The past few years have seen upheavals in healthcare, and 2024 so far shows no signs of breaking that pattern.
While the fundamentals of healthcare remain the same – caregivers treating patients – the who, how and where are changing, driven by shifting demographics, evolving consumer preferences, technological advancements and revolutionary drugs.
My work with clinicians in all 50 states, as well as the organizations that utilize their expertise, provides a unique lens to evaluate the
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Integrating AI Co-Pilots: A New Era of Intelligent Healthcare Management
The integration of AI into healthcare workflows presents a tremendous opportunity for transformation –– and for new levels of productivity in a time when administrative functions surrounding claims adjudication, provider reimbursement, and related functions are complicating operations and affecting efficiency. AI Co-Pilots offer an innovative approach to addressing these issues by driving efficiency, accuracy, and value in payment integrity.
The payment Integrity sector, crucial for ensuring
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How to Use NBA in Pharma Sales: Best Practices
Next Best Action has been one of the most important approaches for sales in recent years, including for pharmaceuticals. But because selling pharma is significantly different than selling other products, pharma-oriented NBA approaches need to be significantly more sophisticated than NBA for other industries. Pharma sales teams looking to implement NBA need to embrace an updated, data-driven version of this approach, known as NBA 2.0,
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Developing a Robust Data Strategy for Healthcare Organizations
Having a comprehensive data strategy is paramount in the healthcare sector. Data can be both a blessing and a curse for healthcare organizations, depending on how well they manage their data. On one hand, data is the key to unlocking personalized medicine, research breakthroughs, and effective population health management. On the other hand, data can be a major source of risk. Poor data security can compromise sensitive patient information, erode confidence in healthcare institutions, and lead
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7 Digital Transformation Mistakes Made In Healthcare
The digital health market is projected to grow at a compound annual rate of approximately 25% from 2019 to 2025, according to NASDAQ. Needs for digital projects and initiatives have never been higher.
However, investments in the sector, including in digital tech, have remained under tremendous scrutiny since the pandemic. As this trend continues in 2024, it’s more important than ever for digital healthcare professionals to scrutinize their roadmaps and strategies. They must exercise caution
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Prior Authorization and Interoperability – Changing the Dynamics of Medicare
CMS and Medicare are trying to change the dynamics of American healthcare. No need to rehash the well-known issues but what is new is the change in the hotspot. For the last 20 years, Medicare Fee for Service has been the hotspot of spending and value. You’ve heard the mantra (which dates at least as far back as 1906 with George Bernard Shaw’s play, “The Doctor’s Dilemma”). If you pay a set rate the medical establishment has an incentive to increase volume. Now fast forward to today and Medicare
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Netflix for Healthcare: Direct Primary Care & Shared Decision-Making
In an era when healthcare costs continue to soar, a deviation from the status quo is becoming increasingly necessary. Backing this up are recent findings by the Federal Reserve Board, which unearth an uncomfortable truth—that 28% of adults in the U.S. were compelled to forgo medical care in 2022 due to exorbitant costs. Both alarming and disappointing, this statistic underscores the urgent need for a transformative take on healthcare that places patients at the helm of their own unique
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Unlocking Medical Device Potential: Data Integration Drives Better Patient Outcomes
The types of medical devices available and their use in patient care continue to accelerate. The medical devices market is anticipated to surpass $656B by 2032, and it is poised to reach a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.0% between 2023 and 2032. From monitoring devices, infusion pumps, implanted devices, autoinjectors and diagnostic devices to wearables, the number of devices – and the data they produce – has exploded.
For healthcare organizations, that means a constant barrage
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Why Hospitals & Health Systems are Shifting IT to Managed Services
The two largest technology trends occurring in healthcare delivery – digital transformation and cyberattacks – are understandably driving the adoption of more IT platforms, applications, and other tools within health systems and hospitals. Concurrently, features within electronic health record (EHR) systems continue to proliferate and increase in complexity.
Although these health IT solutions are designed to save time for providers and administrators during their patient care and business
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How Open-Source Technologies Will Transform Digital Clinical Trials
Although the traditional nearly decade-long clinical trial timelines completely collapsed during COVID, this truncating was not necessarily novel. Precedent exists for accelerating approval timelines during health emergencies such as the AIDs/HIV epidemic, where Compound S, a re-make of AZT, or azidothymidine, originally developed to fight cancer, became controversially fast-tracked after the discovery that it could block HIV activity. Likewise, when potentially lifesaving drugs are
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