’ mental health, the FDA, psychiatrists, and developers are betting on smartphone apps to treat them directly | A woman seen walking past a charity’s shopfront in Stoke-on-Trent, England, on October 28, 2020. Nathan Stirk/Getty Images
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the US mental-health crisis, with apps like Calm and Headspace booming as peopl... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | As the pandemic shatters Americans' mental health, the FDA, psychiatrists, and developers are betting on smartphone apps to treat them directly | The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the US mental-health crisis, with apps like Calm and Headspace booming as people try to cope.
Now, a new cohort of apps are working to directly treat mental illness, rather than just help people get by.... |
| Nov 17, 2020 | Change management: Why implementing shifts to these 3 health care initiatives faces resistance | Image: iStock/Ridofranz Must-read CXO coverage
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| Nov 13, 2020 | ‘Breakthrough finding’ reveals why certain Covid patients die | Advancing age and underlying medical problems explain only part of the phenomenon, said Ranney, who has seen patients of similar age, background and health status follow wildly different trajectories.
“Why does one 40-year-old get really si... |
| Nov 6, 2020 | Zooming into the next phase of care delivery: 10 emerging trends in a post-COVID-19 world | |
| Nov 5, 2020 | Here’s How Social Impact Can Make You Unbelievably Successful | Social impact consultant Taryn Miller-Stevens.Courtesy of Taryn Miller-Stevens |
| Oct 14, 2020 | If You Think Mike Pence Was Rude To Kamala Harris, I Have Bad News | In the rush of news since the vice presidential debate—which, to my unrelenting horror, I realized happened last week, and not in fact back in July—it’s easy to lose track of things that matter, especially when they’re so small. So much gal... |
| Oct 4, 2020 | Consumer healthcare behavior is changing: 3 changes that will stick post-Covid in the healthcare revenue cycle | What are the Covid-related changes in consumer behavior that will stick in the healthcare revenue cycle following the pandemic—and how can the healthcare revenue cycle proactively respond? Here are three trends that could reshape customer s... |
| Oct 1, 2020 | Care At The Counter: Technology And Policy Are Empowering Pharmacists | According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the U.S. is staring down the barrel of a primary care physician (PCP) shortage to the tune of 21,000 to 55,000 primary care providers (PCPs) by 2023. This is worrisome on its... |
| Sep 25, 2020 | Medical Cannabis Use For Mental Health Increased During Covid-19 Pandemic, Study Finds | Wounded Brain with Marijuana Leafgetty |
| Jul 22, 2020 | Beyond Covid-19: 5 opportunities for startups to reshape the future healthcare landscape | The novel coronavirus pandemic has upended the world as we know it, taking an unprecedented toll on health and human life. The healthcare ecosystem has quickly mobilized to mitigate the crisis – modifying care access points and modalities w... |
| Jun 24, 2020 | How The Pandemic Has Opened The Door For Data-Driven Health Care | Ashish Kachru is Co-Founder and CEO of Altruista Health, developer of the industry’s leading care management and population health platform. |
| Jun 10, 2020 | How Artificial Intelligence is escalating in cybersecurity | When progressive technologies start to deliver on their potential, we can expect a wholesale shift of vendors looking to get on the bandwagon. First the technology enthusiasts and early adopters will come to validate the promises of the new... |
| May 24, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #103 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
My latest piece of writing is a profile of Rich Osborn, the managing part... |
| May 22, 2020 | Nuclear medicine startup ARTMS Products raises $26.4 million CAD Series A | Vancouver-based startup ARTMS Products, which produces medical isotopes, has raised a $26.4 million CAD ($19 million USD) Series A funding round. This round brings the company’s total funding to more than $30 million CAD ($26 million USD).
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| May 19, 2020 | Microsoft Build 2020: Microsoft’s new Cloud for Healthcare lets doctors schedule telemedicine visits in Teams | https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200515_MJ_Larry_Build.mp4
Microsoft’s chatbot projects with hospitals in the early days of the coronavirus epidemic was just the beginning of an expansion of its software de... |
| May 7, 2020 | Elon Musk keeps attacking lockdowns and US coronavirus death counts. His arguments ignore a dangerous reality. | Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
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Elon Musk has suggested that coronavirus death counts in the US are inaccurately high.
He criticised the federal government for classifying all coronavirus patient deaths as Covid-19 deaths, rega... |
| Apr 24, 2020 | Moving Analytics Recognized for Virtual Cardiac Rehab Success | Moving Analytics Recognized for Virtual Cardiac Rehab Success April 24, 2020 / Nueterra Capital Marketing
The recent Advisory Board article “How virtual cardiac rehab can fill the Covid-19 treatment gap” cites Nueterra Capital portfolio com... |
| Feb 26, 2020 | With $1.8M fundraise, Pyx wants to be “prescriptive solution to loneliness” | Based in Tucson, Arizona, Pyx Health has raised $3.5 million overall since its founding in 2017. The company’s app made its debut in 2018 and has nearly 4,000 users so far.
