Whitepapers & E-Books
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Yet, amid this surging demand, ASCs experience a myriad of challenges: from staffing shortages to streamlining the patient experience and lags in revenue cycle timelines.
To remain successful and ensure uninterrupted growth, ASCs and other healthcare facilities must improve their patients' financial and clinical journeys.
In this whitepaper, you'll learn:
- The tremendous consequences of payment lag to ASCs
- The top three proven patient payment strategies to optimize RCM
- Patient-centric practices to help ASCs maximize growth via transparency, communication and tech-enabled automations

While ambulatory care is an important strategic move to expand patient access, increase revenue and improve margins, there are critical challenges to navigate.
This eBook – based on an advisory call of health system leaders from across the country with significant ambulatory care expertise – covers keys to successful ambulatory care expansion, such as:
Why understanding the local market is critical
Prioritizing the patient experience when designing sites of care
Different management skills needed for ASCs vs. inpatient care
The need to focus on ambulatory reimbursement models
As the market rapidly shifts to more ambulatory care, it is essential to understand and act on the keys to ambulatory success.

Often a big offer comes unsolicited, but is it a fair offer and will private equity partnership be a good fit? The lure of private equity money can be enticing but what are the risks and challenges? What help do you need to navigate this unfamiliar territory?
A new white paper from Physician Growth Partners answers critical questions for medical practices considering a private equity investment, such as:
- What are the benefits of working with private equity?
- Is it better to sell to a private equity group or a hospital system?
- Can you maintain independence in a private equity partnership?
- How are deals structured and what is “fair” compensation?
- What are the advantages of working with a transaction advisor?
Be prepared when a private equity firm approaches your practice.

This report outlines a clear strategy healthcare organizations can implement to improve patients' financial literacy and retain them amid an increasingly competitive marketplace.
You'll learn:
- Ways to lead with open and honest communication to provide compassionate financial care
- Strategies to create better connections with patients
- How to improve patients' knowledge about payments

Based on increasing revenue cycle work and a shortage of skilled workers, it is impossible to hire enough people or ask current employees to work harder.
It’s time to work smarter, not harder. What does working smarter in the revenue cycle mean? It means finding innovative ways to do more with less.
Download for best practices on:
- Developing a smarter revenue cycle and administrative strategy
- Cutting down on outdated manual processes
- Streamlining existing processes with intelligent automation

So how are leading health plans responding to these headwinds? That is exactly what Becker’s asked senior leaders from top health plans in a recent Advisory Call.
This Advisory Call recap summarizes specific actions leading health plans are taking, which include:
- Adapting their strategy and operations
- Revisiting pricing strategies and ways to share cost increases
- Leveraging value-based reimbursement
- Tackling administrative inefficiencies and reducing waste
- Identifying technology solutions to automate mundane tasks
- Steering care to lower cost settings
- And much, much more
Today’s economic headwinds aren’t going away anytime soon. Get ideas for your plan by hearing what top health plans said in this Advisory Call.

These four use cases demonstrate how health plans can positively influence the full picture of member health, leading to better outcomes.
Learn about health plans' role in:
- Post-discharge coaching
- Behavioral health coaching
- Oncology coaching and the future of cancer
- Cardiometabolic coaching with food delivery services

- Learn how you can massively cut your data footprint and compute costs.
- See where you can save time and benefit from AI and automation tools.
- Understand the ways cloud can help you stay on top of regulations.

Optum commissioned a survey of senior health plan executives on payment processing trends as well as opportunities and barriers to improve payments.
This report lays out the most pressing issues affecting payment processing and details top priorities for streamlining claims payment, including shifting to a paperless system and adopting automation.
Get this report to learn:
- Current state of health plans’ payment strategies
- Top pain points and most important priorities
- Key opportunities to streamline payments and barriers to making it happen
- What to look for when considering a payment solution

