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Knowledge is invaluable for today’s health care leader, where many financial decisions have a significant impact. Information is critical.

Transforming the future of health care

Workforce optimization

Review a Q&A about workforce trends, obstacles and solutions.

Have biosimilars arrived?

Six questions and answers reveal insights about the current market.

3 reasons for telemedicine’s success

Learn about the recent growth in telemedicine.

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Social inequities effect on patient and provider

As clinicians and caregivers to our patients, we bear witness to the inequity of health care. Dr. Oreggio shares experience and advice on opening doors to equal care.

Research revolution: Optum Labs

Optum Labs is launching a study for a COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment. Through the power of data, every patient will receive the treatment. This approach gives quick results for practical problems.

Mobile clinic brings care to the community

Southwest Medical bridges the access gap with their mobile clinic by meeting patients where they are.

When to refer: PCP guide to Pap exams

Pap smears and HPV immunizations have become fundamental elements of preventive care for women.

The WellMed Bridges palliative care program

Patients with serious illness should not have to choose between curative and palliative treatment. That is the theory behind the WellMed Bridges program.

Kidney Disease Care: A Comprehensive Approach

Find out how an integrated approach produces better outcomes for renal disease — a common, complex and costly condition.

Specialty Pharmacy 101

Specialty pharmacies deliver high-touch services to help patients stay adherent to treatment plans and live healthier lives.

New diabetes medication recommender app

Our user-centric tool helps prescribers keep up with American Diabetes Association (ADA) medication recommendations.

Care of the clinician

A 2017 JAMA study showed that 45% of doctors feel at least one symptom of burnout.

Actualizing high-quality coordinated cancer care

The recently launched Cancer Center in Las Vegas incorporates IOM recommendations, delivering high-quality cancer care for better patient outcomes.

How to help patients prevent long-term cognitive complications

Despite the complexity of concussion, primary care providers are in a unique position to give life-altering advice to their patients.

Digital medicine that delights

Dr. Sonia Samagh from the Center for Digital Health is hard at work bringing the many digital tools available into an environment that becomes our “way of being” rather than another tool in the toolkit.

Building resilience: Mental health lessons from COVID-19

COVID-19 has negatively affected many people's mental health, but will anything good come out of it?

Antiracism and inclusion

Optum saw the value in a project for a community cohort, Leadership for Racial Equity, and quickly worked to create a national strategy.

Thrive or crumble: Partnerships are a new area of growth

Read the article from Nick Howell and Chris Pass to learn the successes and lessons of the partnership between John Muir Health and Optum.

"No regret" IT investments for health systems

Learn which tech investments can benefit providers most today.

2022 Analytics and AI survey from Advisory Board Research

ABR surveyed 250 strategy and analytics leaders.

Gaining maximum benefit from your revenue cycle strategy

Learn how innovation can help you achieve financial resiliency and stay competitive in today’s market.

A System-Wide Look at Improving Specialty Care

Condition-specific clinical expertise and capabilities necessary for managing complex diseases

Sleep treatment across the ages

Combining real-world data and primary research helps us better understand insomnia.

Optum Dynamic Assessment of Pregnancies and Infants

Assess the impact of medication use during pregnancy and the impact on infant health.

Value Transformation at Keck Medicine of USC

Value Transformation at Keck Medicine of USC

Case Study: UMass utilizes analytics to improve adult immunizations

Population health analytics drive UMass participation in the AMGA AI Collaborative

Using Risk Analytic

Using Risk Analytics to Improve Financial Health

Dynamic Assessment Of Pregnancies And Infants

We help answer questions about maternal and infant health.

Walk in their shoes

Learn how real cancer patient and provider experiences drive care navigation decisions.

Improving UR effectiveness with Case Advisor

Improving UR effectiveness with Case Advisor

Transforming Analytics at Boulder Community Health

Learn how Boulder Community Health is using analytics to make decisions, improve care management and drive growth.

Modernizing Health Care: Joan's Journey | Optum

The health care system is built on positive intent, but it’s too complex. Joan’s journey illustrates how we’re creating something different.

Health care network planning & optimization success

Learn how leaders can use data and analytics to make informed decisions on their network and drive actionable conversations with providers.

Managing the rise of people with multiple chronic conditions

Predicting who will develop multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) and intervening early is critical to better care and lower costs

Clinicogenomics: new, linked data is advancing research

Rich, longitudinal clinicogenomics data can fuel all stages of drug development.

