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Why Some Hospital Management Systems Aren’t Enough
- February 28, 2018
- Posted by: Cherie Blehm
- Category: Blog, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Consulting
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Technology continues to forever change the world of medicine. In this fast paced field, it’s a daunting task to manage a service line, let alone an entire hospital or health system. Hospital management systems help bring calm and order to the world of medicine.
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5 Tips to Ensure Physician Contract Compliance
- February 20, 2018
- Posted by: Cherie Blehm
- Category: Blog, Healthcare Consulting, Physician Compliance, Time Tracking Software
The federal government has continually upped its efforts related to investigating, prosecuting and combating healthcare fraud. This focus has led to increased scrutiny on hospital-physician financial relationships and contracting issues. This interest has sharpened especially with the movement of physician providers into employment, medical directorships or other compensated relationships with local hospitals.
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How Saint Mary’s Hospital Achieved Physician Engagement
- February 15, 2018
- Posted by: Cherie Blehm
- Category: Blog, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Consulting, Physician Engagement
Saint Mary’s Hospital engaged Dynafios to take physician engagement to the next level. Our C2i methodology, backed by our 4CAST healthcare data analytics platform, helped the hospital and a renowned Neuro physicians group realize a net positive gain of $305,000.
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How Physician Timekeeping Apps Help Compliance with Stark Law
- February 6, 2018
- Posted by: Cherie Blehm
- Category: Blog, Physician Compliance, Time Tracking Software
The Stark Law, named after Congressman Pete Stark, is actually three separate provisions governing physician self-referral for Medicare and Medicaid patients. Physician self-referral is when a physician refers a patient to a medical facility in which s/he has a financial interest. Critics allege an inherent conflict of interest could encourage over-utilization of services and creates a captive referral system, limiting competition.
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Healthcare Analytics for Hospitals: Dynafios 4CAST
- January 24, 2018
- Posted by: Cherie Blehm
- Category: Blog, Healthcare Analytics, Physician Alignment
Hospitals have no shortage of data. But aggregating and organizing this data so it can be easily consumed and used in the decision-making process is difficult, time consuming and often too little, too late.
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The Importance of Healthcare Analytics for Hospitals
- January 16, 2018
- Posted by: Cherie Blehm
- Category: Blog, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Consulting
Healthcare organizations face mounting pressure to standardize patient care and increase visibility into financial performance, while enhancing staff and patient satisfaction. In this endeavor, hospitals capture and prioritize data from disparate sources, formats and systems and manually organize the data.
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The Impact of Healthcare Consulting for Stroke
- January 15, 2018
- Posted by: Cherie Blehm
- Category: Blog, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Consulting
Stroke is the fifth-highest cause of death and the primary cause of disability in the United States. Stroke kills about 140,000 Americans every year—that’s 1 out of every 20 deaths. Stroke costs the United States an estimated $34 billion each year.
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Healthcare Consulting for Hospitals
- January 14, 2018
- Posted by: Cherie Blehm
- Category: Blog, Healthcare Consulting, Physician Alignment, Physician Compliance
With the recently passed Healthcare Reform legislation, healthcare providers are becoming more and more financially responsible for the cost, coordination and quality of care provided to patients across the spectrum. As the industry begins to implement value-based purchasing and accountable healthcare delivery systems, hospitals and health systems will need to utilize a variety of both formal and informal physician-hospital relationships to optimize patient care.
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The Impact of Integrated Services on Academic Medical Centers
- January 12, 2018
- Posted by: Cherie Blehm
- Category: Blog, Healthcare Consulting, Physician Alignment
The lack of standardization and integrated medical services has greatly impacted the overall cost of care in academic medical centers (AMCs) across the United States. Independent, ancillary and employed physicians continue to use different clinical approaches for major surgeries, some of which may not have not been fully evaluated through rigorous scientific studies.
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Healthcare Analytics in Value-Based Medicine
- January 11, 2018
- Posted by: dynafios
- Category: Blog, Healthcare Consulting, Physician Alignment
The ability to measure, monitor, report and act upon solid data has become a critical need for providers to maneuver the path from volume to value-based. Data related to clinical outcomes, clinical variation, financial performance, operational efficiencies and market comparatives should be measured frequently (daily updates are preferable), shared transparently among the providers and acted upon expeditiously.
