Many Deaths During the Pandemic Were Simply Due to Lack of Access to Health Care
Patients rest in a hallway in the overloaded Emergency Room area at Providence St. Mary Medical Center on January 27, 2021, in Apple Valley, California.
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In calculating its human toll, a pandemic is similar to a war. The most precise way public health researchers can get a handle on the impact of something like COVID-19 is to compare the number of total deaths recorded in a specific place during the pandemic with death tallies from prior years.
That analysis will yield a figure known as “excess deaths” which simply means deaths above and beyond what would normally be expected.
Healthfuse Generates More Than $8.1M in Revenue Cycle Performance for Edward-Elmhurst Health
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Healthfuse, the industry leader in vendor management performance for hospitals and health systems, announced today that it has realized significant savings for its partner Edward-Elmhurst Health, one of the larger integrated health systems in Illinois.
Healthfuse combines technology, analytics and research to improve vendor performance and help healthcare organizations establish revenue cycle best practices. Edward-Elmhurst has been working with Healthfuse since July 2020 and was able to achieve $1.2M in cost savings to date, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthfuse helped to optimize revenue-cycle technology for Edward-Elmhurst, driving a substantial amount of the cost savings.
Edward-Elmhurst Health and Impact Advisors Enter Strategic Partnership
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Edward-Elmhurst Health, one of the larger integrated health systems in Illinois, and Impact Advisors, a leading healthcare consultancy providing strategy, operations, revenue cycle, and technology services, have entered a strategic partnership that will drive innovation and strengthen operations through tech-enabled healthcare solutions, ultimately benefiting patients and the communities served by Edward-Elmhurst Health.
The unique strategic partnership pairs Edward-Elmhurst Health’s expansive consumer-centric, mission-focused healthcare operations with Impact Advisors’ industry-leading talent and focus on driving value through digitally enabled solutions. Together, the organizations can drive meaningful change with measurable impact faster with less risk by leveraging each other’s strengths.
Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Published: 23 Jan 2021 11:39 PM BdST Updated: 23 Jan 2021 11:56 PM BdST The coronavirus vaccine wasn’t supposed to be a golden ticket, but scattershot and delayed distribution of the still-limited supply now threatens to create a new temporary social class one that includes not just people who are at higher risk for infection or severe illness and death, but also people who, because of their work or because of luck, have been able to get immunized quickly. (Lucy Jones/The New York Times) The coronavirus vaccine wasn’t supposed to be a golden ticket, but scattershot and delayed distribution of the still-limited supply now threatens to create a new temporary social class one that includes not just people who are at higher risk for infection or severe illness and death, but also people who, because of their work or because of luck, have been able t