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Reimbursement

American Medical Association urges creation of APMs focused on at-risk populations

AMA urges creation of APMs focused on at-risk populations

Revenue Cycle Management

Hospital CEOs focus on revenue growth over cost containment, according to new survey

CEOs are focused on revenue over cost

Strategic Planning

Ascension announces updates to several key leadership positions

Ascension updates its leadership team

Capital Finance

Precision medicine: Barriers to investment

Supply Chain

Group purchasing organizations reduce supply costs by 13.1 percent

GPOs reduce supply costs by 13.1 percent

Accounting & Financial Management

Community Health Systems sees major drop in net losses over 2017, reporting $328 million for Q4 2018

CHS reports major drop in net losses for Q4 2018

Budgeting

New clinical pathway for cancer patients leads to better outcomes, lower healthcare costs

New clinical pathway lowers healthcare costs

Quality and Safety

Quality standards framework can improve both clinical and financial performance in healthcare

How a healthcare quality workforce can better care, costs

Billing and Collections

Medical costs create hardships for more than half of Americans

Medical costs a hardship for most Americans

Claims Processing

BCBS Institute and Solera partner, pay SDoH organizations through outcomes-based medical claims

BCBS Institute, Solera, to pay organizations through outcomes-based claims

Workforce

Academic medical center acquisitions a potential throughline to talent

Operations

Humana to integrate IntelligentRx into Epic's e-prescribing workflow

Medical Devices

Apple is developing custom health information tracking chips

Apple is developing custom health chips

Hospital/physician relations

Wording in medical student evaluations differ by gender, minority status, revealing potential bias

Gender, minority bias revealed in med student evals

Construction & Facilities Management

Northwell Health, NYC Health + Hospitals open new $47.7 million joint lab to help hospitals focus on emergency testing, cut costs

Northwell Health, NYC Health + Hospitals open new $47.7M joint lab

Compliance & Legal

Chinese nationals indicted for Anthem hack

Policy and Legislation

Supreme Court sides with DSH hospitals on payments

Community Benefit

Kaiser Permanente commits $1.65 million to California wildfire relief efforts

Accountable Care

Texas Hospital Association partners with Caravan Health for statewide ACO

Acute Care

University of Chicago Medicine study shows need to enhance patient rest, evaluate overnight interruptions for better patient experience

University of Chicago Medicine study shows how to help patients rest for improved experience

Ambulatory Care

Medical schools, teaching hospitals account for 3% of US GDP, report shows

Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP

Analytics

Focus on Precision Medicine

Business Intelligence

While the price of healthcare is growing, utilization is dropping and price variations persist, report says

HCCI: Price of healthcare is growing, utilization is dropping, price variations persist

ICD-10 & Coding

Physician practices examine risk adjustment coding in wake of federal lawsuits

Practices keeping close watch on risk adjustment coding

Meaningful Use

CMS overhauls meaningful use as 'Promoting Interoperability'

Medicare & Medicaid

CMS seeks input on Patients over Paperwork initiative to reduce red tape and to lower costs

CMS wants Patients over Paperwork input to reduce red tape and lower costs

Patient Engagement

Why health systems should partner with urgent care clinics

Pharmacy

IBM, KPMG, Merck and Walmart to evaluate the use of blockchain in pharmaceutical product integrity

IBM, KPMG, Merck and Walmart to collaborate on blockchain for pharmacy

Population Health

Screenings for social determinants of health need to be tailored to clinics, BU finds

SDOH screenings need to be tailored for clinics

Risk Management

Hospital employees are clicking on phishing emails, and that's a problem, JAMA study shows

JAMA: Hospital employees are clicking on phishing emails

Telehealth

Telemedicine market expected to account for more than $38 billion by 2029

Telemedicine worth $38 billion by 2029

Mergers & Acquisitions

AHIP wants more oversight over consolidation of hospitals and physicians

AHIP wants more oversight over provider vertical mergers

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