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• Data Matrix: The Active Ingredient For Proper Pharmaceutical Tracking

  11/22/2010

  This case study highlights how ACME Drugs uses bar code technology to track and trace pharmaceuticals through the production process. By Datalogic Scanning

• Comparison Is The New Key To Excellence: What Health Plans Can Do Boost Enrollments

  12/6/2019

  After the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, insurers had to cut down on the ‘cherry-picking’ of members and not provide insurance to just low-risk individuals. To some extent, the scope for earning high-profit margins had decreased for health insurance companies. This rule created an imperative for them to look for ways to curb expenses in other ways.

• Provider Contracting: 6 Key Business Functions To Look For In Selecting The Right Tool

  11/19/2018

  Onboarding, retaining and servicing the providers within a Payer organization is becoming a core focus due to expansion into new markets and strict state and federal regulations around access to care. Providers have taken a back seat to member acquisition and retention, but as Payers move to new payment models and strategies combined with low provider satisfaction rates, there is an immediate need for a complete overhaul of the way providers are contracted.

• Improving HCP Interaction And Performance Through Biosensors

  5/11/2020

  As functionality expands, and cost decreases, advanced biosensors are playing an increasing role in healthcare. While most of that opportunity and discussion have focused on patient monitoring, there’s an equally critical impact area: healthcare providers, themselves.

• Why Healthcare Needs Private Optical Networks

  5/14/2019

  For at least the past 10 years, healthcare providers have invested in tools that utilize computing and information technology to better control patient outcomes. Several large hospital systems in the U.S. have reported meaningful improvements in metrics such as length of inpatient hospital stays, need for post-operative antibiotics and 30-day re-admissions. These positive outcomes are credited to the increased use of predictive analytics that model patient scenarios as part of a real-time connected healthcare system (RTHS). A cornerstone of the RTHS is connectivity among patients, healthcare providers as well as devices and systems that generate, process and store real-time data.

• Healthcare And Kitchen Table Economics

  9/19/2016

  We’re in full-blown presidential campaign season. By Tom Furr, CEO, PatientPay