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Managed Care
February 2004 |
Headlines On Deadline ... Developing quality benchmarks for consumer-directed health plans will be the mission of a committee launched by the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission, which is still primarily known by its original acronym, URAC.   |
Managed Care
July 2003
MargaretAnn Cross |
Money Pit: Is Accreditation Always Worth the Cost? Some plans swear by the benefits of obtaining an "excellent." Others say that customers care much more about cost. |
Managed Care
July 2002 |
Survey predicts more demand for pharmacy precertification Respondents said that their customers -- employers, for the most part -- will want to see more pharmacy precertification. |
Insurance & Technology
June 16, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurers Lag on HIPAA Security Rule While health insurers are generally better prepared for the April 21, 2005, HIPAA security rule's deadline than other healthcare industry participants, they still face compliance-readiness challenges. |
Managed Care
November 2004
MargaretAnn Cross |
Accrediting Agencies Turn Attention To Consumer-Directed Health Plans If employers make decisions based on United Regional Health Care Foundation's and National Committee for Quality Assurance's rating of traditional managed care plans, shouldn't they want similar ratings of consumer-directed health plans? |
CIO
March 1, 2002
Carol Zarrow |
What's Wrong with This Picture? CIOs are poor relations compared with their colleagues in the executive suite. CIOs make significantly less than their CEO, CFO and COO. Even at the higher end of the scale, CIOs are still at a disadvantage... |
CIO
March 1, 2002 |
The 2002 State of the CIO Survey Our survey findings highlight the fact that the CIO's time is spent more on strategy than pure technology... |
CIO
March 1, 2002
Kaplan & Prewitt |
The Future - The State of the CIO Four experts agree: The job is changing, with strategic planning becoming ever more central to the CIO role... |
Managed Care
May 2001
John Carroll |
Two Accrediting Organizations Prepare To Issue DM Standards It's probable that one will become the dominant judge: NCQA or URAC. After it happens, will vendors undergo less scrutiny by individual plans? |
CIO
March 1, 2002
Tom Field |
Executive Relationships A majority of CIOs now answer to the CEO, but some of their best relationships are with other executives... |
CIO
November 1, 2005
Meridith Levinson |
A New Frontier for CIOs in Corporate Ops Today, the prospects for CIOs who wish to take on broader management duties are looking brighter. |
CIO
October 1, 2002
Alison Bass |
The Job Just Got Bigger As if CIOs don't have enough to worry about, marketing guru Regis McKenna argues in his new book, Total Access, that they are now the guardians of customer strategy and outreach -- functions once considered marketing's responsibility. |
CIO
April 1, 2001
Susannah Patton |
Michael Earl Read what a professor of information management at London Business School has to say about the changing role of the CIO... |
CIO
March 1, 2002
Edward Prewitt |
The State of the CIO The 2002 State of the CIO special report describes a job role in transition... |
CIO
March 15, 2003
Chris Lofgren |
The Importance of Being Influential Schneider National's CEO says IT is too important to business today for the CIO to be seen but not heard. |
CIO
July 1, 2002
Gary Beach |
The Imperfect Boss Leading IT in your company is your responsibility -- regardless of whom you call boss. |
CIO
October 15, 2003
Stephanie Overby |
The Incredible Shrinking CIO Their budgets have been cut, their work's been outsourced, their staff's been downsized, and they've been pushed off the executive team. Their status within the enterprise has suffered. That's dumb. And for CIOs, not fighting back would be dumber. |
CIO
March 1, 2002
Jerry Gregoire |
Hail to the Chiefs Titles are how we define class, which may be why every itty-bitty department will soon have a CIO... |
Insurance & Technology
October 5, 2006
Barry Rabkin |
What Makes a Successful CIO? The CIOs who are most successful in the insurance industry are strong leaders and good businesspeople. |
Managed Care
August 2002 |
NCQA: Law Prevents Weighing Racial, Ethnic Care Disparities Public policy must change before the National Committee for Quality Improvement can insist that health plans collect and report data that can be used to highlight disparities in care among racial and ethnic groups, according to an NCQA spokesman. |
Managed Care
November 1999 |
Another Group Hopes To Measure Quality of Care There's a new player in quality measurement: the National Forum for Healthcare Quality Measurement and Reporting.... |
CIO
September 15, 2003
Lauren Gibbons Paul |
What They're Saying About You IT staffers have a clear message for their bosses: CIOs better take a break from their budgets and their executive meetings and pay a lot more attention to staff morale. |
CIO
February 1, 2003
Ben Worthen |
John Hagel on Web Services and You Managers at the edges of an enterprise, under intense pressure to reduce costs, see Web services as an easy way to integrate with business partners. However, the CIO is under equal pressure to control costs. And that can put the CIO in the uncomfortable position of saying no to technology. |
CIO
June 15, 2005
Michael Schrage |
Buttressing the Business CIOs should stop trying to achieve buy-in for IT initiatives and start helping business colleagues sell the projects themselves. |
CIO
February 1, 2002
Jack Brennan |
How to Partner with Your CEO Business success depends on a good CEO-CIO relationship. Here's what it takes to make that happen... |
CIO
May 1, 2006
Richard Pastore |
A Benchmark for the Strategic CIO The CIO Executive Council has developed a benchmark to define and measure the performance of the CIO role's strategic aspects. |
CIO
September 15, 2001
Mark Polansky |
The CIO Top 10 Do you have all the qualities of a 21st-century CIO? We've got a list of the ones that executive searchers are looking for... |
Insurance & Technology
May 18, 2004
Lisa Valentine |
Affordability and Service Oxford Health Plans' CIO Steve Black believes a sweet spot exists between high-tech and high-touch. |
Managed Care
April 2001
Michael Levin-Epstein |
PPO Performance Hard To Gauge; Comparisons to HMOs Not Reliable It's long been said that PPOs, by their varied nature, can't be held to the same quality yardsticks as HMOs. Yet, in time, something will have to suffice... |
CIO
January 15, 2004 |
Inbox Thoughts on Obstacles to a CIO's Success |
CIO
June 15, 2002
John J. Ciulla |
Step Up and Lead Today the CIO role can be as big as you want it to be. |
Managed Care
November 1999 |
NCQA-AMA Plan Would Reduce Paper Duplication ...NCQA will allow health plans to use data from AMA's American Medical Accreditation Program to satisfy NCQA's credentialing standards.... |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
CIOs Soar To Strategic Role Their jobs changing, chief information officers are no longer the geeks in the basement. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 13, 2005
Jonathan Byrnes |
New CIO Role: Change Warrior Effective CIOs can move the rest of the company to do things differently. |
CIO
April 15, 2004
Michael Schrage |
Mad as Hell Readers sound off on CIO leadership, outsourcing and the IT community's fading commitment to quality. |
CIO
March 1, 2002
Eric Berkman |
Skills - The State of the CIO Successful CIOs stress business acumen, not technical expertise... |
CIO
January 15, 2004
Michael Schrage |
What Goes On Behind Your Back Your company may outsource IT, but your business units will build their own IT systems anyway. Here's how to make sure you stay in the loop. |
