Emerging technologies like ChatGPT offer potential solutions to the challenges of patient engagement and communication for overburdened physicians and staffs. … READ MORE >
Reflections from 2022 and a look forward for the health care industry
As the calendar year wraps, it’s time for health care organizations to reflect on challenges this year as well as what to focus on for the coming year. … READ MORE >
ESG’s growing impact on the health care industry: Spring 2022 outlook
Aside from the obvious benefits to community, culture and environment, another reason health care organizations are focused on ESG is to attract financing … READ MORE >
Building the new normal in health care
As the health care provider industry works toward a new normal, physical infrastructure scrutiny will likely be top of mind for many organizations. … READ MORE >
Pandemic highlights the need for better use of data among health care providers
As health care providers prepare for an influx of patients with the easing of the pandemic, a better use of data analytics can help them manage the process. … READ MORE >
The changing landscape of pandemic relief for health care providers
The importance of the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund and the ability to keep it are critical to health care providers, whose margins have been helped enormously by the aid. … READ MORE >
Managed care organizations weather the coronavirus storm
It’s no mystery that major parts of the health care sector took a significant hit to the bottom line this year as hospitals postponed elective procedures to make way for coronavirus patients. But one area of the health care sector — managed care organizations — has weathered the storm quite well. … READ MORE >
As coronavirus spreads across the nation, aid to hospitals lags
As Congress debates a new round of stimulus measures to blunt the human and economic toll of the coronavirus, it has an opportunity to rethink the way it supports those who are working on the front lines of the pandemic: health care providers. … READ MORE >
Businesses already strained by COVID-19 should prepare for hurricane season
Forecasters predict a 70% chance that this hurricane season will be worse than normal. For businesses already stretched thin by the coronavirus pandemic, the grim forecast comes at a perilous time. Sectors such as insurance, real estate, hospitality and health care are particularly vulnerable. … READ MORE >
How hospitals can prepare for new price transparency rules
A recent court ruling has given the Trump administration a major victory in its push for transparency in health care pricing, and has left many health care providers scrambling to meet new requirements. … READ MORE >