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Banner Health, one of the largest U.S. nonprofit healthcare systems, is among the top employers in the U.S., with more than 50,000 employees operating in 28 hospitals. To improve its recruitment process, Banner partnered with Mastek to build a Provider Pre-employment Made Easier (PPME) app, an online job board, a candidate portal and a stakeholder portal using the Salesforce platform.

Banner Health, one of the largest U.S. nonprofit healthcare systems, serves patients across six states. As part of its digital transformation process, Banner partnered with Mastek to modernize its IT infrastructure and develop a governance framework.

As healthcare organizations (HCOs) transition from fee-for-service to value-based care models, healthcare leaders must determine how to enable data sharing across their organizations to improve care delivery and patient outcomes. Integrating their electronic health record (EHR) platforms with cloud-based systems such as Salesforce Health Cloud can help HCOs unify data from multiple sources to create a holistic, real-time view of a patient’s care journey.

Legacy analog telephone lines, also known as Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), are becoming more expensive to maintain, leading organizations to seek alternatives. These POTS lines are used in life safety systems such as fire alarms, elevator phones and building entry systems, which need to follow compliance guidelines. However, carriers are phasing out these lines, charging more and providing less support. It’s time to modernize and reclaim profits.

According to the joint study by Waystar and The Health Management Academy (THMA), organizations rely on RCM partnerships to meet their revenue cycle needs, improve cash flow, manage costs, and allow them to focus on delivering care. Nearly 75% of organizations juggle more than four RCM partners, which begs the question: Could consolidation reduce costs, increase efficiency, or improve revenue performance?

Transitioning to value-based care models can pose a challenge for integrated delivery networks (IDNs) that work with providers across a wide spectrum of services. The need to align multiple clinical practices’ disparate IT systems makes communication and collaboration difficult.

With a majority of healthcare organizations lacking proper technology to address HIPAA compliance, it’s imperative that quick action is taken to avoid serious security and data privacy breaches. Our comprehensive guide provides you with all you need to know to address this time-sensitive issue.

Many healthcare organizations have embraced Hospital 4.0 – a new era of smart, connected services integrating artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT). However, some organizations are still relying on legacy systems and analog documentation for scheduling appointments, keeping records and gathering data.

Since January 2021 for U.S. healthcare providers and January 2022 for payers, price transparency rules have been in effect. However, health systems and plans still struggle to comply with these rules. According to experts from CitiusTech, this hesitancy stems from the complexity of the rules and the significant changes that adopting transparency would require for health systems and payers’ operating procedures. However, adoption can also yield significant benefits through analyzing pricing data. Using a well-established cloud service provider like Amazon Web Services can help healthcare organizations and payers manage this complexity and achieve full compliance.

A typical hospital’s radiology services produce 40% to 60% of medical images, but many other specialties also depend heavily on images, such as cardiology, orthopedics, dermatology, and others. Although medical images are a key clinical tool for multiple disciplines, they are still largely unintegrated into hospital EMR systems – making it difficult for physicians outside that hospital to access those images. Moving medical images and related informatics to cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help create more complete pictures of patient health and yield valuable insights, but healthcare organizations should ensure that they have a strategy in place before adopting the cloud.