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• Leveraging Comparative Data To Improve Value-Based Contract Performance

  7/5/2017

  Whatever the future holds for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the move from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursements is expected to continue. By Matt Waltrich, RemitDATA

• What Hospitals Can Learn From Amazon, Southwest Airlines And Disney

  7/28/2017

  Achieving operational efficiency is as important to a hospital’s mission of providing the best care to the most people as it is to for-profit, customer-centric service organizations. Southwest Airlines, Amazon, and Walt Disney theme parks may seem as far removed from healthcare as one can imagine but, operationally, the tools, motivations, and management processes they incorporate are similar and have proven effective when applied to healthcare. Yet, even at some of the best-run hospitals, just a few understand and fully leverage these tools and procedures to optimize their operations.

• Medical Device Security And Risk Management: Healthcare Delivery Organizations (HDOs) At The Intersection Of The FDA And OCR

  2/25/2019

  When it comes to managing cybersecurity risk associated with medical devices, HDOs find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Misaligned incentives and confusing guidance from multiple directions have made it difficult for HDOs to know what to do. In this confusing climate, the deck may seem stacked against HDOs that want to improve. Fortunately, they are not in the fight alone.

• Vanguard Urologic Institute Reduces Patient Wait Times Via Self-Service

  1/18/2011

  This case study highlights how a self-service kiosk registration solution allowed Vanguard Urologic Institute to reduce average patient wait times to 2 minutes, versus the national average of 21.3 minutes.
• 8 Musts For Community Healthcare Providers' 2015 IT Plan

  1/7/2015

  If you are a community healthcare provider, you have just been through a time where the pace of change and confusion couldn’t be greater. Predicting the future can literally mean trying to understand what is going to be different in just six short months from now. The old notion of a five-year strategic plan has gone out the window in favor of one-year action plans. Simply put, there is a “new normal” that we must accept related to pace of change. In light of that, I’d like to offer a few thoughts on what you might expect to incorporate into your IT Plans for 2015. By Phil Stravers, ICE Technologies, Inc.

• How Did We Get Here? Hospital Analytics And The New Normal

  8/13/2020

  I have heard the word “unprecedented” so many times in 2020 that it has lost its significance; many of us have become desensitized to the extraordinary changes in the world this year. However, I am challenged to find a better word to describe the current healthcare crisis and ensuing turmoil and uncertainty about the future. As our new normal continually evolves, we have seen unprecedented changes within our healthcare environment.