Note: iProtean, now part of Veralon’s newsletter/blog will not be published next week because of iProtean, now part of Veralon’s symposium Last week, Republicans presented initial legislation as a redo of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), calling it the American Health Care Act (ACHA). A summary of the changes appears below, courtesy of the […]
Republican plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with their own design have put healthcare CEOs in a state of “high anxiety,” according to a recent survey conducted by Modern Healthcare. The first-quarter survey of Modern Healthcare’s CEO Power Panel received 81 responses from 110 of the CEOs contacted. It also […]
The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) released an assessment of possible and/or upcoming policy changes under the new administration. We have been waiting for HFMA to speak on ramifications to the non-insurance side of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), so we welcome the report and provide a portion of it here. The new secretaries […]
(Originally published in Nasdaq’s MarketInsite and written by Gordon Clark, President and CEO of iProtean, now part of Veralon) The volunteer board members of not-for-profit hospitals and health systems are smart, prominent and accomplished people drawn from the community. Yet, our research shows only 27 percent of hospital and health system board members feel they […]
Modern Healthcare recently released a report on “cyberdefense,” and because this is a timely topic of interest to our subscribers, we present excerpts from the report below. A link to the full article appears at the end of this blog/newsletter. “Cybersecurity platforms that employ advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning and predictive analytics […]
Both Democrats and Republicans recognize the overwhelming need to control healthcare expenses while maintaining and improving quality of care. Under the Obama administration, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) pledged that by 2018, half of traditional Medicare payments would be based on value-based payment models that incentivize high quality, low cost care as […]
The threat from ransomware and other IT security challenges is expected to increase as hospitals acquire and hold ever-larger quantities of valuable patient electronic health records. The nature of the IT security threat changes so rapidly that ongoing education of hospital leaders is critical. Hospitals have looked for effective ways to keep their leaders […]
Nontraditional partnerships explicitly form to manage accountable care organizations and clinically integrated networks. Shared governance is typical in these types of partnerships. Other nontraditional partnerships include insurance companies, retailers and pharmacy companies. Accountable care organizations and clinically integrated networks both collaborate among hospitals and physicians to manage large groups of patients to reduce the […]