Telehealth for Rural Communities: An Important Component in the Transition to Value-based Care
Have you ever visited McMullen, Alabama or traveled to Hobart Bay, Alaska? How about Jerome, Arizona or Magnet Cove, Arkansas? If you’ve never stepped foot in any of these American towns, you’re probably not alone. Along with Vernon, California, they’re five of the...
Three Social Determinants of Health to Address Via Patient Outreach Post-COVID-19
Examining social determinants of health (SDoH) and how they affect certain populations is nothing new for healthcare providers and payers. Some providers are investing in additional staff and other resources to zero in on SDoH to improve health outcomes, reduce...
Leveraging Behavior Economics to Improve Patient Engagement Strategies
Patient engagement continues to be a hot topic throughout the healthcare industry, especially as technology increases the ways individuals can communicate with their providers. According to research, almost half of patients in the United States use technology for this...
Behavioral Economics and Healthcare
Three Key Strategies for Closing Care Gaps After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Most physician practices in the United States have put their COVID-19- financial woes behind them. A recent survey notes that roughly 90 percent of practices are conducting chronic care follow-up and screening patients for depression or anxiety, while about 80 percent...
Solutions for Avoiding AI Bias in Healthcare
There are numerous technology tools utilized within the healthcare industry. One of the newest with the potential to drastically improve patient outcomes is artificial intelligence (AI). AI has the capability to process large...
Physician Burnout: A Precarious Problem for the Healthcare Industry
Burnout was first described as a psychological syndrome in 1996 by Christina Maslach, Ph.D. in the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Manuel. A condition that affects physicians in all specialties and practice settings, it’s defined in the International Classification of...
Artificial Intelligence in Cloud Computing: The Secret to Streamlining Healthcare
The age of artificial intelligence (AI) technology is already upon us, taking over a vast majority of tasks that were once performed by us humans alone. As a matter of fact, we already make use of this state-of-the-art tech innovation nearly every day when we talk...
Does Your Medical Group Now Qualify for $33,000 Per Employee in Employee Retention Credits?
Healthcare was undoubtedly the industry most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals, health systems, physician practices and other medical groups faced numerous challenges, both financially and operationally. Patient volume fell by an average of 60 percent,...
The COVID-19 Vaccine Tax Credit: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Through Employers
As of the beginning of May, 105 million Americans (31.9 percent of the total population) are fully vaccinated, and 147 million United States residents (44.8 percent of the total population) have received at least one dose of one of the three approved COVID-19...
Using Population Health Management to Promote New Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines
Lung cancer is the second most common type of cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Each year, more people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast and prostate cancers combined. Although the primary risk factor for lung cancer is...
Why Improving Chronic Disease Management is the Key to Reducing Excessive Emergency Medical Visits
Chronic disease can be regarded as a major and persistent epidemic of our time. Today, roughly 40 million people in the United States are restricted in their day-to-day activities due to one or more common chronic health conditions. The most widespread chronic...
