Modern Healthcare Staff Beth Kutscher Former California Bureau Chief See All Staff Page Recent Stories Software KaiNexus offers Lean an assist Healthcare providers are quickly and enthusiastically embracing Lean process improvement principles to cut costs, become more efficient and enhance quality. But there's room for improvement even in the process of improving. Innovations: Software KaiNexus offers Lean an assist Healthcare providers are quickly and enthusiastically embracing Lean process improvement principles to cut costs, become more efficient and enhance quality. But there's room for improvement even in the process of improving. Tax credit boosts healthcare services in remote areas of Hawaii Last week, employees and patients of the Lana'i Community Health Center blessed a new 6,800-square-foot facility. Beyond the EHR money pit Demands for constant upgrades to already-installed electronic health record systems are slowing investment in other important digital technologies like telehealth, remote patient monitoring and online billing. California tries to make cancer data more usable California wants to be the first state in the country to standardize the way cancer data are reported to its central registry, making it faster and easier to collect information from oncology labs. Innovations: Connecting to patients with mobile tech Plano, Texas-based Vivify Health's software platform allows clinicians to monitor and check in with patients at home. The highest-risk patients are provided with a tablet, while others access the tools through their own devices. Lucile Packard Children's celebrates 25 years by looking ahead to new opportunities As Lucile Packard Children's Hospital celebrates its 25th anniversary Friday, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based medical center is looking to a future where it focuses on primary care as much as specialty conditions. Drug companies play offense to justify high price tags The transition to a value-based reimbursement system has put pressure on all sectors of the healthcare industry to justify the prices they charge. What a Fitbit or a tweet can tell drugmakers about their products Health systems and hospitals that are taking financial risk for keeping people healthy aren't the only ones that want access to patient-generated data. Drug and biotech firms know patient-reported information can help get their products to market faster and assess how they perform in the real world. Providers turn to technology to match patients to clinical trials Clinical trial recruitment has long been one of the most challenging areas of drug development, and finding patients for these trials has become only more complex as the medical field gains a greater understanding of cancer pathways and genomics. California Medicaid success creates new challenges for health systems More than a third of California's residents now have Medicaid, and as the state looks to expand its Medicaid program even further, the rising number of patients in the program is having a complicated effect on hospital finances. Drugmakers again under microscope to explain high costs The drug and medical device industries are not immune to the healthcare industry's transition from volume to value. Drugmakers again under microscope to justify high costs The drug and medical industries have not been immune from the healthcare industry's transition from volume to value. Will Covered California sell plans to undocumented immigrants? California is moving to become the first state to allow unauthorized immigrants to purchase insurance through the state exchange. The state Assembly has voted to open up Covered California to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who want to purchase a health plan with their own funds. Innovations: Evolent helps with high-risk patients Evolent's technology and consulting platform can help identify high-risk patients by analyzing data from multiple sources and then create physician-driven care-management plans. Load More Sponsored Content