By Devin Partida – If you work in the health care industry, now is an excellent time to start ironing out your compliance priorities for the rest of 2021. Here are five areas worth focusing on as the year progresses.
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By Alison Greco PsyD – May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and after a year of a pandemic which brought deep suffering to the world and laid bare the deep inequities in our culture, we are in the midst of a second pandemic of mental health suffering.
By Ashok Gupta – The COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 presidential election dominated the public sphere throughout 2020 and 2021; justifiably so considering the impact each has had on our lifestyle, health, culture, and emotions.
By Baha Zeidan – Numbers don’t lie; according to a recent Mayo Clinic Proceedings article, a cross-sectional survey of nearly 900 US physicians from all specialty disciplines assessed the useability of their EHRs using the System Usability Scale, and the mean SUS score was an appalling 45.9 out of 100.
By Eric Demers – In the quest to make administrative work automated, payers and intermediaries for years have been developing their own homegrown systems to get closer to fully electronic processes for provider data management and revenue cycle management.
By Bryan Dickerson – Over the past year and a half, reactivity in all areas of operations within the healthcare system has had significant impacts to both the nurse and patient experience. One of the areas hit the hardest during the pandemic have been the nurses themselves.
By Dr. Leo P. Langlois – Chronic disease management continues to be one of the greatest healthcare challenges for providers. As chronic diseases continue to overwhelm our health system, providers are now looking at ways they can improve their efforts in a way that the quality of care being delivered is not negatively impacted.
By Michael Tkach, PsyD – Everyone experienced a variety of emotional reactions at the onset of the pandemic. Disbelief. Fear. Anxiety. The pandemic dramatically changed life as we knew it, as masks became commonplace, work shifted to the living room, and social interactions were but a thing of the past.
By Peyman Zand – Healthcare CIOs face increasing pressure to implement advanced analytics at virtually every turn. According to a recent State of the CIO Survey by IDG, twenty-five percent of IT leaders plan expect advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to drive their technology investments in 2021.