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RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

Healthcare IT Today

Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is like a one of those huge Lego sculptures. Having a well executed RCM strategy is crucial to keep your organization running because it impacts everything. From the outside it looks one thing, but upon further inspection there are a million tiny little pieces that fit together to create the whole.

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Careficient Acquires Home Health, Hospice, Home Care, Palliative and RCM Solutions from Net Health

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a leading provider of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solutions, today announced the acquisition of Net Health ’s EMR line of home health, hospice, home care, and palliative solutions and RCM services (collectively, “home health and hospice”). Careficient Inc. , This transaction will provide real benefits to both customers and employees.

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Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

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Optum first announced its intention to acquire Change in January 2021, but the DOJ initially blocked the deal in February 2022 due to anti-competition concerns. While 40% of patients surveyed didn’t get a flu shot in 2021, 43% haven’t gotten a flu shot yet this year or don’t plan to get one. Partnerships.

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Bonus Features – November 13, 2022 – HCA extends 30-year relationship with MEDITECH, cost of care replaces pandemic as top reason to defer care, and more

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HCA Healthcare signed a new agreement for a large-scale deployment of MEDITECH Expanse , continuing a relationship with the EHR vendor that has spanned three decades and been recognized with the 2021 CHIME Collaboration Award. News and Research. healthcare system to keep them healthy.

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Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

Healthcare IT Today

The report also cited a 50% increase in breaches from 2022 as compared to 2021. California’s Orange County Migraine & Wellness Center selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR and healow. Illinois-based Springfield Clinic is migrating to athenahealth ‘s cloud-based EHR.

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Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Healthcare IT Today

ONC’s latest data brief indicated that, as of the end of 2021, more than 60% of hospitals are actively engaged in sharing health information. EHR, RCM, and practice management software vendor Greenway Health named Mark Goodwin as Senior Vice President of Revenue Services.

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Bonus Features – April 16, 2023 – Accenture says generative AI could augment 40% of healthcare work, 31% of healthcare workers don’t know what to do if a data breach happens, and more

Healthcare IT Today

The inaugural report on consumer technology software and services from the Consumer Technology Association (the folks who put on CES) named digital therapeutics as the fastest-growing software and services market, with 25% growth from 2021 to 2022 and 19% growth from 2022 to 2023. In addition.

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