How can health plans simultaneously improve clinical outcomes, boost member satisfaction and lower costs?
The answer: by optimizing interventions for patients with chronic diseases that lead members to the right care at the right time. Effective chronic care interventions improve outcomes, close gaps in care and achieve meaningful cost savings and ROI. In fact, there are interventions with guaranteed year-one cost savings.
Learn about these interventions in the new whitepaper – The ROI of Virtual Health: How Better Outcomes Drive Cost Savings for Health Plans.
This whitepaper explores:
- What drives ROI for health plans
- How to achieve guaranteed costs savings and ROI from interventions in year 1
- How optimized interventions improve outcomes and member retention
- How to provide flexible options for your population and specific cohorts

To date, kidney care has focused on diagnosis and treatment. But 1 in 4 patients "crash" into dialysis, where dialysis must be initiated urgently with no opportunity for patients and providers to discuss treatment alternatives or make optimal decisions.
What’s needed is "crash prevention" by using predictive intelligence to identify patients likely to need future dialysis, leading to earlier intervention.
Download this white paper on The Kidney Care Paradigm Shift. It focuses on:
- Predicting & preventing advanced CKD
- Identifying at-risk patients earlier through predictive intelligence
- Benefits of avoiding emergent dialysis
Treating CKD is costly and inefficient, but doesn’t have to be. Discover a new paradigm that leverages predictive intelligence for earlier intervention.

This white paper identifies the root causes of workforce upheaval and offers five key strategies for healthcare organizations to methodically adjust policies, procedures and practices for immediate stability and long-term growth.
Uncover strategies for balancing supply, demand and system transformation through:
- Reconnecting talent to purpose and performance
- Finding the right relationship between people and technology
- Expanding the use of intelligent data
- Building an anywhere, anytime workforce
- Mapping an enterprise-wide workforce strategy

It also details how leading health systems like Intermountain Health have successfully deployed automation-based solutions to the tune of 68% completion of pre-visit registration and intake and a 300% increase in co-payment collections.
Additionally, you will learn:
- How digital access drives patient loyalty and why it matters.
- Why the front end is where revenue capture goes wrong.
- How to deliver a unified approach to patient access.
- Best practices for transforming patient access in today’s environment.

Most ASCs do not.
As a result, ASCs deal with inefficient, server-based technology, spending an increasing amount of time on clinical documentation frustrating clinicians and administrative staff.
Learn how ASCs are increasing efficiency and reducing costs by switching to a clinical documentation solution tailored to ASCs' unique needs.
Find out how your ASC can experience:
- A 10-minute reduction in MD documentation time per procedure
- A 15-minute reduction in administrative billing time per procedure
- An increase in revenue from improved coding and billing accuracy
- An increase in patient volume due to increased referrals from the software’s ability to track and manage referring physicians

However, these requirements are far beyond an electronic health record's core clinical data management capabilities.
Download this white paper to explore how combining integrated patient access, intake and engagement solutions with your EHR can fill gaps, increase ROI, and enhance its value and effectiveness.
Learning points:
- Ensuring data integrity to prevent denials with intelligent automation
- Expediting financial clearance using accurate cost estimates and payment processing
- Enabling end-to-end prior authorization automation
- Increasing staff performance and accountability with systematic reporting

This white paper offers a collection of short articles and tips sheets on recruiting and retaining nurses and healthcare staff, as well as how to make their work more manageable and gratifying.
Read more to learn about:
Five ways to attract new nurses to the field
Steps for boosting retention while recruiting
Technology that improves staffing efficiency and enables on-demand work

During a panel at Becker’s 7th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Annual Meeting, five health IT experts discussed the benefits of moving to the cloud and best practices for a seamless transition.
This whitepaper offers a summary of the discussion and includes insights from leader at the following health systems:
University of Maryland Medical System (Silver Spring)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville)
Michigan Medicine in (Ann Arbor)
CommonSpirit Health (Chicago)

Healthcare organizations are getting creative to tackle the issue by rolling out flexible staffing initiatives, well-being programs and more. One approach, however, is being overlooked: leveraging the right technology that enables patients to do more, reducing staff burden.
Download this whitepaper from Yosi Health to learn more about the role patients play in mitigating burnout among healthcare workers.
Key learning points:
- 3 key areas/trends patients and consumers are looking for
- How empowering your patients improves health outcomes and financial results
- How engaged patients reduce staff burnout and administrative burden

