A health system's new AI tool is helping clinicians target the right specialist for a referral, prompt appropriate workups before a referral, and eliminate unnecessary referrals. Providence health ...

Ophthalmologists looking to expand market share and increase their referral base could consider satellite locations and grassroots marketing, according to a Vantage Outsourcing case study. Robert ...

You finish up with a new patient exam, and it's clear that additional work is needed. Maybe it's a mandibular implant or cantilever bridge. Maybe it's aggressive periodontitis or a malocclusion that ...

An 82-year-old stroke patient lies medically cleared in an acute care bed, every night spent costs $2,000, and she’s been there six days past discharge because no one can confirm which skilled nursing ...

Q: Many practice management consultants say you should ask your patients for referrals. Do you do this and, if so, how do you do it? A: I have heard this statement many times and, like you, in most ...

Hospitals with preferred provider networks often push patients with severe mental illness to non-affiliated nursing homes, but regulatory and payment incentives may be changing that trend. A new study ...

AristaMD this week announced its new unified care transition platform, which it says will enable primary care practices to provide patient-to-provider specialty matching, process electronic referrals ...

Individuals with behavioral health conditions have significantly higher rates of hospital readmissions. In too many cases, the underlying reasons for these readmissions go way beyond the healthcare ...

Patients who come to the emergency department following an opioid overdose have a 1-year mortality rate of about 5%. In this study, 17.8% of patients received a referral for outpatient treatment, 42.4 ...