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.

Big Data & Analytics: Taking Pharma to the Next Generation

Philadelphia, PA, September 04, 2014 -- Exciting new technological advances are helping those in the pharmaceutical industry make better strategic decisions for growth and clinical resource requirements.

Facebook surveys of HPV vaccine uptake help pinpoint disparities

Facebook surveys are a cost-effective and feasible way to estimate local variation in human papillomavirus vaccine uptake, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Survey: Rising demand for infection control systems

Hospital administrators, emergency physicians, nurse managers and infection control practitioners increasingly view infection control and surveillance software systems as “must-haves” for 2015, according to a recent report from Black Book Rankings.

Greenway Partners With Lightbeam to Bring Population Health and Data Solutions to Their Customers

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 3, 2014-- Lightbeam Health Solutions, LLC today announced it has joined the Greenway Health online Marketplace of value-added partners for users of Greenway's integrated Electronic Health Record (EHR) and practice management solutions.

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Rising interest in pop health analytics, but solutions remain immature

Healthcare organizations are showing a rising interest in population health analytics, but reimbursement remains cumbersome and developers have yet to build solutions that effectively meet market needs, Chilmark Research claims in a new report.

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NIH releases final genomic data-sharing policy

The National Institutes of Health has released the final genomic data sharing policy which promotes sharing, for research purposes, of large-scale human and non-human genomic data generated from NIH-funded research.

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Harnessing health IT to reduce medication errors

To address gaps in provider knowledge of health IT to improve medication management, a panel convened by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality delved into the latest efforts to improve patient safety with targeted inventions.

Digital Health Panel Discussion with Healthcare IT Industry Experts: We Have All of This Patient Generated Health Data, Now What?

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) August 21, 2014 -- Achieve Health the healthcare technology division of Achieve Internet, an Open Source software engineering firm, is co-hosting a panel discussion and business networking event at the Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman offices in San Diego CA – September 9th at 5:30PM. The event will include industry experts from the healthcare technology sector who focus on building innovative technology platforms to improve patient engagement, patient to physician communications, patient generated data visualization and helping to drive healthy decisions and improved care.

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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