Whether the focus is on a quality best practice or streamlining costs, Amerinet executive briefings are written by experts who understand the challenges facing the healthcare industry today with the intent to provide information that you can use to do your job.
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Innovation and Leadership in Healthcare: How Four Organizations are Embracing Change and Managing Populations
Learn how you can prepare for healthcare’s coming pay-for-performance era and see how four organizations including large IDNs and rural providers are taking a proactive role in charting their course for the future.
Four Things That Keep Healthcare Executives Up at Night
Stay ahead of the competition and protect your margins. Get tips on how to deal with financial challenges, healthcare reform, government mandates and quality and patient safety.
Published May 2013
An Amerinet Publication
Enhancing Excellence
This Amerinet executive briefing focuses on the steps providers can take to enhance the healthcare delivery model as the industry moves from a volume to a value-based payment model. The briefing, which summarizes the presentations and discussions from the Amerinet Executive Roundtable in February 2012, examines key trends and issues including payment reform, industry consolidation, accountable care organizations and physician alignment.
Published May 2012
An Amerinet Publication Collective Learning on Healthcare Reform
Amerinet’s executive briefing, “Collective Learning on Healthcare Reform,” offers the latest updates and discussion on current and pending reform issues and is a follow up to the “Healthcare Reform and Accountable Care: Where Do We Stand?” executive briefing published earlier this year.
Published December 2011
An Amerinet Publication
Healthcare Reform and Accountable Care: Where Do We Stand
In response to the important need for accurate information and guidance, Amerinet engaged both the leaders among its executive membership, and the organization that brought the concept of accountable care to the forefront of our nation’s dialogue, the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) at the Amerinet Executive Roundtable Forum in February 2011. The results of both the Roundtable discussion and a survey of Amerinet membership is contained in this briefing.
Published July 2011
An Amerinet Publication Dispelling the Myths of Out-of-Network Billing
There is no more controversial issue in the outpatient market today than out-of-network billing. It is important to understand the risks as well as the benefits for your ASC. This is particularly true given the dramatic legislative changes and evolving insurance company responses to out-of-network billing that have recently been implemented. This briefing offers insight into the issues and how to handle them.
Published May 2010
Scott J. Rein, President, Strategic Outpatient Solutions, LLCCreating a Culture of Quality and Patient Safety
In conjunction with Amerinet’s Executive Roundtable in February 2010, nearly 170 executives at Amerinet member facilities responded to a 30-question, online survey regarding patient safety and quality. Three common themes emerged from the survey results.
Published May 2010
An Amerinet Publication
Keeping the Reimbursement Train on Track
In a market where available capital is shrinking, healthcare organizations must look internally to increase cash flow. Like the supply chain, the revenue cycle holds huge opportunities to generate cash. From the moment the patient walks in the door through final collection of payment for the services delivered to that patient, the revenue cycle process touches all points of care. Read this briefing to learn what healthcare executives need to do to recapturing these funds.
Published May 2010
Kelley Blair MA, vice president at Craneware Professional Services
Linda Corley, MBA, CPC, corporate compliance officer, Dell Services Revenue Cycle Solutions
Efficiencies of Your Supply Chain
This briefing challenges that business is moving to a “new normal” and the key is to stop viewing the supply chain only within the constraints of the facility’s walls and start looking at all the upstream and downstream relationships to find new ways to maximize value.
Published February 2010
Vicki Smith-Daniels, Ph.D., Professor of Supply Chain Management at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
Implant Costs: Why ASC-Physician Collaboration Makes Sense
In order to thrive and survive in today’s environment, it is essential for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) to control the cost of implants in addition to handling more complex cases. To this end, facilities, physicians and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) must work together to find a way to control implant costs. This paper discusses these changes.
Published January 2010
David Forquer, Clinical Strategist, Enterprise Solutions, Amerinet
Quality and Patient Safety: A Sharper Focus
The findings detailed in this report point to a focus by all healthcare facilities on continued and significant improvements in the quality of care they deliver and patient safety. This briefing takes a multifaceted look at quality and patient safety and serves as a summary of a three-step process.
Published May 2009
An Amerinet Publication
Capital Expansion: Current Trends and Issues
Commitment to an overall and ongoing capital improvement program is a vital component in a healthcare facility’s overall mission to provide quality patient care. The importance of this factor is evidenced by the fact that well over half of the respondents to Amerinet’s recent survey on capital expansion said they plan to undertake a project within the next two years.
Published December 2008
An Amerinet Publication
Hiring the Right Person the First Time
Hiring the wrong leader can cost you and your organization. In a research study with 80 top performing healthcare leaders nationwide, senior executives estimated that the direct and indirect costs of hiring the wrong person for a key leadership position can exceed six to 10 times that person’s annual salary. Learn how to hire the right candidate by reading this executive briefing.
Published December 2008
Kenneth Cohen, Ph.D., President and CEO, The Synergy Organization
Improving the Health of Healthcare One Organization at a Time
This briefing focuses on how healthy and fit cultures contribute most to high performance by defining and measuring employee commitment and engagement; addresses best practices in connecting your employee survey measurement process to performance and talent management; and discusses the impact of employee commitment and engagement on productivity, patient outcomes and financial results.
Published December 2008
Tom Olivo, Healthcare Performance Solutions
Elder Abuse: Strategies for Detection and Prevention
Health care administrators in longterm care settings need to be acutely aware of a growing issue – elder abuse. The percentage of nursing homes with abuse violations has increased, in part, because of more stringent reporting requirements as well as the increasing vulnerability of the residents. To combat elder abuse, administrators should familiarize themselves with several key terms outlined in this paper.
Published September 2008
Catherine Mullahy, RN, BS, CRRN, CCM, author of The Case Manager’s Handbook
Drilling Deep - The Data Within
This briefing explores many data mining technologies readily available and focuses on the value in capturing data from existing systems, harnessing it and distributing it to individuals throughout the organization. The right people and skills are critical because without the right people, organizations may lose the insight into the data that could be apparent to people with experience.
Published September 2008
Michael Nájera, Business Solutions Group, Craneware, Inc
Quality-Based Gainsharing - Putting Quality First
This briefing explores how quality-based gainsharing promises greater savings than traditional gainsharing because the savings extend beyond implant costs. More importantly, this model puts quality first, aligning all incentives with the true mission of each health care provider – caring for patients.
Published September 2008
Karen Barrow, former vice president, Amerinet Clinical Advantage®
The Physician Engagement Imperative: From The Tipping Point to the Toppling Point
This briefing is intended to get physicians to think differently and hopefully act differently in the relationships with other physicians. There is tremendous potential for a small group of committed, thoughtful physicians to change the dynamic in any given medical community. And if one can identify, harness and leverage the potential of that small group of like-minded physicians with high professional values and standards of conduct, the same thing can be accomplished in your medical community.
Updated September 2008
Brian Wong, M.D., MPH, Founding Partner, Healthcare Performance Solutions