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Bonus Features – October 29, 2023 – 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care, and 28 more

Healthcare IT Today

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships California HHS designated nine Qualified Health Information Organizations to facilitate information exchange in the state starting in 2024.

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Why Is So Much “Patient Experience” Effort Focused on Financial Experience?

Health Populi

The growth of high-deductible health plans as well as people paying more out-of-pocket exposes patients’ wallets in ways that implore the health care industry to serve up a better retail experience for patients. But that just isn’t happening. Here’s Why. Two-thirds of U.S.

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Bonus Features – July 30, 2023 – Amazon gets into the generative AI game, HIMSS plans to sell off the annual trade show, and more

Healthcare IT Today

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The announced noted that M*Modal parent company 3M Health Information Systems, virtual primary care provider Babylon, and ScribeEMR are early adopters of HealthScribe.

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Can Healthcare Optimize Its Human Resources and Redefine Care Delivery in the Process?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Ashish V. Bring health plans into a shared platform to s treamline health benefits management. U se additional data from insurers’ medical bills to identify treatment gaps, manage costs, and meet quality performance targets.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

You can read more details about this evolving situation in the WSJ article linked above, and other takes in tech, business, and social media that have begun to populate the interwebs. health care. Was this due to the growing experience and reporting of surprise medical bills? Out-of-network costs?

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Breaking the Cycle of Financial Toxicity

GlobalMed

at least, we now expect that extensive medical treatment – whether that’s chemotherapy, ongoing dialysis visits or surgery to repair a broken femur – may involve significant medical bills. Hospital stays, outpatient visits, tests and medications can all add up, even when patients have health insurance. In the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Healthcare IT Today

From a financial perspective, this initiative can help prevent healthcare fraud due to identity theft, stop improper use of someone else’s health insurance, and prevent marketing scams where people’s identities are stolen through fake medical billing or enrollment in fake medical benefit plans.