New Jersey’s Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) is working with Hackensack Alliance ACO to transition into value-based payment models. Clinical integration is key, according to executives. In order to achieve this, organizations need to move from episodic care to population management by developing and cultivating...
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s health plan reportedly has developed prediction models that use such data as patient claims, prescriptions and census records to determine those members who are most likely to require emergency and urgent care, which tends to cost more. Interestingly, how...
Who could argue with a process that helps companies save time and save money? Well, according to a recent survey of corporate buyers, not many of them when presented with an e-Invoicing or supply chain financing proposition. Find out why decision makers say now is...
When you walk down the street, it’s probably impossible to not see numerous people walking with a smartphone in their hand – most likely looking down at it and not paying attention to where they’re walking. While the sight is a common one, recent research...
Jeff Bezos sent people invited to the launch of the Fire phone a children’s book about a man who painted his house purple so he could distinguish it from all of the other white houses on his street. The analog he was making was that...
MasterCard’s “Priceless” branding is designed to remind consumers that using a MasterCard product delivers benefits that go well beyond the act of making a purchase. Winning in the affluent market, says Diana Robino, Senior VP Global Affluent Products at MasterCard, starts with a focus on...
Australians are quickly becoming strong online shoppers, with a recent report showing the number of people in that nation turning to mobile options quadrupled in size over the last three years. Showing an increase of 448 percent since 2010, over 3.4 million, or roughly 41...
Retail indoor location services platform aisle411 announced last week that it had appointed Google’s Don Dodge to its advisory board. Dodge is currently a Developer Advocate at Google, according to an aisle411 release, and his appointment to the advisory board will be effective immediately. aisle411...
After months of speculation about the when, Lending Club Corp. has started down the path to going public, tapping banks including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to help them put together an IPO for later 2014. The P2P lending platform connects investors to individual borrowers...
