Strategic Planning

Wasteful spending is an increasingly thorny problem in healthcare, especially with the industry comprising an ever-larger portion of GDP.

Discussing benefits and risks of low-value diagnostic testing via head CT scan with patients can reduce the prevalence of such testing.

As the most recent health IT vendor to partner with a rideshare company, Cerner will embed access to Uber's non-emergency transport within the EHR workflow.

Mergers and acquisitions helped grow revenue but it's taking health systems longer to realize expected synergies.

Longtime telemedicine pioneers from the provider and vendor sides see a near-term future of more efficient care, and describe a longer-term view of "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals."

eHI's collaborative includes Humana, United HealthCare, American Hospital Association and others who are working to encourage use of existing ICD-10-CM Z codes and develop new ones.

The agency worked for two years with the certification company on a cooperative research project that highlights the value of standards for connected devices and IoMT.

Despite this cost increase, 95% of employers are very confident their organization will continue to sponsor healthcare benefits to active employees.

The FDA is also approving greater numbers of complex generic drugs, which are more difficult to replicate and traditionally lack competition.

A tiny fraction of healthcare executives, 5%, said clinical integration is their supply chain't top priority.