A survey from CHIME-Cerner found that nearly 40 percent of providers lose at least 10 percent of revenue to leakage, as empowered patients leave to seek innovative care options that better meet their needs.
Health systems need to evaluate their key business levers. This may lead to diversification strategies that enhance primary care service offerings, strengthen patient and physician satisfaction, improve the bottom line and create competitive advantage.
This white paper describes key metrics healthcare leaders need to know and strategies to pursue to diversify revenue and create differentiation.
Insights include:
- Calculating patient panel numbers and customer lifetime value
- Effective strategies for provider diversification and differentiation
- Identify drivers of patient acquisition, retention and loyalty to optimize your portfolio and boost revenue

Supply chain leaders have an urgent need to better understand product availability. To address these challenges, create more resilient supply chains and reduce product shortages, leaders don't need another dashboard. They need actionable data and insights.
A new white paper outlines three key strategies to increase supply chain visibility and decrease product shortages.
Key focus areas include:
- Leveraging the data in your ERP system
- Using a supply chain data model with prospective information
- Streamlining pharmacy operations
- How Renown Health is using data to reduce product shortages

Read the case study to learn how using EngageCare self-service technology to transition administrative and financial tasks to patients helped Wayne improve patient safety, reduce no-shows and increase staff efficiency.
Download a copy of the case study to learn how Wayne:
- Reduced denials 80 percent
- Decreased no-shows and cancellations, saving revenue
- Reallocated staff and eliminated need to fill 5 vacant positions

At the Becker's Supply Chain Leadership Virtual Forum, six healthcare supply chain experts discussed their systems' supply chain transformation efforts and shared how supply chains can become a strategic asset when bolstered by the power of data, standardization and process efficiency. This report offers seven takeaways from the discussion.
Key learnings:
- How labor challenges are affecting supply chain teams
- Top priorities for healthcare supply chain leaders in 2022
- The key to successful supply chain transformations

Key Takeaways:
- Health systems can support medical device availability through optimized preventative maintenance schedules and standardized workflows.
- Dedicated monitoring and remediation of OEM-reported FDA alerts and recalls can minimize the potential impact on device availability and patient safety.
- Patient safety should be a key consideration throughout a health system's capital planning process

Results include:
- A coordinated experience across conditions for people living with both diabetes and hypertension Multiyear impact on clinical diabetes measures, including reduced HbA1c levels and a fewer hypoglycemic readings
- Measurable impact on systolic and diastolic blood pressure rates among those with uncontrolled hypertension
- Reduced spending incurred through medical care, emergency room visits and pharmacy costs associated with managing chronic conditions, resulting in a positive ROI

Learn how eight organizations across the country have used technology and collaboration to achieve the following:
- 61 percent reduction in opioid prescriptions
- 32 percent reduction in opioid deaths
- 50 percent decrease in emergency department visits for patients with high utilization patterns
- $34 million in cost savings
This downloadable whitepaper will cover:
- Four proven strategies for addressing the opioid epidemic on an organizational and community level
- Statewide efforts to reduce opioid prescribing and use, including implementation of seven best practices for prescription opioids
- How collaboration helped achieve measurable results outside opioids — including decreased ED visits and significant cost savings

All along the continuum of care, hidden data silos prevent health systems from achieving the goals of interoperability, namely, the ability to put the right information in the right hands at the right time for better care. Without a clear idea of where data silos exist, achieving true data integration is impossible.
The stakes are high: Lack of data interoperability results in inefficient, disconnected care and undermines value-based care and population health.
Download this white paper to learn how to:
- Overcome top data sharing and access challenges in health systems
- Unlock trapped data in healthcare's 9 billion faxed documents sent each year
- Implement three strategies to eliminate data silos in healthcare

During a recent peer-to-peer discussion hosted by Becker's Hospital Review, healthcare information and technology leaders shared their own experiences and common challenges they've faced in adopting cloud strategies. Download the white paper to see their insights on best practices, goals, criteria and metrics for integrating cloud technology.
Learn how to:
- Make internal cultural shifts to overcome cloud adoption concerns
- Guide your decisions about implementation and integration strategies
- Understand the impact your cloud strategy has on care quality

