Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

Greenway Partners With Lightbeam to Bring Population Health and Data Solutions to Their Customers

IRVING, Texas, Sept. 3, 2014-- Lightbeam Health Solutions, LLC today announced it has joined the Greenway Health online Marketplace of value-added partners for users of Greenway's integrated Electronic Health Record (EHR) and practice management solutions.

September 3, 2014

Digital Health Panel Discussion with Healthcare IT Industry Experts: We Have All of This Patient Generated Health Data, Now What?

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) August 21, 2014 -- Achieve Health the healthcare technology division of Achieve Internet, an Open Source software engineering firm, is co-hosting a panel discussion and business networking event at the Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman offices in San Diego CA – September 9th at 5:30PM. The event will include industry experts from the healthcare technology sector who focus on building innovative technology platforms to improve patient engagement, patient to physician communications, patient generated data visualization and helping to drive healthy decisions and improved care.

August 21, 2014

Tonic Health Selected by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to Increase Patient Engagement with Innovative and Intuitive Ipad-Based Data Collection Platform

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Tonic Health today announced that it has been selected by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to provide an iPad- and web-based patient data collection platform. By leveraging Tonic Health’s innovative and easy-to-use data collection platform, Wake Forest Baptist can more effectively register, screen and manage their patient populations over time.

August 18, 2014

Zynx Health Announces Availability of Knowledge Analyzer

LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2014--Zynx Health™, the market leader in providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions, has announced the general availability of Knowledge Analyzer™, a scalable solution that helps organizations quickly realize the full value of electronic health record (EHR) systems.

July 22, 2014

Ambient Clinical Analytics Technology Takes Home First Place for the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management in Health Case Competition

ROCHESTER, MN (July 15th, 2014) - Ambient Clinical Analytics, Inc., the provider of powerful bedside real-time critical decision support tools for ICU, Operating Room and Emergency Departments, was precisely chosen by the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management to be the focus of their case study in the annual Business School Alliance for Health Management competition. The Carlson School earned first place by showcasing the technology from AmbientClinical Analytics.

July 16, 2014
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HFMA survey: Strategy now beats competitive advantage as reason to merge

The pressure to control costs and manage risk-based payment systems is changing the reasons why healthcare providers merge finds a new survey of Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) members.

June 24, 2014

HIMSS Analytics Announces Siemens as Certified Educator of the DELTA-Powered Analytics Assessment

CHICAGO (June 23, 2014) – HIMSS Analytics today named Siemens Healthcare a Certified Educator of the DELTA PoweredTM Analytics Assessment.

June 23, 2014

ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte and Regenstrief Institute Announce Collaboration to Accelerate the Use of Real World Evidence in Health Care

NEW YORK, INDIANAPOLIS, June 17, 2014 – ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. are announcing that Regenstrief, an internationally recognized informatics and health care research organization, has become a member of ConvergeHEALTH’s real-world evidence and analytics consortium. 

June 19, 2014

Around the web

Jeffrey Kuvin, MD, one of the leading voices behind efforts to create a new Board of Cardiovascular Medicine, spoke with Cardiovascular Business about where things stand today.

Half a year after President Biden officially directed federal agencies in the executive branch’s bailiwick to “seize the promise and manage the risks” of AI, the White House has posted a status report.

U.S. physicians often receive payments from medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies. New research in JAMA found a connection between receiving such payments and using specific devices—should the industry be concerned? 

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