Everest Group Recognizes Optum as a Leader

The 2021 PEAK Matrix report maps the RCM Business Process Services market.

Everest Group recognizes Optum as Leader

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John Muir Health Clinical Operations Video

See how John Muir partnered with Optum to enable a seamless consumer experience.

The Physician Liaison Outreach Playbook

The Optum Physician Liaison Outreach Playbook gives physician liaisons best practices, tools and templates for effective physician relationship-building.

Learning Network Annual Member Meeting 2021

Monday, September 20, 2021; 1 p.m. CT

Realize agility through a modern digital infrastructure

A Q&A on digital innovation and how it can help organizations deliver on business and patient care goals

Five Insights to Manage Hospital Administrative Costs

In this Optum article, futurist Tom Koulopolous and John Muir Health's Chris Pass share five strategies to manage administrative costs and improve performance.

Health Care's Guide to Machine Learning

What you need to know about AI's latest buzzword.

The patient clinical experience

Why we need to start talking about this.

HIMSS and Optum talk EHR strategies

Dr. John Kontor of Optum shares how EHR strategies provide numerous opportunities to improve and change health care.

Meeting consumers on their terms

Learn how relationships between consumers and health organizations are transforming.

Taking the Blinders Off Cancer Through Immunotherapy

Webinar: Taking the Blinders Off Cancer Through Immunotherapy

The Path to 4+ Star Performance

Implications for 2023 Star Ratings

Improving Patient Access and Your Bottom Line

Helping physician groups solve for total patient engagement.

Your roadmap for driving growth

Use data and analytics to form your business development roadmap.

Natural language processing (NLP) and risk adjustment

We help to explain the role and benefits of NLP in risk adjustment programs.

Physician Outreach Toolkit

Scripting worksheets and template guide.

Explore five priorities to improve financial performance

Explore five priorities to improve financial performance

Overcoming challenges to managing costs in health care

A Q&A about opportunities to improve margin performance

Driving Hospital and Health System Growth strategy

Explore a collection of best practices for health systems.

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6 growth trends for patient-centric health care

Learn strategies you can use to differentiate your health system from your competitors.

Slowing the specialty pharmacy carve-out stampede

Study reveals costs for unrecognized kidney disease

Is poor market visibility compromising your growth?

How to understand your true growth potential.

Health leaders share IT transformation stories

Hear John Muir Health and Bassett Health’s observations on digital transformation, modernizing infrastructure and strategic automation.

The bedside research revolution

Optum Care Research and Innovation is an internal research support system that shows research is an integral part of care delivery.

Excela Health and Optum partner to serve the local community

This video discusses how Excela Health and Optum are working together to create financial sustainability and serve the local community.

Webinar: Trends and challenges in telehealth

Explore new ways of doing business that allow you to meet shifting customer expectations, workforce challenges and emerging business goals.

Using Your EHR to Accelerate Digital Health

Explore how a thoughtful approach to EHR can impact the health care digital journey and help an organization achieve its business goals.

Digital Front Door Strategy Improves Patient Experience

Discover how a digital patient engagement strategy can provide easier access, reduce cancellations, and enhance front-end collections.

New indicators of growth

Learn how to measure the success of consumer relationships in today's market.

Cost optimization strategies to restore financial health

Watch the webinar for insights on disruptive market forces, the health care economy, cost-management efforts and managing operating costs.

Strategic Growth for Health Systems

This webinar covers topics surrounding disruptive market forces, workforce strategy, competitors growing within the industry and finance.

How Excela Health Is Tackling Costs

See how Excela Health saw an area of opportunity in their revenue cycle and partnered with Optum for immediate impact and long-term value.

Driving a frictionless digital patient experience

Watch the webinar to learn how to reduce friction points impacting the digital journey and preventing patients from getting in the door.

Cost optimization strategies to restore financial health

Watch the webinar for insights on disruptive market forces, the health care economy, cost-management efforts and managing operating costs.

Who are the patients in your market?

Get a complimentary custom market assessment to identify high-value patients and vulnerable populations to build meaningful engagements.

Clinical intelligence: The smartest revenue cycle investment

Our white paper shows how investing in smart technologies supports the revenue cycle from patient registration through full reimbursement.

Leverage AI-powered CDI and coding

CDI programs are expanding to support risk adjustment initiatives. Integrated CDI technologies are needed to support revenue and integrity.

Volume 2: Revenue performance for better financial health

Read the white paper for strategies on achieving proper levels of reimbursement, writing off bad debt, and expanding into new service areas.

