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Thursday, November 14, 2013 @ 10:00 AM CST | 11:00 AM EST
To thrive in the new healthcare environment, hospitals and health systems must improve performance by 20 to 40 percent. How can organizations achieve this magnitude of change? Learn key competencies and practical steps in the areas of governance, physician alignment and operational excellence that providers need to create healthcare transformation. MORE INFO »
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 @ 1:00 PM CST | 2:00 PM EST
EMR adoption has reached a clear tipping point. Now that basic implementation work is done, providers must find ways to optimize EMR investments and derive strategic value as government incentives taper off. While many organizations remain focused on tactical issues, mapping EMR capabilities to strategic business and clinical objectives is key to extracting long-term value and transforming care... MORE INFO »
Thursday, November 7, 2013 @ 1:30 PM CST | 2:30 PM EST
Hospitals are in the midst of a readmission crisis. When CMS announced its first round of penalties at the start of fiscal year 2013, more than 2,200 hospitals were hit with cuts ranging from 0.01 to 1 percent of their Medicare revenue which could translate up to seven-figures per facility. Medicare's penalty for excess readmissions will climb to 3% by 2015, leaving little time for hospitals to... MORE INFO »
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 10:00 AM CST | 11:00 AM EST
At the end of 2008, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) was without a clear sense of direction. Turnover was high, employee satisfaction was low and there was little to no growth. MORE INFO »
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Effective October 1, 2013 CMS will fundamentally alter the manner in which hospitals define how inpatient status and outpatient observation is determined. The IPPS 2014 Final Rule contains two provisions that directly affect the day to day operations of the hospital. First, CMS has made significant changes to the criteria for medical necessity coverage concerning Part A inpatient hospital... MORE INFO »
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Many hospitals and health systems are making the shift from caring for the very sick to focusing on improving the living conditions of communities they serve by concentrating on disease prevention and reducing waste and toxic products. MORE INFO »
A three-part webinar series
Digital Technology Impacting Healthcare is a Modern Healthcare three-part webinar series sponsored by the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA). MORE INFO »
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 @ 10:00 AM CST | 11:00 AM EST
Insurers looking to offer low-cost options on the new health insurance exchanges are knitting together narrow provider networks that are willing to offer lower prices in exchange for the guaranteed volume that comes with serving an entire patient population. But that raises thorny questions for both payers and providers: Will patients be satisfied with their limited choices? Can the provider... MORE INFO »
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Hospitals have long struggled to break through the veil of opaque pricing on implantable medical devices, especially in the cardiovascular and orthopedic specialties. This webinar will explore best practices at systems that are leading the way on aligning the interests of physicians and hospitals to get the best value at the lowest price on physician preference items. MORE INFO »
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As health systems continue to diversify across the continuum of care, healthcare leaders will need to identify which services to offer and where to offer them. MORE INFO »
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As hospital systems and post-acute providers escalate their purchases and start-ups of skilled-nursing facilities, hospices and home health agencies, they face enormous challenges. Will they be able to create the continuum of care needed to improve quality and hold down costs? MORE INFO »
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What healthcare providers need to know to deal with overpayment challenges from the feds.The scrutiny of payments to hospitals has never been more intense. And as the federal government expands efforts to collect Medicare and Medicaid overpayments, healthcare providers see a growing need for strategies to proactively ensure that they are being paid accurately from those programs. MORE INFO »
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