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16
May
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Is there a sure road to success?

You know which service lines are strong revenue drivers, which ones are emerging as stronger drivers, and which services need to be strengthened. Precision data analytics confirms the value of your hospital’s book-of-business at any one time by distilling each revenue driver’s charge and payer data to a series of comparatives and summaries that measure […]

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27
Apr
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The Great Reset

Hospitals performed well during the pandemic, innovating on-the-fly to solve new problems. This experience and mindset have changed how health care senior leadership makes decisions and how caregivers treat patients. Telehealth is here to stay and will be part of what some call Health Care 3.0, a build-out of virtual patient care that includes wearables […]

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1
Apr
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The Language of Financial Strategies, Tools, and Solutions

Q4400 Financial speaks the language of financial strategies, tools, and solutions. We are a results-oriented, entrepreneurial financial consulting firm that crafts custom solutions for Pricing Strategies, the Charge Master, Financial Modeling, Analytics, and an Advisory. The challenges in today’s health care are significant. More disruptive change is headed our way, however industry change always brings […]

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17
Feb
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What Has Not Changed

Hospital providers will continue to make investments in patient care, the patient process, the patient financial experience, communication and education via the EMR, data distillation, analytics, decision support, revenue cycle pain points, Best Practices, AI, and cyber security. Providers will continue to partner with Big Tech, IT vendors, and others to develop machine learning that […]

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6
Dec
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Making Sense of the Data

Clear. Compelling. Data takeaways. Only sophisticated statistical analysis does this. You need to make sense of changing charge and payer data to streamline patient process. This will ensure Patient Experience is consistently favorable which reinforces patient loyalty and produces new growth. Indeed, Patient Experience is the currency of new growth. Algorithmic statistical analysis enables powerful […]

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22
Nov
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What Goes Together

Market disruption stimulates innovation. More change always brings more opportunity. The steadfast goal remains to deliver effective patient-centric, evidence-based medicine that produces positive patient outcomes. An effective digital build-out should have a Concierge component to ensure the initial consumer touch point is welcoming, informative, and compelling. Knowing your key takeaways from consumer data will help […]

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4
Oct
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Is the Traditional No Longer Effective?

One New Jersey provider looked beyond its call center when it realized daily consumer telephone volume was beyond its capability. They initiated a digital self-scheduling strategy enabling consumers to schedule their own physician appointments. Smart. They noted 54% of these consumers were new patients, and realized they did not have enough physicians on staff to […]

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29
Sep
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The Power of Three

No change occurs in a vacuum – that’s why we always generate a fresh market analysis of service line and brand strength. You already have all of the demographic data you need to generate a geomap of the current patient portfolio by zip code. This should include a service line overlay for areas of coverage […]

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19
Aug
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Big Picture Change Meets 5 Proven Growth Strategies

Health care change is the norm today and its pace has quickened given the amount of Big Picture change. Consumerism changed how we obtain health care information and access health care, but it was the pandemic that spurred exponential growth in the use of tele-health. Health care transitioned from paper files to electronic medical records […]

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