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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.

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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.

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The transition to a value-based reimbursement system has put pressure on all sectors of the healthcare industry to justify the prices they charge.

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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?

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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.

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