How hospitals can use data to improve efficiency
Originally published in Becker’s Hospital Review By Tony Colarossi The amount of data produced in hospitals has grown exponentially in recent years, to such an…
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Executing on your patient satisfaction goals is within your power
Originally published in Fierce Healthcare By Chris McChesney Improving patient satisfaction scores is a challenge that almost all healthcare facilities face. That challenge is made…
Data analytics can help physician practices’ transition to value- based care models
Originally published in Becker’s Hospital Review By Patrick Krause In a move to grapple with seemingly endless increases in healthcare spending, the U.S. healthcare industry…
Anomalies shed light on doctors’ compensation
Originally published in STAT By Halee Fischer-Wright and Todd Evenson The term “physician compensation” could be among the top phrases in health care this year….
AI is an inevitable force coming to healthcare.
Originally published in PE Hub By Mike Geldart The declaration was radical and to the point: “Eighty percent of what doctors do should be and…
Communication and collaboration are the key to halting hospital deserts
Originally published in Becker’s Hospital Review By Kenneth T. Hertz Many have likely heard about hospital deserts, those patches of mostly rural America where the…
The path forward for struggling nursing homes
Originally published in McKnight’s By Patrick McCormick A convergence of market pressures is bearing down on the nursing home industry. Changing demographics, old infrastructure, new…
Consolidation is hurting hospitals’ supply costs, not helping them
Originally published in STAT By Rob Austin When health systems merge, one of the goals is to gain economies of scale, lowering costs through the bargaining…
For U.S. senior care facilities, preparing as best as you can is the best merger plan
Originally published in Fierce Healthcare By Patrick McCormick Consolidation tremors rumbling among the nation’s senior care facilities are forcing the industry’s CEOs to ponder how…
Hospitals already have the key tool needed to reach zero healthcare-associated infections
Originally published in Fierce Healthcare By Brita Hansen The medical world has declared zero tolerance for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), but it is a massive problem…