Beth Kutscher
Modern Healthcare
Brentwood, TN, United States
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Hospitals face growing IT needs beyond electronic health records
Demands for constant upgrades to already-installed electronic health record systems are slowing investment in other important digital technologies like telehealth, remote patient monitoring and online billing. → Read More
Can patients' genetic data help keep them healthy? Providers invest big to find out
HonorHealth is one of a number of health systems investing in genomics and personalized medicine as the next frontier in healthcare. As providers are tasked with keeping people healthy through risk-based payment contracts, they're seeking new ways to target patients who need early intervention. → Read More
PokitDok healthcare API platform builds bridges to share data more quickly, securely
One of the frustrating things about healthcare data is that they live in silos, so the user experience is far from seamless. But that's becoming unacceptable with the growth of high-deductible health plans and the corresponding wave of healthcare consumerism. → Read More
In healthcare technology, it's patient, patient, patient
Patients are paying more for their healthcare through high-deductible health plans. And as more providers get paid based on health outcomes, the hope is that technology will guide people toward healthier behaviors. → Read More
USC's virtual doctors will see you now
The University of Southern California is bringing virtual reality to specialty care. Keck Medicine, USC's academic medical center, has launched a virtual care clinic that it believes will improve efficiency and reduce costs. → Read More
Healthcare devices get top billing at CES 2016
Wearable gadgets for tracking health data are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to measure a host of physiologic functions. But the next frontier for innovators will be finding ways to use that data to improve patient outcomes. → Read More
Interoperability framework hatched by public-private collaborative
Carequality, a public-private collaborative backed by large health systems, technology companies and industry groups, has published guidelines that aim to build a path toward greater data exchange in healthcare. → Read More
CHS' telehealth push shows growing interest in on-demand care
Community Health Systems, the largest chain by hospital count, is rolling out a wide-reaching telehealth program for primary-care services in at least four states. → Read More
Healthcare industry lags in using data analytics
HHS' partnership this month with OptumLabs is likely to add momentum to the push to use big data to lower healthcare costs and improve the quality of care delivery. → Read More
Hospitals target hunger, housing, crime, jobs to help community health
A small but growing group of not-for-profit hospitals and health systems are spending more money on nontraditional community benefit programs. Besides carrying out their not-for-profit charitable mission, these systems hope that their efforts will pay dividends under value-based payment models. → Read More
Texas Health continues to see expenses outpace revenue growth
Texas Health Resources continued to see higher patient volume through the third quarter of 2015, but faced financial challenges from higher expenses, investment losses and changes to the state's Medicaid waiver program. → Read More
What to do with all of this data...
The HHS' partnership with OptumLabs highlights the push to use big data to lower the cost and improve the quality of healthcare delivery. But the announcement also highlights the divide between masters at using sophisticated data analytics and those just now learning. → Read More
University of Kansas Hospital adds more patients, also more costs
The University of Kansas Hospital saw a large increase in patient volume in the first quarter of fiscal 2016, but the additional costs of treating more patients overshadowed the increase in revenue. → Read More
Hospitals shift from charity care to community benefit focus
As the need for charity care drops, some hospitals and health systems across the country are targeting funds to address societal ills such as poverty, violence, hunger, poor nutrition and lack of housing. → Read More
Daughters continues to struggle as AG nears decision on takeover
Daughters of Charity Health System is still in a precarious financial position as it awaits a decision from the California attorney general that would allow its sale to a for-profit group. → Read More
Stronger economy drives more nursing turnover, higher wages
A stronger economy is increasing employee turnover rates at hospitals, particularly among nurses, and putting additional pressure on wages that are already straining hospital balance sheets. → Read More
Mayo Clinic costs continue upward trajectory
The Mayo Clinic had been trying to get its expenses under control by trimming its workforce, scaling back health benefits and introducing more cost-sharing for employees. But after experiencing a payoff from those efforts last year, it is once again seeing its expenses outpace revenue growth. → Read More
Competition heats up for patient-generated health data
The number of tools to track patient health data has exploded in recent years, and the race to access that information is heating up as well. → Read More
UPMC wins legal victory in dispute over Highmark oncology payments
UPMC has won a key legal victory that could ultimately award the health system more than $188 million in back payments from insurance giant Highmark. → Read More
Kaiser says keeping rates affordable led to smaller surplus
Kaiser Permanente continued to expand its membership in the third quarter but its expenses grew rapidly in the period. → Read More