Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
This week's top stories include Amwell snapping up SilverCloud Health and Conversa Health, the AMA backing vaccine mandates for healthcare workers, and the VA suspending Cerner EHR rollouts until 2022.
This week's top stories include the new direct contracting reimbursement model proving popular among payers and providers, and Mass General teaming with YouTube to offer viewers access to credible medical information.
This week's top stories include strong support for the passage of the Social Determinants Accelerator Act of 2021 and a Fitbit patent revealing the wearable maker could be working on a health monitoring ring.
Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. For digital health startups to succeed in this space, they must get three factors right: cost, scale and quality.
One challenge is there is now nationwide competition for remote staff, says Kimberly Scaccia, VP of revenue management for Mercyhealth.
New care paradigms are nothing without new payment paradigms to make them work. In this episode of the Virtual Care Paradigm, health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn looks at what the virtual care economy might look like.
This week's top stories include UnitedHealthcare re-examining a policy that allows it to retroactively deny ER claims, Apple adding new health features and Mount Sinai catering to patients with limited English proficiency.
In April, hospital margins, volumes, and revenues were up across most performance metrics; Google helps fund a data visualization tool that highlights the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on marginalized communities.
This week's top stories include U.S. Anesthesia Partners alleging UHC is "like a boa constrictor squeezing USAP-TX from all sides," Bright Health buying Zipnosis, and AstraZeneca working with Mass General Hospital on disease management.
This week's top stories include hospitals facing a long road to recovery after COVID-19's devastating winter surge, HHS Secretary nominee Xavier Becerra signaling support for virtual care and Google launching an EHR navigation tool.