The app tackles a problem that many healthcare experts see as costl... |
| Jan 13, 2020 | The Boldest Healthcare Prediction For 2020: Business As Usual | Getty |
| Oct 3, 2019 | Walmart to give workers financial incentives to use higher-quality doctors | Walmart is working with Embold Health of Nashville, a recent startup company that uses data to analyze whether doctors provide “appropriate, effective and cost-efficient care.” Embold CEO Daniel Stein was a Walmart executive from 2013 to 20... |
| Aug 21, 2019 | Trump is trying to end secret health care price negotiations. You should be on his side | President Trump signed an executive order in June that could force price disclosure in health care. Insurers, doctors, and hospitals would have to reveal the secretly negotiated rates they pay for services or charge for them. A month later,... |
| Jul 26, 2019 | Moral injury and burnout in medicine: a year of lessons learned | When we began exploring the concept of moral injury to explain the deep distress that U.S. health care professionals feel today, it was something of a thought experiment aimed at erasing the preconceived notions of what was driving the disi... |
| May 17, 2019 | Major health companies that are reshaping clinics | That includes insurance companies and medtech companies, and even retail stores like CVS and Walmart
Editor's note: Vator, HP and UCSF's salon - "Future of Clinics" is on June 27. Need relationships to grow your digital health sta... |
| Mar 18, 2019 | The policy initiatives Scott Gottlieb championed at the FDA will remain after he departs | The resignation of Scott Gottlieb as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration raises a big question: Will the policies so publicly advocated by Gottlieb continue after his departure?
Gottlieb has been one of the most communications-... |
| Jan 4, 2019 | Behavioral health innovation two years later: Why is adoption taking so long? | |
| Sep 29, 2018 | Seattle Children’s and Boston Children’s Hospitals Join to Build the Flu Doctor Alexa Skill | Seattle Children’s and Boston Children’s Hospitals Join to Build the Flu Doctor Alexa Skill
Maddie Iribarren on September 29, 2018 at 12:29 pm
Available now, an Amazon Alexa skill called the ‘Flu Doctor’ has come just in time for flu season... |
| Oct 30, 2017 | AI is transforming medical diagnosis, prosthetics, and vision aids | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
While the repercussions of a fully AI-driven worl... |
| Oct 11, 2017 | Weakening the Affordable Care Act will boost hospitals’ financial burden | While the Trump administration and the Republican-led Congress failed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, a number of ACA-weakening strategies put forward by the administration are already underway. These include inadequate enfor... |
| Sep 7, 2017 | Value-based care week 4: the legal framework | The new challenges to the healthcare regulatory regime
This weekly focuses on the legal framework for value-based care. Often when I am asked to explain value-based care, I begin my response with reference to the laws that initiated the shi... |
| Aug 30, 2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, August 30 | MEET ME AT THE BARRE
Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Here’s an interesting deal that caught my eye yesterday.
Paid Content Securing the enterprise without boundaries From ExtraHop
This is Hyatt’s second acquisition in the wellness space. ... |
| Aug 29, 2017 | Vista Equity to Acquire Advisory Board’s Education Business for $1.55B | The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO), a distinctive provider of research, technology and consulting to health care organizations and education institutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to sell... |
| Aug 29, 2017 | Advisory Board sells healthcare business to Optum as part of $2.58 billion deal | Initially, Vista will acquire EAB, Advisory Board’s education business that includes Royall & Company, for $1.55 billion.
Next, the company’s healthcare business will merge with Optum in a $1.3 billion deal, which includes the assumptio... |
| Aug 18, 2017 | Artificial intelligence is coming to medicine — don’t be afraid | Automation could replace one-third of U.S. jobs within 15 years. Oxford and Yale experts recently predicted that artificial intelligence could outperform humans in a variety of tasks by 2045, ranging from writing novels to performing surger... |
| May 2, 2017 | Urgent care services for cancer patients is an emerging trend among hospitals | “I thought I’d be waiting there all night,” said Craig, 33. But the hospital had already lined up a blood draw before she arrived and then sent her directly to get X-rays.
Clinicians had details of her cancer care at their fingertips. “They... |
| Mar 30, 2017 | 5 healthcare trends impacting cancer care | Reimbursement and reform are at a turning point.
The healthcare industry is “continuing to grapple with how to deal with cost,” Conway said, something that will “remain true regardless of what happens in Congress.” As healthcare repeal, ref... |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Newly approved cardiac stent may provide alternative for some patients | There is a concern that cardiac stents are overused.
