Predictive Analytics News and Resources for Healthcare

How One ACO Used Predictive Analytics to Fuel Its VBC Efforts

September 25, 2023 - On this episode of Healthcare Strategies, Assistant Editor Shania Kennedy hears from Sheila Magoon, MD, executive director of Buena Vida y Salud ACO and the South Texas Physician Alliance, and David Clain, chief product officer at the Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI). Their conversation dives into how Buena Vida y Salud’s partnership with HDAI is leveraging predictive...

How to Develop a Successful Predictive Analytics Tool

March 21, 2022 by Kelsey Waddill

Tom Selva, chief medical information officer of University of Missouri Health Care, knows the power that predictive analytics have to transform the healthcare industry. Listen to the full podcast to...

Primary Care Physician Turnover Tied to Increased Healthcare Spending

March 08, 2022 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

The continued strain on the healthcare system is driving physicians out of practice and new findings suggest that primary care physician turnover has a large financial effect on healthcare...

Expert Predictions on 2022 Consumer-Centered Healthcare Strategies

January 03, 2022 by Kelsey Waddill

Consumer-centered healthcare strategies will manifest in healthcare professionals’ interactions with consumers through improving health equity and increasing patient access to care, as well as in...

Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth Platforms Lag Behind Competition

November 09, 2021 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

The pandemic has changed patients' use and perceptions of healthcare organizations. The question remains: Will those changes here to stay? Patients Prefer Telehealth Services from Doctors, Health...

Geisinger to Pay $18M for Alleged Medicare Billing Violations

November 05, 2021 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

Hello darkness, my old friend. It's time to turn the clocks back and bid an early goodnight to the sun. Geisinger Settles Allegations for Medicare Billing Violations The US Attorney’s...

Unspent Billions in Provider Relief Fund Likely to Raise Eyebrows

October 28, 2021 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

The revelation that nearly $27 billion remains in the Provider Relief Fund begs the question: Did the federal government do enough to help providers weather the coronavirus pandemic? Analysis Reveals...

The State of Population Health Strategies in Hospitals, Practices

October 18, 2021 by Kelsey Waddill

Improving predictive analytics capabilities may be key to advancing providers’ population health strategies and their ability to engage in value-based contracting, according to Emily Sokol,...

Pediatric Price Transparency Information Nearly Non-Existent

October 05, 2021 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

While the pandemic has likely drawn the bulk of interest over the past two years, healthcare price transparency has returned to the fore and new evidence suggests hospitals are not doing their...

COVID-19 Cost-Sharing Quickly Becoming Reality for Consumers

August 24, 2021 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

FDA’s full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will have implications for mandates alongside the financial motivation coming from more payers regarding cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatments...

Patients in NC File Antitrust Suit Against HCA Healthcare

August 12, 2021 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

A heatwave has set in in the Northeast, and many of us are hot and bothered. North Carolina Residents File Antitrust Suit Against HCA Healthcare A group of North Carolina residents has filed a...

Anthem, Kroger Partner for Medicare Advantage; CMS Overspends on Generic Drugs

July 20, 2021 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

In the modern-day take on A Tale of Two Cities, the threat of COVID-19 has become a matter of where you live, putting clearly in harm's way those without the power to be vaccinated or avoid the...

CVS Health Study Highlights Mental Healthcare Woes; J&J Vaccine Effective Against COVID Delta Variant

July 08, 2021 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

While the pandemic shone a bright light on mental health, many Americans faced struggles accessing counseling services due to cost and other barriers. As Delta variant becomes the dominant strain of...

Resignations Follow FDA approval of Alzheimer’s Drug; University Hospitals Focuses Healthcare Consumerism

June 15, 2021 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

The approval by FDA of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm has led to the resignation of three committee members, citing disagreement with the department’s decision. The efficacy of the...

Intellectual Property Waived for COVID Vaccines; Private Practice Shrinking Rapidly

May 06, 2021 by Jacqueline LaPointe

Hoping those April showers have brought some May flowers. Here are the top stories healthcare executives need to know about this week. Biden backs waiver of COVID-19 vaccine intellectual property The...

CMS to Bolster Payments to Rural Hospitals; 27 Hospitals Score High Marks for Patient Safety

April 29, 2021 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

Happy Thursday. The weekend is fast approaching and with it the Kentucky Derby. CMS Proposes Payment Increase to Boost Rural Health CMS is proposing to increase Medicare hospital inpatient rates by...

EHR Vendors Say Virtual EHR Implementations to Last; Orgs Turn to Video Games for COVID Brain Fog

April 08, 2021 by Sara Heath

Just over a year after the first COVID-19 peak began, healthcare organizations are finally working out the technology best practices that got them through the pandemic and will carry them beyond it....

Incorporating Social Determinants of Health Into Effective Care

February 22, 2021 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

Providers and payers have come to the realization that effecting system change requires a more comprehensive understanding of the patient beyond the clinical encounter. Social determinants of health...

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