Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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AHIMA's IG pilot participants offer lessons learned

The healthcare organizations that began taking part in AHIMA’s information governance (IG) pilot program are ready to offer several best practices and critical success factors. 

IBM's new Health Corps to connect tech with public health initiatives around the globe

IBM unveiled its new corporate citizenship program called the IBM Health Corps, which will bring IBM's top talent and cognitive technologies to help communities address health challenges such as primary care gaps, health worker shortages and access to safe water and nutritious food.

IBM Watson Health ready to disrupt diagnosis and treatment

BOSTON--Bill Evans’ own healthcare experience only served to strengthen his work on IBM Watson Health and its potential benefits to all patients. 

FDA's open data initiatives driving innovation

BOSTON—The FDA is working on building community openness through initiatives that aim to drive innovation, explained Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS, the agency’s first chief health informatics officer as well as director of its Office of Health Informatics, speaking at Bio-IT World Congress.

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Most consumers don't connect quality and price

Most Americans don’t believe that the price of healthcare services ties to the quality of the care they receive, according to research published in Health Affairs.

CMS to issue innovation project awards for QIOs

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced two projects that focus on supporting and scaling quality improvement organizations.

AHRQ names director of Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets

David Knutson, MS, has been named director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)’s Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets.

Sync for Science pilot launches

The Sync for Science pilot, announced during the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative Summit, has begun.

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.