CHIME ENCOURAGES ITS MEMBERS TO #BECYBERSMART DURING CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS MONTH
Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart! Protecting patient data is more important than ever before with healthcare remaining squarely in the crosshairs of hackers and ransomware actors worldwide. Just as you would with the access points to your facility, it’s crucial to ensure your network and technology vulnerabilities are accounted for and properly mitigated. You wouldn’t want… read more
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The Strategic Role of the Healthcare CIO in Driving Consumer Engagement
By Chris Catallo, Chief Business Development Officer, Healthgrades Healthcare chief information officers are critical enablers of enterprise evolution. Many of the technologies they evaluate and business challenges they must solve for didn’t even exist a decade ago. Key domains include data governance, interoperability, and optimization of anchor systems like revenue cycle management and EHRs. None… read more
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How Each Digital Health Most Wired Participant Contributes to Efforts to Improve Care
By Bill Spooner Four years ago, the Digital Health Most Wired Governing Board vowed that the survey we are responsible for overseeing each year would move the industry forward. Our goal with the survey is to identify and share best practices from top-performing healthcare organizations so we can raise standards across the industry. With the… read more
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Using Data to Drive Down Cost and Support Consumer-Centric Care: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
After a turbulent 2020, health systems are looking for ways to quickly drive process transformation, with cost saving efforts high on the agenda.
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Addressing Health Inequities in Healthcare: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
By Candace Stuart The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted racial inequities and the devastating impact on communities of color and marginalized citizens in our society. Healthcare leaders recognize that racial disparities contribute to a public health crisis that shortens lives and reduces quality of life. Unintentional bias in the selection of the data used to design… read more
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Leading Through EHR Instance Consolidations: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
Mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare sector have been on an upswing, and while the pandemic may have dampened activity in 2020, partnerships are still being brokered. Bringing healthcare organizations together through M&As can pose many challenges, not the least of which is consolidating EHRs to create a single, coordinated, efficient platform for the entire enterprise.
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Effective Strategies to Engage Internal and External IT Teams: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
Introduction Much of the focus on digital health in the COVID-19 era has been on healthcare organizations’ ability to quickly build out quality platforms to support telehealth and remote work. Behind those success stories is an equally impressive result: senior healthcare executives swiftly adjusting their management approaches to help their IT teams perform at a… read more
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2020 Was the Ultimate Agility Competition. Here’s How Staying Nimble Will Get You Through 2021.
Colin Banas, M.D., M.H.A.12 If your healthcare organization is like most, you probably put a lot of time and effort into your 2020 technology roadmap. Then the pandemic hit, and all your careful planning went right out the window. So how can you plan effectively for 2021? Your IT team will need to remain nimble… read more
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Easing the Complexity of Selecting Cloud ERP Software
The COVID-19 pandemic has called for an acceleration of digital transformation and is prompting more hospitals and health systems to adopt ERP in the cloud. Infor, Oracle and Workday dominate the competitive ERP healthcare market, but how do you know what system is right for your health system? Selecting the right ERP system is one… read more
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Clarifying 5 Misconceptions about CMS’s E-Notifications CoP
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently finalized the new e-notifications Condition of Participation (CoP) to accelerate existing information sharing practices and improve collaboration and coordination across the care continuum. Specifically, the CoP will require hospitals to send electronic patient event notifications, or e-notifications, to other community-based providers and groups, including post-acutes, that… read more
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Managing the anticipated surge in coronavirus cases
Written by Dr. Matt Lambert, Chief Medical Officer for HealthNxt at Tech Mahindra & The HCI Group With the passage of Labor Day, we turn to towards the fall (unofficially) of what has been collectively, the most unsettling year of our lives (also unofficial). Change has been the only constant this year, in healthcare and… read more
Learn moreCMS Conditions of Participation, Compliance Audits & Consequences
Conditions of Participation (CoPs) are the most significant and consequential regulatory lever that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has to authorize or terminate a hospital’s certification. Certification is critical for hospitals as it determines whether hospitals can receive CMS payments, which often make up more than 50% of a hospital’s payer mix…. read more
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