Minimally invasive robotic surgery has immense appeal for many stakeholders, from patients who want a quick recovery to surgeons who aspire to work with the most advanced tools.

As healthcare providers strain under intensifying margin pressure, revenue cycle optimization has emerged as a particularly vexing challenge. Finalytics™ has developed technology to help. Finalytics is a healthcare fintech company offering its patented Flex™ solution to modernize the insurance revenue cycle by monetizing outstanding insurance claims. With Flex, accounts receivable are paid quickly and efficiently. Flex also offers clients a new way of tracking financial performance using one simple metric: WADIO.

A shift is occurring in how healthcare organizations use data to inform every aspect of their businesses. Planned investments in data sharing, management, and governance along with advanced analytics signal that healthcare leaders are preparing for more advanced uses of their data.  

As the COVID-19 pandemic winds down, hospitals and health systems are placing a renewed focus on patient experience. 

Healthcare providers are buckling under the administrative burden associated with electronic health record (EHR) systems. Allergists and immunologists are no exception. In addition to documenting patient visits, allergists and immunologists must deal with high volumes of prior authorizations and paperwork needed for biologic agents that can transform the lives of patients with conditions like severe asthma.

As hospitals and health systems confront staffing challenges and respond to patients' desire for more streamlined, often tech-based healthcare experiences, many organizations are increasing self-service and automated processes for patients, such as digital intake and registration tools. 

Healthcare huddles and command centers are potent tools for delivering care. However, their function has shifted: huddles have become data reporting rituals and command centers into data showcases.

Maternal health disparities are deeply rooted and multifaceted, affecting public health, individual health and society — and they can be improved via the healthcare setting. Considering this issue’s close link to patient safety and quality, which have drawn a tremendous amount of attention and process improvement efforts in recent years, maternal health disparities continue to largely fly under the radar.

Becker's Hospital Review recently spoke with Raj Sethuraman, chief product and technology officer at Finvi, about the importance of automation's role within healthcare revenue cycle management. 

With the 2023 NBA Playoffs looming, the last place you’d expect to see Magic Johnson and Larry Bird would be at a healthcare conference. Yet both NBA legends, along with entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, were featured keynote speakers for the Becker’s Hospital Review 13th Annual Meeting in Chicago from April 3rd-6th. Origami Risk’s Anooja Cannon, Senior Healthcare Market Strategy Lead, and Katherine Mahlke, Healthcare Sales Associate, heard from these industry greats and spoke with physicians, frontline staff, and healthcare executives to learn about their most pressing challenges. 

It's no secret: Health systems face immense and unprecedented challenges. These include workforce shortages, supply chain issues, revenue risks and economic headwinds.

Introduction Administrative burden is a major cause of clinician burnout, which in turn can lead to low employee satisfaction and have a negative impact on patient safety.

Wenatchee, Wash.-based Confluence Health has eliminated its chief operating officer amid restructuring efforts and financial pressures, the health system confirmed to Becker's May 16.

Some health systems are using a larger-than-life approach to staffing, buying up billboards as a means of recruitment. Some nurses are employing billboards to hold their health systems accountable when it comes to staffing. 

Across countless industries, there has been a steadily growing trend toward adoption of cloud computing. As cloud computing enters its 18th year1, massive workloads have been migrated to the cloud; cloud laws, standards and best practices have been enacted, and computing, storage, network and security technologies have been invented just for the cloud.

Hospital-at-home programs can help ease many pressures on the healthcare industry, such as staffing and inpatient overcrowding. But "too many questions remain unanswered" for CMS to approve them permanently, research professionals argue in a recent article. 

The hospital emergency department (ED) is at a crossroads in modern medicine. It is the front line of care for many patients, yet the ED is costly to operate and is not always fully equipped to help patients during the critical post-discharge period. Still, in the face of these challenges, some hospitals are reducing costs while simultaneously improving outcomes after an emergency care visit.

The Transform Summit features industry leaders sharing how to increase ROI through AI as budgets tighten, patient volumes rise, and staffing shortages intensify.

For far too long, laboratories have been regarded as cost centers despite their key role in driving health outcomes and hospital revenues. Now finally that outlook is starting to change for the better.

Historically, hospitals and health systems have tended to view patient care through their own lens. Today, leading organizations recognize that healthcare works better when it actively incorporates patient perspectives.