An industry-wide shortage of revenue cycle staff is driving up labor costs and making it even more difficult for hospitals to achieve sustainable financial performance. Front-end revenue cycle staff, back-office specialists, coders, accounts receivable and denial management experts are all in short supply.

Penn Medicine has a prescription for relief that is enabling the nation’s first hospital system to increase efficiency and productivity, while navigating complex issues from staff burnout and turnover to flexible work arrangements.

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Cybersecurity is quickly becoming a board-level issue in healthcare services, enterprises and facilities. Increasingly, chief information security officers are being called in by company boards to present on the strategies and metrics of cybersecurity risks, exposures, breaches, mitigation, systems and technologies. Learn from three of the top cybersecurity executives in healthcare and the co-inventor of one of the leading cybersecurity automated management and compliance tools.

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We are currently at a crucial point in time for corporate healthcare – employers are operating in a political and economic situation that has considerably evolved. Building and expanding onsite employee health clinics has become an imperative in enabling employers to offer competitive benefits, control costs, and provide quality healthcare to employees. Moreover, employers must redefine their corporate healthcare strategy, and innovation will be key to success!

The opportunities and challenges facing onsite health clinics have drastically changed over the past year. Healthcare reform has made its way to center stage on all matters related to healthcare, and onsite employee health clinics are no exception. Employers are aggressively seeking innovative means to cut back on corporate healthcare costs, and onsite employee health clinics have proven to be an effective way to significantly reduce those healthcare costs, and ultimately, have a positive impact on the company’s bottom line.

By attending the 2022 Onsite Employee Health Clinics Summit, you will learn what it takes to build and streamline facilities that meet innovative visions for healthcare and wellness. You will also learn the benefits associated with expanding current onsite health facilities. Furthermore, you will walk away with practical solutions to operate a cost-effective healthcare program while providing quality healthcare.

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Switching to single-use endoscopes can help healthcare organizations lower risk of infection transmission and achieve greater cost savings. This webinar will explore the history of single-use endoscopy in the context of other healthcare paradigm shifts and will examine evidence supporting a single-use endoscopy future.

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Healthcare leaders in large-to-medium tier hospitals and health systems across the globe have doubled down on telehealth initiatives. But across this evolutionary path, a very common theme has emerged: organizations now suffer from disparate, unconnected telehealth products across their enterprises, which greatly limits the value of their virtual care offerings. The move to provide patients with unique solutions has come at the cost of workflow coherency.

In this webinar, we will share compelling real-world case studies and best practices in moving beyond this common pain point toward enjoying the benefits of a single, customized platform that can match a range of clinical workflows across the continuum of care.

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The Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference is your source for the latest in operational and quality improvement tools, methods and concepts such as lean, Six Sigma, productivity, benchmarking, simulation and project management.

The conference program will include pre-conference workshops; educational sessions; poster sessions; ample networking events and opportunities; exhibitors with products and services to help you meet your quality, process and project goals.

You will leave this conference rejuvenated and filled with fresh ideas you can put to use immediately. Re-energize your career with new ways to address your most challenging issues. The conference program is sure to provide you with countless ideas and solutions that translate into improved efficiency, productivity, quality and competitiveness for your organization.

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For healthcare organizations, achieving a reliable IT security posture means chasing a wildly moving target. Cyberthreats are constantly evolving, the stakes of an attack keep rising, cyberinsurance costs are skyrocketing, and implementing an IT security model that lets you sleep at night keeps getting more complex.  

The challenge is that there’s no one-and-done approach to IT security. Even if there was, most organizations would struggle to implement and pay for a huge one-time initiative. But you can follow a proven path to IT security maturity. In this session, a panel of security experts will help you create a path that lets you build your security posture appropriately over time, based on your organization’s risk factors and budget, compliance requirements, industry standards, and best practices. 

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The electronic silos trapping health information and preventing the seamless exchange of information between stakeholders are breaking down. As an industry, we are rethinking how to manage the flow of health information throughout its lifecycle. Serious adjustments are underway. This session chronicles the past year of Franciscan Health's journey towards more extensive interoperability and easier information access. With an eye on the new information blocking rule, speakers address the specific modifications, extensions, and deadlines all health information professionals need to know. While the journey is far from over, no matter what stage you are in, this session provides critical insights, timely resources, strategies, sample test plans, recommendations, and suggestions to advance your interoperability and information blocking journey.

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In the second in our series of EU-Africa Summits we are focusing on Skills for Health as part of a series of sessions which this time will focus on Skilling up the workforce. We will have a wider overview from across Europe and Africa as well as needs and solutions from both continents.

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To address some of the existing gaps in digital healthcare solutions for chronic cardiovascular conditions such as atrial fibrillation, especially for elderly patients who make up a huge proportion of the AF population. To provide both specialists and generalists with up-to-date knowledge and options for their daily practices, such as how to organise remote monitoring of AF. Digitalisation efforts, both at the national and subnational levels of healthcare systems, have accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there are not yet enough insight and data collection points to determine whether these changes are sustainable and effective solutions. Multiple factors affect optimisation of healthcare solutions – so this webinar is an opportunity to address some of those existing gaps in order to improve patient access and connectivity among healthcare professionals.

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