Hospitals in Northeast Ohio are seeing improvements through the CMS’ Oncology Care Model, which aims at providing higher-quality, more highly coordinated care to Medicare cancer patients.
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Like clockwork: How daylight saving time stumps hospital record-keeping
One of the most popular electronic health records software systems used by hospitals, Epic Systems, can delete records or require cumbersome workarounds when clocks are set back for an hour, prompting many hospitals to opt for paper records for part…
Successful marketers use data and people
Detailed measurement and nimbleness is crucial in today’s marketing environment, according to speakers at Modern Healthcare’s Strategic Marketing Conference.
Bold Moves: Ascension’s Anthony Tersigni navigates a reinvention
Ascension’s Anthony Tersigni has faced plenty of operational and financial challenges during his near 15-year tenure. But in 2014, the St. Louis-based system embarked upon an ambitious endeavor — complete rebranding of its 151 hospitals in six…
Encouraging patients to shop around amidst high healthcare prices
By offering incentives to patients, Vitals saves both them and their employers and health plans money.
Commentary: Healthcare needs empathetic workforce focused on ‘complex illness’
Empathy is not sympathy — it’s a teachable, measurable cognitive skill that allows a physician to answer the question, “What does this mean, doctor?” That’s the core question for physicians in the age of AI — we must be the…
Q&A: Joanne Inman on Sentara Healthcare’s systems approach to improving operations
Even though Sentara Healthcare is nationally known for its gains in patient care, Joanne Inman isn’t satisfied with the status quo. Appointed president of Sentara Leigh Hospital in 2016, Inman is constantly looking for ways to push the organization…
Raising the stakes: It’s getting harder to be a top-tier heart hospital
With cardiovascular care overall in the U.S. improving, it’s more challenging than ever for a hospital to be recognized as top heart facility, especially for many years in a row.
Industry slow to improve patient health literacy
America’s low health literacy rate has raised concerns about whether hospitals are taking the wrong approaches in efforts to educate patients, or if financial incentives for providers are too small.
Healthcare M&A activity expected to be flat or down in 2019
Almost 60% of healthcare executives responding to a survey said healthcare M&A activity will either stay the same or decline next year, according to Capital One Healthcare.
