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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AHIMA issues coding compliance report

An annually updated coding compliance strategy is an essential element of a provider's overall compliance program, according to a white paper released by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

Connected Health: Reform offers great opportunity for innovation

BOSTON—The challenges of healthcare reform present enormous opportunity for innovation, said Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, MBA, president and CEO of Partners HealthCare System in Boston, speaking at the ninth annual Connected Health Symposium on Oct. 26.

Connected Health: Pros and cons of publishing provider ratings

BOSTON—Physician ratings must be unbiased and independent to provide valuable and usable information, according to a panel discussion during the ninth annual Connected Health Symposium on Oct. 26.

Deloitte buys data warehouse firm

Deloitte Consulting Services has acquired Recombinant Data, a developer of data warehousing and clinical intelligence systems for personalized medicine, translational research and healthcare performance management. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Users Mine Repositories for Better Patient Care

Repositories may be the wave of the future, but there’s a sea of obstacles in the way.

Connected Health: Defining big data and what it’s good for

BOSTON—Big data have the potential to help improve clinical care, but it will be a while before benefits are realized, according to the panelists of an Oct. 25 presentation at the ninth annual Connected Health Symposium, hosted by Partners HealthCare.

CMS posts 2014 clinical quality measures

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the 64 clinical quality measures that eligible professionals and hospitals will be required to report beginning in 2014.

NQF announces support for 16 cancer quality measures

The National Quality Forum (NQF) endorsed six new quality measures and reaffirmed its support for 10 existing quality measures related to the diagnosis and treatment breast and colon cancers.

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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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