Absent more rigorous federal regs, Pew Charitable Trusts, MedStar Health and AMA offer model test cases to help vendors and providers detect potentially dangerous usability risks.
Category: Healthcare Finance News
Digital health adoption is rising, but data security, wearable use are barriers and facetime still matters
Online health information and provider reviews were most used, and providers, payers need to be prepared to prove a patient’s health information will be safe with them.
Why hospital rating tools should allow patients to customize rankings
It’s possible to move beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to hospital ratings and toward one that takes into account individual needs and preferences.
Consumerism in healthcare: 8 things you can do to meet patient’s expectations
As costs rise and patients shoulder an increasingly greater share of the financial burden, pressure has grown for healthcare to be more consumer friendly.
Moody’s data shows expenses continue to outpace revenue for nonprofit hospitals
Fueling the trend are lower reimbursement rates, a shift to outpatient care and growing merger and acquisition activity.
How Mosaic Life Care strengthened their revenue cycle by retraining staff on patient financial communication
Mosaic just started the third year of a five-year plan, and is already seeing improved collections and revenue en route to a projected $9 million ROI.
NYU’s free tuition move called precedent setting, will open doors for primary care, rural health
Beyond alleviating stress on the back end, the free tuition coups can influence trends in who becomes a doctor, what they practice and even where. And change is needed.
Uninsured hospitalizations for cardiac events declined following implementation of the Affordable Care Act
The study found an immediate reduction in the percentage of people hospitalized without insurance, particularly among states that expanded Medicaid.
C-suite candidates: Hiring advice from a top executive recruiter
An executive recruitment firm Buffkin/Baker partner predicts more CEO roles for women in the near future; to position themselves women should focus on finance — and commanding an audience.
American Medical Association, other groups applaud CMS proposals to cut paperwork, but sound alarm over payment rate changes
The unpopular proposal to collapse payment rates for certain office visit services could hurt physicians, other healthcare professionals that treat the sickest patients, the groups said.
