Providers
Care Collaboration: Five Key Terms You Need to Know
February 21, 2012|Laura McCaughey|Health plans
What if we could lower the financial burden associated with the top 5% of patients accounting for almost 50% of healthcare costs?1 We believe that such a transformation is achievable through accountable care delivery models like the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), which offers a collaborative, team-based approach with the primary care physician (PCP) at its nexus. One of the most powerful elements in PCMH is that this model financially rewards outcome-based healthcare.
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Top Three Online Physician Communities
November 29, 2011|Kimberly Labow|Providers
Today's changing healthcare environment presents a lot of questions and options to physicians, who are increasingly turning to online communities for answers, support, and camaraderie. Newly introduced regulations and evolving healthcare models like accountable care organizations (ACOs) make these bidirectional information hubs valuable resource centers. In the past five years, several secure physician-only communities have launched.
Eleven Tips for a Successful EHR Implementation
November 17, 2011|Tim Liddell & Betsy Cross|Healthcare IT
We speak with a lot of physicians who are thinking about buying or are in the process of implementing an electronic health record (EHR) solution. A decision to implement an EHR is not just about technology, but about introducing important decision-making and change in a practice to gain maximum benefits.
Physician Thursday – Patient Empowerment
May 26, 2011|Kimberly Labow|Providers
It’s a tough world to be a patient in today. With family premiums on the rise, looming doctor shortages (especially in primary care), and no easy way to access personal medical records, seeking medical services can be more stressful than healing. Despite these challenges, several studies suggest that most individuals are far from giving up. After all, with education comes empowerment.
Physician Thursday: All about meaningful use
April 14, 2011|Alicia Allen|Providers
• Monday, April 18th is the big day! Attestation opens to eligible providers and healthcare professionals for Medicare meaningful use qualification and incentive payments.
NaviNet’s List of Top 5 Influential Physician Bloggers
February 10, 2011|Kimberly Labow|Providers
Physicians are an integral voice in the healthcare industry, responsible for maintaining the critical patient-physician relationship as well as communicating with health plans, which leads them to sit in the center of a complicated web of relationships. Because NaviNet acts as a platform that aids all stakeholders in the continuum of care by integrating clinical, administrative and financial workflows -- including health plans, IT vendors, healthcare professionals and physicians -- we make a point of staying on top of the issues important to physicians.
What Providers Can Expect from Healthcare Reform
October 04, 2010|Marshall Votta|Providers
Listen Now: How the Federal Government is Changing Healthcare and What Providers Can Expect

