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The key benefit of creating a case management methodology is to multiply its effectiveness by replicating it across the organization's patient-facing departments, practices and functions. In this way, your organization can reduce costs, increase quality and streamline its operations.

As the Northwest Ohio area’s only academic medical center, the University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC) delivers high-level physician education, while managing a 233-bed hospital for patients as well as 34 specialty clinics. This broad, complex level of responsibility needs a comprehensive, robust interoperability system to connect its different EHR systems so residents, physicians, and technicians can access data whenever, wherever they are. With more than a half-dozen disparate systems, UTMC needs a reliable, robust system to tie everyone together so providers have critical access to patient data from the classroom to the operating theatre. Read this case study to learn how the Mirth® solution has delivered to all of these requirements and enabled University of Toledo.

To make the best treatment decisions, doctors at Memorial Hermann required rapid, reliable access to patients medical records and fast insight into changing health indicators. Deploying IBM FlashSystem, physicians at Memorial Hermann can now rapidly access healthcare information and perform sophisticated analysis to identify early signs of illness and take appropriate action for patients 99% faster.

Providers need new engagement strategies and workflows, such as those offered by Lumeris, which empower consumers to make educated health choices and become partners in their own wellness. In turn, patients need the right support from their providers, in innovative, high-touch forms, so they can make the right health care and financial choices for themselves and their families. Lumeris offers five strategies for effective consumer engagement, as well as the high-touch, technological know-how to activate patients.

Download this ebook to understand the basic foundation that every practice needs in an EHR moving in to 2015 and beyond. Use the easy to follow checklist of criteria to ensure the vendor meets your individual practice’s needs as well.

Download this case study to learn how a network of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) partners with Allscripts to improve overall clinical results, meet Meaningful Use and earn an estimated $6.3 million in incentive funding.

Download this case study to learn how Family Medical Center in Seymour, Indiana increased revenue, patient visits and attained incentives with Allscripts.

The physician liaison position is a relatively new one for most health systems, but individuals hired as physician liaisons are being held accountable for facilitating impactful, fast change. Where marketing drives incremental revenues by targeting patients and consumers (non-patients), physician liaisons drive incremental revenues by cultivating relationships with physicians and improving referral behavior.

All parts of the health system can, and should, contribute to alignment success. Today’s health system C-suite executives are realizing they have the ability and the responsibility to contribute to physician alignment efforts. That means just making phone calls and visiting physicians to promote your services is not enough. To achieve both physician alignment and optimize patient care, you must have a view into physician activity and referrals. Understanding physician behavior provides the basis for more meaningful dialogue with physicians.

Located in central Ontario approximately 100 km (60 miles) north of Toronto, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) provides highly responsive healthcare to more than 450,000 residents across a large geographical area. RVH’s team of more than 380 physicians, 2,500 staff members, and 850 volunteers delivers exceptional care and specialty services including cancer care, stroke services, orthopedics, intensive care, mental health services, and interventional radiology. In addition to the 319-bed acute care facility in Barrie, RVH also provides the MEDITECH electronic health records (EHR) platform for several other hospitals in Midland, Orangeville, and Collingwood.

Independent physician practices are weighing their options as fee-for-service reimbursement models shift to value-based-care models, such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Download this white paper to learn more about forming ACOs.

The management team at the Inspira Health Network reveals secrets to their successful HIE implementation in this Q&A-style whitepaper.

The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital’s pioneering success shows that HIEs can deliver tremendous value by facilitating more coordinated care with community hospitals, small physician practices, and often-overlooked members of the healthcare community.

American Health Network faced one of the most vexing problems in health care: Claim denials. Learn how this physician-owned practice realized an ROI of 200 percent and recovered $1.4 million.

Days at a surgery center, or surgical hospital, can be unpredictable… but your supply chain doesn’t have to be. From managing costs, to physician preferences, surgery centers are challenged every day to maintain an efficient supply chain. Download this infographic to find out ways Cardinal Health can help your surgery center overcome five challenges, because less time focused on challenges means more time to focus on what matters most… patients

Health systems gain a competitive edge when they identify the right physicians and target those physicians to develop unsurpassed loyalty. Learn how to cultivate relationships with physicians that lead to an increase in cases being referred, which results in smarter provider engagement, increased margins, optimized network utilization and health system growth. But which doctors? In which service lines? And what kinds of cases? And what touch points? This guide discusses how to reimagine how network development teams work that results in the ability to demonstrate indisputable ROI from network development activity and liaison outreach.

Gone are the days when your physician liaisons called on physicians to discuss referrals and recruit physicians armed with only the “word on the street.” In fact, if your institution is doing this, you can be sure that any competitor is winning the referrals with the help of market intelligence. Download this eBook to get the secrets to unlocking physician liaison ROI and grow market share in this hyper-competitive environment.

Our web-based patient communication system and services go well beyond medical scheduling software by improving all patient interactions outside of the office. Learn how physicians can communicate with patients online and improve their bottom lines with our unique approach to medical scheduling software and other automated messaging services.

Traditional EMRs consistently fail to help physicians make more money, do less work, and deliver better care. High up-front fees with traditional EMRs are one factor, but the greatest problem with traditional EMRs is that they are designed without an understanding of the fundamental economics of a patient encounter.

Is physician acquisition really the right way to go? And how can health care leaders pursue successful strategies without resorting to acquisition? Before your hospital system or medical group pursues physician acquisition as a strategy to thrive through the ongoing change, consider the four points offered in this whitepaper.

Dr. Louis DiToppa, a physician for 24 years, didn't want to be tied down with paper charts any longer. He needed an EMR that would allow him to stay connected to his practice and patients anywhere, anytime. athenahealth's electronic medical record and other practice management services gave Dr. DiToppa that flexibility and enabled him to get more money and more control over his practice.

The large family practice located near Boston, MA leverages athenaCommunicator, an on-demand, automated and live patient communication service that supports and streamlines patient-physician interactions outside the exam room.

This paper explores the unique perspectives of both types of organizations. The participants include two of the original 32 Pioneer ACOs; the nation’s largest commercial ACO; a major IDN that is pursuing its own ACO pathway; a large stand-alone hospital that has yet to take the formal step of creating an ACO but is experimenting with the model; and a large, independent, multispecialty physician group that is wary of stepping into the ACO waters.

This paper examines these technologies in the context of a four step process that many successful practices are using to optimize their revenue cycles. The “Four Steps to Transformation” methodology represents the distillation of best practices from thousands of medical groups across the United States who leverage technology to improve their bottom lines.

InOrder by Elsevier is an intuitive, cloud-based order set solution that enables physicians, clinicians and informaticists to manage order sets in a collaborative environment. The Adaptive Terminology Platform enables localization and bi-directional integration with the EMR/CPOE.