During a session at Becker's 10th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable, healthcare leaders from across the country discussed how their organizations are engaging in innovation and lessons they've learned. This report offers a summary of the discussion and features insights from:
Houston Methodist
UC San Diego (Calif.) Health
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (Seattle)

However, organizations are often held back in their digital transformation efforts by legacy IT systems and disconnected point solutions.
There's a better way. Healthcare organizations are discovering the transformational benefits of a single application platform that provides a unified, connected view of their data, patients and clinicians.
Download this white paper to learn how innovative healthcare organizations are leveraging this single platform to:
- Accelerate the speed to adapt to changing care requirements
- Improve clinician and patient management
- Dramatically heighten patient satisfaction
- Achieve seamless governance, risk and compliance management

practices.
Download the white paper to learn key takeaways with valuable, first-hand insights on how to
incorporate cloud into healthcare operations in the most effective way.
Key Points:
- Learn how to control security risks by limiting cloud provider and integrations
- Create criteria to evaluate cloud hosting providers for your organization’s specific needs
- Adopt a “why not cloud” approach to assessing cloud investments

Explore further possible uses for telehealth such as:
- Field emergency responses connecting unskilled responders to medical help
- Providing support to smaller hospitals in underserved communities
- “Tele-triage” to help relieve ER overcrowding and screen patients awaiting treatment

In times of tight budgets and staffing challenges, technology such as artificial intelligence empower hospitals to run more sustainably.
AI patient monitoring helps hospitals minimize falls, cut costs and reduce the need for full time employees. Now it's time to bring digital nursing into the acute environment for truly flexible nursing teams.
Explore how AI and other digital care tools are making care more efficient in this white paper.
Key learnings:
- How digital care tools can reduce average sitter hours
- How AI patient monitoring can reduce patient falls
- How digital care tools can decrease fall alert response time

Get ready for next-level growth, productivity, and patient engagement with Health Cloud and Tableau CRM. The solution helped MIMIT get a holistic view of patient data with a single source of truth — and a 459% ROI in less than three months.
According to Nucleus Research, MIMIT Health:
Boosted productivity by 30%
Raised patient engagement
Reduced procedure scheduling from two weeks to two to five days
Cut inventory costs by 15%, or $150,000 a year

This white paper explores the steps health systems can take to upgrade manual patient engagement to digital processes for closing referral gaps.
Read more to learn about:
- The inefficiencies in the referral management process + impact on patients and practitioners
- Opportunities for automation in patient engagement for referrals, like SMS or phone-based notifications, and how health systems can get started implementing these
- The success Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin realized in using its EHR-embedded patient engagement platform to create a closed-loop referral management workflow

So why is it so difficult to create a patient's "digital twin?"
In this insight brief, we explore some of the common obstacles to gathering, integrating and leveraging clinical data, such as:
- Siloed information within the EHR and between health IT systems
- Varied data accessibility
- Inadequate capture of detail or specificity
- Inconsistent data structure; and
- Variations in clinical terminology

With the help of Tecsys’ Elite™ Healthcare POU technology, Sanford Health has automated and systemized data capture, closed the data loop on preference card picking cycles, eliminated redundant processes and driven down on-hand inventory value.
This success story documents their journey at each step of the way.
Key Takeaways:
- Understand how an ongoing commitment to continuous improvement can increase cost savings, drive operational efficiency and reduce waste.
- Measure inventory performance with accurate analytics and analyze real-time data using the right technology.
- Identify the financial impact of unused materials resulting from out-of-date surgeon preference cards.

