Featured Report: Weak mobile device security bodes big risk for hospitals

Fierce Health Payer

4 complaints providers have with Medicare Advantage

Sept,12,2014

by: Dina Overland

Medicare Advantage plans are widely popular among Medicare-eligible consumers, but not everyone is fond of them. Many providers actually dislike the Medicare Advantage program and, therefore, are reluctant to contract with Medicare Advantage insurers, reported NerdWallet.

There are five common issues that providers have with the Medicare Advantage insurers, which continue to boost their enrollment numbers with broader coverage than traditional Medicare, FierceHealthPayer previously reported. Three of them are summarized below.

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Fierce Mobile Healthcare

Weak mobile device security bodes big risk for hospitals

Sept,08,2014

by: Judy Mottl

Only slightly more than half of healthcare employees (59 percent) are using full-disk encryption or file-level encryption on mHealth computing devices used at work, according to a new Forrester research report, which concluded that medical enterprises must adopt a data-centric approach to endpoint security on all employee devices. Such a security strategy will lead to less risk of data theft and data breaches, as well as shore up regulatory compliance, according to the report's authors. Read More

Modern Healthcare

Advocate, NorthShore merger would create giant health system in Illinois

Sept,12,2014
by: Andrew L. Wang
Advocate Health Care, Illinois' largest system, and NorthShore University HealthSystem, the dominant health network in Chicago's northern suburbs, announced today they will merge to form a 16-hospital system to be called Advocate NorthShore Health Partners.

Together, the two non-profit systems generated $7.3 billion in revenues and $361 million in operating income in 2013,according to the Modern Healthcare Financial Database. Presence Health, the 12-hospital network formed in the 2011 merger between Resurrection Health Care and Provena Health, was the second-largest system by revenue in the state with $2.8 billion in total revenue, according to the database.   Read More

Fierce Health IT

Telemedicine beneficial in management of chronic diseases, lowering costs

Sept,11,2014

by: Katie Dvorak

There are many uses for telemedicine to manage chronic diseases, and no matter the process, the technology offers beneficial results and costs reductions, according to a recent study.

The study, published online in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health, looks at the impact telemedicine has on cost, quality and access to care, focusing three chronic diseases: congestive heart failure, stroke and obstructive pulmonary disease. Read More

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