What You Should Know: - Improving patient access to medical services remains a top priority for U.S. health systems as they grapple with economic uncertainty and the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has altered patient behavior, according to a new report from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) and KLAS Research. - To address the challenge, health systems are investing in telehealth technology, patient portals and other digital tools, updating their organizational
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KLAS: State of Value-Based Care Reimbursement in 2022 Trends
What You Should Know: - Value-based care (VBC) has been established as a priority among healthcare organizations and payers as participants have gained more experience in managing their quality metrics and contracts, ultimately realizing returns on their investments. - For their latest report, Value-Based Care Reimbursement 2022, KLAS talked to 54 healthcare executives—including CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CMIOs, COOs, VPs and directors of population health, and VPs of analytics—to gauge how
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Provider Burnout Has Leveled Out in 2022; Staffing Shortages Rises, KLAS Reports
What You Should Know: - Value-based care (VBC) has been established as a priority among healthcare organizations and payers as participants have gained more experience in managing their quality metrics and contracts, ultimately realizing returns on their investments. - For their latest report, KLAS talked to 54 healthcare executives—including CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CMIOs, COOs, VPs and directors of population health, and VPs of analytics—to gauge how they are moving beyond
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KLAS Report Reveals EMR Functionality & Value Top of Mind for Small Practices
What You Should Know: - A new report by KLAS provides the latest view on how the major vendors in this market perform and which ones stand out in the areas that small practices (2–10 physicians) care about most. - Small practices provide a significant amount of outpatient care in the US, and their needs differ from those of their larger counterparts. When it comes to EMR/PM technology, these practices expect up-to-date functionality, steady product performance, solid implementation and
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KLAS Credentialing Report Examines Vendor’s Efficiency
What You Should Know: - Credentialing management has historically required dozens of spreadsheets, manual data entry, and painstaking monitoring of multiple payer, state, and national databases—causing significant inefficiencies and expenses. Vendors providing credentialing software and/or services promise major efficiency gains for healthcare organizations, but not all offerings are equally effective. - A new report by KLAS examines three strong predictors of efficiency—the use of
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KLAS-Bain: Post-Pandemic Investment Priorities for Healthcare Providers
What You Should Know: - Competition in the provider IT space shows no signs of abating: Early-stage capital, big tech, and scale EMR players continue crowding into more segments. This has significant implications for providers as they transition into a new disruptive period, for software players as they fine-tune go-to-market models for the current environment, and for private equity investors as they look to invest behind winning themes. - A new report by KLAS Research and Bain &
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Proscia Unveils New Enhancements to its Digital Pathology Platform
What You Should Know: - Proscia®, a leading provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, has introduced the next version of its Concentriq® Dx platform for primary diagnostic workflows, which is CE-marked under IVDR. - The release brings together new features and a compelling user experience to help even the largest laboratory networks transition to 100% digital diagnosis. In doing so, they can realize the full promise of the shift away from microscope-based
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KLAS: State of Digital Pathology Among Early Adopters in 2022
What You Should Know: - In anticipation, many technology vendors are vying for a foothold in the US, leading to a highly varied landscape. In partnership with the Digital Pathology Association (DPA), KLAS surveyed 55 provider organizations (including hospitals, health systems, academic health centers, and reference labs) to assess the state of digital pathology among pioneers in the US and determine which vendors are gaining traction. - 33 of the interviewed organizations are live with
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KLAS Report Explores EHR Satisfaction by Provider Specialty
What You Should Know: - One of the ways organizations can target improvements for those who are less satisfied is to look at EHR satisfaction by specialty—there is currently a gap of about 30 points between the most satisfied specialty (hospital medicine) and the least satisfied specialty (ophthalmology). - The goal of this new report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative, "Exploring EHR Satisfaction by Provider Specialty," is to help readers understand this variation and learn some ways the
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It’s Time to Give Patients “Admin Access” to Manage Their Healthcare
While the entire healthcare industry is inching toward giving people more autonomy to manage their care, we can’t seem to hand over the keys just yet. The latest KLAS data on patient preferences shows that most individuals interacting with the healthcare system want greater control, especially over their care visits. That’s because the capabilities patients value most—including appointment scheduling, prescription refill
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