For far too long, chart chasing was the best method health plans had to improve HEDIS® measures and Medicare Star ratings. Now, there is a better way.
Virtually all healthcare leaders recognize the value of content creation, yet the use of a well-defined content strategy is rare. Here’s how to get yours.
Virtually all healthcare leaders recognize the value of content creation, yet the use of a well-defined content strategy is rare. Here’s how to get yours.
Why some health plans have mixed feelings on adopting bundled payments and what it can become.
Rapid advances in the availability of big data and in machine learning offer significant opportunities to improve the healthcare system.
Starting or strengthening a provider-led health plan leads to true integration, resulting in quality care.
How one public trust healthcare system overhauled its overall compensation program and successfully transformed its financial operations.
The right technology will enable increased population health efficiencies while simultaneously reducing the resource burden associated with managing that effort. Here are three specific capabilities to look for.
Reference pricing models are emerging as increasingly popular approaches for lowering drug costs.
An RFI presents an important opportunity for the healthcare industry to educate CMS on current experiences and challenges.
Marketing analytics can help drives decision making in healthcare. Here’s four best practices healthcare marketers should live by.
Patients with diabetes care a lot about everything from price to choice-and you should too.
Here’s how payers can build an action plan to directly address their Health Outcomes Survey and CAHPS Star measures, and thus impact their overall Ratings.
Value-based reimbursement models require different leadership to align the practice and move it forward around a team-based model of care.
The 30-year old regulation is in desperate need of modernization to fall in line with the changing needs of healthcare.
Basket trials are designed to test therapies that target a specific genetic mutation found in the tumor, regardless of tumor histology. This emerging trend raises a number of key questions for the industry.
Inaccurate forecasting of the time needed with patients can result in many negative effects, starting with a basic inability to accommodate for individual patient variability.
The U.S. maternal mortality is 10 times higher than the rate in countries such as Australia and Japan.
The importance of the retail setting as a hub for health engagement is increasing. Here’s three things you need to know about it.
A group of community providers around Charlotte, North Carolina, joined to create a special workgroup to ensure that veterans have the best possible support to lead healthy lives.
Here is the one surprising thing that improves patients’ ability to effectively manage their own health.
Plenty of M&A deals look great on paper but ultimately fall apart in the post-deal integration phase. Here are the biggest pitfalls healthcare executives and stakeholders on both sides of a deal need to consider when managing this critical phase of the process.
While healthcare is often taken for granted in urban communities, many rural populations struggle to access care. Here’s how one healthcare organization addresses rural impediments and their effects on health.
Here are 4 key ways healthcare executives can leverage community resources to strengthen the availability of tools that support recovery from opioid addiction.
You have a highly trained, hardworking and fundamentally altruistic workforce. Don’t squander it.
Community-based palliative care in the patient’s home improves care quality as well as increases satisfaction with the healthcare experience.
According to research-backed statistics, telepsychiatry improves the behavioral health outlook for today’s veterans.
Five surprising updates about one of healthcare’s top trends.