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Looking Back at Our Most Viewed Blogs from 2024

As 2024 unfolded, healthcare organizations faced a rapidly shifting landscape—embracing advanced technologies, navigating regulatory complexities, and doubling down on member retention strategies. Throughout the year, HealthAxis delved into these challenges and opportunities, sharing insights that resonated across the industry.  From strategies for retaining members to preparing for CMS audits and ethical AI implementation, these posts […]
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Key Challenges and Solutions of Healthcare Payment Reform

Better choices needed to manage US healthcare cost growth, says Paul Krugman at HIMSS18

Economist Paul Krugman says more scrutiny on elective procedures could contribute to a long-term solution. “Though the U.S. still has the […]

Predictive analytics can spot patients not taking their medicine

While the U.S. spends billions of dollars developing new therapeutics, those investments won’t do much good if the drugs aren’t […]

Commercial/Private Health Plan Solutions

Consumers open to more digital health use, survey finds

Consumers are also using a wider array of digital health tools, according to the survey, which found a three-fold increase […]

CMS offering $30 million in grant funding to improve quality measures

The funding is to develop partnerships with health systems, clinicians and others to improve measures in the quality payment program […]

A Healthy Start to the Plan Year Begins With Quality Medicare Advantage Enrollment Processes

For individuals who have Medicare, they have recently had the opportunity to enroll in a 2018 Medicare Advantage or other […]

The Next Obamacare Battleground: Subsidies For Out-Of-Pocket Costs

Reducing healthcare costs not one-size-fits-all, report finds

A new Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) report that reviewed healthcare costs for five states found huge differences concerning […]

Three reasons telemedicine will grow in 2017

Biggest Health IT wins for new spending bill

HIMSS Senior Director of Congressional Affairs broke down how the massive spending bill will boost telehealth, Medicaid and other crucial […]

5 trends in Healthcare Analytics for 2018

In a recent white paper, Tableau outlines significant trends in healthcare analytics for 2018. “Leaders of The demand for higher […]

Payers, Providers Pledge to Improve Prior Authorizations

AHIP, BCBSA, AHA, and other organizations have agreed to improve the efficiency of prior authorizations. “Leaders of organizations participating in […]

The rise and risk of IoT in healthcare

AI funding exceeds $1B in 2017

Report confirms what industry watchers have already been noticing: Artificial intelligence in healthcare is hot. “The quality and reliability of […]

How Payers, Providers Could Streamline Medical Claims Management

All-Payer Claims Databases Offer Insights into Healthcare Spending

The data from an all-payer claims database can reduce wasteful healthcare spending by supporting population health and analytics-driven healthcare decision […]

FDA lays out digital health goals in 2018 strategic roadmap

Leveraging innovation and competition to better healthcare is one of the four cornerstones of the Food and Drug Administration’s 2018 […]