Category: Healthcare Finance News

CFO’s guide to creating a successful innovation dashboard for healthcare

The core of a dashboard is information, as systems track the development and efficacy of innovation projects.

HIMSS outlines 4 ways to fight the opioid crisis

Association calls on healthcare to more effectively share date and give clinicians the tools they need to improve care.

EHRs make it harder for surgeons to spend time with patients, study finds

Even after an initial learning period, which typically takes about eight months, introducing a new EHR system may affect several aspects of clinic workflow.

Few health insurance plans rank highest or lowest in NCQA’s plan ratings

NCQA uses HEDIS scores to rate plans, a performance measure used by more than 90 percent of health insurers.

Fatigue, scheduling, data all contributors to pervasive physician burnout epidemic

Tired doctor rubbing his eyes.
They’re having to interact with an EHR and are doing a lot more to advise and correct the system so they can get paid properly, as opposed to connecting with and empathizing with the patient.

Accountable care organizations: Time to make risk-adjustment more stable

In two separate moves on one day, ACO stakeholders ask CMS to keep upside-only risk model, while 29 others from Next Gen ACO Coalition want to make risk more predictable.

Accountable care organizations: Time to make risk-adjustment more stable

In two separate moves on one day, ACO stakeholders ask CMS to keep upside-only risk model, while 29 others from Next Gen ACO Coalition want to make risk more predictable.

How providers can innovate to combat physician burnout

Increasingly, health leaders are recognizing the need to utilize one or more approaches to the multifaceted problem.

How providers can innovate to combat physician burnout

Increasingly, health leaders are recognizing the need to utilize one or more approaches to the multifaceted problem.

Social determinants are threatening patient outcomes, burnout is a scourge but opioid scripts are down, physicians say

Majority say social determinants pose major threat to patient health and burnout threatens three-quarters, but patient relationships are a major boost.