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• A Person-Centric Approach To Managed Care

  11/9/2017

  Putting data to work to ensure members receive behavioral healthcare when it’s needed most.

• Healthcare Providers Must Protect Patient Data In 2020: Here's Why

  2/18/2020

  Quality healthcare is predicated on a simple principle: first, do no harm. The Hippocratic Oath serves as the sector’s centuries-old lodestar that ensures that doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers are always working toward a singular goal of promoting positive patient health outcomes.

• Defending Healthcare IT In The Pandemic Landscape

  8/31/2020

  Attackers have used subjects in the news as social engineering lures before, but this moved to the next level in the first half of 2020. From opportunistic phishers to scheming nation-state actors, cyber adversaries found multiple ways to exploit the pandemic for their benefit at enormous scale. Phishing and business email compromise schemes, nation-state-backed campaigns, and ransomware attacks were paramount among them. Bad actors worked to maximize the global nature of a pandemic that affected everyone, combined with an immediately expanded digital attack surface.

• The Secrets To Gaining Insights Into Purchased Services Spend

  3/2/2017

  Hospital and health system purchased services professionals have hundreds of vendors to manage, a process accounting for up to 45 percent of their non-labor budget. Despite the financial magnitude, this staff has little time to analyze their financial data. Even fewer resources are available to research spending benchmarks or evaluate contract terms.

• How Health IT Is Enhancing The Role Of Today's RNs

  5/11/2017

  The American Nurses Association just kicked off National Nurses Week 2017, honoring the nation’s three million nurses who are changing the face of patient care and compassion. Health IT Outcomes recently spoke with three nurses who also work in the healthcare IT space to hear how the latest technology advances are having a positive impact on the nursing profession. Here’s what they had to say.

• Provider Information Gaps Threaten Success Of New Narrow Networks

  9/10/2018

  Healthcare today is a world of proliferating value-based arrangements. In addition to accountable care organizations (ACOs) – a flavor of clinically integrated networks (CINs) – “narrow networks” have emerged as a growing trend as the industry shifts to new alternative payment models.