In fact, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2011 found that only 50 percent of stent procedures reflected in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry... |
| Jan 13, 2017 | CMS tries new model for rural health in Pennsylvania | The stated purpose is to provide predictable funding to allow rural hospitals to “deliberately redesign the care they deliver.”
Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, praised the program, describing it as “designed to address the challenges faced by ru... |
| Dec 27, 2016 | Mind the gap between population health and care management | In an Advisory Board study, experts analyzed a modeled capitated Medicare contract in which 5 percent of patients were high-risk, 20 percent were rising-risk, and the other 75 percent were moderate- to low-risk. The study calculated that if... |
| Dec 27, 2016 | An Obamacare success: financial penalties reduce hospital readmission rates | The Affordable Care Act, often known as Obamacare, has caused a lot of controversy. Much of the act could be repealed soon. But in making decisions about future health policy, the act’s successes shouldn’t be overlooked. One of these is red... |
| Nov 15, 2016 | With $31.5M Series C round, CareCloud makes patient experience a priority | Comée said the vendor is working with PNC Financial Services Group and First Data Corp to simplify and improve the process of delivering and financing healthcare and to make technology as user friendly as the retail and banking sectors.
“We... |
| Aug 26, 2016 | Self-funded employers need to educate employees to help them make smarter insurance decisions | So yes, it would be nice if America’s healthcare cost problem could be simply solved. But no, don’t expect it to happen with a single, tidy solution.
The current en vogue single, tidy solution is the high deductible health plan (HDHP). The ... |
| Aug 19, 2016 | Iron Yard director Brian LeDuc wants to get coffee with you | “I have to understand this community before I can actively align myself with the demands that exist,” Brian LeDuc tells me over coffee in Metro Center. And this is precisely what the energetic new director of The Iron Yard’s D.C. campus is ... |
| Aug 9, 2016 | What’s the outlook for 2017 employee healthcare costs? | Employers are changing tactics to address the trend, slowing the shift to worker cost sharing and instead offering video or telephone links to doctors, scrutinizing specialty-drug costs and steering patients to hospitals with records of low... |
| Aug 4, 2016 | Here’s a quick primer on the 2017 Medicare hospital payment rules | Hospitals should expect to see higher Medicare inpatient payments by 0.95 percent and a decrease of 7.1 percent for long-term care in fiscal year 2017. That’s the bottom line in a massive, 2,434-page rule the Centers for Medicare and Medica... |
| Jul 19, 2016 | ‘Microhospitals’ are next evolution of standalone ER | “The big opportunity for these is for health systems that want to establish a strong foothold in a really attractive market,” said Fred Bentley, a vice president at the Center for Payment & Delivery Innovation at Avalere Health. “If you... |
| Jun 28, 2016 | MACRA responses hit CMS for short timeline, high reporting burden | Photo: YouTube user U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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| Feb 1, 2016 | Arkansas matters: How it deals with Obamacare could change how healthcare is handled nationwide | However, in a red state like Arkansas, dominated by anti-Obamacare lawmakers, the future of the expansion is politically tenuous. In 2013, Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe worked with a Republican-controlled legislature to craft a bipartisan comp... |
| Jan 19, 2016 | How Insourcing Sales Reps Creates More Collaboration Between Manufacturers and Hospitals | The model these days for the relationship between sales representatives and health care providers puts hospitals at a disadvantage. Sales reps have a considerable amount of influence on product utilization. Thus, hospitals tend to not trust... |
| Jan 15, 2016 | Has the demise of Meaningful Use been greatly exaggerated? | Indeed, the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System, which is replacing the hated Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, consolidates the the Physician Quality Reporting System, Meaningful Use and the recently implemented Medicare value-based p... |
| Nov 6, 2015 | White House pushing ACA enrollment with ‘Healthy Communities’ | Atlanta*
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| Jul 21, 2015 | Y Combinator-Backed CareLedger Aims To Provide Free Medical Care To Employees | Digital health startup CareLedger launched out of Y Combinator today to provide the workers of the world with free, quality medical care.
That’s no small feat. The U.S. has one of the most expensive and least functional medical systems in t... |
| Apr 30, 2015 | How Baptist Health System made Obamacare work | To understand how the health law is supposed to fix the mediocre, overpriced, absurd medical system, you could read wonky research papers on bundled payments and accountable care organizations.
Or you could look at what’s going on at Baptis... |
| Mar 6, 2015 | Questioning the AbbVie deal, medical device talks gay marriage and cyberattacks lawsuits (Morning Read) | All facets of the medical industry should take a stand on gay marriage. It was nice to see these announcements in the medical device industry.
Cyberattack repercussions are coming to the forefront – for example, the Washington hospital fili... |
