Financial/Revenue Cycle Management

At Boston Children’s, end-of-day reconciliation became quicker; no more cash drawers for the front-end. The entire hour and a half or more of reconciliation at the end of day was eliminated.

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."

The staffing firm also acquired Global Employment Solutions and has gained new private equity funding; parent company Leidos Inc. retains its healthcare business serving government customers.

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.

Email cyberattackers frequently use certain keywords in their subject lines, according to Proofpoint, and tend to send their salvos at certain advantageous times of day.

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

On average, physician-led ACOs produced almost 7 times the amount of Medicare savings per beneficiary than hospital-led ACOs.

Also in that year, Dr. Angela Willis gained 81 new patient reviews and her website converted, on average each month, roughly 11.4% of all visitors into a booked appointment.

The anticipated savings would increase in a scenario in which biosimilars made up a larger portion of the total market share.

Claus Torp Jensen, who comes to Memorial Sloan Kettering after holding positions at CVS Health/Aetna and IBM, will also serve as head of technology for the hospital.