Take These Steps to Improve Your Organization's Knowledge Management. By Kam Reams
The need for knowledge management in health care is greater than ever, especially amid exponentially increasing amounts of data, regulations, and clinical and non-clinical information that health care professionals must consume. How and where does your organization stand with its knowledge management program?
Six Steps to Superior Medical Practice Acquisition Integration By Hanna Woldu
Once an insurer or hospital has acquired a medical practice, what is next? Acquirers should proactively ensure a seamless integration of services within their new practices. The success of a major medical foundation in acquiring and integrating a pair of specialty physician practices offers six rich lessons other organizations should consider with their integration implementations.
Get Ready for a Successful Health Plan Audit By Shanti Wilson
Depending on which types of patients you serve, your health plan audit may be made by many regulatory entities. Your compliance department should be notified when an audit will be conducted. If you do not have a compliance department, your point of contact will typically be in your C-Suite, such as your CEO or CFO.
Improve Software User Adoption with These 7 Proven Success Steps By Gwen Elwood
A new workflow automation tool was burdened with a difficult-to-learn user interface and workflows which didn’t fully match users’ jobs, resulting in employees who didn’t use the tool or did so incorrectly. Because managers didn’t believe the tool facilitated their employees’ work, they didn’t recommend it or use the tool’s reporting features to drive decision-making.
Six Steps for Launching a Clinical Integration Network Quality Program By Lea Vlacos
More providers and health care organizations are forming clinical integration networks (CIN) to collaborate on improving the quality and efficiency of care, while allowing themselves to continue to operate independently.