By Sarah Doss

Spring isn’t just for tidying up your home—it’s the perfect time to clean up your IT systems! Just as cluttered desks can slow productivity, outdated or inefficient workflows can create unnecessary headaches for care teams. Here are five ways to refresh your healthcare IT infrastructure and optimize efficiency this season.

By Dr. Peter S. Tippett

Cancer care is a complex journey.  Patients often need help navigating the many challenges they face. As navigation advances and the nursing shortage grows, technology must be key in supporting the patient journey.

By Dr. Peter S. Tippett

Modern healthcare is a team effort, with patient navigators pivotal in ensuring smooth care coordination. While electronic health records (EHRs) excel at managing clinical tasks, they often fall short of supporting the complex needs of patient navigators.

By Dr. Peter S. Tippett & Ryan Slattery

Forget Oura Rings and Oat Milk Lattes—the trend in 2024 with the most staying power and impact will be four new billing codes buried in CMS 2024 Physician Fee Schedule.

By Samantha Davis Knapp BSN, RN

Workflows surround us everyday. From our morning routines to how oil is changed in a vehicle, these processes are known as workflows. No matter the industry, every profession must optimize their efficiency. 

By Samantha Davis Knapp BSN, RN

Communication matters. It matters in personal and professional relationships, and it matters in healthcare to ensure the best possible patient outcomes.

by Sarah Doss

As the healthcare industry embraces digital transformation, Chief Technology Officers and Chief Information Officers are on the front lines—ensuring efficient and secure technology adoption. But C-Suite leaders face big challenges as they work toward digital excellence while prioritizing patient care. 

By Dr. Peter S. Tippett

We’ve all been there. Someone in our family (or ourselves) has a medical concern, schedules a primary care visit, and maybe even learns that surgery is needed. What starts as a fairly simple process quickly turns into a near-comedy of inefficiency.

By Victor Chatain, PMP

U.S. cities have had more than their share of disease outbreaks, including Swine Flu, Zika, Measles, and, more recently, COVID-19 and MonkeyPox. The roles of local and state Departments of Health are only more important.

By Scott Glasrud

The healthcare industry is at a Burning Platform moment: we must build a bridge between the current fee-for-service business model and a value-based, population health model. 

By Justin Sims

HealthTech vendors gave a fairly muted response to the recent CMS National Directory of Healthcare Providers and Services RFI. This is the 3rd post in the series summarizing feedback of key industry constituents.