And four more news items for hospital administrators, health system leaders, practice managers, and other healthcare executives to peruse this week.
- According to an article published earlier this month by Healthcare Finance, a recent report from the American Hospital Association (AHA) underscores hospitals’ role in propelling the economy on local as well as national levels. The top five states said to most benefit from hospital expenditures putting money back into their economies are California, New York, Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
- Recently, Healthcare IT News, a HIMSS Media publication, covered the topic of population health management (PHM), also known as pop health, which analyzes and facilitates the delivery of care throughout the general population or a group of individuals. In the May 31 post, Jonathan Scholl, president of healthcare IT consulting firm Leidos Health, says healthcare organizations must plainly outline their goals to receive ROI (return on investment) from pop health and offers three important questions for their CIOs to consider.
- VITAL RECORD, news from the Texas A&M University Health Science Center, reports on the potential to decrease costs and improve care in rural locales via drone-aided delivery of medications and test kits. Researchers at the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Texas A&M School of Public Health, the University of Houston, and Lamar University developed two mathematical models to better understand the expenses and logistics of establishing drone operation centers, the number and type of drones needed, and the best distribution routes.
- According to a recent news release, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched an innovation challenge to motivate the development of medical devices, such as diagnostic tests and digital health technologies, to prevent and treat opioid addiction. The federal agency says it will work closely with chosen applicants to hasten product development. Submissions will be accepted through September 30, 2018, and the FDA plans to announce the selected applicants in November 2018.
- A Forbes Technology Council article by Rich Krueger, CEO of Hospital IQ, looks at the effective support capabilities derived from introducing technology into hospital operational decision making. “Through the power of predictive and prescriptive analytics,” states Krueger, “hospital leaders can use an integrated dataset compiled from existing IT systems to make staffing and capacity decisions that improve operating performance.”
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