In this new white paper, discover how leading plans are leveraging data and artificial intelligence to turbocharge the member experience, transform member interactions and drive engagement across all channels.
Download to learn how health plans can:
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Use existing data and AI to turbocharge the contact center
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Create a holistic view of members to transform their experience
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Drive personalization with existing member data
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Overcome barriers to technology adoption and build greater trust with members

Maintaining, growing and securing on-premises data storage presents major challenges for hospitals and health systems in such an environment. This white paper examines why cloud storage and computing will become essential supports for hospitals and health systems keen to make the most of medical imaging technology advancements.
In this eBook, you will learn:
- How health systems are reaping the benefits of cloud technology for medical imaging
- The four pillars for optimized medical imaging data use and storage

This eGuide will help you understand:
- The key concepts behind ML and common applications
- How it’s becoming more useful to people at all levels of organizations

In this eBook from Keysight Technologies, you will discover
- How automation can improve workflow management to help physicians and patients alike
- How AI-driven test automation helps your EMR become more interoperable and user-friendly
- Six critical tasks that can be optimized with robotic process automation
- The importance of testing both on-site and wearable medical devices
Please fill out the form to download the eBook.

Other asset-intensive industries like airlines or package delivery services face similar challenges. However, through sophisticated modeling and simulations, organizations in these industries can predict and match supply to demand with considerable accuracy. Every day, millions of packages are delivered on time and scores of travelers safely reach their destinations. The healthcare sector needs the same types of capacity-optimization tools.
These were the overarching themes that emerged during a hospital operations summit as part of Becker's Hospital Review's 12th Annual Meeting in Chicago. Dozens of hospital executives participated in the summit. This white paper is based on their conversations and includes specific learnings from:
- Rush University Medical Center in Chicago
- UCHealth in Aurora, Colo.
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tenn.

This new ebook features short, must-read articles on 10 key topics facing C-suite leaders today, with ideas on how to thrive amid today’s challenges. Learn about:
- How one CEO keeps staff turnover under 1 percent
- Growth opportunities despite recessionary trends
- Succeeding despite the lack of access to capital
- Overcoming net operating losses
- How partnerships help health systems thrive

In this white paper, you'll learn how Red Oak, Iowa-based Montgomery County Memorial Hospital leveraged technology to streamline its financial processes, enhance productivity and reduce month-end time to close by 50 percent.
You'll also get more details on how the hospital:
- Streamlined accounting functions within one login application
- Employed its EMR to help with analysis and reporting
- Navigated implementation challenges (during the onset of COVID-19, no less)
- Increased staff satisfaction and buy-in

That’s because RCM today is fraught with challenges. It is labor intensive, exists in silos, burdens employees, lacks data and results in revenue leakage.
A new whitepaper lays out a recipe for better RCM. Key elements of better RCM include making it holistic and more automated, using prescriptive analytics and payer performance management. Results include better communication, improved employee satisfaction, decreased revenue leakage and more data to use when engaging in negotiations with payers.
In this whitepaper, you will learn:
- Why a holistic RCM approach is far better than silos.
- How RCM automation improves efficiency and employee satisfaction.
- How process improvements can maximize revenue and improve team performance.
- The importance of predictive analytics and payer performance management.

Rather than fall further behind, revenue cycle leaders are rethinking workflows and reimagining how work gets done alongside the latest advancements in technology. There are entire organizations that are writing a new playbook, establishing new paradigms for truly doing more with less, and defining a completely new way to tackle these long-standing revenue cycle challenges.
In this whitepaper, you will learn:
- Why now is the time for revenue cycle leaders to move beyond digitizing specific workflows and instead shift their efforts to intelligent automation
- New approaches to evolving patient access, with a focus on eliminating denials
- Best practices and KPIs for analyzing your denial management efforts
- How health systems are deploying advanced technologies to drive end-to-end connectivity throughout the entire revenue cycle and reducing the overall cost to collect

Among the survey's key insights:
Labor shortages are decimating revenue cycle teams
84 percent of organizations are behind on cash collections
Denials are up, in some case 20 percent higher than previously
But there are solutions to accelerate the revenue cycle and improve cash collections. See the survey results and insights from PwC revenue cycle experts that highlight the importance of:
- Leveraging data to decrease denials
- Using automation and technology to improve efficiency
- Upskilling revenue cycle teams and forming strategic partnership

Trends in healthcare payments will shift as the industry weathers financial instability, scarce resources, and staff burnout.
But even amid changing competitive and regulatory landscapes, many healthcare providers are thriving. They’re finding ways to do more with less, improve patient outcomes, and drive innovation.
Download this report to unlock current trends in healthcare payments for 2023, as well as proven strategies to help revenue cycle teams succeed.
What's Inside:
- Dive deep into top trends in healthcare payments for 2023
- Find new opportunities to foster financial growth
- Discover revenue cycle strategies to achieve your mission

