Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

Industry Watcher’s Digest
Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.
Why the business side of cardiology was a key focus at ACC.24
Alison Bailey, MD, co-chair of the business of cardiology sessions at ACC.24, emphasized that reimbursement cuts can have a long-term negative impact on patient.
Strategies to solve the toughest issues facing radiology practice management
Rebecca Farrington and Sandy Coffta from Healthcare Administrative Partners explain how to best tackle real-world issues radiology practices are facing.
Industry Watcher’s Digest
Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.
Alzheimer’s imaging experts to assess utility, efficiency of Hyperfine’s Swoop system
Is portable MRI suitable for finding abnormalities in the brains of patients receiving new amyloid-targeting therapy for Alzheimer’s disease? Clinical researchers are about to find out.

Number of AI products in healthcare set for fivefold expansion by 2035

A study projects AI funding will continue to increase, resulting in a massive number of new products during the next decade.

October 16, 2023

Hospital payroll squeeze: Will strikes pick up where pandemic resignations left off?

During the height of the COVID-19 crisis, around 1 in 5 nonphysician healthcare workers quit their jobs. That was then and this is now. (Plus: Hospital quotes of the week)

October 13, 2023

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

October 11, 2023

Healthcare retailers in the news: Best Buy Health, Walgreens, Dollar General

The past several days have seen a series of noteworthy healthcare developments involving brick-and-mortar consumer stores.

October 10, 2023

Hospital trio learns cybersecurity lessons the hard way

How quickly a hospital recovers from a ransomware cyberattack has a lot to do with how thoroughly the hospital prepared ahead of time for just such an event.

October 5, 2023

Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

October 5, 2023

Video of Bradley Hunter, the vice president for value-based care and core solutions at KLAS Research, explaining how the Best in KLAS rates for health informatics vendors are created.

How are the best in KLAS Health IT vendor rankings created?

KLAS conducts annual assessments of all types of healthcare information systems such as PACS, EMRs and cardiovascular information systems and ranks them. Bradley Hunter, the vice president for value-based care and core solutions at KLAS Research, explains the process of ranking.

October 4, 2023

Kumar Aditya, director, information technology, Atlantic Health System, explains how the system automated more than 60% of its radiology prior authorization workflow.

How Atlantic Health automated its radiology prior authorization workflow

Director of IT Kumar Aditya explains how the New Jersey hospital system automated more than 60% of its radiology prior authorization workflow.

October 3, 2023