Executive series: Health Care Workforce Crisis

Get strategy, insight and resources to create an enterprise-wide health care workforce strategy.

Maximizing effectiveness of physician advisors within the hospital

Provide the right support to achieve program goals.

Defending emergency department reimbursement

Learn how to strengthen your ED visit-level determinations.

Improve your ROI with the help of Optum Claims Manager

Flexible claims management tool drives down denials

Five things your denial rate isn't telling you

Learn 5 ways to make changes that will prevent and remediate denied claims.

Expanded scope and efficiency with Optum CAC and CDI 3D

See how one health system partnered with Optum to transform their coding and CDI program.

A/R recovery services revenue continuity

Provider maintains A/R continuity during HIS conversion.

Untangle the causes of medical necessity denials.

Review factors hidden by your denial rate.

Computer-assisted coding helps company with continued growth

See how ACS used Optum CAC Professional for computer-assisted coding to expand medical coding and billing operations and navigate the ICD-10 transition.

Physician group achieves record performance

Optum Ambulatory Services team leads system transition.

AI advances the revenue cycle

The use of NLP makes the revenue cycle work smarter, not harder.

How fully leveraged AI solutions surpass traditional UR systems

Learn four ways AI expands your reach and effectiveness.

Developing a best-in-class middle revenue cycle for hospitals

Explore the six focus areas for improving performance.

Choosing a strategic accounts receivable service partner

Selecting the right recovery partner requires careful evaluation.

Develop a best-in-class front-end revenue cycle

Learn six ways to take your operations from good to great.

Giving patients a clear look at their care

A better patient experience through price transparency

Smart revenue cycle investments rather than deep cost cuts

Strengthen revenue performance with two astute investments.

Reducing administrative variation with artificial intelligence

Infuse technology into your medical necessity process.

How Optum supports value-based goals with powerful products

Optum supports value-based goals with powerful products.

Disruptive current events make traditional UR models obsolete

Learn five ways to use new processes and technology to improve UR.

Partnering for employee growth and retention

Explore how Boulder Community Health partnered with Optum to continue elevating its most critical component of success — its workforce.

Actionable tips for improving your claims denial process

Develop these six characteristics to effectively manage denials and support your organization's revenue integrity.

Improving clinical documentation improvement (CDI) efficiency

See how Lima Memorial improved efficiency with advanced technology.

Optum CAC offers automatic review of physician selected coding

Coding review module monitors for results.

Artificial intelligence and the changing role of case managers

AI can help manage new responsibilities.

Sustainability through partnership

See how Boulder Community Health partnered with Optum to continue to successfully fund its mission.

Strategies to reduce administrative costs

Strategies to fix payer-provider collaboration, streamline patient financial experience and apply AI technologies for better cost savings.

Filling revenue cycle resource shortfalls

How to improve efficiency and reduce expenses.

Improve claims processing with these claims management tips

Retaining talent through employee integration

Explore a strategic alignment to transition employees within the expectations and goals of Market Performance Partnerships.

Boulder Community Health and Optum

Optum partnership insights and strategies enable near- and long-term success for provider organizations.

5 Provider Strategies to Help Improve Your Margins: Download

5 Provider strategies to help improve your margins

In this e-book, discover how health care organizations are prioritizing a path to improved financial sustainability and margins.

Medicare enrollment: How a licensed insurance agent can help

John Muir Health and AI: A case study in managing costs

Watch the webinar to learn actionable strategies on tackling decreased hospital margins, increased labor costs and staffing shortages.

How hospitals can maintain operational and financial viability

Read this white paper to learn strategies that can help critical access and independent hospitals remain viable in their communities.

Self-Scheduling Boosts Access and Reduces Staff Burden

Learn how ProHealth Physicians used self-guided online scheduling to ease administrative burden and rebound patient volume.

Using predictive data to achieve 70:1 ROI

Watch the webinar to learn how MetroHealth used precision marketing to reach patients that are likely to need specialty services.

Defining the future of alternate-site infusion pharmacy care

Optum tackles the many issues infusion pharmacy care faces as it serves vulnerable patients with acute needs and complex conditions.

Getting ahead of the mental health crisis

See how leaders are advancing data strategies, screenings and exploring ways to connect consumers to mental health support.

Addressing challenges with CDI and coding

Read the success story to hear how Optum technology helped increase John Muir Health's monthly CDI case review average by 22%

Critical Steps to Navigating Change Management

See how an effective change management strategy can help people adapt to change more quickly and nimbly.