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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Predictions lead to better prevention

BOSTON—On any given day, 1 in 25 hospital patients has a hospital-acquired infection and more than 750,000 of those infections are preventable, said Todd Schlesinger, vice president of business development for Jvion, speaking at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum.

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Nation's first chief data officer shares CMS data strategies

BOSTON—The head of the new Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics, Niall Brennan, discussed data generation, privacy of that information, increasing transparency and future plans during his talk at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 20.

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Mattison on big data: Great potential but risks exist

BOSTON—Kaiser Permanente CMIO John Mattison, MD, introduced several new concepts during his keynote address at the Big Data Healthcare Analytics Forum on Nov. 20.

CMS establishes new data office

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has formed a new Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics.

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AHRQ guide focuses on state health collaborations

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released a guide to help state policymakers collaborate on improving health outcomes.

AHRQ guide presents steps for designing primary care interventions

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published an evaluation guide for designing real-work evaluations of primary care interventions.

Fla.-based Community Health Centers receives HIMSS Davies Award

HIMSS has awarded Community Health Centers of Winter Garden, Fla., its 2014 Community Health Organization Davies Award of Excellence.

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Partners, EMC collaborate on data and analytics platform

Partners HealthCare and EMC are collaborating to develop what they call The Partners Data Lake, a data and analytics platform to drive clinical research, improve care delivery and reduce costs. 

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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.

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