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• Why Healthcare Is A Top Target For Hackers

  2/16/2018

  The healthcare field is currently in a precarious position. New technologies promise to improve care and increase the success of outcomes with far greater consistency. But those same technologies create vulnerabilities and invite cyberthreats that put every one of those agendas in jeopardy. U.S. Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights believes the final number of cyberattacks in 2017 will far outpace 2016’s figure.

• Top Payer Priorities For 2020: Optimizing Operating Costs And Boosting Network Efficiency

  1/13/2020

  The health plan market is undergoing a drastic transformation. In the past, the competition had been lean with just a small number of payers. However, the market dynamics are changing. Since 2017, the number of MA plan choices per county has increased by 49 percent. The competition is said to grow even more in the coming years as more health plans are set to enter the market, owing to the fact that nearly 26 million baby boomers will age into Medicare through 2030.

• Fixing The Need For A Fix: Bridging The IT Gap Between Physical And Behavioral Healthcare

  12/14/2018

  Treating addiction is not a simple process and the current treatment of 90-day detox programs works well if you have thousands of beds, staff and other resources. The actual behavioral health treatment of addition is not much better. It is still a time-consuming process requiring individual diagnosis, but largely driven by paper and trial and error guesswork.

• How To Get Comfortable With Alternative Payment Methods

  11/16/2016

  Healthcare payment models are evolving, and it is vital healthcare providers evolve along with them. Although change can be stressful, this shift represents an opportunity for providers to operate more efficiently while also increasing the quality of care.

• How Bright Oaks Pediatrics Provides Patients Quality Pediatric-Specific Experiences

  7/3/2017

  Improve quality of care through a pediatric specific EHR technology

• 4 Ways Hospitals Use Clinical Surveillance To Improve Patient Safety

  5/16/2019

  Patient safety problems, from hospital-acquired infections to medical errors, occur much too frequently. This year, 800 hospitals will incur reimbursement penalties from Medicare because of high rates of infections and patient injuries, and a recent Johns Hopkins study found that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. after heart disease and cancer.