FEATURED CONTENT

• EHR Switch: Never Underestimate Need For Support

  3/28/2014

  Lisa McChesney, director of information systems at UPMC Hamot discusses the technological challenges of the “Big Bang,” from network connectivity to active directory to resolving or modifying IP addresses. She also speaks to the importance of assigning someone with project management skills when looking for champions, as well as the importance of “seeking first to understand.”

• 4 Healthcare Industry Predictions For 2017

  9/23/2016

  As 2016 comes to a close, recollections from 2016 and predictions for 2017 will begin to fill up your email inbox and the pages of your favorite publications. While policy wonks in different domains wax poetically about foreign relations, the economy, and military spending, I wanted to pay homage to the healthcare industry by offering a few predictions of my own. By Todd Bennett, Director, Vertical Market, LexisNexis Health Care

• Patient Engagement Solutions Are Here. Now.

  4/6/2015

  A five-year roadmap to a patient engagement platform might be five years too long. By Kathleen Fowler

• Improve ACO And Post-Acute-Care Provider Collaboration Through Interoperability

  2/22/2016

  Nearly 40 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are discharged from a hospital to a post-acute care setting, which means the communication and data sharing between these two institutions is crucial, considering as many as 19 percent of those beneficiaries are readmitted within 30 days. Those readmissions impact accountable care organizations’ (ACOs) and senior care organizations’ revenue in several ways. If rates are too high, the hospital participant(s) in the ACO could receive an avoidable readmission penalty from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which can be as much as 3 percent of their Medicare payments. Readmissions also increase costs, decreasing the potential bundled payment for the ACO if it participates in a risk-bearing payment program, such as the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). By Aric Agmon, Executive Vice President and President, MatrixCare CCRC Solutions

• Crowd-Solving The Employee Retention Crisis: Keeping Nurses Happy And On The Job

  2/1/2018

  Nurses are, in many ways, unsung heroes. They serve in one of the noblest professions, but in many healthcare systems they are overworked and underappreciated. In hospital settings, they are at risk of injury and exposure to dangerous pathogens. The National Healthcare Retention and Staffing Report, produced annually by Nursing Solutions, Inc., found that turnover of registered nurses stood at 16.2 percent in 2016. The rate is much higher for Certified Nursing Assistants and in specific departments such as emergency care and behavioral health.

• 5 Steps To QPP Compliance

  6/21/2017

  Physician practices ignore the new Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) at the risk of their financial future. While not participating is an option, that choice will lower your practice’s Medicare reimbursement rate by 4 percent starting in 2019 — so it’s really not an option to consider. By Timothy Mills, Chief Growth Officer, Alpha II