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.

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Transparency report called ‘irresponsible,’ ‘reckless’

Have hospitals really taken a step backward along their march toward price transparency? Or is the watchdog outfit making the claim playing fast and loose with the facts?

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Change Healthcare cyberattack: A recap and update in 10 quotes

“This is what happens when everything merges and you only have one option.”

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Generative AI: Who’s disrupting whom?

Given the speed at which generative AI has penetrated every major sector of human endeavor, no expert in any field should pretend to know how to cleanly separate the disruptors from the disrupted.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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A definable under/over line separates paying from non-paying patients

Patients who owe providers $500 or less in out-of-pocket expenses tend to pay down the bill. Those who owe more than $500 are evidently inclined to ignore collections efforts and pay nothing at all.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.