Ralph P. Fargnoli, Jr. President and CEO Beacon Partners | Bio
Listen to healthcare expert Ralph Fargnoli, President and CEO of Beacon Partners, as he insightfully (and sometimes humorously) dissects the extremely complex issues facing healthcare facilities in North America.
While there is a level of enthusiasm surrounding the ARRA economic stimulus initiative, there is also much confusion and uncertainty. Join Ralph Fargnoli as he speaks with Healthcare Informatics editor-in-chief Anthony Guerra to discuss this very important topic during HIMSS09 in Chicago.
With so many disparate systems in healthcare organizations today, listen to Ralph Fargnoli and Mitch Paine, director of healthcare enterprise technologies at Beacon Partners, discuss the challenges and demands of data integration and interoperability.
Listen to Ralph and special guest Neil McLaughlin, managing editor for Modern Healthcare, discuss what the new Obama administration will mean to the future of healthcare and the healthcare industry.
Massachusetts recently implemented landmark healthcare reforms. What were the changes, what was the impetus, and what has been the impact on Massachusetts’ hospitals? Listen now to find out.
Listen to Ralph and guest Kevin Burchill as they discuss what’s on the minds of every healthcare provider’s C-suite: programs, people, productivity and the creation of new revenue streams.
Kevin Burchill, Esq., Director
Beacon Partners | Bio
Beacon Partners’ Director Kevin Burchill, Esq. posts his thoughts on the upcoming incentives. Contact Beacon Partners today to see how we can help you get ARRA-Ready!
Physician incentives have been much ballyhooed as an alignment tool to move providers closer together with electronic health records under the ARRA in the next several years. But, there is money available right now for physicians to “do the right thing” for their patients from other governmental programs.
To what extent has healthcare reform become intertwined with the stimulus efforts to get the economy moving forward? Oh, let’s just say, about $1T over the next ten years -- $848B in the current Senate bill, and about $1.1T in the approved House bill. What’s a trillion dollars among friends anyway?
According to a recently published American Hospital Association (AHA) report, at the 5,010 community hospitals in the United States, profits were down 61% in 2008 compared to the prior year. Still, some $17B in profits were recorded.
