Click Here to Read (w link to pdf) Site Neutrality and Your Physician Customers PUBLISHER’S LETTER PAMA Two Years Later Questioning Strategies to Help You Close the Sale How Well Do You Know Your Customers? Heart Disease: Talking Points Trending Upward Urgent care center growth up 6% Physician Productivity Physician … [Read more...]
Wound Care in the Year of the Nurse
The newly implemented Patient-Driven Payment Model is already affecting how your acute-care customers are being reimbursed for the prevention and management of their residents’ wounds, including pressure ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, arterial wounds and other skin-related conditions. This spring and summer offer many opportunities to get up to speed on the subject. In fact, … [Read more...]
Line of Sight
Remote monitoring can reduce costs, readmissions Health technology firm Royal Philips and insurer Humana Inc. announced a collaboration in patient monitoring, which they believe will improve care and health outcomes for select high-risk Medicare Advantage members. Medicare Advantage Plans -- sometimes called “Part C” or “MA Plans” -- are an “all in one” alternative to … [Read more...]
Age-Friendly Care
Are any of your customers among the 162 hospitals and healthcare practices recognized this past fall as an Age-Friendly Health System? If so, offer them congratulations. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) recently recognized 85 hospitals and healthcare practices for their commitment to excellent care for people over age 65. “Age-Friendly Health Systems” is an … [Read more...]
Wound Care
New selling strategies for a new reimbursement environment Do changes in post-acute-care reimbursement (i.e., the Patient-Driven Payment Model, or PDPM) call for changes in how distributor representatives sell wound care products and equipment? Repertoire asked Bob Miller, executive vice president of sales and vendor relations, Gericare Medical Supply. Repertoire: In your … [Read more...]
Facing the Challenges of Weighing Immobile Patients and the Need for an Accurate and Efficient Solution
Sponsored: Health o meter Professional Scales Acquiring a critical or immobile patient’s weight is not easy. It takes time, and disrupts clinical workflow. Despite the difficulties in obtaining weight measurements, a patient’s body weight is a critical measurement in calculating the appropriate dosage of life-saving drugs. In addition to providing patients with the proper … [Read more...]
News
Henry Schein celebrates 21st annual Holiday Cheer for Children program with families around the world Henry Schein, Inc.(Melville, NY) and its employees around the world joined more than 1,200 underserved children, families, and seniors to celebrate the company’s 21st annual Holiday Cheer for Children program in December 2019, a flagship corporate initiative that helps … [Read more...]
Windshield Time
Best laid plans Adaptive cruise control maintains a safe distance between vehicles on the highway by automatically accelerating or slowing down without the driver's help, while lane-keeping-assist technology helps drivers stay in their lane by gently tugging the wheel when the car starts to drift. Great ideas. But they also lull drivers into letting their guard down, which … [Read more...]
Trending Upward
Urgent care center growth up 6% The Urgent Care Association reports industry growth of almost 6% in 2019, with 9,279 urgent care centers in the United States as of June 2019, up from 8,774 in 2018 and 8,125 in 2017. In a recently updated white paper, “The Essential Role of the Urgent Care Center in Population Health,” the association reports that urgent care centers … [Read more...]
Physician Productivity
Physician compensation is up. But productivity isn’t. Value-based incentives for physicians are growing, but they still constitute a small percentage of total cash compensation for most specialties, reports Chicago-based SullivanCotter, a consulting firm in the assessment and development of rewards programs for the healthcare industry and non-profit sector. What’s more, even … [Read more...]