Home // Skip Navigation LinksNews & Events // In the News

In The News

Phytel Launches New Care Management Platform

Phytel has announced the launch of its Atmosphere platform, which integrates population health data with a patient communication engine to help providers proactively improve chronic and preventive care.

View PDF

More Information

Patient Outreach System Helps Clinic Boost Care Visits, Revenues

Two years after implementing an electronic patient registry and outreach system, Hattiesburg Clinic in Mississippi has dramatically increased the number of patients getting recommended care—while boosting revenues by about $4 million.

View PDF

More Information

Mind the Gap! As A Practice Profile

Developing models of care to deal with high-risk and chronic-care patients can benefit the practice as well as its partners in the care continuum

View PDF

More Information

Next Generation of Care: Software Helps Doctors Identify and Contact At-Risk Patients

Dallas-based Phytel created technology that gives doctors a broad view of their patient population and alerts them if a patient is at risk and needs to see their health-care provider.

View PDF

More Information

6 Ways to Stretch I.T. Investments

In an era of rising costs and decreasing reimbursements, health care I.T. leaders need to get the most bang for the buck out of their investments.

View PDF

More Information

Affinity Medical Group's Medical Home Journey

How do you take a major concept, the medical home, and successfully roll it out to a medical group with more than 1,000 employees and 26 locations? According to Christine Griger, M.D., President of Affinity Medical Group, "It takes effective, thoughtful, and engaging leadership that incorporates communication and vision to launch a change of this size."

View PDF

More Information

Chronic Illness Technology Fuels Provider Utilization

Managing chronic diseases has historically been an expensive proposition for healthcare organizations, requiring labor-intensive home visits and constant care plan revisions that too often result in costly hospital re-admissions.

View PDF

More Information

Group Practice Innovators: Investing in Success

Healthcare is abuzz with talk of pilot programs: the ACO and the medical home, and how to make these programs work logistically and financially via a patient-centered environment and population health management.

View PDF

More Information

Hospitals Use BI to Stanch Revenue Losses

With Medicare set to stop paying for preventable hospital readmissions in October, healthcare organizations are turning to business intelligence tools to reduce the risk.

View PDF

More Information

Medical Home IT Is on the Team

The patient-centered medical home model taps a variety of technologies, entering the care continuum at an earlier stage and potentially providing better integration among providers. However, culturalchange can be as big an obstacle as technical challenges, according to early adopters.

View PDF

More Information