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Reimbursement

Healthcare stocks remain strong after a solid 2018, Reuters says

Reuters: Healthcare stocks remain strong

Revenue Cycle Management

Mid-rev cycle improvement market set to grow

Strategic Planning

Humana, Tenet Healthcare reach new deal restoring in-network access

Capital Finance

How capital for hospital renovations can be freed by unloading medical office buildings, other real estate

Need to pay for projects? Try dumping real estate

Supply Chain

Why managing PPIs in your supply chain can save money

Accounting & Financial Management

Healthcare cost variations between regions attributed to price, usage

Price, usage lead to regional cost variation

Budgeting

How employers can improve cancer care and costs

Quality and Safety

Surgeons under stress make more mistakes in the operating room, study finds

Stressed surgeons make more mistakes

Billing and Collections

Billing and payment tech becoming more responsive, survey finds

Responsive billing methods coming to the fore

Claims Processing

Change, TIBCO use blockchain to build smart contract system for payers

Change, TIBCO build smart contract system for payers

Workforce

Healthcare added more jobs than other sectors in 2018, and the growth outlook is strong

Healthcare added most jobs in 2018

Operations

Hahnemann University Hospital, St. Christopher's to share newly-appointed CEO

Medical Devices

Apple is developing custom health information tracking chips

Apple is developing custom health chips

Hospital/physician relations

Physicians employed by hospitals and corporations more dissatisfied than independent doctors

Hospital-employed physicians less satisfied, burnout prevalent

Construction & Facilities Management

Mayo Clinic leads among the biggest hospital construction projects that kicked off in September

9 big healthcare construction projects that kicked off in September

Compliance & Legal

Anonymous-affiliated hacker slapped with 10-year prison sentence for Boston Children's cyberattack

Infamous hacker gets 10 years for Boston Children's cyberattack

Policy and Legislation

Americans express growing concern over Texas ruling on Affordable Care Act

Americans concerned about ACA fate

Community Benefit

Kaiser Permanente commits $1.65 million to California wildfire relief efforts

Accountable Care

Groups call on CMS to push out Medicare Shared Savings Program application deadline

CMS should extend MSSP deadline, groups tell agency

Acute Care

New Mexico cuts readmissions, improves ED care with middleware that enables information sharing

How New Mexico cut readmissions, improved ED care with middleware technology

Ambulatory Care

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

Med schools, teaching hospitals are 3% of GDP

Analytics

Healthcare executives should invest in value-based care technologies now, Deloitte says

Deloitte: Invest in value-based care tech now

Business Intelligence

Cleveland Clinic fires doctor who posted anti-semitic comments, threats on social media

Cleveland Clinic fires doctor for anti-semitic comments, threats on social media

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

Seniors more likely to switch Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, survey shows

Seniors more likely to switch MA plans

Patient Engagement

Patient-directed Utah Health Information Network increases engagement and care management

Patient-directed exchange boosts engagement in Utah HIE

Pharmacy

Decision support can guide clinicians to prescribe lower cost alternatives

Decision support leads to lower costs for drugs

Population Health

Advocate Aurora Health uses predictive analytics

Risk Management

Do your CEO and CFO underinvest in cybersecurity? Here's why and what to do about it

Why CEOs and CFOs don't invest as much in cybersecurity as they should

Telehealth

Hospitals with scarce resources turn to telehealth

Mergers & Acquisitions

Judge rejects DOJ motion to delay response in CVS/Aetna case due to government shutdown

Shutdown no reason for delay in CVS/Aetna response, judge rules

Staff

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