Calling for Responsible Healthcare Journalism
As the Ebola virus lands closer to home, it has been disappointing to watch the hype, inaccuracies and blame circulating in various media on what continues as a yet-to-be controlled…
5 Collection Strategies That Won’t Ruin Your Relationship with Patients
When patients have outstanding balances, it can be frustrating for all involved to collect that money in a manner that keeps everyone happy. Even the term “collections” brings to mind…
4 Approaches to Improving HCAHPS Scores Through Mobilization
Patient satisfaction’s impact on reimbursements has many inpatient hospitals focusing on HCAHPS There are many approaches to improving HCAHPS. Improving communications, patient education, collecting better data, and making services and…
Ebola Prevention Measures Likely Will Have Long Term Benefits
In light of the recent Ebola panic that has been racing across the nation from Texas to Maine, hospitals nationwide are beginning to review or create protocols directly related to…
Pre-habilitation: Effective Preventative Medicine for Rehabilitation
If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what can a knee bend do? The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons recently answered this question with the results of a…
The Concerns of BYOD in Healthcare
Mobile devices and recent tech advances have simplified a lot of areas in our lives. Being able to communicate and access data from anywhere is fantastic, not to mention all…
Telehealth at Mercy Health: Podcast Interview with CFO/EVP Strategy Shannon Sock
https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/shannon.mp3 https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/shannon.mp3Shannon Sock, Mercy Health CFO & EVP of StrategyToday’s Center for Connected Health Symposium #cHealth14 featured a high-powered panel discussion with top executives from Wellpoint, American Well, and the VA…
The Effectiveness of SEO vs. PPC in Physician Marketing Plans
It’s bad enough that healthcare professionals have to learn medical and pharmaceutical terminology, deal with insurance system overhauls, and cost-efficiently manage a practice. Now they are also expected to become…
Utilization Review vs. Utilization Management
Utilization Review versus Utilization Management? Although the two terms are often used in the same way and to mean more or less the same thing in healthcare, the two concepts…
Ebola: Are We Relying on EHR to Tell the Story?
Ebola — this word has its own hashtag, millions of tweets, hundreds if not thousands of articles in the past month, and the power to frighten many people. Fear is…
