The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care released a new toolkit that aims to help healthcare organizations implement and evaluate patient testing and referral systems to improve care ...

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 ...

Hospitals are losing millions every year to a hidden but fixable problem: referrals that never get scheduled. Patient referrals can stall because of administrative bottlenecks, leading to both lost ...

For many health systems, patients and revenue are lost in the space between a provider’s recommendation and a completed patient visit. Referral leakage and fragmented workflows continue to erode both ...

Functional, standardized referral pathways can make or break patient outcomes. While this is true in overall health, nowhere has it become more apparent than in vascular health, where many patients in ...

AcuityMD Expands Care Journeys Solution with Enhanced Physician Referral Networks to Increase Patient Access to MedTech Innovations Early adopter Teleflex benefits from comprehensive view of patient ...

Every day, practices running athenaOne lose referred patients they never knew they had. Faxes arrive unlabeled. Referrals get ...

Lissy Hu, MD, is the CEO and founder of CarePort Health, a software company which matches patients in need of post-acute care to post-acute care organizations. Dr. Hu spoke with Becker’s Hospital ...

The physical therapy landscape in 2026 is defined by a sharp pivot from documentation to integration, as clinics face mounting pressure to reduce claim denials and accelerate referral cycles. Leading ...

Cardiologists want primary care providers (PCPs) to know that they are at the ready to assist with acute and complex cases and also to provide consultations. And yes, they know that sometimes a ...

Despite the increasing recognition of Long COVID as a condition, many patients still face dismissal by medical professionals, misattribution of their symptoms to psychological causes, or simply being ...