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Supply Chain Resiliency And A Shift To Value Based Care: Why Premier Is Investing In Data And Technology
From personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical supply shortages, to drug, resource and staffing limitations, healthcare delivery organizations have been hit with challenges from all sides, and have increasingly relied on new approaches and indust…
How To Stay Independent Amid Increasing Hospital Consolidation? Bassett Blazes A Bold Path With Optum
Optum’s deal with Bassett Health Network is emblematic of a new part of Optum’s broader strategy: providing technology and managed services to smaller health systems in structured long term arrangements that work well for both sides.
Why General Catalyst, a16z, And Rock Health Are Backing Ribbon Health’s $43.5 Million Funding Round
The experiences of Ribbon Health’s two founders could not symbolize the American healthcare system better – the same system that created two wildly different journeys which nearly crushed one yet saved another.
On Navigating Caregiving And Death In America’s “Healthcare” System
With the tumor recurrence came difficult days for Andrea and David, reckoning not only with his debilitation and premature mortality, but facing a confusing “healthcare” system that, in retrospect, may be better described as a medical-industrial comple…
Communication Is Key: In The Emergency Department, Informed Patients have A Better Experience
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data from 2017 puts the average ED wait time at 40 minutes, but millions of patients can wait two or more hours before seeing an ER provider —with the DC metro area, Maryland and Delaware clocking in…
Artificial Intelligence Myth Vs Reality: Where Do Healthcare Experts Think We Stand?
“I think of it as a maturation process,” says Dr. John Halamka . “You’re asking why your three-year-old isn’t doing calculus. But can your three-year-old add a column of numbers? That’s actually not so bad.”
The EHR Is Dead. Long Live The EHR Platform (2 Of 2)
This begs the question: What would Allscripts be valued at if it pursued a true platform strategy, with its 1,000+ hospital clients, tens of thousands of physician users, and aggregation of tens of millions of patient records?
The EHR Is Dead. Long Live The EHR Platform (1 Of 2)
The RAND study was so influential — and the benefits of an interconnected, computerized medical record system so easy to understand — that advisors to the Obama campaign cited it, and Obama referenced it himself, while explaining his healthcare plans t…
Four Questions Telehealth Companies Must Answer To Ensure Long Term Growth
Because while consumers may prefer telehealth and access to virtual care for an increasing portion of their healthcare needs, it is still payers and policymakers who act as gatekeepers to designing access to healthcare services in the vast majority of …
New Surveys Suggest Strong Support For Telehealth, But Policymakers Have Questions
While consumers may value the convenience and access that telehealth affords, policymakers have recently been weighing the remaining uncertainties of telehealth, and what the nation can afford.
