State health officials adopted new rules last week that loosen the review criteria for health care construction projects, aiming to reform what providers say is an arduous process to get the state’s ...

The importance of refining healthcare processes has never been more pronounced. In the Physician MBA Program at the Kelley School of Business Indianapolis, I learned process improvement—among other ...

LogicStream Health helps its 300 hospital clients nationwide realize savings and improve clinical quality of care in such areas as opioid prescribing practices and sepsis. Clinical process improvement ...

Healthcare: try to name a sector in which the importance of process excellence is higher. You’ll struggle. Every decision, every action, every allocation of personnel or resources has a direct impact ...

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health tapped HPC International, a purchased services supplier for healthcare, on July 11 to manage its expenses process. The collaboration will “significantly reduce costs … ...

Patient intake, and the associated manual tasks that come upfront before a medical visit, represents a key component of a health system's operational efficiency and clinical quality. As a result, some ...

Major health insurance providers have agreed to reduce the need for prior authorization — the requirement that patients must get approval from insurers before receiving certain treatments or risk ...

Kevin Curtis inherited a problem that had been hanging around for years. 1 Psychiatric patients in the emergency department were waiting too long for a bed at the University Neuropsychiatric Institute ...

Doctors can only practice medicine in states where they’re licensed. Then each insurer they work with needs to verify their credentials. It’s a messy and time-consuming process that costs more than $1 ...

Allegheny County’s 302s, the push for AOT and the debate over involuntary treatment Chester tried to speak to the New York judge presiding over the court hearing that would shape the next two years of ...