You'll learn:
- How changes in the VA influence Veteran benefits today
- Pitfalls that make it challenging to work with the VA
- Effective ways to capture reimbursement for services rendered to Veterans

But there are different reasons for pursuing RCM partnerships and very different approaches to partnership. Which approach and partners are best for your organization?
Here are insights from new research conducted with the Health Management Academy:
- 4 key reasons health systems pursue RCM partnerships
- 2 primary approaches to RCM partnership, and the key differences between them
- Factors to consider when vetting and evaluating RCM partnerships
- Why so many leading health systems are considering enterprise RCM partnerships
The key takeaway: RCM partnerships are necessary but they're not all alike. Understand the differences to make the best RCM decision for your health system.

To succeed, revenue cycle leaders need to transform the first interaction many patients have in their care experience into a competitive differentiator, manage ever-changing payer rules, and navigate an exacerbated workforce shortage. Leading health systems are automating front-end processes to eliminate back-end administrative burden – removing patient and staff hassles that compromise quality, impact reliability, and escalate cost.
In this whitepaper, you will learn:
- Why common approaches to revenue cycle improvement fall short
- The role of intelligent automation in strengthening the front end of revenue cycles with higher accuracy and faster payment, without additional headcount
- How a leading health system decreased authorization-related write-offs by 55% and saved nearly 3,000 staff hours

Consumers, on the one hand, need increased support to understand their bills and figure out how to pay them. On the other hand, patients with more skin in the game are becoming more demanding about the quality of their customer experience.
These changes necessitate a new patient payment model that focuses on delivering convenience and clear communication to patients, driving both quicker payments and increased patient satisfaction.
Download this whitepaper to learn:
- The current state of patient collections, with data
- How to help patients take charge of their new responsibility
- How to identify hidden coverage
- How to increase the likelihood of quick, easy payment

Download the e-book to learn more about how health leaders can ready their organization for growth with forward-thinking strategies that include:
- Meeting the consumer on their terms
- Adapting to new competition
- The growing role of strategic partnerships
- Mastering the new indicators of growth
- Tracking the spend of the health care dollar

We asked physician management and healthcare organization leaders to share their strategies for overcoming the considerable challenges of this altered landscape. They offer 10 strategies for using data and analytics to better manage capacity, coordinate care and optimize revenues, including:
- Tracking real-time practice COVID-19 volumes
- Managing productivity and modifying physician incentive compensation
- Capturing charges efficiently and accurately at the point of care
- Improving throughput across the continuum
The white paper features expert views from:
- Dennis Deruelle, MD – Executive Director of Hospital Medicine, American Physician Partners
- Andrea Funk, RN, MEd, CPHQ – Vice President of Integrated Acute Care Operations, US Acute Care Solutions
- Derick D. Perkins – Founder and Managing Partner, Metis Advisors LLC

Before the arrival of COVID-19, specific environmental trends were challenging the healthcare industry, such as acquisitions of smaller health systems by larger health systems, clinician shortages and burnout. These trends had already created an urgent demand for clinical communication platforms (CCP) that would work securely across growing networks of diverse care provider organizations. The arrival of COVID-19 has applied untold new pressures to already strained systems.
In this white paper, you will learn about:
- The impact and cost of COVID-19 on healthcare
- How clinical collaboration platforms improved communication during COVID-19
- Where you will see cost savings from leveraging clinical collaboration platforms
- What to look for in a clinical collaboration platform in order to achieve savings
- How clinical collaboration platforms can help your organization increase efficiency and achieve return on investment

When it comes to blood transfusions, there simply is no room for error. Despite advances in technology and process controls, incidents involving errors that could result in wrong transfusions are all too common. To see real improvements, a new approach to transfusion safety is needed.
Point-of-care blood management systems can help reduce transfusion errors while improving efficiency and lowering costs. Discover how the implementation of this system helped one hospital save $436,000 annually.
In this whitepaper, you'll learn:
- The problems hospital blood supply chains face today
- Why the role of point-of-care blood management systems is more critical than ever
- How point-of-care blood management systems help support transfusion safety, compliance and efficiency while reducing costs

