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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Factoring workflow into big data tools

CHICAGO—Media reports indicate big data is going to cure everything but “we have major care institutions that have employed very high-end EMRs and cannot extract their data,’ said Gabriel Escobar, MD, speaking at the 2014 Healthcare Leadership Forum.

FDA strategic plan includes focus on health IT

The FDA’s four-year strategic plan includes several health IT-related goals.

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AHRQ offers ‘snapshots’ into states’ progress on care quality

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published ‘state snapshots’ that offer insight into states’ progress on the quality of their healthcare delivery.

AHIMA releases information governance principles

The American Health Information Management Association released a framework to help organizations implement information governance during its 86th annual Convention and Exhibit in San Diego this week.

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Bill would authorize more telemedicine services at ACOs

Legislation proposed in the House seeks to improve accountable care organizations by allowing them to expand their use of telemedicine.

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Four more drop out of Pioneer ACO program

Four more healthcare organizations are quitting Medicare’s Pioneer Accountable Care Organization program, reports several news sources.

COTA Closes $3.7M of Planned $7M Series A Funding Round to Transform Cancer Outcomes and Reimbursement

HACKENSACK, NJ – September 23, 2014 – COTA, Inc. today announced it has closed $3.7 million in a planned $7 million Series A funding round led by Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc. (Horizon), with participation from Med-Metrix.

Startup mines consumer data to offer drug-taking info and advice

Iodine, a new company slated to launch next week, will harness Google Consumer Surveys to provide an online service with tailored drug-taking information and advice, reports The New York Times.

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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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