Reviewed and Edited By: Joe Chow, MD, Adult Medical Director, AccessNurse Each year, flu season brings a familiar challenge for healthcare organizations: managing a sudden and sustained rise in patient demand. Despite being a predictable occurrence, these surges can still overwhelm staff capacity, disrupt patient flow, and strain operational resources. For [...]

According to the Medscape’s “Physician Compensation Report 2022”, fifteen percent of physicians participate in value-based payment models. In 2023, value-based care is expected to continue to grow and evolve as healthcare providers, payers, and policymakers seek to improve patient outcomes and contain costs. Value-based care is vital to providing better care for [...]

The push for healthcare organizations to adopt value-based payment models, programs that incentivize providers to focus on value over volume, was heavily emphasized after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed in 2010. Since then, several value-based care (VBC) models have been proposed, yet value-based care payment adoption has remained slow, with many [...]

Flu season is one of the longest, busiest seasons for illnesses in the country. From the start of flu season until the eventual “end”, healthcare systems around the world will be on heightened alert. In the US alone, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that anywhere between 34,000 and [...]