This white paper outlines how one health system successfully reduced readmissions for chronically ill patients by utilizing remote patient monitoring.
In this whitepaper, you'll learn:
- Best-practices for implementing a sustainable and effective remote patient management program.
- How Grand Forks, N.D.-based Altru Health System achieved significant reductions in readmissions for specific clinical case uses and expanded its remote patient monitoring program.
- How remote patient monitoring programs can increase patient-provider communication, improve patient engagement and encourage patient self-management.

In this whitepaper, you'll learn how community health center leaders and their organizations are adapting to the rise in demand for contraceptive care and how they're addressing barriers to providing services for patients.
Read more for insights on:
- The emerging role of primary care providers as key figures in contraceptive counseling, service delivery and access, and how leaders can support them in this role
- Navigating barriers to contraceptive care, such as insurance challenges
- Empowering staff to make time for contraceptive counseling and education and patient-centered care

CAD and PAD patients have always faced roadblocks along their post-intervention care journey, from costly treatments to finding the motivation and time for managing their conditions. Additionally, there's a disconnect between physicians' and patients' views on the value of digital tools in adhering to care plans.
This white paper from Year 3 of Abbott's Beyond Intervention research into the global state of vascular care contains key insights from over 2,000 patients, healthcare providers and healthcare leaders on how we might improve patient adherence and outcomes outside healthcare facilities.
Key learnings include:
- The importance of a comprehensive care experience within the healthcare system
- The biggest challenges for patients in adhering to post-discharge care plans
- How healthcare leaders and providers can provide multiple touchpoints and leverage digital tools to make adhering to a care plan at home easier for patients

For nearly 20 years, the Interferon Gamma Release Assay — a simple blood test — has offered a more efficient, more accurate alternative, yet 3 out of 4 healthcare providers default to the century old method. In this white paper, Quest Diagnostics will explore the facts and debunk the myths and misconceptions that have surrounded IGRAs since their inception.
Key learning points:
- How IGRA blood tests use the latest field-proven medical technologies to yield a conclusive result 97 percent of the time
- How the IGRA saves patients and physicians time and stress
- Why the IGRA is ultimately the most cost-effective choice

In this white paper, Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope shares five key lessons learned from building their precision oncology program, as well as the success they're seeing in patient engagement and earlier detection.
You'll also learn:
- How precision oncology has changed over time, and how the more recent "panoramic" approach is better positioning clinicians to choose the right treatments for patients
- Why standardization of care in precision oncology is critical for equitable care
- The benefits that a precision oncology program can bring to patients and communities + the infrastructure and processes organizations should consider in building a successful program

In this white paper, you'll learn how clinical decision support tools can augment physicians' reasoning and enable them to visualize patient data, access specialist knowledge and identify trends to improve efficiency, accuracy and quality of care. You'll also find insights on:
- The dangers of unconscious bias in diagnostics
- The impact of inappropriate referrals
- Improving patient satisfaction and health equity

Healthcare leaders shouldn’t underestimate the importance of supplying staff with the right operating room products to ensure they feel confidently protected to care for patients.
This eBook explores how supply reliability affects clinical teams and the solutions that can help mitigate surgical drape and gown challenges in the OR.
Please fill out the form to download the eBook.
Learning objectives:
- Appropriate protection and comfort for any procedure
- The value of choosing the right drape and gown for each procedure
- How a healthy supply chain with state-side manufacturing can help keep shelves reliably stocked.

