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Costs Rising? A Strategic Partnership Can Offer Solutions
Read a sponsored blog from Owens & Minor to learn how strategic partnerships can help hospitals lower costs, improve supply chain resilience, and improve operational efficiency.
Unequal Transparency: How Hospitals Report More Data than Any Other Entity in the Health Care Sector
Imagine if the government required health insurance and drug companies to account for every dollar they spent, audit those data, and publicly report those numbers. The pushback would be tremendous, yet that is the reality for hospitals and health systems operating in the U.S.
Answering the Call through DEI Measures: UnityPoint Health — Trinity’s Story
The strong work and dedication of the diversity and inclusion team at UnityPoint Health, led by their senior vice president of diversity and inclusion, earned them recognition in PRC’s annual client awards. The health system and its community partners have continued their work to address disparities and social determinants of health.
To Measure or Not to Measure: Overcoming Benchmarking Anxiety
With the biennial DEI benchmark survey now available through March 15, read AHA’s Leon Caldwell’s blog addressing the hesitancy related to taking the survey, as well as strategies to manage said anxieties. For questions related to your participation in the survey, please contact AHA’s survey support team at surveysupport@aha.org.
A New Solution to Benchmark Claims Data and Enhance Strategic Decision-Making
A recent AHA survey of hospitals and health systems found that 89% of respondents experienced an increase in payment denials over the past three years, and 51% reported experiencing a “significant” increase in denials.
Telling a Story with Data to Improve Health Equity
A new Market Insights report from the AHA Center for Health Innovation describes how to use data to build new capabilities that improve health outcomes for patients and communities.
Blog: Leaders offer 7 standards of excellence in community health investments
Health care systems must partner in effective community-based approaches in caring for populations, write three leaders from Providence. Using
evidence from more than four decades of place-based investments, the authors write that comprehensive, multi-dimensional community investment strategies can measurably advance human health and well-being. Read more about the seven Standards of Excellence in Community Health Investments for consideration by health care systems and partners.
Chair File: Using Data to Transform Health Care
During our rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health systems have developed new ways of collecting, evaluating and sharing data to improve patient care. It’s one way the pandemic is reshaping health care now and into the future.
Chair File: How COVID-19 Will Reshape Health Care: 10 Predictions
As we forge ahead in 2021 facing a lot of uncertainty, there’s one thing we recognize: The COVID-19 pandemic will have a lasting effect on the health and well-being of our nation.
Using Lessons from the Pandemic to Reimagine Health Care
Even as we continue to address COVD-19 challenges, let’s consider the experiences of the past year, looking for lessons learned and opportunities for the future. Here are four major areas that changed during the pandemic and are likely to keep transforming health care in the year ahead.