Contract Logix white paper reveals the top 10 most important contract management KPIs and how to maximize their impact
It's critical for every healthcare organization to monitor and optimize its contracts and contracting processes using key performance indicators (KPIs). But how do you determine which KPIs are the most important to your business and how do you harness the data required to benchmark and track them?
By benchmarking and tracking these KPIs in your healthcare organization, you
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Benchmarking
What Do Highly Satisfied Users of EHRs Do Differently?
What You Should Know:
The goal of the Arch Collaborative is to help organizations understand not just how to make the EHR usable but how to help clinicians embrace it as a tool essential for delivering great care.To that end, this report examines the responses of over 3,000 highly satisfied EHR users to identify what they do differently from less satisfied peers. Their insights reveal specific areas that other users and organizations can focus on to improve their own
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Risky Business of Health Trackers: What Digital Health Leaders Need to Know
Gone are the days when healthcare information was only available to us at the doctor’s office or through the office's online portals, and that’s in part due to the rapidly growing popularity of wearable technology devices. It’s estimated that 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. use a fitness or health tracker to monitor things such as heart rate, blood pressure, sleep cycle, and stress. But this information is being used beyond just monitoring specific conditions. Take me, for example; I personally use my
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TimelyMD, Violet Partner to Advance Health Equity for BIPOC, LGBTQ and TGNC Patients
What You Should Know:
- TimelyMD, the leading virtual health and well-being solution in higher education, announced today that it has partnered with Violet, the first health equity platform, to upskill cultural competence and deliver identity-centered care coordination, and to ultimately impact and close disparity gaps for diverse students across the country.
- Through the partnership, Violet will lead TimelyMD providers through its proprietary benchmarking framework to
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Greenway Health Launches Greenway Engagement Model
What You Should Know:
- Greenway Health has launched its new client engagement program, the Greenway Engagement Model (GEM), designed to strengthen Greenway's trusted advisor relationship with clients and support a more successful healthcare technology journey for Greenway clients through intentional interaction and strategic support.
- The GEM program provides a dedicated client support team and creates a client feedback program aimed at improving the user
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Netsmart Acquires SNF Claims Data Analytics Solution CORE Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Netsmart announced that it has acquired CORE Analytics, the industry-leading skilled nursing facility (SNF) claims data analytics offering from Zimmet Healthcare.
- With the addition of Core Analytics, Netsmart Simple™is now the only solution suite in the market capable of calculating quality measures and Five-Star ratings leveraging Minimum Data Set (MDS), Payroll-Based Journaling (PBJ) and UB-04 claims data.
Software Solutions to Problems in
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SnapLogic Launches Amazon HealthLake Accelerator to Store, Share Patient Data
What You Should Know:
- SnapLogic, a provider of Enterprise Automation, today launched the SnapLogic Accelerator for Amazon HealthLake, which enables healthcare and life sciences organizations to easily ingest a range of raw data into Amazon HealthLake, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and transform it into healthcare-related insights and actions.
- This new Amazon HealthLake-dedicated integration and automation accelerator will help organizations looking to quickly connect systems,
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Patient Experience 2.0: A Shift in Priorities Defined by A Year of the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the healthcare continuum within the past year, creating many roadblocks in the path towards high-quality care delivery. Amid these challenges, we have witnessed a significant shift in patient wants and needs, in addition to heightened demand for accessible, convenient clinical care. Notably, the desire for more care processes to be performed digitally has emerged as a priority among patients. According to a recent survey by Accenture about patient behaviors, 60%
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TigerConnect Acquires Hospital Middleware Solution Critical Alert – M&A
What You Should Know:
- TigerConnect has announced an expansion in their suite
through the acquisition of Critical Alert, a leading provider of
enterprise-grade middleware for hospitals and health systems.
- For the hundreds of thousands of nurses that currently
use TigerConnect, these new capabilities will deliver real-time, contextual
information to their mobile device or desktop to allow them to work smarter,
prioritize responses, and efficiently coordinate care, all within the
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After COVID-19, Healthcare’s Next Big Challenge: Reforming Surgery
Nearly six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, many hard-hit healthcare systems have begun resuming elective surgeries and redeploying surgeons, residents, and fellows back to their home departments after enlisting them in COVID wards and ICUs.
These practitioners are returning physically exhausted and emotionally strained from the harrowing experience of serving on the front lines of the COVID response. Meanwhile, they have also seen their training
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