To tackle these challenges, Conway (Ark.) Regional Medical Center focused on patient monitoring to improve compliance rates and make doing the right thing easier for clinicians.
Read this case study to learn how Conway Regional:
- Identifies patients with sepsis earlier with continuous alerts and reminders that guide care
- Improved SEP-1 bundle compliance by more than 20 percent over four months
- Achieved cumulative savings of $384,000 in four months

Key Learning Objectives:
- Learn how modern utilization management solves multiple challenges for healthcare organizations
- Understand the keys to empowering patients and reducing unnecessary costs by ensuring appropriate care
- Find out how modern independent clinical review works seamlessly with your organization to expand your capabilities

The so-called "superclinic" houses hundreds of physicians in nearly three dozen specialties and represents one of the busiest outpatient centers in the U.S.
During this webinar, leaders will share how the Kirklin Clinic implemented an intelligent room scheduling system to address these challenges and grow patient volume without expanding physical space. Learn how the hospital achieved:
- A 7.4 percent increase in patient visits and 4.7 percent increase in clinic session volume
- Shortened patient wait times
- Reduced administrative burden and higher physician satisfaction

CHIME's 2022 Digital Health Most Wired survey assessed healthcare organization's digital health capabilities and usage across eight key categories, including patient engagement. This report offers a summary of the survey's patient engagement key findings, including a look at how organizations have improved patient engagement and what the intersection of patient empowerment and digital health will look like in the future.
In this report, you'll learn:
- Which tools the majority of systems now have and consider table stakes
- Which tools are most underutilized by systems
- How to maximize staff and patient engagement

This case study features the journeys of four such Stratum Med provider groups that implemented Deviceless RPM as the catalyst to overcome staffing shortages while extending care to rising-risk patients and preventing avoidable utilization to generate shared savings.
- Discover how Deviceless RPM strategies can increase staffing efficiency by up to 15x
- Learn from leaders at organizations in different stages of transitioning to value-based care
- Discover how Deviceless RPM can lead to improved chronic conditions outcomes and financial savings

This new e-book provides brief snapshots — one page each — summarizing the latest data and insights on important COVID-19 topics.
Topics include:
- Research shows Paxlovid cuts long COVID-19 risk
- Pediatric cases of COVID-19 jump
- How telehealth can increase access to Paxlovid
- Updates from Pfizer on boosters and a combo vaccine
- How pharmacists delivering vaccines lower healthcare costs
- The growth of new variants
- The impact of COVID-19 on gut bacteria and infections
- Data on COVID-19 and flu coinfections
- Updates on future COVID-19 vaccines and treatment

In this whitepaper, Quest Diagnostics outlines the benefits of TB blood tests, including cost-savings, patient experience and more.
Key learning points:
- How TB blood tests reduce patient visits
- The objective, accurate results provided by blood tests
- How blood tests yield cost savings for both patients and providers

This whitepaper summarizes five clinical studies that reveal how the KangarooTM feed/flush pumps with automatic flushing technology from Cardinal HealthTM are benefiting patients and hospitals.
Key learning points:
- Potential cost-savings from automated flushing
- The benefits of automated flushing vs. manual syringe flushing
- Solving for dehydration with automated flushing

Now, Gundersen is using an AI solution to automatically transcribe data in its renewal requests. This solution cuts down on manual clicks and keystrokes that can lead to medication errors and contribute to clinician burnout.
Download to learn how Gundersen has used this AI solution to:
- Improve "clean sigs" by 202 percent
- Automatically import 84 percent of prescription renewal data
- Save 100 hours of clinician data entry time
- Improve safety and decrease risk of errors

Key points that readers will learn include:
- The clinical and financial impact of alarm fatigue and these adverse patient conditions
- How continuous clinical surveillance is different from patient monitoring and alarm management and focuses on mitigating non-clinically actionable alerts and notifications
- Published results that hospitals have achieved with continuous clinical surveillance

One multispecialty DSO with more than 180 locations was able to save about $3 million annually by executing a strategic procurement initiative that drove savings towards their bottom line and increased ordering efficiencies among their practices in the process. This was all done while maintaining physicians' and clinicians' autonomy regarding clinically sensitive items they have access to.
Download the case study below to learn how SourceClub helped this multispecialty DSO save millions and achieve success

Regardless of how you built the processes in your DSO, MSO, or Group, DentalRobot provides a custom-fit automation solution that matches your current context and vision for operations and growth. We understand each specialty and its journey. We impact your organization's outcomes by rapidly automating every process from insurance verification or EOB posting to Accelerated Patient Scheduling or Customized Treatment Plan Follow-Ups.