Improve Medical Group Performance By Mark Schneider
As seen in HealthCare Business Today. Interested in quickly improving the clinical and financial performance of your medical group or practice? It starts by building a more engaging, patient-focused culture in your organization. That’s the key takeaway of a recently released report from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), which found that fostering a patient-centric culture...
Add a Chief of Staff to Increase Your Success By Shanti Wilson
In years past, health care CEOs and other top executives could typically single-handedly fulfill their designated roles. Today, that is often no longer possible. Increasingly, due to significant business, regulatory and cultural changes and expansions, health care organizations are employing chiefs of staff to support their CEOs and other senior executives on a temporary or even permanent basis.
Steps to Improve Your Organization's Knowledge Management By Kam Reams
Knowledge management helps health care organizations of all types and sizes more effectively manage internally and externally generated knowledge, enhance care and customer/patient service.
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.
5 Optimal Steps for Creating a Pilot Data Warehouse By Alan Stadelhofer
Rather than becoming frustrated by the potential vastness of a data warehouse build, consider instead the advantages of thinking small. As in, start with a single data warehouse pilot project, learn your best practices from that experience, and expand accordingly from there.
Innovative Blockchain Uses in Health Care By Chet Stagnaro
Blockchain, the digital ledger technology that can securely maintain continuously growing lists of data records and transactions, has the power to potentially transform health care, according to industry experts.
How to Improve Your Business Intelligence By Jim Buckheit
Many health care organizations’ business intelligence teams lack the experience, bandwidth and/or big-picture strategic and analytical skills needed to adequately respond to their organizations’ heightened needs.
Data Analytics Drive Success of New Joint-Venture Health Plan By Allie Freed
A leading health care system sought to develop, in partnership with a national insurer, a new health plan marketed to fully insured individuals and self-insured employers. This joint venture would emphasize using data analytics and population health technology to identify at-risk patients sooner and provide them with earlier care access.