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WEB5 days ago · Special Feature: Artificial Intelligence. Nov. 21, 2023. Healthcare Innovation provides news and information on the policy, payment, operational, and strategic information technology issues facing senior leaders …
Michigan HIE Piloting EMS-Hospital Data Connections
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) is working with several stakeholders on a pilot project aimed at improving patient care coordination between emergency medical services (EMS) agencies and receiving hospitals. The goal is to eventually roll the service out statewide. MiHIN is Michigan's nonprofit, state-designated ...
How Patient Empowerment Can Improve Health Outcomes
WEBMay 19, 2020 · For most providers, improving patient health and satisfaction is at the center of their practice. Providing patients with access to their data leads to better communication, superior chronic disease management, and improved health outcomes. Health data can be complex and the tools we use to access and share that data can be difficult to navigate.
Favorite Quotes of the Year: Health Equity Edition
WEBDec 22, 2021 · Policy decisions have also affected access to and quality of health services available to racial and ethnic groups. There is no question that healthcare services are an important source of observed inequities.”. — David Blumenthal, M.D., president of the Commonwealth Fund. • “Equity work is fundamentally quality work.
Medical Billing Errors are Alarmingly Common—and Patients Are …
WEBMay 15, 2019 · It’s a common scenario: a person needs an emergency medical procedure, resulting in a brief hospital stay. Months later, the patient receives an itemized bill that lists the fees for a dizzying array of treatments, medications, saline drips, and other line items, some of which are not covered by the patient’s insurance policy.
Emdeon Acquires Altegra Health for $910M - Healthcare Innovation
WEBJul 8, 2015 · Rajiv Leventhal. Emdeon, the Nashville, Tenn.-based revenue cycle management company, has announced that it has acquired the Miami, Fla.-based Altegra Health, a data aggregation and analytics vendor, for $910 million in cash. The acquisition will combine Altegra Health's risk adjustment and …
National Coordinator Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., on the Future of HIEs
WEBMay 25, 2021 · The May/June Healthcare Innovation cover story focused on the future of health information exchanges (HIEs) in the U.S. healthcare system. As Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland wrote, “Enough predictions about the future of health information exchanges (HIEs) have already been written by industry luminaries and observers to fill a few books by now.
Groundbreaking Collaboration in Cleveland: How University …
WEBMar 30, 2022 · Collaboration during some of the most challenging months of the COVID-19 pandemic brought out the very best in healthcare leaders, even among patient care organizations that have been local-market competitors.
Designing the Future: Inserting the Right People into the Process
WEBSep 12, 2023 · Few would disagree that the U.S. healthcare system is moving through a period of unprecedented change and challenge. In the wake of the massive COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals, medical groups, and integrated health systems were left both financially destabilized and very short of staff, particularly with regard to nurses and other clinicians, but also in a wide range of areas, such as healthcare ...
Guidehealth Buys Arcadia’s Value-Based Care Service Division
WEBDec 21, 2023 · Digital health platform company Guidehealth has acquired the managed services organization (MSO) and value-based care service division of data analytics platform company Arcadia for an undisclosed sum. Dallas-based Guidehealth also entered into a technology agreement to leverage Boston-based Arcadia’s data analytics platform—which curates ...