Augmenting Price Transparency With New Strategies
Taking the right approach to designing healthcare benefits and provider networks could enhance price transparency in a way that allows healthcare consumers to become smarter shoppers.
Community Paramedicine: A Value-Oriented Strategy
Community paramedicine is proving its worth as a bridge between primary care and emergency care and a way to fill gaps in the underlying healthcare infrastructure.
Readmission Rates: Not a Sound Quality Reporting Indicator
Rose Rohloff describes how healthcare organizations must track the right data to determine whether reduced readmissions truly mean an increase in quality.
Driving Physician Engagement With Physician Leadership
The increasingly complex issues facing health care makes engaging physicians and promoting physician leadership all the more important, writes the CEO of the American Association for Physician Leadership.
Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices: Put People First
Health systems that acquire physician practices can take steps to mitigate issues with referrals, compensation, and other aspects by never forgetting the human side of the transaction.
One-Stop Shopping for Healthcare Services
As consumerism gains traction in health care, health systems are borrowing the imperatives of the retail industry, including by consolidating and reorganizing their services into central locations.
Progress Via Collaboration
Philadelphia-based Independence Blue Cross and Penn Medicine have collaborated with a venture accelerator to launch a slew of healthcare startups, learning key lessons along the way.
Not Yet Free from Harm
Tejal Gandhi addresses ways healthcare organizations can pursue the goal of greater patient safety.
Examples of Risks to Be Considered With Variable Rate Debt
Risks associated with variable-rate debt are defined for healthcare finance leaders.
The Importance of a Clean Hospital Room, According to Patients
Medicare cost report data provide a means for assessing the effects of various factors on the quality of a hospital’s housekeeping services and how that quality affects patient perceptions.