We spend 18 percent of our national gross domestic product on health care. As health care spending continues to grow and as we appropriately drive the health care system toward a payment system that ...

The Pennsylvania health system has eliminated redundant processes and reduced the time and number of people involved in a discharge while boosting patient satisfaction scores. Patient discharge can be ...

Operating revenue cycle and patient experience in separate silos doesn't make sense in an era when the patient is responsible for more of a hospital's revenue. For many healthcare organizations, ...

Increasing emphasis is being placed on the development of authentic instruments for assessing the competence of health professionals. Patients offer a unique perspective for assessing aspects of ...

Patient engagement is a necessity when performing health technology assessment to help better assess and identify the outcomes of a rare disease. Rare diseases present distinct challenges to health ...

Patient assessment is an essential EMS provider skill that improves with experience and education, but are you wearing blinders? I believe that all EMS providers can improve this process and ...

The Behavioral Health Data Portal (BHDP) is a web application that allows for improved symptom assessment and clinical outcome tracking; put more simply, it lets clinics assess patients' symptoms in ...