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• Telehealth Is Tumbling 30-Day Readmissions Penalties

  10/27/2016

  High readmission rates are a $17 billion problem across the U.S. for hospital administrators. What’s even more alarming is a portion of 30-day readmissions are preventable. By Lee Horner, President of Stratus’s Telehealth Division, HIT Leaders and News

• HIPAA Compliance In The Age Of Mobile Messaging

  10/25/2019

  Mobile messaging has permeated a variety of industries, offering anyone with access to a smartphone the opportunity to quickly and easily communicate across their organization in an accessible and familiar manner. For an industry as demanding and fast-paced as healthcare, mobile messaging has emerged as a particularly valuable tool.

• How To Keep Hospital ORs Running Smoothly During M&A Integration

  1/30/2019

  The healthcare industry is undergoing a major transformation. In response to rising costs, shrinking reimbursements, and an ever-changing regulatory environment, hospitals and health systems are left searching for ways to reinvent themselves. For many, the answer is merging with, or acquiring, another hospital or health system.

• Providing Accessible Medication Amid The Data Chaos

  1/13/2017

  With the creation of the 340B Drug Discount Program in 1992, the U.S government produced a new kind of marketplace, one designed to provide prescription medication to eligible healthcare organizations and their qualifying patients at significantly reduced prices. By Dave Brunswick, vice president of solution, Cleo

• The Project Doctor Is In: The Importance Of Routine Project Health Checks

  11/8/2018

  Can a software project be alive? This is an interesting idea, as a software project has no body, no apparent vital signs to measure, and has no other tangible qualities one would attribute to “life." A project is born, it grows, it consumes resources, and has a finite end usually marked by retiring support or through abrupt termination. Inorganic, incorporeal, but it is indeed living, and it requires proper and routine check-ups to keep the project headed toward success. As a doctor performs a health check on patients, so to must project leaders check-up on their living projects.

• Revenue Cycle Management: The Key To Achieving Success Under MACRA

  5/31/2017

  The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) aims to improve physician and other clinician payments by changing the way Medicare incorporates quality measurement into payments. At its core, the Act repeals the sustainable growth rate and authorizes the U.S. Department of Human and Health Services (HHS) to implement value-based incentives. Regardless of MACRA’s original intent to improve healthcare for both patients and physicians, the new legislation can result in negative implications on practices — particularly as it relates to revenue cycle management.