Webinars

With the increase in High Deductible Health Plans and Patient Self-Pay, it means a growing percentage of a practice’s revenues are coming from patients instead of insurance companies. Fortunately, there are proven techniques and best practices that can help you maximize your patient collections while increasing the profitability of your practice.

This webinar will help you create and implement a plan to ensure you are getting the best results from your patient collections process.

Attendees will learn to:

Join Healthcare Informatics Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland as he hosts a discussion on current issues in healthcare data security. 

This webinar will examine the broad slate of issues facing healthcare CIOs and other healthcare IT leaders amidst increasing concern over the security of patient-specific healthcare data. With healthcare data security data breaches increasing in frequency and scope, the challenges in this area continue to multiply.

Healthcare Leaders are already anticipating major changes and developments set to take place in 2013. These include healthcare reform mandates, optional healthcare reform programs, meaningful use requirement under the HITECH Act, and many others. What will be important, will be strategies for putting the right processes into place. By incorporating these strategies and becoming knowledgeable on the processes, your organization will be successful.

This program will present a case study of Massachusetts General Hospital’s experience in optimizing orthopedic outcomes with a Clinical Registry.  Clinical leaders today are searching for solutions that enable them to track quality indicators and patient outcomes across key clinical specialties, both at a high level (e.g., by hospital or by department) and at a low level (by physician or patient).  This kind of “clinical intelligence” will be an increasingly important tool as shifting reimbursement methods push providers to optimize care delivery, and will play a