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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Book explores impact of internet use on healthcare

The author of a new book looks at how internet searches are impacting medical research.

UPMC funding first projects from Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance

UPMC Enterprises will fund the first six projects created under the umbrella of the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance.

Community Care of North Carolina wins inaugural Hearst Health Prize and $100,000

Community Care of North Carolina won the inaugural Hearst Health prize on March 8 and $100,000 for excellence in managing or improving health.

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Report: Practices spend 785 hours, $15.1 billion on quality measures annually

Quality reporting efforts take their toll in time and money, according to a report published in Health Affairs.

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Out with checkbox reimbursement, in with patient-focused care

If the Medicare program known as MIPS is to succeed at improving quality by tying said improvement to payments—all while avoiding mass cases of physician burnout—it will have to forego checkboxes that fail to distinguish between getting patients to electronically say hello and getting them to actually live more healthfully. 

Hearst Health, Jefferson College of Population Health announce three finalists for $100,000 award

Hearst Health and the Jefferson College of Population Health announced three finalists for its inaugural $100,000 prize to honor healthcare organizations that focus on managing and improving health.

New FDA draft guidance updates 510(k) recommendations for display devices

The FDA released a new draft guidance today that details information medical device makers should include when submitting 510(k)s for display devices to be used in diagnostic radiology.

Premier is first company allowed access to CMS data

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has granted Premier access to its Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) to develop innovations that drive healthcare transformation.

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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.