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• How Fake Emails Have Become A Real Threat

  8/1/2018

  To start the year, news broke of an attack that used a phishing email scam to steal 30,000 medical records from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. Similar phishing attacks have happened every month since the November attack, exposing tens of thousands more records. More attacks are assuredly underway — and on the way.

• Optimize Pop Health Management For Patients With Serious Illnesses

  4/11/2017

  A growing number of healthcare payers are seizing the opportunity to optimize their population health management (PHM) programs for seriously ill patients. By Greer Myers, President, Turn-Key Health

• How To Work With A Tele-ICU Partner: Optimizing Clinical, Operational, And Financial Outcomes

  1/5/2016

  Hospital intensive care units (ICUs) represent a microcosm of the interesting challenges present in today’s healthcare ecosystem — balancing the increasing demand for healthcare services with the increasing costs of those services. As baby boomers age, there is a large and growing population that requires critical care; however, the resources available to treat them — physicians trained in critical care, or intensivists — are increasingly spread thin. While ICUs represent approximately 10 percent of hospital beds, they account for nearly 30 percent of its costs. Consequently, an ICU’s ability to treat patients not only effectively, but efficiently, is intricately tied to the hospital’s overall performance. By Lou Silverman, CEO, Advanced ICU Care

• Transitioning Release Of Information Workflow From Silos To Enterprise: A Primer For The Healthcare Industry

  3/15/2017

  Healthcare systems across the country are inundated daily by an enormous amount of record requests from patients, attorneys, care providers, payers, government agencies, and other third parties. By Marty McKenna, Chief Executive Officer, Verisma Systems, Inc.

• Cost Transparency Is Not Enough — Engagement Is Critical

  6/21/2016

  It’s more imperative than ever for health plans and employers to offer not only cost transparency tools, but support them with proactive engagement. Engagement is key to driving utilization of cost transparency and provider search and, thus, cost savings. Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association did a study on cost transparency and its results. They found that, rather than helping members spend less and save, health spending actually increased for the member populations. The word that was not mentioned? Engagement.

• Top Medical CMS: What Should Reliable Healthcare Providers Know To Get A Great One?

  12/27/2017

  Tech environment is evolving at incredible speed challenging the rooted principles of business processes within mid- and large-scale medical organizations. Healthcare providers feel the need for full or partial customization of latest solutions to rationalize the workflow and boost consumers’ loyalty.