By Shelley Davis, MSN, RNC, CCM June 2021– Healthcare pioneer Florence Nightingale may be best known for her reforms of the shockingly unsanitary conditions in the Barrack Hospital during the Crimean War in 1854. A lesser-known achievement, however, is that she also is a pioneer of what we know today as data-driven population health management…. Read more »
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Gibson Talks: How NLP and AI Can Improve Risk Adjustment
June 2021- In this edition of Gibson Talks, Trey Wheless, a risk adjustment and quality reporting executive recruiter at Gibson Consultants, and Gabe Stein, Executive Vice President of GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, sat down to discuss the benefits to payors and providers of adopting technology that impacts risk adjustment. Gabe shared his perspective as an executive… Read more »
What Partnering on your Virtual Care Tech Stack and Curbside Margaritas Have in Common
By Julie Mann, Chief Commercial Officer, Carium May 2021- Picking up tacos, curbside, from my favorite Mexican restaurant is so amazing, and I am grateful every time I do. But, it gets better: margaritas too! I love a good cocktail and have mastered vodka-based martinis, however, margaritas? Not so much. I never would have imagined… Read more »
Patient Safety: the Good News about Bad News
By Mark Crockett, Digital Health CEO April 2021– In the excellent book “The Hard Thing about Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz, he extolls the virtue of communicating bad news. Culturally, after the first few times bad news is delivered, people stop worrying about disclosure and get in a cadence of fixing. So, I’ll start: the… Read more »
The Fallacy of Zero Tolerance….in Hiring
By Jim Gibson – This article appeared a long, long time ago in Health Data Management. March 2021– As search consultants, we are usually viewed as trusted advisors and extensions of the management team. So, knowing when to push back on a client, and when to just defer to the client’s opinion and judgment, is… Read more »
How Hospitals Can Improve Operating Room Turnaround Times
By Neeraj Bhavani, Founder, Tagnos February 2021– For hospitals, operating rooms (ORs) are big business. The current pandemic is affecting this business in unprecedented ways, but the following shows how the ORs generate revenue and how they can optimize it, while improving throughput and patient satisfaction. One recent survey found that the four types of… Read more »
When an Early Stage Founder Should – and Should Not – Use a Recruiter
by Colleen Watford, Director, Executive Search, Digital Health This article was originally published on LinkedIn– [View original post] Are you a founder of a startup or early stage company? Have you used a recruiter to find talent? I’ve learned from my conversations with your peers that many founders have not. They may have become familiar… Read more »
More than a Mandate: Price Transparency Rules as a Market Differentiator
By Pooja Babbrah, PBM Services Practice Lead, Point-of-Care Partners January 2021– In late October, CMS issued a final price transparency rule, closing out a momentous march toward price transparency unlike anything seen before. Over the past few years, CMS and this administration has released four price transparency rules and one Executive Order related to surprise… Read more »
We Need to Collaborate to Accelerate the Adoption of Value-based Care
By Jonathan Bradley, Principal, Ironwood Health December 2020- Many recent articles correctly point out that the widespread and full-throated adoption of the principles of value-based care are moving at a casual pace, at best. To be sure, there are pockets of rapid progress, but the overall adoption of advanced payment methodologies, and with it, the… Read more »
Gibson Talks – Risk Adjustment Edition
December 2020- In this inaugural edition of Gibson Talks, Executive Recruiter Trey Wheless consults with Fahad Ahmed on recommendations for the most current and pertinent issues in Risk Adjustment. 1. What are some of the benefits and hurdles to transitioning from RAPS to EDS? In 2012, CMS began collecting encounter data through the Encounter Data… Read more »