year: 2016
Four Vital Health Care Leadership Lessons By Carly D. Dunham and Ellen S. Montague
As seen in HFMA Northern CA Chapter Newsletter. It’s a challenge to stay healthy while working in health care, especially given the typical demands of most health care roles. Long hours, stress, limited access to healthy foods and sedentary jobs all conspire to rob health care employees of optimal opportunities to take better care of themselves. Clinicians face an additional level of personal health challenges as they care for those who are ill and injured. That’s why it’s...
Determining PAC Networks with Medicare's New CJR Program By Debra Mathias
As seen in Healthcare Informatics. Hospitals participating in Medicare’s mandatory new Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) reimbursement model need to develop a high-quality preferred post-acute care (PAC) network to which they can discharge high-risk CJR patients. Hospitals can do so either independently or by using an external consultant. The PAC must, per CMS, have a minimum 3-star rating or reimbursement will be negatively impacted. By developing a PAC preferred provider network based on objective criteria and supported...
Navigate Effectively through Medicare’s CJR Program – An Overview By Debra Mathias
As seen in Healthcare Informatics. Experience is no substitute for expediency. Consider the example of Edward John Smith, Captain of the maiden (and final) voyage of the RMS Titanic in 1912. Despite being one of the world’s most experienced sea captains, Smith failed to change the Titanic’s course or reduce speed, even though he knew his ship was headed straight into a massive iceberg zone. We all know how that story ends. Similarly, despite a massive sea change in health...
Successfully Shifting a Health Care Project Team to Operations
By Cathy Savinsky and Alan Stadelhofer. As seen in Becker's Hospital Review. While common for enterprise health care project teams to shift into more operational roles toward the end of their projects, unless the new operational roles and responsibilities are well-defined, team members risk getting lost in the transition and failing to provide their organizations with proper and needed levels of support. In this article, we share our recommendations for best...
Going Digital to Improve the Provider-Patient Experience By Elyse Ruiz
As seen in Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review. Technology has redefined how people shop for and consume goods and services. In today’s digital era, companies like Amazon, Uber, and Apple have revolutionized how transactions are conducted – at the touch of a button, anywhere and anytime. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, e-commerce in the United States grew by 14.6 percent in 2015, marking the sixth consecutive year that online sales grew...