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.

White House launches Disaster.Data.Gov

The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy has launched Disasters.Data.Gov, a public resource to foster collaboration and the continual improvement of disaster-related open data.

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Colorado payers launch data-sharing tool

Seven health payers in Colorado are joining forces to develop a multi-payer data sharing online tool to improve healthcare delivery in the state.

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UCLA opens big data center

The University of California at Los Angeles has opened the Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences which will work to unlock the biological basis of health and disease by tapping the power of big data and computational modeling.

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Report: Consumers in dark on physician quality data

Independent and objective data on physician performance are only available for 15 percent of doctors in the U.S., according to a recent report from the non-profit Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute.

Nuance Receives High KLAS Rankings for Quality and Clinical Documentation Improvement Offerings

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that it has been rated #1 for regulatory reporting in the industry report, “Quality Management 2014: The Race Gets Closer,i” issued by KLAS Enterprises.BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that it has been rated #1 for regulatory reporting in the industry report, “Quality Management 2014: The Race Gets Closer,i” issued by KLAS Enterprises.

Microsoft, Health Catalyst to collaborate on health analytics solutions

Health Catalyst, a Utah-based data warehousing and analytics company, is partnering with Microsoft to deploy data warehouse and analytics solutions for the healthcare sector.

UTHealth receives $7.3M grant

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Biomedical Informatics has obtained a $7.3 million grant to enhance healthcare and biomedical discovery through health IT.

Providers report benefits partnering with population health vendors

The population health market is seeing some satisfied customers. Seventy percent of providers report tangible benefits to patient care when using certain population health vendors, according to a report published by KLAS, a global research firm.   

Around the web

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.

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.

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.

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