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By Tom Sullivan for Healthcare IT News BOSTON — Picking a point out on the horizon, the late 2020s, Michael Rogers gave a glimpse of the changes coming to healthcare by that time. “The American process is a pretty messy one sometimes,” Michael Rogers said. “That is where the healthcare revolution is today, but we’re…
By Megan Knowles for Becker’s Hospital Review Registered nurses and physicians/surgeons were listed among occupations with the biggest gender pay gaps, according to a report from the American Association of University Women. The report authors compiled research on gender pay gaps across U.S. jobs. In comparing occupations with at least 50,000 men and 50,000 women in…
By Meg Bryant for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Front-office issues like billing and scheduling can have a big effect on how patients view their medical encounters and how they review them online — and providers would be wise to take heed. That’s the takeaway from Connance’s 2018 Consumer Impact Survey. The predictive analytics firms surveyed…
By Beth Jones Sanborn for Healthcare Finance The largest increase from 2016 to 2017 attributed to Emergency Medicine, a specialty that saw nearly five percent growth. What Happened PracticeMatch’s annual physician survey showed physician pay has stagnated, female doctors are still being paid less than their male colleagues. That said, among both genders overall job…
Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Almost a quarter of healthcare security directors at hospitals think their facilities are unprepared for incidents involving a shooter. More than twice as many hospitals have experienced physical violence incidents as compared to hacking and cyberattacks, according to a research study among top security directors at healthcare facilities. The report shows 47…
By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review From reimbursement landscape challenges to dwindling patient volumes, many factors lead hospitals to close. Here are the factors that led 11 hospitals to close so far this year: 1. Chestatee Regional Hospital (Dahlonega, Ga.). Chestatee Regional Hospital closed July 26, making it the seventh rural hospital in Georgia to close since…
By Susan Morse for Healthcare IT News Apple is looking to hire engineers to develop a custom chip for more sophisticated health information tracking and applications, according to a CNBC report. CNBC said it got the information from a job posting from Apple’s Health Sensing hardware team. The July 10 job summary is for sensor ASIC architects to design,…
By Staff from Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the 2018 edition of its 100 Great Community Hospitals list. This list includes independent community hospitals as well as facilities affiliated with large health systems. Some hospitals serve expansive rural geographies, while others care for small communities outside of large cities. Many of…
By Christina Farr for CNBC Digital health is one of the hottest spaces for investment, with companies raising $1.6 billion in venture capital in the first quarter of 2018 alone. Apple, Alphabet and Amazon are also making moves in the space with their own health-tracking apps and devices. These companies are getting really good at screening populations of…
By Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS for ICD10 Monitor Some providers hesitate to use the word “abuse” preferring, instead, to use non-accidental trauma (NAT). Despite what revenue cycle may believe, clinical documentation is not solely for billing. One of the biggest problems with imprecise, nonspecific diagnoses which lead to unspecified codes or, even worse,…